Having 3 directors didn't help. Credited director David Winters apparently had to leave mid-production due to some personal issues and another guy finished the film. Then a third guy did the Bellarian segments (which explains why they're so shoehorned into the film). Winters apparently even tried to put an Alan Smithee credit on instead of his name, but his contract prevented it.
This, in my opinion, is the ultimate episode of MST3K. Space Mutiny has the perfect blend of 80's shlock, bad action movie cliches, hammy overacting, and ridiculous dialogue that makes in an absolute comedy goldmine for riffs. Yet, the film is just competent enough to not feel like an absolute bore to get through. The riffs are just absolutely brilliant throughout the whole episode. I know a lot of people love Manos, and I do too, but the film itself is so broken and inept that it really drags at some points (as shown by Joel's famous "DO SOMETHING!" riff). I'd say Manos is the 2nd best of the Joel era (I Accuse My Parents taking the #1 spot) but Space Mutiny is truly the best overall. The Sci-Fi era really had some amazing episodes.
Space Mutiny only competes with Overdrawn at the Memory Bank for the absolute best MST3K movie of all time, with MST3K The Movie being the third perfect one to show newcomers to the series the series before because, being a movie, it's a bit more polished.
@@daftoptimist I definitely think "I Accuse My Parents" is the best episode of the Joel era. The riffs about Jimmy's mother's alcoholism is worth the watch alone, as well as the jokes about Jimmy winning the essay contest. I think even Joel Hodgson said it's his favorite episode too. It's one of those episodes that stays consistently funny the entire time which is really tough to do with a lot of these movies. One of the other episodes that manages to do this is Teenage Strangler (another one of my favorites).
+crowcade It would make me sad to find out for sure. But who else remembers when you could get an encyclopedia cd which would have links to their websites for updates (if you had internet access)? I assume that's what they're referring to here.
A moment of space silence for the April 23 2019 passing of director David Winters. He's throwing angels over railings now! All seriousness aside, he was A-rab in West Side Story, where he was noticed by a young Vincent Furnier (a.k.a Alice Cooper) who would later employ the dancer/choreographer to help invent the theatrical rock concert. Also David was instrumental in introducing Alice to his wife of 40+ years.
I watched some interview with the star of this movie Reb Brown, and when asked about Space Mutiny he quoted a few of the nicknames Mike and the bots gave him… seems like he’s seen this episode and approved. 😆
him and the girl hes with here actually got married in real life. he went on to be a police officer if i remember correctly. heard hes a real cool dude
@@TheBonkleFox To the space pirates. It was something that either the MST3K crew cut for time or their copy of the movie didn't have it in the first place.
Here's a scary thought: There were scenes on the cutting room floor which got rejected, which didn't rise to the high standards of the makers of this film.
I love how this movie blatantly stole the Battlestar Galactica space ships and sound effects. Not just ripped off, but ACTUAL footage and sound clips from BSG.
+Chris Barbati Lol, right! I kept expecting a reference that would tie this into that TV series. Then they called the Cylon mother ship a 'pirate ship', and I realized just how monumentally retarded, this movie actually was!
I remember being a kid and waking up early on weekends hoping this was on. I didn't know what channel or time but this was my favorite show. God TH-cam thank you so much for bringing my childhood back.
Lol, me too. Seeing "The Final Sacrifice" on television early one Saturday morning is what made me start recording every episode of MST. I have about 30 episodes on cassette before I finally captured, "The Final Sacrifice", and Space Mutiny was one of the episodes I have recorded during that elusive search.
Gingerscantbepirates They had a bunch of them on Netflix awhile ago, on instant stream, but they removed them for some reason. They had quite a few too, at least 25 episodes or so were on there, I don't know what happened. Good to hear they are coming back though.
@Gingerscantbepirates Except it's completely different. They replaced T.V.s Frank with that infected dick patton oswalt. In anything he does he's a dragging tagalong.
It was a clip from this episode, a compilation of all the nicknames, that a friend showed me which introduced and led me to become a fan of the show. I owe the last 10 years of laughter to MST3K: Space Mutiny.
Amazingly Idiotic Productions present a movie completely botched by David Winters, passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it, with special effects by Industrial Light & Morons, starring Sting, Debbie Reynolds, God... and Bob Johnson.
Apparently, one of the actresses claimed this movie was meant to be a parody. So either she's lying, or the movie is still the shittiest parody I've ever seen.
This is a seriously excellent movie. It has everything: spandex, recycled '70's BSG effects, poor continuity, and fourth-grade dialogue hacked apart by awful editing.
oh god Space Mutiny is one of my all-time faves. The hula hoop dress, Buff McMeatChest, CalgonCalgonTakeMeAway, the skull trying to escape from his head... just so many great moments.
And you can see it in other classic Reb Brown rip-off films like Yor: Hunter From the Future, Robowar, Strike Commando, White Ghost, Last Flight to Hell, Howling 2: Stirba Werewolf Bitch or Uncommon Valor. Unfortunately he never screamed in either of the Captain America TV movies.
The many names of David Ryder are justly famous, but the string of Santa gags right after 47:00 made me laugh-cry almost as hard. "Someone DID leave a cookie out for me!"
It's so obvious that the whole Balarian thing was filmed completely separately in a second filming after everything else. - They never interact with the cast of the A plot, and are mostly just intercut with footage from the movie's A plot to make it look like they have anything to do with it. - This except for the captain, in only one scene (46:00) that takes place nowhere near any of the rest of the ship, and without the costume he wears throughout the rest of the movie. The actor also probably recorded his voiceover line for the scene at 16:41 when he was called back to record that scene. - Hell, they never interact with any of the spaceship sets. They only are present in that one massive unexplained empty room. - 10:24 - They "land on the ship" with voiceovers and stock footage from the crash later. And none of the voiceovers are main cast characters. - 15:45 Calgon's clip about listening to the "scanty" guy was clearly duplicated from the later plot-relevant scene (30:15), and he never responds to the scanty guy either, because they clearly couldn't get the actor back in for more dialog. - The second filming is also when they filmed the only non-voiceover mention of the second pirate attack. Said attack is so blatantly created in the edit, with all of the reused footage.
