Ice Cream Man
is undoubtedly a crappy movie, but I love it anyway. Where else can you
see Ron Howard’s less-successful brother, king fu mental
patients and Butter Brickel?
Written
by The B-Movie Specialist Ronnie Angel September 30, 2007
Release:
1995 Directed by: Norman Apstein Written by: David Dobkin and Richard Lyons
Starring:
Clint Howard as Ice Cream Man Justin Isfeld as Johnny Spodak Anndi McAfee as Heather Langley JoJo Adams as Tuna Cassera Mikey LeBeau as Small Paul
Okay, okay, I'll be fair here. Not every review I do will be
totally positive. I guess I have to throw in a bad one every now and
then just to even things out…but this is not it. Some are
definitely worse than others, but damn if I have to say it...the
terrible horror movies can still be entertaining as hell. Such is the
case with The Ice Cream Man.
Ice Cream Man is one of those crappy movies that has
a special place in my heart. Sure, the acting sucks. A lot of what goes
on in this one doesn’t make a damn bit of sense, and if you
watch it for too long without a break you will get a major
headache. Still, there is something about it that has the strange
effect of drawing you in nonetheless…like Blues Clues I
guess, or Tab Cola.
This extravaganza of gore features, in all his glory, the
immortal (and outshined by his brother) Clint Howard as Gregory, the
evil local ice cream man/former mental patient (that looks good on a
resume), complete with one of the best voices and walks I have ever
seen. Howard’s character really made me crack up and now I
know where the idea for Little Nicky's voice and walk came from!
Anyway, Gregory spends his days driving around in his ice cream truck,
serving the local kids an assortment of treats laden with bugs and
pieces of corpses. He spends his nights either sleeping in the front
yard of his old nurse's house or chasing kids.
A
local gang of kids called the Rocket-somethings (I didn’t pay
that much attention LOL) catch on to the strangeness of Gregory after
seeing him kidnap one of their own. The Cops get on Gregory’s
tail and he goes after the gang to get revenge after the police raid
his shop. There is a scene in the grocery store that is particularly
funny / sad / senseless / ridiculous, so watch for it.
To make a
long story short, this movie has lots of cheese,
lots of gore and lots of people that die. That along with Clint Howard being
creepy, Kids and adults who need acting lessons,
"cop puppets", kung fu mental patients and lots of ice cream (Butter
Brickel!!) make this crazy flick a fun, ultra cheesy
piece of Hollywood (TN, maybe?) back alley filmdom.
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major
headache. Still, there is something about it that has the strange
effect of drawing you in nonetheless…like Blues Clues I
guess, or Tab Cola.
Anyway, Gregory spends his days driving around in his ice cream truck,
serving the local kids an assortment of treats laden with bugs and
pieces of corpses. He spends his nights either sleeping in the front
yard of his old nurse's house or chasing kids.
lessons,
"cop puppets", kung fu mental patients and lots of ice cream (Butter
Brickel!!) make this crazy flick a fun, ultra cheesy
piece of Hollywood (TN, maybe?) back alley filmdom.
