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Summary: Eegad!
Review: When Richard Kiel(Jaws from 007)constitutes the acting talent of your movie, your movie is light years beyond bad. Another excellent effort from MST3K, but with no really memorable riffs, apart from "Watch out for snakes!" which broke me up every time they used it. The DVD has a nice feature. In addition to the MST3K movie, you get the movie without the comments, in case you want to try this at home. As bad as this movie is, though, I'd leave MSTing to the professionals. Eegah was hard to get through even with bot commentary
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Summary: Obscure Pop Culture Allusions = MST3K Standard
Review: Sure, I like the show, and this one in particualr wasn't too bad. It's not hard to make fun of a movie this horrible. There's some really bad editing: voices talk, and nobody's moving their lips, "Eegah" supposedly keeps saying his own name, but we never see him forming the words. And of course "Watch out for snakes."However, as in most episodes, the "right-on" comments are almost equaled by the weird pop culture allusions that only a TV fanatic would get. Also, there are allusions to things in the cast & crew's personal lives (For example, someone says, "Circle Pines after dark." Circle Pines was the hometown of one of the writers.).Perhaps I'm not old enough to understand jokes about Otis Nixon, or the Loretta Young Show, but, I think some jokes go over almost everyone's head. As funny as it was, the show lacked a universal "funniness" that perhaps cost them ratings. Most MSTies would probably have it no other way.
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Summary: WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES
Review: Torn between two lovers. That's the problem our intrepid fresh-feeling heroine faces. First is Arch Hall Jr., the spam colored boyfriend who endlessly sings about other women. Then there is Richard Keil without the metal teeth who has a penchant for eating shave cream. How can a girl decide? Her father is no help as he encourages Eegah to paw and maul her. But Eegah is a sensitive caveman, always remembering to carry Roxy's purse.
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Summary: Rhino,please hurry with more DVD's
Review: Now this is a great idea.Not only do you get the complete MST3K episode featuring Eagah!,but you get the uncut version of the film as well.Eagah is one of my favorite bad movies of all time,and as any mistie would know,the worse the movie the better the episode. Now to the film itself.It's a masterpiece of bad filmmaking.If you're not a fan of bad movies this just might make you one.It's the story of a caveman who lives in the hills and the 3 dumbest people in the world who try to find him.The star,Arch Hall Jr even sings 2 songs(Boy am I being kind).Forget Ed Wood,this is the movie they created the phrase "so bad it,s good" for.Like it or not it's unforgettable. Quickly, the episode itself is one of the best,even the sketches are funny.A must buy for fans or just those interested.
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Summary: "I'm Young and Free and Feeling FRESH!"
Review: A simple story of a boy, a girl, and a caveman living near Palm Springs. That's right, Palm Springs. And if the budget had been larger, Eegah could have hung out with Frank and Dino and Sammy. But the budget wasn't, so he has to hang out with Arch Hall, Sr. and Jr. You can tell them apart--Sr's the guy wandering through the desert with his sensible shoes, Junior Explorer pith helmet, and big tartan purse. Jr. is the one whose face is half the height of his hair. The one who sings (and sings, and sings, and I just want to reach through the screen and strangle this idiot with piano wire--but I lose control of myself). The heroine simpers about like a refugee from a Summer's Eve commercial and carries her purse everywhere. At least she doesn't sing. In the middle of this, Richard Kiel, playing the caveman, is a model of dignity and restraint. He doesn't carry a purse, his hair doesn't rise to alarming heights, and he doesn't sing or simper, or wear a pith helmet. Most importantly, he doesn't sing (and sing and sing and--but I lose control again).
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Summary: MST3K DVD OK
Review: It great to have MST3K on DVD. That being said it's not like it pushes the limits of technology. While some might see the addition of the un-"mistied" movie as a good plus, I don't. Really, these movies are so bad you wouldn't want to watch them without the bots along with you. Oh well, if you have the rights to the film why not I guess? I would have liked the option to watch the show's "host" segments all in a row, or the show itself without the host segments. Simple enough for DVD to do and would be a nice plus. Hopefully, future releases will be of shows not found on tape. I really hate buying the tape if I know a dvd is coming out. As for Eegah itself? It's a badly acted, full of cliches, grease soaked load of a film, and the female lead and her "dad" have a un-family-like chemistry. It's a blast watching with the guys.
