Cool as Ice

Plot synopsis:
Johnny Van Owen is a rapper who drifts from city to city. Johnny is performing at a nightclub, rapping and dancing with his crew and a club background songstress playing "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)".
While the group passes through a small town, Johnny falls for honor student Kathy Winslow. The crew is stranded in the town after a member's motorcycle breaks down and has to be left at a local repair shop. While waiting for repairs, Johnny uses the opportunity to see Kathy. She already has a boyfriend named Nick, whom he advises Kathy to dump.
Johnny shows up with his crew at a local club frequented by Kathy and her friends. Noticing that no one was enjoying the live music playing at the club, Johnny and the crew decide to perform a musical number, "People's Choice", by unplugging the other band's instruments and taking control, shocking the audience and ending with Johnny sweeping Kathy off her feet, humiliating Nick.
He offers to forgive Kathy and take her home, but she refuses and walks home by herself. Unbeknownst to Kathy, she is stalked by two strange men in a car. She is saved by Johnny, who takes her home. At the club's parking lot, a jealous Nick and his friends smash up motorcycles belonging to Johnny's friends. Nick's friends attack the rapping biker who fights back, leaving Nick and his buddies unconscious and Nick himself in the hospital with a broken nose.
Kathy's father, Gordon, becomes suspicious of Johnny, and warns Kathy to stay away from him because they can't trust strangers. The next day, Kathy goes for a ride with Johnny against her father's wishes. They ride all over town, including a construction site. When they finally return home, they are greeted by an angry Gordon, who coldly warns Johnny to stay away from his daughter.
Gordon, under pressure from his wife Grace, reveals to Kathy the secret of his past—he was once a police officer. They were on the run from two corrupt cops and were able to escape using fabricated documents, explaining why he kept his life a secret from Kathy all these years. Kathy criticizes her father, saying it was not fair that he lied to her in order to protect her, yet refuse to permit her to see a total stranger.
The next day, Johnny agrees to give Tommy a ride on his bike. They cruise through the streets, and finally back to the Winslow home where Tommy is kidnapped. At the repair shop, the crew prepares to leave town since the bike has been repaired, but they tell Johnny to say goodbye to Kathy. When Johnny arrives at the Winslow house, he finds an envelope meant for the family. It turns out to be a message from the crooked cops with Tommy recording it. Fearing the worst, Gordon accuses Johnny of criminal involvement, much to Kathy's dismay.
When Kathy asks Johnny to play the tape left behind by the kidnappers, he hears a loud clanging noise from a construction vehicle, revealing the message was recorded at the construction site. The gang ambushes the kidnappers and rescue Tommy. When the police arrive, the gang return Tommy to the Winslows, and Gordon apologizes to Johnny. The rapper tells Kathy he has to move on, but she decides to follow him. Nick arrives in his car, telling Kathy to get used to being a biker chick because she will never see him again. Kathy holds on as Johnny uses the car as a ramp and the two new lovers ride off into the big city.
The film ends with Johnny reaching his destination, rapping "Get Wit It" and dancing with his crew to an audience at a night club. Kathy joins him on stage after the show is over, dancing alone in the spotlight.

Tags: psychedelic, romantic

Review:
For all those who still wear Day-glo clothing or caps with polished metal logos, who still shave lines into their eyebrows or just consider themselves romantics, Vanilla will reinforce what you already know: You are Cool as Ice. It's also a hell of a lot better than watching Vanilla on Celebrity Boxing, no really it is..
When watching a film like Cool as Ice, I find myself asking over and over again, Are they serious?
As a film it truly deserves to be rooted in the worst 100 list, terribly acting by the two *bad* cops, worse still by straight laced Michael Gross - and the less said about Vanilla's acting ability the better.Worse than the acting is the absolutely hilarious Cameo by Naomi Campbell in the opening credits, who screams her way through a really really hideous song whilst dancing badly and constantly trying to brush her hair away from her face.After this initial horrific all singing all dancing intro, some bint gives Vanilla her phone number just so that we're reminded how great Vanilla ice is, and then the film starts proper.
I've never witnessed a scene in a movie which can compete with the pure hilarity of Vanilla dancing on his own, like a tw@t, outside the old people's house in his dayglo pants wearing his stupid jacket.
Already a well-respected movie, Cool As Ice will inevitably enter the annals of truly great cinema after sufficient time has past to permit its canonization..
