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Summary: Our hero, ladies and gentlemen...
Review: I am a graduating senior at the University of Illinois and I must recommend this MST3000 to anybody who loves the series or just a good laugh. This is by far the funniest episode that I have ever seen. The film is just about as bad as it gets with 70's cop films, and provides Joel and the Robots with material that practically writes itself. There are hundreds of quotes that keep my friends and I at laughing through our shifts at the pool, and will keep you laughing for days. I give this movie my highest recommendation and insist that any MST3000 fan MUST see this one. My only regret is that it is not on DVD...yet! Anyway, buy this film. P.S. Jeff Stoner, thanks for showing me this film.
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Summary: Not as good as other MSt3Ks
Review: It may just be me, but I didn't really like "Mitchell." I'm not sure what's wrong with Joel and the Robots, but they are VERY silent in this episode. When they do talk, they make a very quick comment which wasn't all that great. They don't riff this as much as other movies and when they do, you don't hear it. You might as well simply buy the Non-MST "Mitchell" and you'd have about the same thing.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is one of the most hilarious MST3K episodes I have ever seen. Its a must-see classic!
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Summary: i think i left a potato cake in here somewhere
Review: I have to say this episode had me howling from the first 2 minutes. It is really hilarious. I'll just highlight one scene where Mitchell wakes up from a bummer of a Schlitz drunk, chugs the last of his beer, and sits up to a chorus of fart noises from tom servo and crow. sure, its juvenile, but you KNOW you wanted to hear it! Or when he is trying to coolly stake out Balsam, and his lighter flares up. This movie would almost be funny with out the mst3k gang. But it is truly hilarious as it is.
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Summary: What better way to say "farewell" to Joel?
Review: What better way to say "farewell" to Joel than with a Joe Don Baker film? This is, quite possibly, my favorite MST3K episode. There's action, adventure, and the worst car chase scene ever included in a motion picture. This, plus a blossoming romance between Joe Don Baker and Linda Evans, provides the SOL crew with plenty to poke fun at. As Joe and Linda consummate their relationship on screen, we hear Crow ask, "Why would anyone want to do this with Mitchell, Joel?" Good question......
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Summary: MITCHELL-even his name says, "Is that a beer?"
Review: Joel Robinson and his robot buddies Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo take on Joe Don Baker and his "defining" performance in MITCHELL. Joel and the 'bots make fun of Joe Don's every move: as he sleeps in the back of a squad car in his first scene (Joel: Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.), watches Martin Balsam (Joe Don: Mr. Cummins! Joel: Stop or my heart'll explode!), tail him in 25 MPH car chase (Crow: They couldn't shake a trolley! Tom: The only exciting thing is VANISHING POINT is being filmed on the other side of the canyon), and sleep with Linda Evans, right down to the fact that Mitchell has a bottle of baby oil on his nightstand (All: AHHHH!)! This movie also features Merlin Olsen as Balsam's butler, an extra smug John Saxon as a mob lawyer Mitchell takes-on, an annoying scene with an annoying kid (Crow: The inspiration for COP AND A HALF.), and lots and lots of Schlitz (too many riffs to list on that, but you'll be laughing). And after all that, we bid good-bye to Joel and bid welcome to his successor, temp Mike Nelson.
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Summary: There's a reason that "Mitchell II" never came out...
Review: Perhaps the quintessential MST3K. Joel and the 'bots pile insult upon insult on the bloated carcass of Joe Don Baker. Not a gutton joke, not a beer joke, not a slob joke goes unused in this amazingly bad/funny TV movie turned to cannon fodder. Check out Merlin Olson, in his pre-Father Murphy days. As Crow notes, "As an actor, I don't think Merlin had found his 'instrument' yet..."This episode marked Joel Hodgson's last as the hapless prisoner of the Satellite of Love, and it's up to big-hearted Gypsy to save him from the Mads. Mike Nelson is featured as a "Happy Temp" who spells "Fun: w-o-r-k." A must for the collector or fan alike.
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Summary: This is what I'll remember when I think of "Mitchell"...
