Update: Erich Asperschlager at DVDVerdict.com has taken the case.
Ian Jane at rockshockpop.com reviews Shout’s “MST3K: The Movie” release.
Also, our pal Bruce Westbrook has a review.
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Update: ‘MST3K: The Movie’ Blu-Ray/DVD ReviewsUpdate: Scott Tobias at thedissolve.com offers his take.
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Is that “Mystery Science Theater 150?”
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I was able to pick the Blu-Ray up last week at a shop in NYC that is infamous for putting DVDs / Blu-Rays on the shelf well before their release dates. Anyone who loves the Shout special features on the box set discs is in for a treat – these are some fantastic interviews (with some really cool behind-the-scenes footage!) they’ve supplied with the movie. I’m surprised the deleted scenes are as low-quality as they are, unfortunately – it seems like someone encoded them from VHS years ago into a low-grade digital format & they were slapped on the Blu-Ray as-is. I’m glad to have them & wasn’t expecting the A/V to be fantastic, but am sorry to see that they are in such poor condition. All in all, there’a probably an extra 5 – 10 minutes of riffs cut from the film among the stuff we’re familiar with in the “extended scenes”. The deleted host segments are a lot of fun.
Are the special features on the dvd as well? I heard that they were.
Despite the misgivings of the Brains, I love the movie and it’s usually what I show newbies who’ve never seen the show.
Great review, but I get the impression the reviewer didn’t know that while the movie’s new to Blu-ray, the movie’s been released on DVD twice before.
Oops. Never post before coffee. Now fixed.
DELETED “METEOR SHOWER” SCENE CONFIRMED AS EXTRA
*ORGASM*
I don’t have blu-ray, does anyone know if the special features are on the DVD or the Blu-ray or both, I’m confused are both disc identical or is the DVD just the movie? someone must know, me buying this kinda hinges on that.
Shout Factory said in their initial news report that both DVD and Blu Ray would have both special features.
Another review in…
Erich Asperschlager from DVDVerdict:
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/mst3kmoviebluray.php
So Russell Johnson and Rex Reason are not on that making of THIS ISLAND EARTH documentary? Because I don’t think they have any hard feelings for MST3K. It would’ve been cool to see them discuss the making of their movie.
Man, those 1950s kids, let me tell you. I think I’ll make this release one that I buy in the store. I look forward to seeing those deleted scenes and the documentaries. Although, I fully expect to hate Joe Dante by the end of the doc on the movie This Island Earth. How can you take a movie so seriously when it has alien monsters that wear slacks?
Hi Sampo, DVDVerdict also has a new review of the MST movie up now.
Hey guys! The all the extras are on both the blu-ray and DVD! Enjoy! And a comment regarding the quality of the “deleted” material… It was sourced from a one-inch master, the only available source at Best Brains. Universal apparently did not have the original negs. The master was in poor condition, but we all felt it was better than nothing.
@14 Thanks for letting us know, Daniel! Shame you couldn’t find better quality for the deleted scenes. But although I haven’t seen it myself yet, I imagine the material you have should look and sound at least SOME amount better than the awfully fuzzy & muffled cam footage recorded from the 2nd ConventioCon, which up until now has been the only way fans could see it. Even in the improvement is marginal, I’m just grateful we’ll now have a better (and easier) way of watching them. Thanks again!
I ordered mine and I’m looking forward to watching the movie again, along with the special features. Too bad there isn’t a commentary track to the MST3K movie by anyone from the show… or Joe Dante. :-)
Daniel @ 14
Thanks for the info about the “deleted” material. I had wondered if perhaps it was just the best surviving copy of that stuff. It’s a shame the film elements for the cut scenes are lost or just don’t exist anymore.
Thank you and Shout! for getting this release out to us. It’s definitely one of the jewels in the history of the show, foibles aside.
@14 I assume it’s not uncommon for a major studio like Universal to have lost material like deleted scenes from films like that, right Daniel? I heard some years ago that there was a major fire on the Universal Studios lot in LA, near the film sets. I read that some film negatives and tapes in a studio vault nearby were lost in that fire.
I hope Universal still has Janet Waldo’s voice work that got deleted from “Jetsons the Movie.”
Universal…they are so short sighted. Had they just backed away and let BBI do it’s thing it would have been better for everyone. I can only hope some techie can splice the new footage into the film on youtube so we can enjoy it a close as it was supposed be released.
Another review in…
Tim Salmons from The Digital Bits:
http://thedigitalbits.com/item/mystery-science-theater-3000-movie-ce-bd
@BIG61AL: I would totally do that – and maybe I will just as a learning experience for myself – but somebody else with a YouTube account that allows feature-length uploads would have to host it. And of course Universal would pitch a fit and have it yanked right away. I wouldn’t be surprised if an “ultimate cut” or something like that shows up in torrent land, though. I dunno if Chris and Brian would be comfortable sharing something technically illicit like that, but if anybody comes across one I’d like to hear about it.
