Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

Thanks for the memories!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The acting in this movie is really good.

As a fan of MST3K, I was very excited to see this film. I was lucky enough to see this in theaters, and it was even more fun than your usual episode of the series. It's a little shorter than an episode, but being that the jabs at the film are hysterically funny, it evens out. Now, I heard that making the film wasn't fun for the crew, as producers made the cast change lines and many other things, but you'd never know it from watching it. It's also very interesting to see more of the ship, and see things in a broader way, due to a bigger budget. This ranks up there with the best episodes, and I've been quoting it repeatedly since seeing it, so many years ago. For me, as a fan, this was worth all the effort and frustrations the crew went through, I truly enjoy it and appreciate it!

The movie about Mike and his robot friends Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo in being forces by evil scientist named Dr. Clayton Forrester who wanna taken rule the world, He force them to watch a Worst movie in Satellite of Love in High earth orbit This time their target 1955 American classic sci-fi film from Universal International called "This Island Earth". Mike and his robot friends wish to get back on earth before Dr. Forrester find out. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is was totally hilarious movie based on the Hit TV Series to bring worst classic movie to life in the big screen.

Getting down to brass tacks, "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" delivers exactly what you'd expect: a terrible movie and funny jokes. The good news here is that the movie is really bad ("This Island Earth"), and the jokes are hilarious. This flick is a veritable one-liner factory, and it's refreshing how hard I still laugh after seeing this movie many times. I tend to use these lines in (occasional) everyday conversation. The peculiar thing about this is that it's shorter than your standard TV episode. And given the rocky working relationship between Best Brains and Universal, I wouldn't be surprised if there was substantial editing.But the bottom line is that it just simply works. "This Island Earth" seems like it was tailor-made for Mike and the bots to excoriate, and it made for some of their funniest material.Great big-screen effort. 8/10

Mike Nelson and his robot buddies are still trapped on the Satellite of Love, forced to watch bad movies for some sort of bizarre experiment to drive Nelson mad. This time, the film is "This Island Earth".This film is very funny, but there is really nothing I have to say about it. If you like the show, you will like the movie, because there is really no difference whatsoever. The budget is slightly greater, so the lobby jokes are nicer looking, but they are so minor that it hardly matters. The picture quality also seems slightly crisper. The bulk of the film has them in the theater, which would look the same no matter what.Sadly, the film does little more than make me miss the show. According to some unknown source, "The TV show's usual density of gags was reduced for theatrical audiences, so that a larger number of people laughing wouldn't cause too much dialogue to be missed." That makes sense, except when you are watching it sixteen years later on DVD. You do not need that much silence -- it then becomes almost like really watching "This Island Earth".Even more mysterious, the film comes in at a short 73 minutes, even shorter than the average episode of 90 minutes. So the movie is shorter than the TV show! And the disc has no special features (besides French language track), so the DVD is not that special -- you would be better off buying a DVD of them watching "Manos" or something, unless you really enjoyed this particular film.A good film, some funny gags, and a short run time for quick viewing... but really nothing worth making a movie about.