
One of the funniest films featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Emmy® Award nominated show's 11-year run, Space Mutiny is a hilariously bad sci-fi epic that's guaranteed to have you in stitches. Combine a wardrobe of spandex and tinfoil; a set boasting AstroTurf® and spray-painted floor buffers; and special effects that, well, aren't so special, and you've got one of the most hysterical cheeseball movies to ever come out of the '80s. Grab your friends and have a r... (Full plot summary below)
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One of the funniest films featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Emmy® Award nominated show's 11-year run, Space Mutiny is a hilariously bad sci-fi epic that's guaranteed to have you in stitches. Combine a wardrobe of spandex and tinfoil; a set boasting AstroTurf® and spray-painted floor buffers; and special effects that, well, aren't so special, and you've got one of the most hysterical cheeseball movies to ever come out of the '80s. Grab your friends and have a riot with this underground cult hit!
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| User ReviewKerry FYou know the feeling you would get if you were to sand blast your eyeballs? "Contains best chase scene at 2.5mph!" That's how I can best sum this film up, it's just plain wrong. Wrong that it was thought up, wrong that it was made, wrong that it was released, and wrong that it's on video. But there is one good thing I'll say about it, MST3K riffed it, and they riffed it good. I think there was something flashing by my eyes on the screen that was supposed to simulate a plot, but I'm not quite sure. The nearest I can figure is that a guy named Kalgon (no, not the stuff you put in your washer) is leading a bunch of losers in a mutiny for some reason or another. You know bad guys in films like this, their reason for doing something is never clear. Did I mention that this is all taking place on a giant space ship where many people from Earth live, and it looks like it's made of cement and looks like a basement/brewery. Your guess is as good as mine as to why. So the ship's captain, played by Santa Claus a.k.a. Cameron Mitchell, decides to get the best of the best in action heroes. But he wasn't available so he had to settle for Reb Brown. Brown, Who I'll call Beef McSlab or Bronson Thickneck, is a Rambo wannabe, and when he's not chasing Kalgon in a golf cart that goes 2 miles per hour and spouting swear words for no good reason, he's screaming like a little girly man, also for no good reason. It also turns out that McSlab has fallen in love with Santa's daughter who acts like she's 25 but looks close to 50! and lloks like Sherry Lewis, so he's obviously an idiot. There's also a sub-plot about dancing aliens, but they have nothing to do with anything so we won't worry about them. After that I totally lost track of what was going on. There were some shoot outs, some guys falling over rails repeatedly, a woman who comes back to life after getting shot, and Chunky Brewster's repeated screaming and swearing. Also one woman is shot and killed and the next scene she's back at work! That's pretty much what this film is about, so if you haven't seen it and the MST version isn't going to be on for awhile, just forget about it. There are certain levels that bad movies fall on, of which this falls deep in the trenches of it. It joins the likes of "Pod People", "Manos, Hands of Fate", "Cave Dwellers", among others. These films populate the deepest, darkest, trenches of bad movies, which only the strong hearted can survive watching. I hope that you have taken this review as a warning, make sure you're prepared before putting this in the DVD player. |
| User ReviewAltered ELook closely, and you can see the exterior shots of the spaceship are actually just stolen frame for frame from the original Battlestar Galactica show. Predictable but meandering plot (with transparently pro-apartheid overtones), but filmed so ineptly that it's fun to watch, more fun to heckle. |
| User ReviewMarco FThis is a very fun movie to watch. I have watched it a dozen or so times. I will laugh so many times and enjoy the sexy women so much. |
| User ReviewByron BOn its own merits, this movie is so hilariously and absurdly bad that there are no words to describe it. From the super thin plot, to the clearly stolen (from Battlestar Galactica) special effects, to the actors that clearly have no idea how to act, this move has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever............except for one. This is one of my favorite episodes to watch on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Watching the movie in that context actually makes this movie very enjoyable, and for that (meaning MST3K's treatment of this movie) I will give it 3 stars. |
| User ReviewCorey WOh, my goodness, this movie is hilariously bad. The costumes are as 80-rific as they are stupid. The men wear full, silver outifts that seem to be made out of the linings of thermal shopping bags (seems at least somewhat practical) while the women wear blue one-piece bathing suits (not practical, at all). A villainous man wants to throw a mutiny on board the space ship that they have lived on for many years. This bad egg contains, terrible dancing involving hula-hoops, buggy chase scenes that stretch into eternity, terribly uninspired writing and probably one of the most awkward and uncomfortable seduction scenes ever committed to film. Also look out for the guy with the cane, who doesn't even attempt to make it look like he's leaning on it or walking with a limp. Again, this might be a good film to watch with the Mystery Science Theater guys. Overall: Pretty watchable for the badness. From a technical standpoint, it would be a one, but this movie made me laugh quite often. |
| User ReviewMichael WI think the term here is "awesomely bad" as it is truly terrible but so so wonderful |
| User ReviewCrispin TAn excellent example of "so bad its good". Just a ridiculously bad movie, from the sets to the acting (if you can call it that). |
| User ReviewGraham LA hysterically bad late-80s space opera made on the ultra-cheap in South Africa, featuring a blonde, screaming Reb Brown in a shiny silver jumpsuit racing around an empty factory that is meant to double as the interior of a space ship. Almost everything about it is abysmal, from the lunkheaded script to lackluster editing to the painfully slow chase scenes to the flat, blank non-acting of the amateur cast. Hilarious stuff. |
| User ReviewJulian KOn its own merits, this movie is so hilariously and absurdly bad that there are no words to describe it. From the super thin plot, to the clearly stolen (from Battlestar Galactica) special effects, to the actors that clearly have no idea how to act, this move has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever............except for one. This is one of my favorite episodes to watch on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Watching the movie in that context actually makes this movie very enjoyable, and for that (meaning MST3K's treatment of this movie) I will give it 3 stars. |
| User Reviewmy nHORRID.and I love watching crappy movies so I liked this one. if you don't think its bad the dvd box even insults it |