Right, I've seen this movie 10 times in one week, but i still dont get one thing.....what does "shling a schlong" have to do with anything?And how did he jump the fence from a flat road?And how does he keep changing jackets when he clearly doesn't take anything with him?And why are there turntables in a 70's music bar?And how does he drive through the second story of a house from the opposite direction on the ground?Anyway, i have a lot more questions than this so to do me a service you had all better go out and borrow this movie.....
The film bombed on release, and signaled the end was nigh for Vanilla Ice. Watching it today, the star reduced to a relic of inane pop history, the film becomes a candidate for the best worst film of all time.Rebels and their motorcycles have a history on screen.
Fast-forward fifteen years and history repeats: Fonda and Hopper rewrite the Hollywood rulebook in EASY RIDER.In COOL AS ICE, the bad boy of rap rides into the suburbs with his all-black posse, ready to reap havoc on suburbia, right?
That's what the rap star wanna-be Vanilla Ice thinks when he starred in this movie cluttered with the piece of dog dung script from David Stenn.
The movie showcases the atrocious acting by Vanilla Ice who bolsters his ego to triumph over evil and injustice, and gets to shag the girl of his dreams ("perverted fantasies" more like describes his intention of establishing a torrid love affair).
It's so unbelievably bad you have to suspend the disbelief just to get the kick out of making fun of Vanilla Ice as he attempts to act like he's going to win an Oscar for Best Actor but ends up being an amateur, only riddled with the terrible one-liners and smirk expressions so annoying you want to punch him in his face.
The star Vanilla Ice leading a bunch of poseurs to run the errand and falling madly in love with a pretty girl and conquering evil is the plot I can think of.
Some particularly funny scenes (some may be spoilers):After the opening MTV-style music sequence, it becomes obvious that Vanilla Ice could not act when a sexy girl comes on to himJumping over the fence with the motorcycle and inadvertently hurts the girlVanilla Ice stole the "black book" with the list of female friends and looks like a pimp when he boasts to his poseur friendsVanilla Ice walks around wearing an overinflated orange puff coat with the bare chest and funky pants, shouting "Hey, yo!
What's up?" in a grating accent in the first half hour, made to look like the gangbanging pusherAs the girl is about to enter into her house, Vanilla Ice grabs her elbow and said "All right.
If they actually go all the way, Vanilla Ice would be guilty of statutory rapeThe irony of Vanilla Ice wearing a black puff leather jacket plastered all over with the words like "Sex Me Up," "Oh Yeah," and "Lust"Gratuitous slow motion scenes and gratuitous sexual innuendoesMichael Gross' one-dimensional character as the girl's strict father and the attitude of Vanilla Ice when he had to leave at the insistence of her fatherOlder couple dancing to the funky music.
So dangerous he should have died in a tragic accidentVanilla Ice's line of "It's fresh, man" in response to a stupid kid brother's ridiculous hairVanilla Ice's line "I know that sound" when investigating the mystery sound on the loudspeaker The audiotape about the kidnapping scheme is single-handedly the funniest scene in the whole movie -- you have to see and hear to believe itThe floating physics of Vanilla Ice's motorcycle gang crashing through the wall on the second floor at the construction building.
Truly a laugh riot!The violence at the construction site could be mistaken for the gang hazing ritualVanilla Ice wears a ridiculous black wool hat and said the line, "Imagine that." If you have the eagle eyes, it's obvious the stunt was pulled off with a steel ramp mounted over the car to be followed by the torturous closing music sequence.All in all, the most unintentionally funniest movie I've seen -- and I've never laughed frequently and harder AT a movie before with the exception of "Project A-Ko" and "There's Something About Mary".
No doubt this is a huge embarrassment that led to Vanilla Ice's demise as the hip-hop pop star and a movie actor.
How the hell could any film maker make a film so bad.Its baffling but then again it was directed by the guy who destroyed the live version of Inspector Gadget.You can also see he did not get much work for a long, long time after this film.Vanilla struggles with every painful word that he mutters.
I enjoyed the film a lot more when Mr.Ice was off screen.Every time I saw his stupid head with his ridiculous jackets I felt like braking the T.V.What makes it worse the film makers actually thought that the public would actually go and see this movie.However no one did and by the time it was released, Mr.Ice's music career was over and this movie bombed.It deserved more than that......It should be banned.
Vanilla Ice is not only a great musical artist but could be the next DeNiro when it comes to acting.I thought the movie was totally gerbilicous!
