Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

PG-13 04/19/1996 (US) Comedy, Science Fiction 1h 13m

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

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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.

Jim Mallon

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Joel Hodgson

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Michael J. Nelson

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Bridget Jones Nelson

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Paul Chaplin

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Trace Beaulieu

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Mary Jo Pehl

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Kevin Murphy

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Michael J. Nelson

Mike Nelson
Trace Beaulieu

Dr. Forrester / Crow T. Robot
Kevin Murphy

Tom Servo
Jim Mallon

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John Brady

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

10%

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on February 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.

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