@@ProfoundConversation (no offense - seriously) You don't have a brother named Beef do you? - he'd make a great name for this movie - just saying ;) In the vein of Punch RockGroin or Slate SlabRock.
I love that the climax was with those ridiculous "Enforcer" go carts. It's amazing how people's brains work. Someone thought this would pass as buyable.
They probably had a much grander vision in mind, and then the budget got in the way. The budget always gets in the way. Do we rewrite this scene or do we just do as much as we can to achieve the original vision, even if it fails? We'll go with the 2nd option, thank you!
@@jesusnthedaisychain , just because you have a small budget does not mean that you have to make a horrible film, case in point, El Mariachi, which had only a budget of $7,000, yet it is a cult classic in action, it spawned two more sequels with bigger budgets, as well as better box office sales worldwide, it had some Oscar nods, as well as nods, and possibly even wins, with other awards, and it made Antonio Banderas into a household name in acting worldwide. Space Mutiny needed the kind of mindset that the people that made El Mariachi had and you know it, folks.
@@paxhumana2015 Which is why I was careful to mention their vision. They had an idea in mind, but unfortunately that idea would cost a lot of money to make it a reality. What was your point? Was it that good low budget movies exist? And water is wet. So what? Some ideas require a lot of resources to make them a reality, and there are only so many corners you can cut. El Mariachi could be made on the cheap because the story lends itself to that. They didn't need a lot of sets, or costumes, or effects, or extras. Small cast, a few ramshackle sets (which lends to the ambience), thrift store costuming, and the use of a lot of natural (free) light, all helps to reduce costs. A movie set on a space ship, in the future (which requires "futuristic" clothing), all indoors (so no natural lighting), etc..., it all adds up.
What makes Space Mutiny a special movie? Well, I'll tell you... It is a movie with a somewhat coherent plot that is never too boring and often too cheesy, a villain that tries too hard to be menacing and comes out as goofy instead, our main hero who is the standard buffy protagonist of every 80's Cannon Group films, Sting, Debbie Reynolds and God; a dead character still working on their job, an attendant in the boiler room, a party in the middle of a mutiny, an exciting bumper car chase sequence, a sex scene, Slab Bulkhead and so much more. I love this riff so much.
@@ToyotaGuy1971 Instructor indicates you'd have to be educated. Considering you're a "Toyota Guy" I highly doubt you'd be able to school anyone. Much less me 😌
Here's a little bit of trivia for you about this movie, the two stars, Reb Brown(Blast Hardcheese) and Cissy Cameron(Lea or Grandma-daughter)are actually married in real life. So those "love scenes" between the two characters actually have some feeling in them.
Nope. It was caught in the explosion at the epic climax. Oh well, at least they gave her a great birthday party despite all the mutineers and space pirates.
@@taterboob Reminds me of the Department Christmas party where we bought gifts for the staff docs and this one Bozo bought a high rank lady staff doc a pu$$y stretcher that he got at Spencers. Dept head cancelled all future Christmas parties. He was furious, waving the bible, etc..
I like how in that chase scene with the go-karts where the woman is shooting at them the guy doing the "special effects" didn't know the plot so sometimes they'd draw the lasers shooting at the good guy
One of the greatest shows I've ever seen, on par with Whose Line is it Anyway before it moved to America (don't hate me please, just that's what I love and grew up with, and I'm American).
For those not up on History, Bobo caused the Great Roman Fire of the Year 64 at the end of the episode when he knocked over the lamp while grabbing the wheel of cheese.
Well, I signed Mike Down, CPA's birthday card... just forge my chicken-scratch off that one and I'll leave a thumbs up in advance. I really need to go and man the railing next to the docking bay.
I think this is one of the few mst3k episodes that are like wall to wall jam packed with laugh out loud quips. like it’s the michael jordan of mat3k. yes there are many many excellent and hilarious episodes but this one just feels next level with the sheer amount of quips, and quips that really land
This episode plus The Undead are when the jokes are top tier. They come out the gate swinging in Undead, while this one is consistently good and never lets up.
This and "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" are THE MST3K classics. But I do agree that "Manos- Hands of Fate" is up there.. hard to imagine a movie that Gawd-awful was made!
In the beginning, when Pearl asked Brain Guy, the Observer, to 'bring Mike down' it could have been a great fourth wall breaking moment if they dropped a boom microphone into the shot.
"If you wonder how their voices...come in so clear!" "Or other technical facts!" "Just remember that yer watching...a fictional show!" "You should really just re-LAX~!"
Someone at the airport just asked what I was watching. After explaining what MST3K was and giving them a sneak peek, I think I've converted them into a fan.
Wait a second... if MacPhearson is allied with Calgon, and also "knows all [the] codes and counter-measures," then why did Calgon need to torture Grandma Daughter _specifically_ to get the counter-measures??
Same reason why the movie takes place on a generation colony ship in the middle of what appears to be populated space based on the ability to "call for help" and the presence of pirates. Reminds me of a game that took place on a ship that spent five thousand years traveling to another star only for the protagonists to discover they never actually left the solar system.
When the ending credits are rolling and the our three guys start fighting in their seats - I laughed so hard, my tummy started to hurt. Ahh, the good ol' days.
This reminds me of a question I ask myself every time I watch a james bond movie. These hitmen the bad guys have on their staff get paid big bucks to not be able to shoot straight!!
