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56 out of 59 people found the following review useful: "I still support the railing system!", 27 December 2003 Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois
Ah, Space Mutiny, definitely one of the best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, it's one of my favorites personally. I think the reason why this is such a great episode is due to the fact that this film is just so unbelievably bad, you know? I mean these are the kind of movies that you just look at and question constantly how it got green lighted since it's just such an awful film. I'm not just saying bad, I'm saying that there must have been about 5 million things wrong with this movie. There are tons and tons of continuity problems, a woman who dies in one scene, then the next scene she is a noticeable extra that's alive and well. The "hero" of the film has extremely horrible acting qualities, not to mention that he screams like a girl. The "sexy lady" of the story looks like she's in her late fifties and again, her acting is lousy. The "villain" won't stop with this ridiculous laughter. The story itself is just a bad one.The people in space on the Southern Sun are supposedly happy and looking for a new world to create something new and peaceful. But some apparently have grown impatient, like Calgon(yeah, that's the villain's name, sad, isn't it?) and his "wise" followers. But the leader of the Southern Sun, who looks a lot like Santa Claus, wishes peace, so he assigns Dave Ryder to save the day. Along with Santa's daughter, Lea, she and Dave pretty much have to out maneuver Calgon, just for God's sake, who couldn't? I mean the man's body guard looks like a lobster.Space Mutiny is just in general a very bad film. I mean Mystery Science Theater 3000 sometimes gets some movies that are not so bad, but Space Mutiny is one of those films that is all around just a bad mistake. I'm not sure if they people who made this movie really looked at it in the editing room and really thought that this was an excellent or decent movie. The acting, the editing, the continuity, THE COSTUMES, the sets, the actors, everything about this movie was just plain bad. The sounds and script was just so laughable. Space Mutiny is not even good enough to be a cult film, the only thing that this film was good for was just the fact that it made one of the best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. But I have to admit that Calgon did blow me away, lol.1/10
45 out of 46 people found the following review useful: The "Plan 9" of the '80's., 21 January 2004 Author: ossifragus (ossifragus@msn.com) from Hangin' with the pirates in Corona Borealis
Yeah, the film industry is not what is was when Ed Wood was directing, and B-movies don't get released in theaters anymore; but they do get released on video. And we should be glad that they do, at least in the case of Space Mutiny, 'cause it may be the single most unintentionally hilarious movie ever made. Don't believe me? Just take a look at these numbers:# of times our ostensible "hero" screams in panic: 17# of jumpsuited extras flung into the air with pneumatic catapults: 14# of insertions of "Battlestar Galactica" footage: lost count around 40# of previously seen shots edited in:15# of times the Enforcers refer to each other as "idiots": 7# of off-the-shelf glowing balls in the Bellarian scenes: 8# of times Ryder or Kalgon yells at someone to "MOVE!" or "GO!": 26# of occasions Kalgon starts laughing for no apparent reason: 18# of minutes you get to watch grown men trying to kill each other with golf carts: 5# of railing kills: 24 (may have missed a couple)Don't pass up a chance to see this; one of these days, someone involved with it is going to get embarrassed enough about it to try and have all the copies destroyed.
23 out of 25 people found the following review useful: There Are No Words to Describe My Torment..., 31 May 1999 Author: Tony Rowland from Vancouver, Washington
Watching "Space Mutiny" is the metaphorical equivalent of drinking cat urine...there's no way it can be any good for you, so why even try?The special effects in this film are, I'm not kidding now, stock footage from Battlestar Galactica (played backwards, in some cases), or shot on what appears to be low-resolution video using models probably built from discarded "He-Man" toys. Unfortunately, that's about the best thing in the movie.The acting...my God, the acting...I have NO idea who came up with this dialogue. Reb Brown is ridiculous, John Philip Law is absolutely NOT to be believed, and the rest of the cast, as well as the costumes, look like outtakes from an episode of Buck Rogers! (The second season...the really STINKY one!) The whole damned thing looks vaguely like a fever dream I had as a child after drinking sixteen cans of "Jolt"...and it's equally incomprehensible. My God, they actually announce the arrival of a pirate fleet by having some dope on a microphone say, "This is the pirate fleet...surrender or be turned into astro-dust." I think they shot the whole thing in a brewery with Go-Karts and used the same shot of a hops bin blowing up no less than four times. This movie has to be seen to be believed. I actually bought a copy for three dollars, just so I could show my friends that I was NOT making it up. Run, don't walk, away from this film.0.0 stars out of a possible five.
29 out of 39 people found the following review useful: "You know a lot of people have compared this scene to the climatic chariot scene in Ben Hur. Yeah, you know they usually say, 'Ben Hur was really good. This movie totally sucked.'", 20 February 2001 Author: Op_Prime from Ardmore, PA
I must agree with that quote. This movie royally sucked. The plot and acting are terrible. The special effects are somewhat good, but they are ripped off from Battle star Galactica. The MST version of course rocked. That's where I got that quote which was just hilarious. I will say one good thing about this movie: It was awfully nice of them to give that dead woman a second chance.Anyway, this movie was terrible and deserves to be on the bottom 100. Never watch it without Mike, Tom Servo and Crow.
