This station is apparently the DVD-only version of the 20th Anniversary space from Yell Factory. That means that it does not include the tin case, plastic Crow figurine or episode lobby cards. It does maintain four stout episodes of everyone’s common cow-town puppet reveal.
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This site features one episode with Joel Hodgson as host and three with Mike Nelson hosting. Two episodes are from the Comedy Central years while two are from the Sci-Fi Channel shows.
211- First Spaceship on Venus
Originally called Der Schweigende Stern and made in 1960, this international cast film about the first astronauts to land on Venus is a hoot. Filled with astounding ideas about international cooperation, yet strangely dated in its science even for when it was made, this movie’s vision of the future is fun, action-filled and nearly breaks the goofy meter! The jokes are endless, non-stop and really suited from the MST3K crew. “What’s a herring weigh? Oh, about a pound.” “Everything’s better in the crawler copter.” Impartial the endless jokes about the robot in the film, Omega, will withhold you laughing throughout. The host segments are unprejudiced awesomely silly. When the planet has it’s “brown explosion” reach the raze you’ll be rolling with laughter and the jokes waft really hasty at that point. This is a sometimes overlooked, underrated classic that is too comical to narrate. I savor it and never salvage tired of watching it no matter how many times I glance it.
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706- Laserblast
This 1978 feature comprises the final episode from Comedy Central and is an strange cramped feature that received 2.5 stars from Leonard Maltin, a fact that is the source of endless unbelievable wisecracks as the credits roll. Hilarious throughout in spite of the fact that everyone working on the display knew it might be their last one ever. The host segment wrap-up with broad 2001: A Site Odyssey references is terrific.
904- Werewolf
This 1996 feature with Richard Lynch is even more ridiculous than most stories based on lycanthropy. The goofy meter breaks in the first reel of this film and never gets repaired. An archaeologist gets nick by the skeleton of a werewolf and so, predictably, becomes one. The acting, dreadful foreign accents, and other low-budget silliness in this film are hammered mercilessly by MST3K. The host segment where Mike and the ‘Bots are a girl group singing a teen tragedy song, a sort of like “Leader of the Pack” type number, is absolutely killer amusing.
1004- Future War
This 1997 video feature is so dreadful it is beyond words. The grand headed Robert Zdar appears in his second film done on MST3K (the other was Soultaker) and his acting is honest as stiff as in the other movie. The film features unpleasant looking rubber dinosaurs, mediocre martial arts-style action sequences, a hackneyed formulaic site and acting so bland that calling it wooden would be a compliment! Fortunately, it has enough movement and scene changes to at least fuel a barrage of tremendous jokes from MST3K. It’s fun, but only thanks to the MST3K treatment. By itself, this film would be unwatchable.
The extra features on the DVD discs include the 3-part history of MST3K and a video of the reunion panel from Comic-Con 2008. These are very informative and bewitching, even for long-time fans. Grand stuff all around.
Introduction
As timing would have it, Sob! Factory’s first release of Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs after obtaining the rights away from Rhino Records coincided with the twentieth anniversary of MST3k’s premiere. They decided to pull out several stops for their first release (although they kept the same number — 4 — of dependable episodes per box location as Rhino had) ; besides the episodes themselves, the non-Limited Edition version contains a fresh documentary detailing the rise and drop of MST3k and a recording of the twentieth anniversary reunion of the core cast/crew from the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con.
While extras are always welcome, it’s the episodes that really matter. Here I have Roar! Factory has done a pleasurable job. While the split between Joel and Mike hosted episodes is 3 to 1 in favor of Mike, the quality of joke telling is spacious and highlights MST3k at its best.
FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS
After the discovery of a message from the inhabitants of the second planet in our solar system, an international group of astronauts is sent to Venus to resolve if brilliant life has evolved. In typical 1960s sci-fi movie fashion, grand time is spent showing the viewer how the place program of the future works and how plot proceed really would seem to the astronauts. This makes the middle third of the movie extremely arduous as we are treated to long sequences of weightless (with the wait on of harnesses) people and elderly scientists playing chess against robots.
I’d never seen this episode before, but I had seen the novel film (although I’m not definite I was ever able to end awake during the whole thing) . I found the joking from Joel and the bots to be average at best. One factor which started to annoy me after some time was a sub-plot wherein Servo’s sarcasm sequencer was position to a higher level causing him to acquire increasingly repetitive sarcastic remarks about the film. I found this to be a rare mis-fire from the Best Brains.
LASERBLAST
This is the yarn of a young man so improper on the social ladder that he is actually the recipient of Eddie Deezen’s bullying. However, something working in his favor is that he stumbled upon a clean allotment of alien technology which attaches to his arm and allows him to fire lasers at his tormentors. On the downside, the claymation dinosaur aliens are now hunting him to retrieve their lost ray gun.
LASERBLAST was the final episode made for Comedy Central, and while the crew had hopes of the exhibit being picked up by another channel (it eventually was) they were aware that this was potentially the last movie they would have the dubious pleasure of mocking. It seems appropriate therefore that there is a greater than average number of hilarious call-back jokes to earlier experiments. The fact that there are a pretty number of recognizable faces in the cast (Eddie Deezen, Roddy McDowell, Keenan Wynn) gives the crew many additional avenues for jokes, which they duly capitalize on.
WEREWOLF
Joe “younger brother of Martin Sheen” Estevez is infected by an unknown werewolf virus. The screenplay initially makes a substantial deal that this is not the standard werewolf yarn of legend; transformations can occur between any two species. The film promptly turns into the classic cliché of actors getting fur glued to their faces and then having them howl for hours at the moon.
This film (along with FUTURE WAR) is one of the most modern films that MST3k tackled and there are several very 1990s directorial touches. It’s not the worst movie ever, but it is humorous, goofy and totally illogical (thus becoming an instant classic episode) . The crew gets a lot of amusement over the fact that the tubby moon appears to last for a week, and the dreadful guy infects people with the werewolf virus for no reason other than that he is Sinister.
FUTURE WAR
This was an episode that I hadn’t watched — despite having a VHS recording of it — since its modern broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel. The reason for avoidance was my memory of the film was so dire that I simply couldn’t handle another viewing. My sole memory was a scene of the Jean-Claude Van Damme looking guy kickboxing Robert Z’Dar in a warehouse of empty cardboard boxes.
So watching this episode brought me two surprises. One, the riffing from the crew was great better than I had remembered (my theory is that in the ensuing years I’ve become worthy more strengthened against poor films and am therefore now able to pay more attention to the jokes) . Two, the only memory I had of the film was horrible, because that scene never occurs in quite that diagram I had recalled.
I had completely forgotten about the dreadful special execute dinosaurs, the mini-skirted nun, and the two stout guys in the halfway house. You can really smell the 1990s odor coming off of this one, moral down to its flannel. Another case where a movie pitches up softballs to the crew and they hit home race after home race.
Extras
The unique documentary is an intelligent inspect at the history of the exhibit, although I doubt there is too remarkable unique information that devoted fans don’t already know. However, I did bag it informative in its telling of the program’s very early days at KTMA.
The panel from the San Diego Comic-Con was hosted by Patton Oswalt (for what reason, I am not privy) and I found it to be slightly disappointing in that the moderator talks too worthy and the sound quality is not always vast. Calm, its nice to contemplate them all together again and I really got a kick out of Frank Conniff asking whether the urban tale about Joe Don Baker wanting to beat up the writers of MST3k was actually correct.
Stinger
So I would believe Scream! Factory’s first release as a success. Even ignoring the extras, they’ve given us one solid and three grand episodes. They’ve already announced the next release and I can’t wait.
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