Married when this was filmed too. Add to that, Cisse Cameron is younger than him-I think I read somewhere she was mid 30s when the film was recorded. Whoever did her makeup and/or wardrobe should be shot into the sun for making her look in her 50s.
"Why, no sir - you da man!" My favorite riff from this whole episode! I'm gonna use that line if I ever have to identify someone out of a police lineup and the detective asks me, "Is this the man?"
At some point during the production of this movie, this happened: "So, describe the dance club of the future." 10 seconds later... "I've got it! Hula hoops." The End
"Ok chief, it has the hippest techno music ever, with fog on the dance floor, everyone dressed in the most futuristic clothes ever with capes, hula-hoops, flashing lights, and randomly places drinks that are neon colored and some bubbling." Director: "BRILLANT! People will totally buy into it!"
It's not even a poorly storyboarded scene.. for a 1980s B-film. The director filmed exactly what he intended to. In that sense, it's no less ridiculous than the Tech Noir disco scene from Terminator 1, which came out in the same period. The hilarity is how the director carefully crafted and organized it with absolutely not a shred of foresight or circumspection about the rest of the history of the universe. Like the world would be trapped in 1983 pop-culture for the rest of eternity. And he saw absolutely nothing unlikely or unreasonable or limiting about that at all. "THIS IS MY VISION OF THE FUTURE! DISCO AND HULA HOOPS FOREVER!" You're right, that's why it's so hilarious. If it was merely incompetent, it wouldn't be hilarious.
Holy shit. According to Wikipedia, Cissy Cameron (a.k.a. Grandma-Daughter) was only *34* when this movie was made. Big McLargehuge is *_SIX_* years older than she is! BTW, Reb Brown ended up marrying her...
That's not all, they ripped off the model toyys and effects from Battlestar Galactica. And John Phillip Law who was in this movie also starred in the 1968 Italian film Diabolik the series finale for mst3k!
In case anyone wanted to know, his names are Slab Bulkhead, Fridge Largemeat, Punt Speedchunk, Butch Deadlift, Bold Biglank, Splint Chesthair, Flint Ironstag, Bolt Vanderhuge, Thick McRunfast, Blast Hardcheese, Buff Drinklots, Drunk Slamchest, Fist Rockbone, Stump Beefknob, Smash Lampjaw, Punch Rockgroin, Buck Plankchest, Stump Chunkman, Dirk Hardpeck, Rip Steakface, Slate Slabrock, Crud Bonemeal, Brick Hardmeat, Whip Slagcheek, Punch Sideiron, Grissle McThornbody, Slate Fistcrunch, Buff Hardback, Bob Johnson (Oh wait...), Blast Thickneck, Crunch Buttsteak, Slab Squatthrust, Lump Beefbroth, Big McLargehuge, Smoke Manmuscle, Beat Punchbeef, Hack Blowfist, and Roll Fizzlebeef.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
You forgot Touch Rustrod
Big mclargehuge makes me cackle every time
Any time I ever play a pilot in a space sim game, I use one of these.
Jessica Ayala lol Blast Hardcheese and Big Mclargehuge. high five ✋
"Gentlemen it seems we are not all in agreement"
"I disagree"
Fucking lol
"You are all individuals!" "Erm, I'm not" LOLOLOL!!!
I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage sir
I don't know why but I always giggle at that "We can't allow that" ad lib. 😂
"I think it's really nice of you to give that dead lady another chance." 🤣
“Look alive Susan….oh, sorry.”
😂😂😂
did you sign her birthday card?
It's symbolic of how people who sit behind a screen all day are dead inside. David Winters was so underappreciated.
Best riff In the movie 😂
"They shouldn't have set their phasers to miss" That line cracks me up every time.
When things are bleak, these really do keep me company.
+LastUnderstood ditto
After all these years, I still try to keep my sanity with the help of my robot friends.
I love them
brings back memories of catching these on sci fi network
The worse life gets the better these old episodes seem to be.
"Put your helmet on, we'll be reaching speeds of three."
This glorious disaster of a film never fails to entertain me.
+Cosmic Rogue "We need both horsepowers on this thing!"
I set this line as the startup sound for my computer
"This thing could go faster if I wasn't also trying to buff the floor."
"He's gearing up for a really intense video game"
Put the top up, PUT THE TOP UP!!
"Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God." Best line in the whole flick.
Damn. This movie had 3 Editors and no one realized a dead lady was still in the movie. lol.
Having 3 directors didn't help. Credited director David Winters apparently had to leave mid-production due to some personal issues and another guy finished the film. Then a third guy did the Bellarian segments (which explains why they're so shoehorned into the film). Winters apparently even tried to put an Alan Smithee credit on instead of his name, but his contract prevented it.
Wait. Do you mean ,this film ,... or Star Wars?
"I think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance."
Perhaps having three editors is the reason that they didn't realize a dead lady was still in the movie.
Their eyes probably glazed over 5 minutes in😂 How can one edit when they are bored to death! Oh, maybe it was symbolic of how they felt😉😁
Apparently, female crew distinguish rank by acquiring one article of clothing with each promotion ...
Yeah I always thought it was weird the curly-haired brunette who was killed and resurrected was fully dressed. Wonder how that decision was made?
personally i rather have that than a whole bunch of scantily clad men....but i guess that's jyst me!
It should be the other way around ☺️
@@davidschwartz6380 No scantily clad Blast Hardcheese!?
@@davidschwartz6380man ass hater
Was that stock footage of Battlestar Galactica? Really?
Yes it was. This movie was also made in South Africa before Apartheid fell.
When that one dude got shot, total Buck Rogers sound effect.
