On the other hand shiny uniforms and ships (basically Mad Max and Star Wars). On one hand a shabby, used and weather beaten universe. This whole pirate look is blended in with the more typically cliched futuristic sci-fi look. The heroes literally steal ice, and they are all literally pirates complete with cutlasses, wide belts with big fat belt buckles, cavalier type boots, and poet shirts with lacing down the front. The movies title isn't just there to look and sound cool. OK so the first thing I have to point out is, this is quite literally a film about pirates in space. On their tail are the Templars who do not want this secret being discovered. So the Princess hires the pirates to find her father and hopefully the watery planet. In turn they also discover that this Princesses father is thought to have discovered a planet with water, thing is he has also disappeared. One such band of pirates (led by Jason, Robert Urich) stumble across a Princess whilst trying to pinch the watery cargo from one Templar ship. But as expected there are space pirates that battle the Templars for their control of the water. And of course they want to keep it this way ensuring their dominance over the galaxy. Naturally only one planet is not affected by this, Mithra, home of the evil Templars. In fact H20 is so valuable that its actually used as a form of currency in ice cube form. The plot takes place in the distant future, presumably in a galaxy far far away, where water has become an extremely scarce and valuable resource (not too original eh). This long forgotten oddity is what you might call a very light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek Star Wars knock-off. The answer to that is of course an absolute multitude of knock-off's, clones, wannabes and homages.
ICE PIRATES MOVIE
Oh George Lucas, what did you bring upon us with your earth-shattering movie of 1977.
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