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Summary: greatest show ever
Review: this is another great set of mystery science theater shows it has 4 episodes from the scifi era. on that note you soon will not be able to see sci fi episodes because they are canceling the show this january. this collection looks to be better than the first three because it has alternate host segments with mike. I cannot wait until nov 18 to get this and I hope Rhino puts out more.
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Summary: MST is Great
Review: Amy Magsamen,Oddly enough I do...Monster a go-go. Write to Gimbleco@cox.net his name is Bill Seder and he lives in Arizona. He is a video expert/engineer. MST on DVD is awesome.
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Summary: Probably the Best of the MST Sets
Review: What can top Raoul Julia in "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (yes, Public Television at it's finest) asking the eternal question: "Ma, 'my nuts?" At least there are bits of Casablanca thrown in here and there, and everyone gets to pretend they're in a much better film.
Space Mutiny is also a riot - if you believe that space takes place entirely inside a warehouse, with speed demons riding souped up golfcarts. Plus, this film features one of the few meetings where anything was actually accomplished.
Girl in the Gold Boots is also quite funny, with a star who stands out because he just doesn't care much about anything, and he's the one with the most redeeming qualities.
I disagree with the other reviewers who panned Hamlet. First, even if Mike and the bots aren't as funny here as they are in other episodes, my understanding is that the underlying story is considered pretty good. And heck, when else are you going to get the chance to laugh all the way through Hamlet starring Maximilian Schell? Look at it this way, if you or your kids are required to watch a film of Hamlet, this is the one to watch.
Four really awful cinemas, I mean films, four top notch MST episodes. What more could you want?
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Summary: Enter the Sci-Fi years...
Review: The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things. Of Mike and the bots, Pearl forrester, brain guy and the monkey.
Alright, that was lame, i'm sorry. It's MST3K time again, kiddies, and these are all from the sci-fi channel years. What that means, of course for those of you who don't know, is that Dr. Forrester has been replaced by his mother, Pearl, and Crow T. Robot has a different voice and personality(I.E.: angrier) . And the episodes are:
GIRL IN GOLD BOOTS
A waitress in a diner, named " Eat " no less, is whisked away to L.A. by a drifter with a speach impediment in the hopes of making her dreams of becoming a go-go dancer come true. Along the way, of course, they pick up a slghtly less greasy drifter, engage in petty crime and share dune buggy rides.
FAV. LINE: " Whatever, white people. "
FAV. HOST LINE: " But, Crow is shaking all of his various things! "
HAMLET
Mike scams pearl into letting them watch " Hamlet " , the greatest drama ever made. Too bad for them this version of hamlet is a black and white, dreary, dubbed, made for german t.v. and very, very bad.
FAV. LINE: "Now is the winter of our...damn, wrong play."
FAV. HOST LINE: TOM: " Actually, the "H" is at the beginning, so it's pronounced " huh-tom " .
CROW: " Well, ' huh-Tom ' , why don't you 'huh- lick me '! "
OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK
The late Raul Julia stars in this made for PBS production about a guy who gets suspended and put on mental holiday for watching CASABLANCA at work. His mind and his body get seperated and the race is on to reunite them as he attempt to bring down the system from within his own mind. I guess that's possible.
FAV. LINE: (at the nirvana center) " Come, as you are, to my mall, to my atrium yeah yeah."
FAV. HOST LINE: "You don't wanna end up in the bone orchard."
SPACE MUTANY
In the low-budget, 1980's future, in space. The maniacal villan running the engine room decides to take over a starship and return to earth. It's up to Captain Santa Claus, a beefed up hero who screams like a woman, his girlfriend who looks old enough to be his mother and some overly skinny, new-age dancing alien chicks to save the day. Complete with over-acting, under-acting, rail kills and harrowing chases on floor cleaning machines.
FAV. LINE: "They woke up the Oak Ridge Boys!"
FAV. HOST LINE: "They have 20 pages on Gwen Stefani alone."
All the episodes include introductions by Mike. My favorites on this set are Space Mutany and Overdrawn...,. It's hard to not like any episodes of MST3K, but HAMLET is so bad that even the usual wisecracks from Mike and the bots make this one hard to watch. That's why I give this set only 4 stars. If I were to subtitute another sci-fi era episode, it would be SOULTAKER, one of the funniest sci-fi shows and also brings back Joel, as well as T.V.'s Frank.