OMG they even called them vioers LMFAO how did they not get sued LMFAO
@@devinreese7704 they even call them "vipers" as they were on battlestar
i had thought twas my feverish imagination
This, in my opinion, is the ultimate episode of MST3K. Space Mutiny has the perfect blend of 80's shlock, bad action movie cliches, hammy overacting, and ridiculous dialogue that makes in an absolute comedy goldmine for riffs. Yet, the film is just competent enough to not feel like an absolute bore to get through. The riffs are just absolutely brilliant throughout the whole episode.
I know a lot of people love Manos, and I do too, but the film itself is so broken and inept that it really drags at some points (as shown by Joel's famous "DO SOMETHING!" riff). I'd say Manos is the 2nd best of the Joel era (I Accuse My Parents taking the #1 spot) but Space Mutiny is truly the best overall. The Sci-Fi era really had some amazing episodes.
Space Mutiny only competes with Overdrawn at the Memory Bank for the absolute best MST3K movie of all time, with MST3K The Movie being the third perfect one to show newcomers to the series the series before because, being a movie, it's a bit more polished.
Spot on! Spot on!
Completely agree with your assessment.
We don’t talk enough about “I Accuse My Parents.” Joel and the Bots were on their A-game for that one.
@@daftoptimist I definitely think "I Accuse My Parents" is the best episode of the Joel era. The riffs about Jimmy's mother's alcoholism is worth the watch alone, as well as the jokes about Jimmy winning the essay contest. I think even Joel Hodgson said it's his favorite episode too.
It's one of those episodes that stays consistently funny the entire time which is really tough to do with a lot of these movies. One of the other episodes that manages to do this is Teenage Strangler (another one of my favorites).
The "exciting" climax at the end with the bumper cars absolutely kills me every time. I am in tears.
Golf carting floor waxers never blew up so good!
Those scooters have such a backward design! If you drive a golf cart that slow, it wouldn't bounce around so violently as these goofy scooters.
You mean mall-vacuums, right?
2:50 "a state of the art encyclopedia, each page with an internet uplink so you can constantly update them." Mike Nelson creator of Wikipedia
Exactly
+thick MclargeHuge "Wow, 27 pages on Gwen Stefani alone!" Sadly enough I'm willing to bet the wiki article puts that to shame
+crowcade It would make me sad to find out for sure. But who else remembers when you could get an encyclopedia cd which would have links to their websites for updates (if you had internet access)? I assume that's what they're referring to here.
Though the complaining was pretty good with a mailing address for Machu Picchu and Stonehenge under construction
I hate you, i was just about to write that!
A moment of space silence for the April 23 2019 passing of director David Winters. He's throwing angels over railings now!
All seriousness aside, he was A-rab in West Side Story, where he was noticed by a young Vincent Furnier (a.k.a Alice Cooper) who would later employ the dancer/choreographer to help invent the theatrical rock concert. Also David was instrumental in introducing Alice to his wife of 40+ years.
How'd he die?
Really? Sounds like quite the life.
Rest in peace Brick Hardmeat...
rail kill!
@@generalzod8589 he died at the age of 80 due to congested heart failure. Surprises me that he was still directing for that long
I watched some interview with the star of this movie Reb Brown, and when asked about Space Mutiny he quoted a few of the nicknames Mike and the bots gave him… seems like he’s seen this episode and approved. 😆
him and the girl hes with here actually got married in real life. he went on to be a police officer if i remember correctly. heard hes a real cool dude
@@TheDeathclawhunter Despite the mockery, I believe that she is actually younger than Reb Brown in real life.
I love how there's a literal mutiny happening on the ship and they're all having drinks and partying.
YOLO!
Ignorance is bliss?
You’ve clearly never been on a colony ship when there’s a mutiny. You have to keep the party alive. Good for morale.
They are having the same party.
Sherry's birthday is that important.
"Passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it!"
- The moment you realize its the best Riff of all time..
Also applies to The Rise Of Skywalker.
@@radiofiendify ...and even more so to The Last Jedi.
I love how they had to make Calgon ALSO greedy. "I want to set foot on a real world" was just too relatable and not cartoony enough.
I am surprised that no one made a "Take me away" or "Take me away...from this horrible film", comment on this episode.
@@paxhumana2015 they did say “Calgon blow me away” when he shot someone 😂
They also cut out the part where Calgon wanted to sell the ship's crew into slavery.
@@MMTrigger sell it into slavery?! To WHO?!
@@TheBonkleFox To the space pirates. It was something that either the MST3K crew cut for time or their copy of the movie didn't have it in the first place.
_"Passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it."_
Legendary riff man!!!!!!
Here's a scary thought: There were scenes on the cutting room floor which got rejected, which didn't rise to the high standards of the makers of this film.
Oh I remember back in the year of 2010 when we had to watch mst3k in 10 minute increments. Tough days I say
It was safer for mental health though.
I love how this movie blatantly stole the Battlestar Galactica space ships and sound effects.
Not just ripped off, but ACTUAL footage and sound clips from BSG.
Dude they had to pay to use the footage you can't steal or you get sued
+Chris Barbati Lol, right! I kept expecting a reference that would tie this into that TV series. Then they called the Cylon mother ship a 'pirate ship', and I realized just how monumentally retarded, this movie actually was!
+Bub the Zombie No, they didn't. Something about "low hanging fruit"...
+Chris Barbati I know! They didn't even hide it. They even called the ships 'Vipers'.
I Know! I was thinking "hey, these effects aren't half bad" then I realized that ALL THE EXTERIOR SHOTS ARE FROM BSG.
"Hey, she's dead!" They sound like they feel as if the movie has betrayed them. And I just have to say that yes. Yes it has.
"I think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance."
“Grab these idiots, take em down to refrigeration and put em on ice!”