So you've just picked up Cool as Ice in the video store and you're thinking Vanilla Ice:The Movie...when you've stopped laughing,you'll be like that must be SOOOOOOOOO bad,and you know what?YOu would be 100% right,EXCEPT..its worse..it really is,even worse than the cover(see above)gives away.What were the movie people thinking??
This IS rebel without a cause,without the style,class,direction or charismatic leading man.The acting,plot(??)and overall quality of the film are all non existent.That said it doesn't score a big fat(''drop the'')ZERO for a couple of reasons.....1)It is VERY funny,if you've got the kind of sense of humour to find amusement in cheesy things from the past,that and the ridiculous cliff/flat top combination sported by Vanilla,with the ridiculous ''MC Hammer in a dye factory ''pants to match.Class.Also it scores points for the dialog,which is SOOO bad it is actually very funny,I'm still not sure if this was meant as a serious movie or not!LOL.But check the memorable quotes section above to see for yourself.Badly acted,badly scripted,and badly dressed,the central character is basically Vanilla Ice.Why bother giving the character or the movie a name,should have just called it Vanilla Ice.At least then you would get an idea of how bad it is!.
Cool As Ice would have to be my all time favourite movie - for all the wrong reasons.
At the beginning of the movie people in the street are shown to be in awe of Ice and his posse as they ride through the town, but what is most confusing is that noone seems to realise just how ridiculous Vanilla Ice looks.
While it is hardly necessary to comment on Vanilla Ice's acting abilities, other than to say that he makes Steven Segal look like Robert De Niro, I feel I should warn other unsuspecting innocents about this movie.
Strutting away in his own personal style, Johnny (Vanilla Ice) makes his way into the life of a young suburban girl, Kathy (Kristin Minter).
From the first time they meet right up to their first kiss, the romantic plot will grab hold of your heart and sweep you along with the smooth coolness that only Vanilla Ice can deliver.
Result of 1991's Vanilla Ice Fad. I heard a funny joke about the ill-fated two-hit wonder Vanilla Ice once, in which the film "9 1/2 Weeks" was mistaken for a documentary on Ice's career.When the rapper hit it big with his (terrible, I might add) whopping two rap/pop songs, movie execs wasted no time in exploiting his short-lived fame, and this film was the result.
We also saw Killer clowns from outer space and i must say, Cool as ice made the clowns look like Oscar material.I don't think it is possible to have self esteem after doing a movie like that.
This clearly puts the movie in the category of "Don't Try This At Home Kids!".In addition to this dangerous message, the film is filled with tons of Mr. Ice's music--which sounds, oddly, like a combination of traditional Hip-hop and the music of the "Manhattans".
Vanilla Ice is probably the worst excuse for a rapper to begin with (I don't like rap, but can at least respect legitimate rap artists) what made them think that he could try to act?
The plot, or lack there of, is a shameless attempt to make Vanilla Ice look like the bad boy with a heart of gold rather than the schmuck that he really is.
Cool as Ice us one of those films that after to watch the whole movie you want to watch it again and again until your VCR or DVD wears out.
Most of the cast isn't bad -- actors that were obviously temporarily insane when they made the movie -- but Vanilla Ice is out of his overly-shaved mind.
What can I say, I was 16 when it was released, and it was/and is a good song.So when my wife suggested that when she was a kid she not only watched the Vanilla Ice film but "loved it" I thought what the hell, I'll suffer for my art!
His name = Johnny.Even my wife is rethinking her life by this point.7th minute – Vanilla "cough", Johnny jumps a fence on his motorbike and spooks a horse, leading to an awkward scene between Johnny and the good girl rider.8th minute – Bad acting, worse dialogue.9th minute – First (of many) examples that white people just don't understand us kids!
Thankfully, this film didn't deep-six her career like it helped ruin Vanilla Ice's..
Vanilla Ice was actually a reasonably good rapper, impressive producer (scratches and beat boxing are the movie's mood music) and pretty damn amazing dancer.
Vanilla Ice trying to act like a cool rebel teen who gets it on with teen girl is painful so painful to watch.
Popstar movies are usually awful but this is worse.Even Madoona has never made a movie this bad.Vanilla ice cannot act and should not of been given a starring role,nor a supporting one.The script is terrible but lets face it even if it was great Ice would sink it.Easily the Worst movie of 1991.1 out of 10.
Even the biggest "try-too-hards" I've ever met haven't been that bad.Ice's lines and acting aside, it's not the only terrible thing about the movie.
