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Susan Stewart's
HITS & MISSES BRIEF REVIEWS OF THIS WEEK'S NOTABLE PROGRAMS ICE (Sat., July 22, ABC) TV-14 Some say the world will end in fire, but ice also has dramatic possibilities, as this hokey TV-movie tries unconvincingly to demonstrate. The second Ice Age hits Los Angeles, where most low-budget disaster movies are filmed. Blizzard conditions force a cop (Grant Show) to team up with his girlfriend, ex-wife and a smart-mouth convict who thinks snow is a racist plot perpetrated by white men. They bicker, shiver and burn a copy of Paradise Lost to get warm. If Ice's cold doesn't kill you, the symbolism will. My score (0-10): 3 |
First, a hole in the ozone causes Los Angeles to overheat in Josie Bissett's The Sky's On Fire. A week later, sunspots thrusts LA into another Ice Age in this flick. I'd better get out of town before I catch pneumonia.
BTW, most low-budget disaster movies are set in LA. They, however, are filmed in Canada. Damn those runaway productions.