watch it: “Aliens on Ice!”

It’s just a taste of the actual, for-real Aliens on Ice! show a troupe in Austin -- where else? -- has developed. Jacob S. Hall at Movies.com has been documenting the saga, and now reports on the finished show:

Anyone who has seen Aliens can follow what transpires over the next 70 minutes or so. It's James Cameron's film on fastforward…and caffeine…and possibly cocaine. The show captures the little details and turns of phrases that fans will know by heart and cast makes creative use of the ice, never standing still when they have to. Ripley's confrontation with the board that accuses her of destroying the ship from the first film is transformed into humorously blunt exchange, with every party involved skating around each other in menacing circles. The colonial marines searching the seemingly abandoned colony of LV421 becomes a showcase for humorously clumsy figure skating. The subtle relationship between Ripley and Hicks becomes gloriously unsubtle when the two share a brief little spin together on the ice.

There’s so much more geekily glorious insanity -- go read it all.