Teykaerts's Full Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
If you have ever scene movies like "Kull: The Conqueror" or "Mimic," or, <gulp> "City of Angels" then you, or one of your friends, has probably decided that the terrible, ridiculous movie you are watching would be much funnier for you and everyone else if snide, "witty," interjections were added to the dialogue of the movie. Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage suddenly become much more interesting when everything they say suddenly becomes laden with sexual innuendoes and references to "The Godfather." It is this idea of making fun of terrible movies that is the heart and soul of "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie," which is simply a longer episode of the cult-hit of the same name the plays on the sci-fi channel.
Known by the moniker "MST3K," this movie is about a human and two robots who are imprisoned on a space-ship by a mad scientist who plans to break their wills by forcing them to endure viewings of old science fiction movies that are phenomenally bad. In order to perserve their sanities, the prisoners make jokes about what is going on in the movie, adding lines from other films and mimicking the actors' voices and inserting bizarre dialogue to hilarious effect.
The movie that our intrepid prisoners are forced to watch in this film is "This Island Earth," a fifties film replete with terrible plot, terrible acting, and terrible special effects. Needless to say, there is plenty of opportunity for numerous hilarious comments.
The movie is broken into three parts, divided by a scenes of the prisoners try to escape. These scenes are amazingly stupid and puerile, and I really don't know what the director was thinking. The humor in these scenes seems more on the level of Barney the Dinosaur than the sharp witticism that characterizes the rest of the film. I highly recommend fast-forwarding through these horrible and just watching the scenes where "This Island Earth" is being pilloried.
The humor of this movie is definitely directed at 16-30 year-old males and will no doubt seem juvenile and stupid to everyone else, much as the actual ridicule of movies in real life seems to appeal mostly to young males. The jokes range from references to history to other movies to racial slurs to sex jokes, and come in such rapid-fire form that one is forced to watch the movie several times in order to get the full gamut of humor. This movie is great joke after great joke, and while a few miss the mark, the vast majority are laugh-out-loud funny.
If you enjoy comedies, then you absolutely must check this one out. My only beef is that when one skips the innane scenes that are not ridiculing "This Island Earth," one is left with only about 55 minutes of movie. Fortunately, there are enough laughs packed into those 55 minutes to make TWO regular length comedies.
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