“Um, but we’re all idiots, sir”
🤣🤣🤣
I remember being a kid and waking up early on weekends hoping this was on. I didn't know what channel or time but this was my favorite show. God TH-cam thank you so much for bringing my childhood back.
Lol, me too. Seeing "The Final Sacrifice" on television early one Saturday morning is what made me start recording every episode of MST. I have about 30 episodes on cassette before I finally captured, "The Final Sacrifice", and Space Mutiny was one of the episodes I have recorded during that elusive search.
Gingerscantbepirates
They had a bunch of them on Netflix awhile ago, on instant stream, but they removed them for some reason. They had quite a few too, at least 25 episodes or so were on there, I don't know what happened. Good to hear they are coming back though.
+Gingerscantbepirates they have already been there now there coming back again....aren't those lyrics to a song?
david turbo Very well could be.
@Gingerscantbepirates Except it's completely different. They replaced T.V.s Frank with that infected dick patton oswalt. In anything he does he's a dragging tagalong.
"So in the future there's absolutely no shame?" You'd be correct sir!
+ScoobaMusic Yep, Crow just predicted the future!
I thought the same thing
THis aged well.
We are living this shameless future now, Which is what you said.
Considering the time that this episode was made, this line couldn't be more true or relevant in 2024.
"I really think it's nice of you to give that dead woman another chance!"
Kay look alive everybod- ooh.. Sorry Susan
One of the worst continuity errors in film history.
That is hilarious 🤣 oh my gosh!
I love the part where the boiler room had a receptionist
"... and I have concluded that the boilers have not moved for some time."
"Sabotaged?"
"What of the little children and their toys?"
Tom's Santa voice kills me
that is absolutely one of my all time favourite lines
For me, Kevin Murphy always had the best voices, Mike Nelson the best deadpan responses, and Bill Corbett the best delivery of lines.
"I don't know if this helps, but ho ho ho."
"I am a right jolly old elf...."
"I'll show you where my elves are working day and night!"
It was a clip from this episode, a compilation of all the nicknames, that a friend showed me which introduced and led me to become a fan of the show. I owe the last 10 years of laughter to MST3K: Space Mutiny.
For many people, including myself, it's been their whole lives. Never has been anything quite like it, and I don't think I will ever stop laughing.
Crow: "I could watch this all day!"
Mike: "Oh, you will..."
Amazingly Idiotic Productions present a movie completely botched by David Winters, passed from editor to editor in a desperate attempt to save it, with special effects by Industrial Light & Morons, starring Sting, Debbie Reynolds, God... and Bob Johnson.
+Gregory House You forgot to mention it features music normally heard at the Day's Inn lounge at Colombia Heights
+Omnicrom Music rejected by the band Survivor, no less.
+Gregory House And graphics by Kenner.
Apparently, one of the actresses claimed this movie was meant to be a parody.
So either she's lying, or the movie is still the shittiest parody I've ever seen.
***** A parody of what exactly, is my question?
Nina Gold Battlestar Galactica I guess.
+TheBrianJ Never seen Meet the Spartans before, have you?
+jrny20 atleast that had a couple funny parts
John Carver
A couple, yes. But that's it.
"Hey guys, I got my Dad's Enforcer for the weekend!"
"You and your 80's. You know, it would still be the 70's if not for you!"
My favorite MST3K episode!
Fun fact:
There's no black people in this movie, because it was shot in South Africa during Apartheid.
Thomas Huij Well then that's one time Apartheit was good for blacks.
Thomas Huij Thank you for mentioning that fact.
Zeus Blue It's an insult to the entire human race...
I was joking that the movie itself was a crime against humanity.
Ain't it the truth!!!
This is a seriously excellent movie. It has everything: spandex, recycled '70's BSG effects, poor continuity, and fourth-grade dialogue hacked apart by awful editing.
oh god Space Mutiny is one of my all-time faves. The hula hoop dress, Buff McMeatChest, CalgonCalgonTakeMeAway, the skull trying to escape from his head... just so many great moments.
and who could forget the elegantly screeched battle cry: "AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
It really _is_ a classic episode. I've been listening to it in the background while I do some typing-stuffs.
MOVEI, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!!!!! MOVE!!!! NOW!!! MOVE!!!!
lOL!!!
My favourite MST episode ever. Absolutely wonderful, brilliant riffs, the movie just keeps on giving. The cast are electric in this one
This episode is 100% perfect for introducing people to MST3K
Agreed
It really is the perfect storm of what makes MST3K so good.
Oi!
Yup. No. 1 for me, too.
MST3K was my Saturday afternoon for years.
"I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage, sir!"
That Reb Brown squeal/scream is just the best thing ever.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
'Well, I'm glad I got that out of my system!'
"Who took my purse?!"
He seems to find an excuse to do that in every movie he's in.
When Mike imitated it, I had one of those cleansing, belly-hurting laughs that you get like once every 5-10 years
And you can see it in other classic Reb Brown rip-off films like Yor: Hunter From the Future, Robowar, Strike Commando, White Ghost, Last Flight to Hell, Howling 2: Stirba Werewolf Bitch or Uncommon Valor. Unfortunately he never screamed in either of the Captain America TV movies.
The many names of David Ryder are justly famous, but the string of Santa gags right after 47:00 made me laugh-cry almost as hard. "Someone DID leave a cookie out for me!"
I don't know if this helps, but hohoho
I don't say this lightly, but I think this is the best MST3K episode
It's so obvious that the whole Balarian thing was filmed completely separately in a second filming after everything else.
- They never interact with the cast of the A plot, and are mostly just intercut with footage from the movie's A plot to make it look like they have anything to do with it.
