Ice Pirates is one of those movies that keeps on giving in all
the ways you want from an early-1980s B movie about, well, a
ship of sword-wielding pirates. The "ice" part is because they
steal frozen water in a universe of thirsty, resource-depleted
planets. I cannot do justice in words to the mind-blanking
whatever of this clip, where the captured pirates are
"processed" into gelded servants — and then rescued
surreptitiously by a shiny, disco princess. It's Ultra Reagan
Era, including a moment of pre-PC "race humor." But wait,
there's more! The flick features appearances from a strangely
hunky Ron "Hellboy" Perlman, and a seriously droolworthy silver-
bikini'd Angelica Huston looking very Siouxie Sioux. There are a
ton of gratuitous space sword fights, junior high sex humor
(yay!), an appropriately cheesy quest for the missing, watery
"lost planet," and (goofiest of all) the party scenes where
people "get high" by shooting themselves with electricity and
floating on the ceiling. You probably didn't realize t