Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie poster

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie( 1996)

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Every year Hollywood makes hundreds of movies. This is one of them!

Overview

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.

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Michael J. Nelson
Mike Nelson
Trace Beaulieu
Dr. Forrester / Crow T. Robot
Kevin Murphy
Tom Servo
Jim Mallon
Gypsy
John Brady
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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on Fri Feb 10 2023

**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 w...