In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.
A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.
Directors:
Jimmy T. Murakami,
Roger Corman
Stars:
George Peppard,
Robert Vaughn,
Richard Thomas
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
Director:
Steve De Jarnatt
Stars:
Melanie Griffith,
David Andrews,
Pamela Gidley
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
Director:
Joseph Ruben
Stars:
Dennis Quaid,
Max von Sydow,
Christopher Plummer
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Director:
Howard R. Cohen
Stars:
Vince Edwards,
David Mendenhall,
Patsy Pease
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
Director:
Stewart Raffill
Stars:
Jennifer McComb,
Ashley Hamilton,
Mohamed Nangurai
Four naive Americans, in need of easy cash, decide to fly to Colombia and raid the safe of a notorious drug lord with connections to the corrupt military regime.
Director:
Stewart Raffill
Stars:
James Brolin,
Anthony Quinn,
Lindsay Wagner
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.Written by
John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Jason undoes the knot in the left string holding Karina's dress with his teeth twice. See more »
Quotes
Jason:
The manifest
Roscoe:
Box B-28
Jason:
28?... 25, 26, 27... B28... oh no
[hands egg to Roscoe]
Roscoe:
What is it?
Jason:
Space Herpe.
Roscoe:
herpe?
Jason:
Dormant form. uh - Keep away from heat and - uh - moisture. Extremely dangerous when activated. Antibody - oh boy - unknown.
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Alternate Versions
There are two German VHS-Versions. One is the uncut version and is labeled FSK18 and one is a slightly cut version which is rated FSK12. In the cut version the bar fight for example is slightly cut. But the most paradox fact is that the uncut version is often shown in free TV, even in the midday and afternoon time-slots where only FSK12 movies are allowed. See more »
Ice Pirates is a B-movie, it's campy, trashy and it is most of the time hilariously funny.
To me it probably is the funniest sf movie I ever watched. Sure, Galaxy Quest is funny, but it is also totally selfconcious, the whole humour comes from making fun of Star Trek.
Ice Pirates also makes fun of sf tropes, but it never takes itself seriously. While the story might be less strange than Buckaroo Banzai, the former is as quirky as the latter.
On the other hand, some of the visuals still look great to me.
This is one of the few films, I loved as a child, that stood up to the test of time and entertained the adult me as well as the young peg.
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Ice Pirates is a B-movie, it's campy, trashy and it is most of the time hilariously funny.
To me it probably is the funniest sf movie I ever watched. Sure, Galaxy Quest is funny, but it is also totally selfconcious, the whole humour comes from making fun of Star Trek.
Ice Pirates also makes fun of sf tropes, but it never takes itself seriously. While the story might be less strange than Buckaroo Banzai, the former is as quirky as the latter.
On the other hand, some of the visuals still look great to me.
This is one of the few films, I loved as a child, that stood up to the test of time and entertained the adult me as well as the young peg.