A blu-ray that includes the deleted material?? Helloooooooo Fan Edit!
No subtitles?
Okay, so the deleted scenes really flesh out the “Cal breaks things” gag and I think my favorite riff of the whole movie is in there:
“I better call my wife and tell her you’ll be late.”
Loved the new documentary! I’ve always felt like the Movie is the one bit of MST3K history that needed the most filling in, and I think this new piece does a great job of doing that.
Loved the deleted material! Though the (original) movie didn’t seem to lose any coherence from those cuts, despite what critics have apparently said all these years. It is nice to have a bunch of new, never-before-heard riffs, though. And hey studio execs, the original ending was much better.
Question for anyone: who is the person who gets zapped by Brak by the lake? Is that supposed to be another scientist or just some random trenchcoated dude out for a stroll?
I can’t believe Rifftrax hasn’t done Barb Wire. It would be rather fitting.
It’s another scientist. If you watch the un-edited version of This Island Earth, it is clear. Also, I have the original Directors Cut of the MST movie. That is what I pulled the alternate riffing sequences from. So, a fan edit isn’t necessary. Give it time… I’m sure that version will surface. Maybe if the original elements are discovered. Who knows?
Finished watching all the deleted scenes. While I feel the theatrical ending is a bit…off, the original ending is dull, dull, dull. And unfunny.
Thoughts…
Just finished watching all of the ‘Extras’ and I’m very pleased with everything. Most notable, in my opinion, is “The Motion Picture Odyssey” documentary. I have watched it twice now and was fascinated to see all of the ‘behind the scenes’ material. The footage of Mike, Jim, Kevin and Trace screening films in 1995 was surreal to see (I assume it was from 1995). The on set filming stuff from Energy Park is awesome. Seeing the sets, etc. I was most in awe of the silhouette shooting done at Paisley Park. That has to be one of the few times Mike (or Joel) ever wore a jump suit when they were shooting the “theater sequence”.
Maybe it was the use of “The Blue Danube Waltz” that made me MSTie-eyed during the certain portions of that documentary, but it just made me sad for what might have been. It also made me sad for the guys because they put their heart and soul into the show and then to be basically bullied by the studio that way.
Always trust the funny.
@29 Mike wore a jumpsuit with a black t shirt in the BTS footage on that old Playstation Underground disc from 1998.
I look forward to the fan edit where Cal’s assistant Joe is digitally replaced by Jar Jar and Brak shoots first.
This thread is awesome. “Thanks for the extras, DVD guys! Now how can we splice and bootleg all this stuff you spent so much time working on so we can post it to YouTube or just torrent it all?”
Hey, we’re all happily going to purchase the Blu-Ray. We just would like to see the movie as the Brains originally intended. Is that so wrong?
@32 The cardinal rule of the fan edit community is “own the source material”.
http://www.fanedit.org/forums/showthread.php?6038-Official-quot-Own-the-source-material-quot-Rule
And MSTies have been pretty good about buying official DVD’s of episodes they once taped or traded for so far. :)
Just got my copy of MST3K, the Movie. The extras alone make this a DVD must-get. I also have a review on my blog at http://bit.ly/14n45Un, plus a wish that maybe someday, Rifftrax Live can take on all of This Island Earth.
These deleted scenes make me angry with frustration at the stupidity of Universal Studios.
Good lord, Joe Dante is such a fanboy for This Island Earth.
Well, I didn’t end up hating Joe Dante, but he does come across as one who doesn’t “get it”.
I just ordered my copy of SHOUT!’s MST3K The Movie and am a better person for doing so.
I did have to sell off some giant spider scrap metal to pay for it.
@38 – Which is really surprising, no? Dante has a knowing smartass sense of humor (“Gremlins 2” is a fantastic “sequel mocking sequels” middle finger to WB) & an obvious affinity for B-movies (numerous references in all of his films, but most blatantly with his William Castle love letter “Matinee”). You’d figure he’d be someone who would LOVE MST3K, but I guess he just takes his B-movies too seriously… sad, really.
Joe Dante comes off just a tad hypocritical. He seems to not realize that The brains went through a lot of executive meddling. You’d think Dante would have a bit more empathy for the guys, considering what WB did to his Looney Tunes movie.
Supposedly Dante was a fan of MST until they riffed Marooned because he thought the movie was undeserving of riffing. So it’s cool to pick on sub-par Japanese monster flicks but when we go after a movie you like that was better received suddenly the show is disingenuous? Yeah, Kinda hypocritical.
Last but not least, the review from Blu-ray.com:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-The-Movie-Blu-ray/74762/#Review
@42 – I remember reading about Dennis Miller telling them that they had “jumped the shark” by riffing “Marooned” in the ACEG. I hadn’t heard anything about Joe Dante holding that opinion as well… Odd that more than one “famous fan” held “Marooned” in such high regard…
@44 Kevin Murphy said during Dragon con in 02 or 03 that Dante held a grudge but he could have been confusing Miller and Dante. Who knows. The panel is on Youtube if you want to check it out.