- This except for the captain, in only one scene (46:00) that takes place nowhere near any of the rest of the ship, and without the costume he wears throughout the rest of the movie. The actor also probably recorded his voiceover line for the scene at 16:41 when he was called back to record that scene.
- Hell, they never interact with any of the spaceship sets. They only are present in that one massive unexplained empty room.
- 10:24 - They "land on the ship" with voiceovers and stock footage from the crash later. And none of the voiceovers are main cast characters.
- 15:45 Calgon's clip about listening to the "scanty" guy was clearly duplicated from the later plot-relevant scene (30:15), and he never responds to the scanty guy either, because they clearly couldn't get the actor back in for more dialog.
- The second filming is also when they filmed the only non-voiceover mention of the second pirate attack. Said attack is so blatantly created in the edit, with all of the reused footage.
Wow, you nailed it.
@@ProfoundConversation (no offense - seriously) You don't have a brother named Beef do you? - he'd make a great name for this movie - just saying ;) In the vein of Punch RockGroin or Slate SlabRock.
The model footage of the ship "Second Sun" and the fighter battles are all from the TV series Battlestar Galactica.
@@sixstanger00 I knew it looked familiar!
what to the Balarians add to the plot anyhow?
The made up names of Hunk Meatbrick are legendary. I was dying.
Going to start naming my creatures in No Man's Sky like that.
Huge McLarge Butt
Giant McCroc Lard.
Hero McAction Pose
Steel BrickShaft
I hope you feel better. You're in my thoughts. And refrigerator.
SpleenieMartini Thanks, I appreciate that. I came back to life.
Wandering Wade Woo!!!
I love that the climax was with those ridiculous "Enforcer" go carts. It's amazing how people's brains work. Someone thought this would pass as buyable.
Even more, a director looked at that scene and said “Cut, keep that one... I like it”
They probably had a much grander vision in mind, and then the budget got in the way. The budget always gets in the way.
Do we rewrite this scene or do we just do as much as we can to achieve the original vision, even if it fails? We'll go with the 2nd option, thank you!
@@jesusnthedaisychain , just because you have a small budget does not mean that you have to make a horrible film, case in point, El Mariachi, which had only a budget of $7,000, yet it is a cult classic in action, it spawned two more sequels with bigger budgets, as well as better box office sales worldwide, it had some Oscar nods, as well as nods, and possibly even wins, with other awards, and it made Antonio Banderas into a household name in acting worldwide. Space Mutiny needed the kind of mindset that the people that made El Mariachi had and you know it, folks.
@@paxhumana2015 Which is why I was careful to mention their vision. They had an idea in mind, but unfortunately that idea would cost a lot of money to make it a reality.
What was your point? Was it that good low budget movies exist? And water is wet. So what?
Some ideas require a lot of resources to make them a reality, and there are only so many corners you can cut. El Mariachi could be made on the cheap because the story lends itself to that. They didn't need a lot of sets, or costumes, or effects, or extras. Small cast, a few ramshackle sets (which lends to the ambience), thrift store costuming, and the use of a lot of natural (free) light, all helps to reduce costs. A movie set on a space ship, in the future (which requires "futuristic" clothing), all indoors (so no natural lighting), etc..., it all adds up.
@@jesusnthedaisychain And time.
It's so dense. Every single frame has so much going on in it.
"And our brave hero roasts the disabled man."
"That rare meeting where something actually gets done."
Just a reminder: Sherry's birthday is coming up this month. So, you know...sign the card.
WEEABOO! WEEABOO!
Crow is very believable as a Balarian: I felt his sensual, hypnotic presence.
What makes Space Mutiny a special movie? Well, I'll tell you...
It is a movie with a somewhat coherent plot that is never too boring and often too cheesy, a villain that tries too hard to be menacing and comes out as goofy instead, our main hero who is the standard buffy protagonist of every 80's Cannon Group films, Sting, Debbie Reynolds and God; a dead character still working on their job, an attendant in the boiler room, a party in the middle of a mutiny, an exciting bumper car chase sequence, a sex scene, Slab Bulkhead and so much more. I love this riff so much.
Just a reminder: Sherry's birthday is coming up this month. So, you know...sign the card.
i missed it. had to sign the belated one.
Wall-mounted keyboards. It must be...THE FUTURE!
Also, nobody signed Sherry's card
“They married and had a healthy 8 1/2 LBS pork roast”
One of the best lines of all time
Funny enough, they did get married in real life. XD
"Everybody: SOME DAY, LOVE WILL FIND YOU!"
Can't ever drink anything while watching this show. There goes a keyboard.
Exactly -- I have to enforce a rule against snacking during MST because I always ended up choking half to death
Kevin Murphy was on fire this episode
And then, later, so was Rome.
totally... my favorite.."Get off the Stairmaster!"
So was Kalgon.
"Leiutenant Waitress. She graduated MIT but she still has to serve drinks to men."
@Jimmy L Needham Chill grammar police.
@@ThatShepherdMama No; grammar _instructor._ ...and you just got schooled. Twice.
@@ToyotaGuy1971 Instructor indicates you'd have to be educated. Considering you're a "Toyota Guy" I highly doubt you'd be able to school anyone. Much less me 😌
Here's a little bit of trivia for you about this movie, the two stars, Reb Brown(Blast Hardcheese) and Cissy Cameron(Lea or Grandma-daughter)are actually married in real life. So those "love scenes" between the two characters actually have some feeling in them.
I hope they have more chemistry off-screen.
I am now sterile.
Why does that make it seem even more wrong?
I hope they didn't reproduce in real life.
So she really did put her faith in Blast Hardcheese. :)
I wonder if Sherry ever got her birthday card.
😂😂😂
Nope. It was caught in the explosion at the epic climax. Oh well, at least they gave her a great birthday party despite all the mutineers and space pirates.
