Cool As Ice (1991)

IMDb plot summary: A rapper gets stuck in a small town and falls for a local girl whose family is in witness protection.

Directed by David Kellogg. Stars Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter, and Naomi Campbell.

Cool As Ice was a film vehicle for rapper Vanilla Ice and is often named as one of the worst films of the '90s. Vanilla Ice plays a cool biker kid who falls in love with a straight A high school graduate, and then has to not only bridge the gap between their two worlds but also save her family from being kidnapped. Yeah, this is a pretty stupid film. It rests entirely on trying to make Vanilla Ice seem cool, and from the ratings that got it seems like that was not an easy task even back in 1991, but now he just seems incredibly laughably silly. He gets several opportunities to perform, and none of them are interesting or particularly useful in setting the tone to the story. The kidnapping subplot is truly bizarre and seems to belong in an entirely different film, as if they wrote a whole story about worlds colliding in romance and then realized that it was only a 30 minute film, so they tossed in some musical numbers and added some gangsters. As I was watching this, I kept pausing to complain to my family about how ridiculous this all sounded. Fortunately it moves pretty quickly so the silliness of it is over fast, but this is not a good movie.

How it entered my Flickchart:

🎥 Cool as Ice (1991)

📊 Ranked #3755/4039 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 7

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