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Summary: We've got DVD sign...for *two* versions of "Eegah!"
Review: [This is a review of the DVD version] If you love old bad SF movies but haven't ever seen them given the Mystery Science Theater treatment, you owe it to yourself to pick up this DVD! Joel Robinson and his robot pals Crow and Tom Servo watch this relentlessly silly turkey of a movie (a caveman stuck in modern times stalks a teenage girl and her puffy boyfriend--an actor so bad we wonder how he got that job: he's the son of the director, folks)--and throughout the entire film, Joel and the 'bots mercilessly riff on the film with funny comments and jokes that'll have you rolling in your seats. Long a staple of Comedy Central and the Sci-Fi Channel, this is one of the first DVDs of this classic comedy series (many others are available on VHS). In addition to the pristine and clear picture you get with DVD, Rhino has also included the full *original* version of "Eegah" so you can see it without Joel and the 'bots (to riff on your own, perhaps?) A "Crow icon" pops up while watching the MSTed version to let you instantly switch (hit your "enter" button) to sections from the original movie that have been cut from the MST3K version. The DVD menus are innovative and worth checking out just for the clever swish-pan of the bridge of the Satellite of Love (Crown ,Servo, and Gypsy flash past us). If I had any quibble at all it's a couple minor ones...can someone *please* proofread the punctuation of the jokes on the front cover, and why is the DVD chapter that begins the film entitled "It's Movie Time!" when every MSTie knows it should be "We've got Movie Sign!"? But I'll put up with minor problems like that as long as Rhino continues to give us these great reissues of classic MST3K episodes. Now if they'd only release "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" and "Outlaw"... (Also recommended in this series: the DVD version of "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Brain That Wouldn't Die.")
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Summary: ARCH HALL JR. AND MORE...
Review: This is the first, for me, MST3K on DVD and it's a fine buy. Not much has changed from the video save for some snazzy (and rather dizzying) menu options. Not much to actually play with here... the special features menu is just a catalog of other RHINO products, plus webite info. But the disc does contain the original uncut version of EEGAH which can be switched to at any point in the program. It also includes a CROW MARKER that pops up from time to when where they had to trim the film to meet the shows time frame. If you own the tape, you really don't need the DVD, but if you're like me, you got to have them all no matter what format they appear in. Included inside the box is a sticker of our hero's in theater pointing up to... whatever you stick it to, so play wisely. As for the experiment itself... EEGAH is fast, sharp and to the point. It's riddled with so many jokes, both inside and out that it really can be watched over and over again and you'll find yourself always stumbling over something you missed before. All in all... worth the buy, but also a solid rent if you're just picking up a DVD.
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Summary: A MST3K 2 for one!
Review: I just received my MST3K EEGAH tape in the mail and lookedthrough it, and I got WA-AY more than I bargained for! The DVDversion has not only a crystal clear MST3K version of the movie BUT the full length unMSTied version as well for the MST-it-yourselfers like me!It is a great bargain for TWO versions of the movies, I only hope they do all of the episodes on DVD now. As for the central movie itself, EEGAH! Evolves around this caveman who is found along the side of the road, and this teenaged girl comes across him. After the girl tells her father about him, daddy goes a huntin' for EEGAH to study him (as he is some sort of an anthropologist), but vanishes. The girl (Roxy) and her boyfriend search for daddy, where Roxy is now kidnapped, EEGAH wants to do the nasty with Roxy, Roxy escapes, EEGAH tracks them to this pool side party, he tries to take Roxy back, but is fatally shot and puts the pool to good use. P.S.: Watch out for the snakes and the Cabbage Patch Elvis! The original full length movie is 90min long The MSTied version (with all of the host segments) is 92min long
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Summary: Weird old movie made bearable by wisecracking robot puppets
Review: What can you say about a movie with no merit. I mean, the director meant well. The actors came into the project with the best intentions. Nevertheless, the end product leaves one wondering how money was ever borrowed to make it. (I've got this great project! Arch Hall, Jr is this guy and he finds a caveman! That's all I got so far...) At least Encino Man was in color. Anyway, bad movies are good for MST3K. Mystery Science Theater gives Eegah! the treatment in their Peabody Award-winning cable show episode 508. Watch Eegah! with Joel and the 'Bots and enjoy their reactions to a movie that didn't stand the test of time.
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Summary: Ludicrous Movie, Hilarious Riffs
Review: Fair warning: if you have any aesthetic issues with the movies MST3K does, you'll go mad with this one. As it says in the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, this is the worst of the worst. The good thing is, the worst movies offer the best riffs from Joel or Mike and the 'bots (see Hobgoblins from the Sci-Fi years for another example of this). And true to form, they make this garbage side-splitting. A great investment of your money, you'll watch this one over and over again.
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Summary: My tires are filled with water!
Review: This season five episode has got to be the greatest of them all. Sometimes during MST3K there are slow moments but in Eegah! the funny moments never stopped. You'll crack up at Arch Hall Jr.'s messed up face and his "swingin combo". BTW, Arch Hall Jr. was the director's son.
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Summary: The best MST3K I've seen yet!
Review: We have only seen 5 MST3K videos so far, but this was the funniest of them all--by far! Even the minor characters are hilarious, and there isn't a frame that goes by without some clever remark. If you only see one, see this one.
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Summary: Wonderfully Loathsome
Review: Of all the MST3K films,this has to be one of the most unintentionally unsettling.A true horror of cheesy filmmaking from beginning to end,it's hilarious,yet somehow disturbing.Is it the three homely leading men?The woman with the immovable hair?The horrid music?The terrible script?The bad acting?Only the snakes know for sure.
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Summary: Eegah is eegreat!
Review: Even though I've only had the chance to see a few of the MST3K movies - I can tell from Eegah that I'm in for years of giggles, laughs and catch phrases. This movie has already filled my household with the echos of "Cabbage Patch Elvis" and "Watch out for snakes! " This film makes it hard not to watch the others I bought right away.....I have to pace myself...with Pod People and Shorts 2 still unwrapped and waiting I'm going to have to show some will power! Eegah is well worth it! Make sure the pause and rewind buttons work on your VCR....you'll be using them lots!
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Summary: Watch out for MST3K, this video rocks
Review: Palm Springs, home to health spas, exclusive resorts and of course..Eegah. This little beauty of a film looks to have been shot in the mid '60s, and like most MST movies, it seems to have had a moderate budget that was oddly spent. Richard Kiel (he was 'jaws' in Moonraker) stars in this film which tells of a caveman who has somehow survived into the 20th century, and who takes a liking to Arch Hall Jr.'s girlfriend. Craziness ensues. So, there's this girl..she seems to be of the happy, poolside variety..and one night while she's driving home, she nearly runs into our hero, Eegah. Great name. Screaming and fainting are the general theme after that and Eegah is about to carry off his new lady friend when the blond, squash-faced boyfriend shows up and Eegah runs off into the night. In other word MST3K rules so buy this video NOW!!!
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