Pearl: "Brain Guy, bring Mike Down!
Observer: "Mike, everyone says you're ugly and dumb and nobody likes you!"
Mike: (sad) "Wow, that..that really brought me down..."
"We now go live to Spencer's Gifts" is simultaneously the most dated and the most timeless joke of all MST3K.
Hey, there's still a Spencer's at the mall in St. Louis that I go to occasionally.
@@taterboob Reminds me of the Department Christmas party where we bought gifts for the staff docs and this one Bozo bought a high rank lady staff doc a pu$$y stretcher that he got at Spencers. Dept head cancelled all future Christmas parties. He was furious, waving the bible, etc..
spencer's gifts was a great store.
Eyyo yay still one in Olympia too. I only go in for xmas presents @@taterboob
I can still get one of those at Spencer's right now. And, I'm always tempted whenever I find myself in a mall.
This movie contains one of my favorite scenes from any movie. Where he yells, but then stops to calmly jump out of the car...thing.
I like how in that chase scene with the go-karts where the woman is shooting at them the guy doing the "special effects" didn't know the plot so sometimes they'd draw the lasers shooting at the good guy
Thank you English teacher for telling me to watch this.
Gunnels?
My English teachers would not watch this crazy show anyway. Geez!
This needs to be on mainstream telly - I'm in Scotland and didn't see the originals until now. Brilliant!
ahem...interesting name...one can only imagine.....
One of the greatest shows I've ever seen, on par with Whose Line is it Anyway before it moved to America (don't hate me please, just that's what I love and grew up with, and I'm American).
For those not up on History, Bobo caused the Great Roman Fire of the Year 64 at the end of the episode when he knocked over the lamp while grabbing the wheel of cheese.
Was he like the cow that started the Chicago fire?
Thumbs up if you signed Sherry's birthday card.
fiddlestyxify
It's Sherry's birthday? Dammit...I forgot! 😯
*belated... Shes gonna be PISSED
Well, I signed Mike Down, CPA's birthday card... just forge my chicken-scratch off that one and I'll leave a thumbs up in advance. I really need to go and man the railing next to the docking bay.
I was to busy trying to figure out how to poke my skull out at people 😟
@@epocheon2901 You mean you weren't waiting for your pants to come out of the dryer?
I think this is one of the few mst3k episodes that are like wall to wall jam packed with laugh out loud quips. like it’s the michael jordan of mat3k. yes there are many many excellent and hilarious episodes but this one just feels next level with the sheer amount of quips, and quips that really land
There are 500+ jokes on most, if not all episodes. This has to be at the top.
This episode plus The Undead are when the jokes are top tier. They come out the gate swinging in Undead, while this one is consistently good and never lets up.
@@cthulhuhoops I agree but you forgot one of the greatest werewolf! 🤣
This one is definitely one of my top 5
@@dionysius1b870 I believe you mean, "Warwelf."
That makes sense: Have an escape system that only saves the pilot and let's everyone else roast 😂
We can only hope Elon Musk isn't going to fallow the same design.😋🚀💥
I love how his fiancee didn't seem to know his name, referring to him only as the professor
Kudos to these actors saying these lines with a straight face.
"Put your helmet on, we'll be reaching speed's of 3"
"We need both horse power's on this thing"
In my head they kept riffing like,
"What, MACH 3?"
"No, 3 feet per second!"
"Let's see what this lark can do!"
Today on "unnecessary apostrophe news..."
"Why did they set their phasers on 'miss'"?
😂
“Stay together cheeks! Stay together cheeks!” 😂😂😂🤣
This may have been their greatest MST3K epsiode
Bold statement...But, no. That is honour lies with Manos!
I agree that it is a bold statement, but the honor lies with The Final Sacrifice.
This and hobgoblin are my favorite
In terms of pure entertainment, yes I think this was the best episode.
This and "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" are THE MST3K classics. But I do agree that "Manos- Hands of Fate" is up there.. hard to imagine a movie that Gawd-awful was made!
In the beginning, when Pearl asked Brain Guy, the Observer, to 'bring Mike down' it could have been a great fourth wall breaking moment if they dropped a boom microphone into the shot.
That's a good joke, but it's more of a Mel Brooks gag rather than an MST3K gag.
@@bobdole4916 WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE!
"If you wonder how their voices...come in so clear!"
"Or other technical facts!"
"Just remember that yer watching...a fictional show!"
"You should really just re-LAX~!"
Mike Down is a dead ringer for Travis Walton.
Bob Dole exactly my thoughts when I read that
0:36:40- "Put your helmet on, we'll be reaching speeds of three!"
+Elizabeth Alvarado "We can't go any faster, I'd have to drop the waxing compound!"
"We need both horsepowers on this thing!"
+Elizabeth Alvarado "Hey guys, I got my dads Enforcer for the weekend."
"damn I'm losing speed because I'm also trying to buff the floors"
+Deer "Put the top up! Put the top up!"
1:07:52 - "Don't get smart with me, ceiling." Had me BUST A GUT! I've seen this a billion times but sometimes something new makes you crack up!
"I'd rather get a table dance from Trent Lott!" is an underrated line
😂😂😂😂😂
“This is less subtle than an Annie Sprinkle performance piece.”
"So in the future, there's no shame."
May I present to you tiktok.
Someone at the airport just asked what I was watching. After explaining what MST3K was and giving them a sneak peek, I think I've converted them into a fan.
I hope the nose wheel wasn't mushy.
@@Popebug it's filled with girl stuff!
@@Popebug It's okay, they were all wearing their poopie suits. (That's two airplane episodes....anyone recall any others?)
@@WalkerRileyMC was the pilot Cherokee Jack?
@@ndhulse PETEY PLANE!!!
