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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 18, 1991 |
Starring:
Allison Dean, Bobbie Brown, Deezer D, Dody Goodman, John Newton, Kevin Hicks, Kristin Minter, Naomi Campbell, Sydney Lassick, Vanilla Ice
Summary:
A rapper gets stuck in a small town and falls for a local girl whose family is in witness protection.
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Kellogg, though he handles the musical numbers in energetic, if unexceptional, music-video style, has trouble with some of the early dialogue scenes, reverting to hyped-up visuals to get through some of them before finally settling down. [21 Oct 1991]
The script by David Stenn (21 Jump Street), which also includes a hoary subplot involving blackmail, a kidnapping and a guilty family secret, is essentially a way of tying together a collection of familiar-looking music videos that are so loosely connected to the story that they have about the same impact as commercials. [19 Oct 1991, p.C7]
Cool as Ice ends up seeming tired as well as twisted. The man whom promoters call the rap-era Elvis has negative charisma. [19 Oct 1991, p.11]
Director David Kellogg tries to inject energy into the picture with speeded-up sequences and smash-bang cutting, and the art direction is bright and eye-catching. But it's just gourmet dressing on dead lettuce. The movie is unable to balance Ice's aspirations to genuine adult-level coolness in a story clearly designed to appeal to the sensibilities of pre-teenage girls, and the result is bland and often absurd. [22 Oct 1991, p.F1]
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