All in all, a worthy purchase for all you " misties " out there.
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Summary: This is a great collection except for............
Review: ........Hamlet. I don't know why it was included in volume 4; it's not one of their best episodes at all. The other episodes make this DVD set worth buying. So whether you are getting fat off of flavo-fibes or you are doing aerobics to Stevie Nick's workout video, get your gold boots on (or your silver ones, too, I don't mean to discriminate against other colored boots) and add this volume to your MST3K collection. PS- I found this set at Best Buy for $40.00; save yourself some dough, too.
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Summary: We love Joel!
Review: Can't we just get one volume with all-Joel episodes? There was a group of us that would watch every weekend when MST-3K first started, and we all stopped watching when Joel left. I continue to be disappointed in the DVD volumes, as they are so "Mike-centric."
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Summary: i love mst3000
Review: Rhino has seen fit to release more MST3K movies from the Sci-Fi era which, considering that the Sci-Fi Channel has stopped broadcasting reruns, couldn't have come at a better time. "GIRL IN BOLD BOOTS" is a swinging, sixties musical mystery tour. Michele is a waitress in a roadside diner who wants to become a professional dancer. One day, Buz walks in and tells her that his sister is a famous dancer. If she'll provide him with companionship, he'll drive her to L.A. and help her break into show business. Before they can leave they also meet Critter, a charming drifter. Long story short, all three end up at the Haunted House, the nightclub in L.A. where Buz's sister Joan is the head dancer. If you look up the word sleazy in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of the nightclub owner. He's also a big time drug pusher, who soon has Buz dealing for him. He's already got Joan hooked on drugs. Joan is washed up and the nightclub owner wants the younger Michele to take her place. Critter winds up stuck as a janitor and stuck on Michele. He refuses to get involved with any illegal activities, except for the fact that he's a draft dodger! This Elvis wannabe is content to sing sappy love songs and stay on the sidelines. A host highlight has Crow T. Robot doing a go-go dance while wearing gold boots! "HAMLET" stars Maximillian Schell in the title role, and was produced for German television in 1960. Max really puts the ham in Hamlet. This is the biggest bomb the Germans dropped on England since World War II. The voices of the actors are dubbed in English with German accents. Stranger still, the voice of King Claudius sounds like it was done by Ricardo Montalban! At one point in the film, Crow makes a remark about fine Corinthian leather. There is also a strange background sound heard throughout the movie. No doubt, it was the sound of William Shakespeare spinning in his grave! "OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK" was so awful that Raul Julia watched his performance in it and died of shame. No expense was spared in paying Raul to star in this made-for-PBS movie which, unfortunately, left little money for special effects. Raul plays Aram Fingal, a computer programmer who works for Novicorp, a giant corporation that exists somewhere in the future. When caught watching "Casablanca" at his desk, he is required to undergo rehabilitation therapy. His mind is transferred into the body of a baboon, in order to give him a new outlook on life! While monkeying around, his real body is misplaced and his mind is transferred into a computer. With the help of Appolonia James, a medical technician, Fingal manages to reprogram himself into a simulation of his favorite movie. This film takes "Casablanca," "1984" and "Planet Of The Apes," puts them in a blender, and hits the fast button! "SPACE MUTINY" nearly causes one aboard the Satellite Of Love! All is not well aboard the Southern Sun spaceship. The old space captain, played by Cameron Mitchell, looks like a cross between an aging hippie and Santa Claus. He is content to explore the galaxy forever. John Phillip Law plays Kalgan, the mutineer who wants to take over the ship and divert it to a habitable planet. His acting is so far over the top that, when he laughs menacingly, you expect him to twirl a nonexistent, handlebar mustache. The captain's daughter is a brainless bimbo, while the pilot picked to succeed the aging captain is a giant slab of muscles with no acting talent whatsoever. There's lots of shooting with space guns, followed by a succession of space-suited stuntmen falling over handrails. The big chase scene involves the use of modified golf carts. My favorite scene takes place in the spaceship's bar, where the space travelers wear disco outfits and the women use hula hoops when they dance! While watching this in amazement, Crow asks, "So, in the future, there is absolutely no shame?"
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