25 out of 32 people found the following review useful: Refinery Mutiny., 29 October 2001 Author: Aaron1375 from Alabama
This movie is so bad it is hard to figure out where to start. I guess I will start with the set designs. All the action in this flick is supposed to be taking place in a spaceship, but not one set looks like it is on a spaceship. The bridge looks like a college's computer lab, these women are taken to a room that looks like an empty classroom and you can see sunlight coming through the window, they go to this futuristic bar that looks like a bar with lame decorations, and most of the action apparently takes place in a refinery that looks like it has no business being in a spaceship. Then we have the hero and the heroine who start off hating each other in one scene then loving each other the next. And speaking of the heroine, she is obviously an older woman playing the role of a twenty year old in fact I think that the man playing her father is probably close to her age. You have the evil Pat Riley look alike who is trying to take over the ship, and he rides around in bumper cars that any fit person can outrun. Then there are the Bellarians (space witches) that serve no purpose, but are nice to look at and they use those globes from Spencer's Gifts. The commander of the ship looks like Santa Claus, a woman killed in one scene is at her terminal the next, and if you watch this movie you will wonder why anyone would waste their time with watching it.
18 out of 21 people found the following review useful: It would be sad if it weren't so pathetic., 28 September 2004 Author: ptrschckl (ptrschckl@yahoo.com) from Detroit-ish, Michigan, USA
OK, folks, here's a brief summarization of this film. I won't be giving away anything important, even though I don't think I could spoil this movie if I tried. Off we go...As Kintaro's arrangement of 'O, Fortuna' wafts our way, we are treated to the film's opening credits. They look like they were produced by a Commodore 64 and they freeze up at least once because the programmer got too carried away.Welcome to Battlestar Galactica -- no, wait! -- I mean the Southern Sun, a ship containing an entire civilization. It's run by Captain Santa Claus and his Billy-Idol-wannabe sidekick. The story is really too convoluted to go into, so never mind. As someone once said: "If you pretend you know what's going on, it's actually kind of exciting." Remember, he said, "Kind of."Watch and enjoy the following: Vacu-formed unitards, ridiculously small weapons, Santa's incredibly fake beard, Kalgan's giggling fits, Ryder's bizarre reaction shots, a woman who punches in at work despite being dead, Leah's Dance of the Hoola Hoop, a troupe of scantily-clad women who worship Van DeGraf Generators, countless shots of computer screens (graphics by Kenner), Ryder's disturbingly girlish bellows, and numerous molasses-fast chase scenes involving golf carts... or floor waxers or something.This movie is not campy at all -- that would imply the filmmakers were TRYING to be laughably bad. This movie is just one of those rare few in which everything is wrong in all the right ways. Acting, sets, lighting, costumes, dialogue... they're all hysterically inane. These folks tried very hard to make an exciting space-drama -- and maybe it would've been if they had dared to take ANYTHING to the next level. Every aspect of it just says, "space movie." Nothing more.If this movie was just plain bad, you might have to feel sad for the people that made it, thinking it would work. However, it makes such a leap into the ridiculous that you just have to laugh. A must-see for fans of so-bad-it's-good movies. And whether you love or hate sci-fi, this is a very funny movie.I give it a 4 -- it may not affect you the way it's supposed to, but it's great entertainment.
19 out of 23 people found the following review useful: Lost in "Space"...., 11 November 2000 Author: George Litman from Marietta, OH USA
Flint IronStag, Bulk VanderHuge, Thick McRunFast...How bad does a movie have to be when it can't even afford special FX, so it has to borrow visuals from a TV series like "Battlestar: Galactica"? As bad as "Space Mutiny".Blast HardCheese, Punch RockGroin, Buck PlankChest...And this one is really bad. Scratch that: really really really REALLY bad. Bad like a room full of dirty socks. Bad like listening to Yanni music for the rest of your life. Bad like a prison haircut. Bad like that tux you wore to the prom.Stump JunkMan, Dirk HardPec, Rip SteakFace...The story might have worked (members of expedition to new planet revolt against captain, crew), but they blew it from the moment they used old Commodore graphics for the starting credits and an old Casio keyboard for the theme music. Slate SlabRock, Crud BoneMeal, Brick HardMeat...The cast helps nothing by containing the likes of such once-respected actors as Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan and John Phillip Law (yes, he was respected once) in the cast. The sight of Mitchell in his bushy white beard makes it look like he should be handing out toys to the cast and inviting them to sit on his lap.Rip SlagCheek, Punch SideIron, Gristle McThornBody...Has anyone seen Cisse Cameron in anything other than this movie? No? Probably a good thing, especially after watching her "seduction" scene with that bald guy and trying to dance seductively with a hula hoop. It's like watching your grandma in a strip club. Ewww....Slate FistCrunch, Buff HardBack, Blast ThickNeck...But the worst offenses are committed by "hero" Reb Brown, all beefed-up and steroid-enhanced as a space jock who screams, shouts, whines and will make no one forget Sam Jones when he played "Flash Gordon" so many years back. Crunch ButtSteak, Slab SquatThrust, Lump BeefBroth...And has anyone ever seen a spaceship with brick walls, warehouse windows and cement floors? Me neither. Jeez, even the old Roger Corman sci-fi flicks had better set design than this.Touch Rustrod, Brief Blastbody, Big McLargeHuge...And as if you haven't guessed, the only (and I mean ONLY) way you'll ever get any enjoyment out of this mess is by watching the MST3K version with Mike and the Robots throwing every last bit of pretension this flick had over one of its innumerable rails to the floor far below. Smoke ManMuscle, Feet PunchBeef...Two stars for "Space Mutiny", ten stars for the MST3K version (plus five special stars for all the superlatives for Brown). ...Bob Johnson?