Review: ...and I will think of it. It doesn't get any funnier than this. Some choice moments: -Merlin Olsen saying "Nice Cap" -"We're going to control the ghetto, you and I, young man." -"He's giving his car a dickie." -"My Mitchell, I think I'll keep him." -"He seems dumb, I'll send him a pick-me-up bouquet." -"Man...I'm constantly confused." -"Ho man! A door! I didn't plan on this." This is the all time greatest MST3K...but I have a fondness for the movie "Time Chasers" w/ Nelson.
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Summary: Great farewell for Joel Hodgson...
Review: after 6 seasons (including the pre-Comedy Central days) this was when the torch was passed on to Mike Nelson, who did an equally great job making fun of movies.
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Summary: MST3K's Masterpiece
Review: "Mitchell" was Joel Hodgson's farewell to the SOL, the 'Bots, Frank and Forrester, and *sniff* his legion of fans. But what a way to end his run, huh? This is the full-tilt, 360-degree, last-second, game-winning slam-dunk of an episode, a guaranteed laugh riot that I can still watch again and again. What hasn't been said about this movie? Well, for one thing, I don't know if any one has commented on how truly embarrassed Martin Balsam looks throughout. Every moment of his performance has the feel of a tacit apology as he tries to make silk purses out of the stockyards of sows' ears that he was handed by the screenwriters. He did it for the money, and lets the audience know it in scene after scene. He was a gifted actor, too often wasted in dreck like this. Yet he comes off infinitely better than the star of the show, one Joe Don Baker. Understand that if you limit Baker's screen time in most movies, as has been done by smarter filmmakers than these, he's not nearly as repulsive as he is here. But director Andrew McLaglen insists on having him in virtually every scene, with lots of close-ups of Baker's beefy face to accentuate...exactly what again? This is pure white-sploitation, a 'Shaft' meets 'Dirty Harry' without either of those films' energies or convictions. Think about it. Who is Mitchell? He's a tough supercop who can't stand the confining rules of 'the system', and by the way, he's also an irresistible stud. One of those guys again? Like the character, the movie is a wasteful thud, too slow to be exciting, too cheap-looking to be flashy. That's what our boys exploit--the intrinsic weaknesses of the lame story and the truly dreadful protagonist that isn't even likable as an anti-hero. Meanwhile, the out-of-theater story kicks into gear immediately as Gypsy (voiced by Jim Mallon) overhears Frank and Forrester (Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu) discussing the elimination of a 'be-jumpsuited fool', whom Gypsy assumes to be the beloved Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson), friend and human creator. This scene is cleverly played as a parody of a scene in "2001" as the scene cuts from Gypsy watching 'the Mads' to close-ups of the duo having a their discussion, which the audience can tell is actually about a temp Frank hired, Mike Nelson (played by Mike Nelson). Gypsy leaps into action to figure out how to get Joel off the ship ("Charter flight? No."), while Crow (Beaulieu) and Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) are oblivious as usual to Gypsy's problems. Finally a solution is reached, thanks to Mike--and the slow-witted Frank (Mike needs the keys to a control panel to gain control of the ship's computers, so he simply asks for them: "Frank, can I borrow your keys?" "Okay." And when Frank wonders why Mike wanted the keys, Mike says it's because he left his lights on. And when Frank counters that he doesn't own a car, Mike asks him why he lent him the keys in the first place. Which leaves Frank confused and apologetic.). Joel escapes in the aptly-named "Deux Ex Machina" hidden in a box of the Spam-like Hamdingers, lands in the Australian Outback and never returns. (Except for a marvelous appearance in Episode 1001, not available on video.) Thankfully for their experiment and for the show, 'the Mads' decide to bring the temp on to their staff full-time, whether he likes it or not. Welcome aboard, Mike. The day I brought this tape home for my younger siblings to watch, my dad told me something I couldn't possibly believe. I had to ask him to speak more slowly and clearly, and into my good ear, in order to catch it. The old man paid money to see this movie. In a theater. Poor guy.
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