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Rating: 6.6/10 by 207 users

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

Dr. Clayton Forrester figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, Forrester makes them watch "This Island Earth", a cheesy 1950s spaceship film. But when Mike and friends make funny comments throughout the movie and others that follow, Forrester's plan looks increasingly flimsy.

Directing:
  • Jim Mallon
  • Bix Skahill
  • Marie Domingo
  • Linda J. Kuusisto
Writing:
  • Paul Chaplin
  • Jim Mallon
  • Michael J. Nelson
  • Kevin Murphy
  • Trace Beaulieu
  • Bridget Jones Nelson
  • Mary Jo Pehl
  • Joel Hodgson
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Apr 19, 1996

Rating: 6.6/10 by 207 users

Alternative Title:
MST3K: The Movie - US
Misterio en el espacio: la película - ES
Mysteeriteatteri 3000 - FI
Mystery Science Theater 3000: uno spettacolo ai confini della realtà...! - IT
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie - GB
O Filme Mais Idiota do Mundo - BR
O polemos dyo kosmon - GR
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Der Film - DE
Mystery Science Theater - The Movie (1996) - US
不可思議的神秘劇場 - HK
ミステリー・サイエンス・シアター3000 (劇場版): 宇宙水爆戦の巻 - JP

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 13 minutes
Budget: $5,000,000
Revenue: $1,000,000

Plot Keyword: cinema on cinema, satire, spoof, robot, scientist, space adventure, hubble, based on tv series, independent film, science fiction, movie riffing

Trace Beaulieu
Dr. Forrester / Crow T. Robot
John Brady
Benkitnorf

Filipe Manuel Neto

**It might be really funny to a lot of people, but it didn't work for me.** I know there are a lot of old movies that are painfully bad. Some of them are so bad they're funny. This is quite well known. What I didn't know was that there had been a TV series in the past that made fun of these movies. “Mystery Science Theater 3000” was a series that never aired in Portugal and that I only became aware of when researching this film. Now I understand better certain things that I didn't realize when I was watching it, but even so, I feel that it is a film that is not for me. Before writing, I went to see an episode or two of the original series to compare. What the film did was, essentially, a movie episode. The differences are minimal, and that seems a bit lazy to me right off the bat. There are lots of films based on good TV series, and it's not uncommon for the opposite to happen, but generally there is an effort, on the part of those who make the films, to give us something different, even if the base is there. That didn't happen here. Also, the film tries to make witty jokes based on the older film, but it splatters roundly on the floor with each one. First, because there is a bad placement of the jokes, which happens before we even realize why, as if it were a spoiler. And then, because they are dull jokes, a type of humor that seems like it would only have a chance to work at the expense of a few very alcoholic drinks. I just don't like humor like that, and therefore the movie didn't have any jokes. Luckily, it was a fairly brief movie, just over an hour, or I would have stopped and moved on to something really more interesting.


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