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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Every year Hollywood makes hundreds of movies. This is one of them!
1996 | 73m | English

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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.
Release Date: Apr 19, 1996
Director: Jim Mallon
Writer: Jim Mallon, Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Bridget Jones Nelson, Paul Chaplin
Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction
Keywords spoof, based on tv series, satire, hubble, scientist, science fiction, cinema on cinema, space adventure, robot, independent film
Production Companies Universal Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, Consolidated Puppets
Box Office Revenue: $1,000,000
Budget: $5,000,000
Updates Updated: Aug 10, 2025 (Update)
Entered: Apr 13, 2024
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Name Character
Michael J. Nelson Mike Nelson
Trace Beaulieu Dr. Forrester / Crow T. Robot
Kevin Murphy Tom Servo
Jim Mallon Gypsy
John Brady Benkitnorf
Name Job
Jim Mallon Writer, Director
Michael J. Nelson Writer
Trace Beaulieu Writer
Bill Johnson Editor
Kevin Murphy Writer
Mary Jo Pehl Writer
Bridget Jones Nelson Writer
Ken Hahn Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jeff Stonehouse Director of Photography
Billy Barber Original Music Composer
Jef Maynard Production Design
Rando Schmook Art Direction
Blakesley Clapp Set Decoration
Julie Hartley Production Manager
Marie Domingo First Assistant Director
Bix Skahill Second Assistant Director
Rich Larson Storyboard Artist
Slater Crosby First Assistant Camera
Thomas A. Naunas Production Sound Mixer
Bradley J. Keely Video Assist Operator
Carrie Rand Bennett Boom Operator
Paul Murphy Special Effects
Eric D. Howell Special Effects
Linda Froiland Costume Designer
Andrea Jackson DuCane Makeup & Hair
Robert I. Phillips Special Effects Makeup Artist
Glen P. Griffin Special Effects Makeup Artist
Linda J. Kuusisto Script Supervisor
Jann Lynn Johnson Production Coordinator
Chrysa Freeman Assistant Production Coordinator
Michael Kienitz Still Photographer
Marilyn Nave Production Coordinator
Dave Keffer Assistant Editor
Fred Street Supervising Sound Editor
Joseph Just Sound Editor
Tom Naunas Sound Designer
Joel Hodgson Creator, Characters
Paul Chaplin Writer
Name Title
Jim Mallon Producer
Trace Beaulieu Associate Producer
Kevin Murphy Associate Producer
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FilipeManuelNeto
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**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 movie ... s. “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 went to see an episode or two of the original series to compare. What the film did was, essentially, a movie episode. The differences are minimal, and that seems a bit lazy to me right off the bat. There are lots of films based on good TV series, and it's not uncommon for the opposite to happen, but generally there is an effort, on the part of those who make the films, to give us something different, even if the base is there. That didn't happen here. Also, the film tries to make witty jokes based on the older film, but it splatters roundly on the floor with each one. First, because there is a bad placement of the jokes, which happens before we even realize why, as if it were a spoiler. And then, because they are dull jokes, a type of humor that seems like it would only have a chance to work at the expense of a few very alcoholic drinks. I just don't like humor like that, and therefore the movie didn't have any jokes. Luckily, it was a fairly brief movie, just over an hour, or I would have stopped and moved on to something really more interesting.

Feb 10, 2023