Cool as Ice Movie Trailer. “If you ain’t true to yourself, you ain’t true to nobody,” mumbles Johnny, a blank-faced young motorcyclist with outlaw pretensions to Kathy (Kristin Minter), his sweetheart from the right side of the tracks. Playing Johnny in “Cool as Ice,” his first starring feature, the rap star Vanilla Ice wears just two expressions. One is a squinting mask upon which the right eyebrow periodically arches upward for no apparent reason. The other is the nervous, glittering smile of a shy young man who has been posed in front of the camera and told to grin and say “cheese.”
Cool as Ice Movie Trailer. When Johnny inquires about the repair of a dismembered motorcyle, he does it in hiphop grammar. “Can you put back it together with quickness?” he asks in a monotone that suggests James Dean under heavy sedation. Since the star lacks a speaking voice that carries any expression, one is left contemplating his get-up, which includes a leather jacket with “Down by Law” emblazoned on the back, black-and-white striped shorts, oversized shades, two earrings, and hair sculptured like a contour map of the Hollywood hills.
The aims of “Cool as Ice,” which opened yesterday at local theaters, are modest. All it really wants to be is a hiphop answer to one of Elvis Presley’s sillier vehicles. But the movie, which was directed by David Kellogg and written by David Stenn, fails to deliver an ounce of musical energy.
The lifeless music and dance sequences in which the rapper performs with his crew have the feel of low-budget video clips that have been inserted almost by mistake. Far too much of the film is devoted to a preposterous story involving Kathy’s father, a former policeman who is in the Government’s witness protection program, and a kidnapping that is solved by guess which young rebelmotorcyclist and his hiphopping friends?
Cool as Ice (1991)
Directed by: David Kellogg
Starring: Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter, Naomi Campbell, Kevin Hicks, Allison Dean, Dody Goodman, Sydney Lassick, Candy Clark, Brooke Alexander, Victor DiMattia
Screenplay by: David Stenn
Production Design by: Nina Ruscio
Cinematography by: Janusz Kaminski
Film Editing by: Debra Goldfield
Costume Design by: Ingrid Ferrin
Set Decoration by: Sally Nicholaou Hamilton
Art Direction by: Carey Meyer
Music by: Stanley Clarke
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 18, 1991
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