I don't think that's what the writer or director of this movie had in mind.Terrible acting, terrible writing, terrible plot, terrible music, terribly boring, terrible film.
How convenient that Vanilla Ice should star in one of the most entertainingly horrible movies of the past 20 years?
If only a 0 rating existed then this film could justly be placed at the bottom of the heap.Vanilla Ice plays a rapper who has a bunch of butt kissing backing dancers and musicians called the VIP crew, that I guess are supposed to what the Revolution where to Prince, however in this case all they seem to do is suck up to Vanilla while he goes around being an idiot.I guess when he nearly knocks a horse onto a woman whilst being a kn*b it sets the tone for the rest of the movie as he arrogantly proclaims that "she likes me" whilst re-enacting every clichéd teen movie there's ever been, even though with that ridiculous choc ice hair-do he looks like he's about mid-thirties.His lack of charm is a problem from the moment he comes on the screen and you thank God that you weren't at the premier with a gun for fear of what you would have done for Vanilla inflicting this piece of self-serving bilge onto the world.As the film goes on and the girl starts to like the fact that he endangered her life and maybe is just mis-understood in his arrogant "I love everything about me" way, we hate him even more and feel pity for her for having to perform in such a way and that its recorded on film for all posterity.Bl**dy awful!
despite vanilla ice being the worst actor ever i admit without shame i thought the movie had some redeeming features.
Vanilla ice's terrible acting, his dancing, his witty comments, it makes it all worth while watching it.
Cool as Ice has to be in the top 10 of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I personally feel like this is one of the most amazing movies i have ever seen, not because it's that good, but because it actually got made.
I also think that Ice needs to get back into acting, I know he is touring right now because he is coming to my city (he's doing small venues-trying to just keep it real-low-key and about the music) but hopefully he will get a chance to look at some scripts while he whisks around the states.
OK, on the surface, you're probably thinking: "Wow...this movie has Vanilla Ice in it.
Once I turned the tv on and there it was: Vanilla Ice on top of a lemon green motorcycle, "acting cool" and "looking good".
The movie is a great choice for one of those days that you feel like s***, it makes you see that things aren't really that bad..
"Cool As Ice" was god-awful, but in that strange way that makes it funny to watch, because, really, you're laughing at the film, not with it.
Like other folks on this comment board - yes it's cheese, yes Vanilla Ice's acting range is limited to two faces - p***ed off and slightly-not-as-p***ed off and there's some crazy lame lines in this flick but it's funny as hell !Side note : I used to work at a movie theater back in '91 and Cool as Ice only played for a week.
Watching Vanilla Ice prance around in technicolour trousers spouting lines such as "Words of wisdom: Drop the zeeeeerrrrrooooooo, get with the hero!" can't fail to raise a smile on even the most cynical movie watchers face.Its also interesting to note that the film featured two future stars of hit TV medical drama ER.
A great plot and a thespian performance by Mr Ice makes this a movie that gets 10/10 stars.
For any Vanilla Ice fan out there if you see this movie you will agree with me.
If the Movie has a good plot and Vanilla Ice in it how will it not kick ass??
Movie had Great songs great dancing and Vanilla Ice!!!
It's not eternal hellfire, but this horribly campy and pathetically stupid flick starring the one and (hopefully) only, Vanilla Ice. Keep in mind that I watch a lot of movies that are said to be bad because I like to MST3K them, but it was really hard for me to slog through this junk.
4. Is Vanilla Ice a singer in this movie?
If you don't want to watch this movie because you think people would make fun of you for liking it, just remember...
Why did anyone think Vanilla Ice could act?
Yes. While it doesn't reach the heights of an actual good or even competent movie, it's the fun factor which fuels it.Vanilla Ice gives maybe one of the most awkward performances you'll ever see, but that is part of what is so hilarious.
Not good if you want a serious movie, but if you want to laugh at Ice, then enjoy.
i give it a 3 out of 10 because even though the movie is bad and the acting is just bad, just looking at Vanilla Ice is funny.
if you are looking for a good movie with a great plot, skip it, but if you feel like pointing and laughing at almost everything Vanilla Ice says, does and wears (which by the way, i did) then enjoy the movie..
I guess all I can say is, a decent movie got trashed because it said Vanilla Ice and not for any other reason.
Just take my word for it and watch it once, I think you'll be surprised that you liked it and how well Vanilla Ice did in front of the camera...
My friend and I were watching the vanilla Ice Behind The Music and found out about it.
I love bad movies, and I love vanilla ice!