17 out of 20 people found the following review useful: Go! Go! Go! Away from this trash!, 31 July 1999 Author: Jeff (spoonjef@aol.com) from L.A. CA
Run, don't walk! Use those pneumatic catapults that launch jumpsuited terrorists through the air to escape this drivel. This movie shows just how limiting a small budget and a lack of imagination is. Footage lifted from Battlestar Galactica is edited into something that resembles a story. Can't really tell. There's a large slab of beef walking around that's supposed to be our hero. Santa Claus commands this barge with the help from Sting. His daughter looks like Sheri Lewis gone bad and they fight the evil Calgon! Watch this one on MST and watch for the dead girl who comes back to life and resumes her post on the bridge.
16 out of 20 people found the following review useful: ....starring Slab Bulkhead as Whiney McGirl-scream!, 26 July 2004 Author: Rob Taylor (Rob_Taylor) from London
I actually quite enjoyed this film. Well, I enjoyed laughing at Mike and the Robots comments on it anyhow. The film itself is just the worst kind of awful you can imagine.For a start, the budget for any real effects was obviously non-existent, so they stole LOTS of shots from Battlestar Galactica. These scenes occur early on in the movie mostly, and lead you to think that (apart from the plagiarism)it might not be too terrible. Wrong! After the initial ten minutes the Galactica stock-footage is rarely seen again, but the inside of various industrial buildings is seen almost constantly. I was thinking "Ah, a late 70's, early 80's era film" where any old chemical or power plant interior would do as "futuristic" sets. Wrong again! This "movie" was made in 1988, not even twenty years ago! It's like the makers went through a time warp to the late 70's, made the film, then brought it back for our delight.But the plagiarism, in another form, continues right through the movie. The sound effects of the lasers are ripped straight from Battlestar Galactica again, and also, later on, the sound of the lasers from Battle Beyond the Stars makes an appearance.Then there is the acting. Or rather, the awful lack of it. Particularly bad is Chunk Benchpress (aka Reb Brown) who lumbers around the sets trying to look dashing and heroic, then spoils the image by screaming like his 'nads have been caught in a food processor. The love interest for Chunk is old enough to be his mother (or maybe even grandmother!) and bares altogether too much flesh for someone of her advancing years and plastic surgery.The commander of the ship on which the mutiny takes place is Cameron Mitchell, an actor of some note. What the Hell he was thinking in being in this is anybody's guess. But, bad though his choice of movie is, it's nothing compared to the ridiculous Father Christmas beard he's made to wear. It looks sooooo real nobody will be able to tell its a fake. Not!And finally, the main cast is rounded off by John Phillip Law, another actor who has some credit to his name (At least prior to this turkey). Obviously he yearned for his wacky Barbarella days again and signed up for this abomination. I could never decide here whether he was actually trying to act or just hamming everything up. Suffice to say his maniacal cackling at even the slightest provocation ceases to be funny after the tenth or twentieth time.Other things to watch out for are the stupid golf carts done up to look like futuristic transportation. The cheap body shells wobble like they're only held on with tape and the "chase" scenes are just hysterical. It's like you've tuned into a re-run of The Banana Splits Show. Try humming "Tra-la-lah, La-la-la-lah!" as you watch and its even funnier.I won't mention the plot, because there really isn't one to speak of. Just a flimsy premise that people who were actually born in space are more likely to yearn for a real planet to live on than those who came from a planet, which sounds counter-intuitive to me. Or in other words, just plain dumb.Watch it as an MST3K episode and this one is great. Without their comments it might be rather too much to handle for any normal person. It thoroughly deserves its place in the bottom 100 of the IMDb. You have been warned!
7 out of 7 people found the following review useful: Don't you get it? This is fun!, 21 November 1999 Author: Pucki (markus@risser.b.uunet.de) from Berlin, Germany
Okay, okay - obviously this is a piece of crap, if there ever was one. But it's terribly funny! I nearly laughed myself to death when watching this for the first time and I immediately got to the store and bought a copy for my collection (and I even didn't have the treat of MST3K, but had to stick with the original version). Where else do you get this share of incredibly bad acting, production values that indicate a budget of about the average amount in my wallet (the vision of brick walls on a space ship makes me giggle even now), the most hilarious car(t) chase ever made, Galactica-stock footage in a quantity you can skip three entire reruns of the series - hey, I think I have to go and see it once more right now... This IS "Plan 10 from outer space"... it's the ultimate party movie!
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