Wait a second... if MacPhearson is allied with Calgon, and also "knows all [the] codes and counter-measures," then why did Calgon need to torture Grandma Daughter _specifically_ to get the counter-measures??
Because she clearly didn’t know anything about ancient dentistry
Same reason why the movie takes place on a generation colony ship in the middle of what appears to be populated space based on the ability to "call for help" and the presence of pirates. Reminds me of a game that took place on a ship that spent five thousand years traveling to another star only for the protagonists to discover they never actually left the solar system.
@@SuperDarknut What game is that? It sounds hilarious!
1:09-1:14
You'll drive yourself insane dwelling on that one... 🤪
I’ve always wondered that
When the ending credits are rolling and the our three guys start fighting in their seats - I laughed so hard, my tummy started to hurt. Ahh, the good ol' days.
MST3K's finest hour.... and a half.....
"You know," "they shouldn't have set their phasers to miss."
This reminds me of a question I ask myself every time I watch a james bond movie. These hitmen the bad guys have on their staff get paid big bucks to not be able to shoot straight!!
"We're being totally defeated, I must say." A one-line summary of this film.
Fun fact: Reb Brown (Dave "Gristle McThornbody" Ryder) and Cisse Cameron (Lea "Spider Skank" Jansen) have been married since 1979.
Married when this was filmed too. Add to that, Cisse Cameron is younger than him-I think I read somewhere she was mid 30s when the film was recorded. Whoever did her makeup and/or wardrobe should be shot into the sun for making her look in her 50s.
@@Ben-yv9id Yeah, she was 34 when she did this. She looks roughly the same now, surprisingly, judging from the IMDB photos.
...and she gave birth to a healthy 8 1/2 pound pork roast?
@@anonagain No kids listed, so yeah... seems likely ;)
@@Ben-yv9id Yes, and He was 40 when this movie was made.
"Why, no sir - you da man!" My favorite riff from this whole episode! I'm gonna use that line if I ever have to identify someone out of a police lineup and the detective asks me, "Is this the man?"
As many times as I've seen this I just made the connection between Kalgon's plot and the explosions in the first five minutes. Astounding.
There's always some new plot point to discover in a film that's so hard to watch. Great repeat watchability.
Omg!!! Commander Calgon also plays Diabolik! I love this stuff 😂
"Gentlemen, it seems that we are not all in agreement." - I disagree!
"The dancing has gotten even whiter."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Finally, Christmas comes to Santa."
Mrs. Claus and I have an understanding...
"Ho ho ho...Ho hohohohohohohohohohoho
Wanna see me shake like a bowl full of jelly?
Sometimes you don't realize how many times you've watched a thing until it's 10 years later and you still know every line.
“Damn, I’m losing speed because I’m also trying to mop the floor!” 😂
MST3k invented Wikepedia!
Metonymy1979 it was the natural evolution of things...
At some point during the production of this movie, this happened:
"So, describe the dance club of the future."
10 seconds later...
"I've got it! Hula hoops."
The End
"Ok chief, it has the hippest techno music ever, with fog on the dance floor, everyone dressed in the most futuristic clothes ever with capes, hula-hoops, flashing lights, and randomly places drinks that are neon colored and some bubbling."
Director: "BRILLANT! People will totally buy into it!"
Apparently, the designers were under the impression that the eighties would never go out of style. Fortunately for all of us, they were very wrong.
I also loved how they try to make the standard apple computers look "futuristic" just by mounting them on the walls.
It's not even a poorly storyboarded scene.. for a 1980s B-film. The director filmed exactly what he intended to. In that sense, it's no less ridiculous than the Tech Noir disco scene from Terminator 1, which came out in the same period.
The hilarity is how the director carefully crafted and organized it with absolutely not a shred of foresight or circumspection about the rest of the history of the universe. Like the world would be trapped in 1983 pop-culture for the rest of eternity. And he saw absolutely nothing unlikely or unreasonable or limiting about that at all.
"THIS IS MY VISION OF THE FUTURE! DISCO AND HULA HOOPS FOREVER!" You're right, that's why it's so hilarious. If it was merely incompetent, it wouldn't be hilarious.
"But what of the little children and their toys?"
+Xenlavian "I dont know if this will help but Ho Ho Ho."
It's gonna sad Christmas for the little children... 😢
“Doctor...lady”
“Music rejected by the band Survivor”
2 for 1 techno drinks, cool”
So apparently Battlestar Galactica memorabilia was hard to sell back then.
I am shocked there's only one comment noticing this
Don't care who you are, this is the best episode in the show's entire run.
I agree that it's a very good episode, but I have Overdrawn At The Memory Bank at number 1.
It's the certainly the one you play to introduce people to the show.
A great bad movie, but it ain't no Manos! The M Master w w would not approve.
The Final Sacrifice is my jams.
This is on my list of favorite episodes, next to "Werewolf", and "Laserblast".
Holy shit. According to Wikipedia, Cissy Cameron (a.k.a. Grandma-Daughter) was only *34* when this movie was made. Big McLargehuge is *_SIX_* years older than she is! BTW, Reb Brown ended up marrying her...
+VMIFerrari And they are still married.
+David Cage's Script So at least something good came of this movie. Asides from this excellent episode.
+Runaway Script of David Cage aw :3
That's not all, they ripped off the model toyys and effects from Battlestar Galactica.
And John Phillip Law who was in this movie also starred in the 1968 Italian film Diabolik the series finale for mst3k!
+VMIFerrari I can believe that.. I honestly didn't think she looked very old in this movie.
This one is hilarious - a must see for any Mistie.
1 of the funniest Mike mst3k episodes.
@@battlestarmarc His first one was really funny too.
"I can't go any faster, I'd have to drop the waxing compound!"