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Summary: Should we do this to a perfectly innocent Caveman?
Review: Crow tries to lower his body temperature to absolute zero, TV's Frank has his blood replaced with radiator fluid, and, oh yeah, there's a Cro-Magnon Man living in the desert near Palm Springs. Fairly typical for an episode of MSYTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, this one devoted to one of the movies that encouraged back-seat sex at the drive-in: 1962's EEGAH! The real surprise here is that Richard Kiel gives a pretty good performance as the guy in the animal skins. And if the budget had been higher, he might have run into Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby. As it is, he has to make do with Arch Hall (Junior and Senior)--a fate that no one deserves. And Junior sings (and sings and sings and sings and soon you find yourself wanting to reach through the screen and start strangling him with piano wire--but I lose control of myself). And then of course there's that terrifying face, which is only half as high as his hair, which never moves . . . As for Senior, who plays the heroine's father and goes out into the California desert in his Junior Adventurer pith helmet (not to mention sensible shoes and carrying a plaid overnight case), he reminded a friend of mine of a number of the fellows her mother used to clean houses for in Palm Springs; middled-aged Confirmed Bachelors who fussed over their hair and their tans a lot and were forever entertaining their, well, nephews (and they all seemed to have a lot of nephews). The heroine is no better and no worse than most Z-movie heroines, although her hair is probably twice as high (even higher than Junior's, if such a thing is possible) but the sight of her simpering out of a dress shop at the beginning looking like something out of a feminine-hygeine ad inspires Tom Servo to remark "I'm young and free and feeling FRESH!" We also learn the subtle signs that prove there is a hell, Crow gets his head glued back on, and you will probably be tempted to join the bots in the shower when its all over. By the way, is that your hair on the soap?
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Summary: It wasn't that bad!
Review: This movie is like a Disney movie, the sing is unnessicary and annoying, but it's there anyway! The story would have been better if they tampered with it a little more. But even though this movie wasn't entirly bad, I would still buy the MST3K version instead. IT IS ABSOLUTLY HILARIOUS!
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Summary: I have seen their creator!
Review: This was the first episode I've seen with Joel, and my favorite charactor list is almost compleat! 1. Crow 2. Gypsy 3. Mike 4. Joel 5. Tom Servo (No this is not a typo. Tom never actualy did anything for me.) I have never seen Cambot in an episode, so I'm not sure about him yet. If you have never seen Joel in an episode, this is a great one to start out with! Favorite riff-Tom Servo: "Hey, the sherif is barking out orders!"
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Summary: Eegah...on DVD...at last!
Review: Eegah mixes the style of an Elvis movie, the hair of Conway Twitty, the frequent intolerable musical numbers are Back to the Beachish, and the acting is first rate (if your name is Charlie Sheen). The DVD version contains the usual cracks, smacks, and whacks that make MST3K so darn funny. It also comes with the option of flipping the disc and watching the movie without Joel and the 'bots. Why someone would want to do this is beyond my grasp. It also contains the usual shameless self-promotional "bonus" features that Rhino like to put in their multimedia. The DVD did come with a real cool heavy duty MST3K sticker. Eegah is the name of a caveman that has been living for hundreds of thousands of years and falls hopelessly in love with the fair maiden, after she almost runs him over while he is carrying a deer carcus down the middle of one of central California's highways. Eegah is played by the guy that played the evil Jaws in the Bond films and the construction boss in Happy Gilmore. However his dialog is limited to uuugh, uuurrr, eegah, and aaaah. The MST3K version made me laugh until I cried, but I watched it in the same week as MST3K's "The Brain that would'nt die", which was way funnier (see that review), therefore I can only give four stars. However, you will still laugh your a** off.
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