Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Nonureva Really Surprised!

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

SnoopyStyle Mike Nelson and robots Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and Gypsy are orbiting the Earth. Evil scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester forces them to watch the movie 'This Island Earth' to break their will before submitting to him. They ridicule the bad movie as they watch it.This is based on a low-budget TV show. I've never seen it but it certainly isn't necessary for one to see it before seeing this movie. The concept is pretty simple. The jokes from the characters sitting in front of the movie screen are sometimes good. There are a few good laughs but mostly, it's a series of mild wisecracks. 'This Island Earth' is not the most horrible movie. There are some silly 50's sci-fi designs to ridicule. It's a lot of little chuckles. Outside of sitting in front of the screen, the crew has some adventures. It's nothing that funny. It might be more appealing to fans of the TV show. This is a relatively short movie. It feels like a TV episode and fans of the TV show would probably love this.

Green_Saturn It doesn't matter that this movie is based off a successful T.V. show. It still is painful to watch.After a confusing and messy opening monologue by some creepy professor, for whatever reason the audience discovers that this movie takes place in space. And the spaceship our "heroes" are in looks suspiciously like male genitalia. I never quite understood whether that was intentional or not.The only thing sadder than the plot of this movie is the robots. Seriously, its like whoever designed them died half way through the process. I don't know if they're from the T.V. show or something (NO, I have never seen the show), but they are just utterly awful. One is something that I think resembles a crow, and the other is just a talking gumball machine. It creeped me out.What was the point of even having the robots, or the random guy who is friends with them? (By the way, was Trace Beaulieu blackmailed into playing Mike Nelson?) The comments made about the movie these characters are watching are juvenile and distracting. At one point, one of the robots makes a sound like a car engine when a car pans on screen. Where is the humor? What am I not getting?Halfway through the movie (that the characters are watching), the filmmakers decided to spare the audience by having the film reel break. While we wait for the creepy scientist guy to fix this, our useless heroes break the Hubble telescope. This is, in fact, their biggest accomplishment of the entire movie.The movie the creepy scientist makes them watch isn't that bad. It's actually pretty interesting, if a little cheesy. You'd think if the whole point of the movie was to make fun of another movie, whoever made this would've at least picked a bad movie to make fun of.The worst part is the ending. Usually, in the last ten minutes of a movie, loose ends are tied up. Nope. Not in this. Nothing happens.One star, because at least this movie was SHORT.

Aaron1375 This film features the gang of the Satellite of Love like you have never seen them before! Being told what to do by movie producers, being passed over for ad revenue in favor of Barb Wire and riffing a film that is 94 minutes long and longer than this entire film. Still, the riffing was good and the film overall funny, just not as good as some of the stuff one saw in the regular show. In this film the Satellite of Love looks like it is in space, other than that it seems there was very little need to make this movie as the producers seemed to want to make this film short as all get out, it would of been better off simply being an episode of the show. The film being parodied is "This Island Earth", a film I have not seen other than what is presented here. Usually I feel comfortable reviewing films the gang have done, but this one is so obviously cut short I will not review this one as this one is so chopped up a lot of the plot is too. I am not sure what is happening in places so until I see the full movie I will not review it. I can review this though and like I said, it is good, but I would rather they had stayed on television as this movie is shorter than anything they did on the show on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi channel. The host segments were not as funny as the host segments on the regular show either as they seemed to want to scream at the audience, "This is a movie!" So overall, funny, just kind of pointless. Though it is one film I can watch the closing credits.

RTheManF89 I have been a fan of MST3K for quite some time, since I was 9. I didn't even know there was a movie, but as of a couple years ago, I discoverd this. I like this movie. Okay, it's not as great as the show, but still it's pure genius. Mike Nelson's pretty funny, as is the 'bots and Dr. Forrester. There are some pretty funny jokes as well. The movie being watched is the 1955 classic, This Island Earth, which isn't actually a bad movie. It's just that Mike and the 'Bots make it funnier & easier to watch. Now onto the DVD. Just like the previous 1998 Image DVD, there's no extras, but whether there are extras or not, it's still worth the buy. However, I must admit that the widescreen presentation is good too. So if you can find this DVD, get it. Also, as for bonus features, I could probably assume that a special edition will come out eventually, but who knows? 9/10. Highly recommended.