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Written by Dave Anderson   
Monday, 24 January 2005


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Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Essentials

Grade

Content Grade: A
Sound Grade: B
Extras Grade: B
Picture Grade: A

Specs

Rhino Home Video Fullscreen English mono No Subtitles 190 min., color, 1991, 1993

Review

Of all the long running TV shows that have gone to pasture, the only program whose passing I truly mourned was Mystery Science Theater 3000. Thankfully, the show sort-of lives on through a series of videos and discs released by Rhino Home Video. Though I sometimes question their choices of which episodes to release on DVD, there's no debating the movies they have chosen to include in this two-disc Essentials set, which features Joel, Crow and Tom Servo at their best, commenting on two films which are examples of filmmaking at its worst.
Disc one features one of MST3K 's all-time classic episodes, where they skewer Manos: The Hands of Fate , arguably one of the worst movies ever made. The in-between sketches are equally funny. Disc two features another truly retched film, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians , and features more sly wit from the MST3K cast. While MST3K was often inconsistent, the two films included in this set are hilarious all the way through, and it's easy to see why they are the first selections in what is hopefully a series of affordable two-disc sets from Rhino.

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Picture and Sound

Discussing the video and audio quality of a low-budget TV show featuring badly aged, equally low budget movies is probably redundant, but I have to write something here. Let me simply say that the transfer of these episodes to disc is just as good as they were for their original broadcast.

Extras

There's only one extra feature included here, but it's a good one...a thirty minute "Poopie" reel featuring outtakes from the filming of the TV show, appears on disc one.

Summary

Any MST3K is better than none, but this set is definitely one worth having. It is more affordable than the numerous boxed sets of randomly assembled (and occasionally lame) episodes, and features two movies for which they have a seemingly endless supply of one-liners and comments. Great stuff!

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