Right after Home Alone, Minter landed the part of Vanilla Ice's love interest in 1991's Cool as Ice — the rapper's ill-fated big screen debut (not counting his cameo appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, of course). Ice (real name Robert Van Winkle) was thrown in at the deep end by a record label hoping to make bank on his sudden popularity, and it showed. The movie was universally hated, scoring a generous 7 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though Minter certainly wasn't to blame.
"Minter (who later became a prolific actress) acts circles around Ice," read Hollywood in Toto's 25th anniversary review. "The best quality to her performance is how she appears to be openly mocking her co-star's inability to speak English." While revisiting Cool as Ice in 2016, journalist Dan Epstein was equally appalled by what he saw, writing for Rolling Stone, "Watching the film now, a quarter-century after its initial release, it's kind of shocking to see just how shoddy the whole thing is, even by popstar cash-in standards."
For her part, Minter has since come to the rapper's defense over his performance, telling Jason Stuart, "He gets thrown into a movie, and I thought he did a good job for his first movie. No acting classes. He just did it."
