Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Mitchell

Starring:John Ashby, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Rayford Barnes, Todd Bass, Sidney Clute, Carole Estes, Linda Evans, Duffy Hambleton, Jerry Hardin, Lilyan MacBride, Rob Narke, Merlin Olsen, Morgan Paull, Vicky Peters, Robert Phillips, John Saxon, Harold Stone, Buck Young
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Product Type: DVD

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This farewell episode for Joel Hodgson is a sentimental favorite but even more worth it for the hilarity spawned by our captured Satellite of Love friends. The movie centers on the hapless, big lug cop named Mitchell (Joe Don Baker), who fights the rich and powerful drug-dealing bad guys. Along the way, Mitchell finds himself investigating murder, falling "in sex" with Linda Evans, helping an elderly woman like a good son, and telling a bothersome wisecracking kid to buzz off. Match that with clothing and music from 1975 and you've got prime fodder for the biting remarks of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo--which, of course, they take advantage of handily and in abundance. Mitchell has a few quiet areas but these are spotty, and when Joel and his mechanical friends start wisecracking, it's all hilariously worth the wait. Mitchell: So '70s, you'd swear Kris Kristofferson was moaning the theme song in the background. --Karen Karleski

Customer Reviews:

'We're home Mitchell honey, Put your shoes on!'.......2007-06-08

Joe Don Baker is my hero. Apparently he has it in for the produces of MST3K for riffing this film so mercilessly, which just makes me love him all the more.

'Johnny Matthis!'

Just watch it!.......2007-01-14

I laugh until I choke every time I watch this and have for almost 15 years now. Ah, what a sad day when Joel left the Satellite. I'm still grieving nearly half my current lifetime later. Mitchell is a perfect introduction to the glory days of MST and you'll be hard pressed not to love it. If ever there was a perfect movie to be riffed by those sacred Midwestern nerds, this was it.

And I've Been Afraid of it All These Years...........2006-12-31

Actually, the full line is, "Hey, that shower wasn't so bad, and I've been afraid of it all these years..." It's what Crow says after Mitchell comes out of the bathroom in a robe. Yes, the title character of this movie takes a lot of riffing at the hands of the Satellite of Love crew, and that's just one of the things that makes this particular episode a must-see.

Joe Don Baker stars as Mitchell, a loveable, beer-drinking cop who sleeps with hookers and does things his own way...yet has a terrible eating disorder. Mitchell isn't an easy film to get through, but Joel, Tom, and Crow once again make the unbearable bearable via a constant flow of humorous remarks. Tom says Mitchell "likes to top off his beer drinking with another beer. It's like dessert." And when Mitchell is getting roughed up by thugs, we hear, "If they're not careful they'll end up with Mitchell's dinner all over them." Not to mention when Mitchell struggles to get up off the couch, some noises are made that aren't exactly flattering.

At least 75% of the comments in this episode are aimed directly at title character, and yet the character is so disgustingly likable that the comments never get old.

No review can do this episode justice. Just go out and have a laugh at poor old Joe Don Baker's expense. Hoyt Axton's "My, My, Mitchell" song will help you along the way.

One of my favorite MST3K's........2006-12-19

I was a fan of the show when it was on TV, although I must admit I probably haven't watched that many of the episodes considering how many of them there are. I turned my husband on to it after we got married and he brought this treasure home as a gift one day. I hadn't ever seen this one so I was pleasantly surprised when we sat down to watch it and laughed (hard) throughout the entire thing. Gems such as "Hey, the headlight fixed itself" run through the whole movie. I promise you won't be disappointed with this one if you are a MST3K fan.

Hysterical..........2006-08-24

If you've ever sat around with a group of friends and ripped on a bad movie then Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a show you can relate to. It became a ritual for a friend of mine and I when I was in college to come back late from a party and monopolize the dorm's TV room and watch this show at 2:00 in the morning. One of our favorite episodes was "Mitchell", which after viewing so many of the episodes has to be one of the funniest shows of the series. I'm sure a lot of it had to do with the fact that this was series creator Joel Hodgson's last episode; you could tell that they really pulled out all the stops with this one. Just the opening credits got ripped a new one for crying out loud...and they didn't slow down from there. "Mitchell" would be fodder for anyone that actually sits down to watch it, but Joel and the boys really destroy it. Whoever thought that Joe Don Baker would actually be a draw as an action star should be working at 7-11 now. He's fat, and Mitchell is an alcoholic, chain smoking (cigarillos no less), unintelligent, and unlikeable individual, all of which gives the occupants of the Satellite of Love ample material to work with. (I love that whenever Joe Don runs for any reason one of them wheezes and breathes heavy.) Even the theme song "Mitchell" gets blasted ("Oh Hoyt, how could you?"); I guess Mr. Axton was having a tough time financially to agree to write the theme song for the stinkfest called "Mitchell". (I mean, the guy did write "The Pusher", "Snowblind Friend" and "Greenback Dollar" after all, so we know he was capable of writing good music.) And of course, all the references to Mitchell's boozing are particularly funny when you're tipsy yourself. I still use these lines on a regular basis on friends and family, they just seem to come up sometimes. (Most recently when I gave a date a beer bottle and she said "I'd like a glass" and I remarked "Sorry your majesty". Its sad to actually be like Mitchell in some ways.) This stands as my favorite episode of MST3K, and after all these years it still cracks me up. Even if you aren't a fan of the show this one will make you laugh...it should have a guarantee.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Wild World of Batwoman

Average customer rating:

One of the most ridiculous movies ever made. MST3000 RIGHTFULLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS.
This One Obviously Slipped Through the Cracks
didn't work
Not The Best MST3K, But Fun
From "Wild" to mild to... I know not what.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Wild World of Batwoman
Starring: Bob Arbogast , Richard Banks (III) , Steve Brodie , Francis Bryan , and Steve Conte
Manufacturer: Rhino Theatrical
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000056VOO
Release Date: 2001-01-23

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Nothing captures the peculiar pastiche of the pop-cultural zeitgeist like Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K to fans). The formula is simple: subject a hapless temp worker, Mike Nelson, and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow, marooned in space to the worst B, C, even Z-grade movies imaginable and record the results. On The Wild World of Batwoman, they quip through a movie summed up best by Crow: "It looks like they just put a whole lotta movies in a blender and turned it on really fast!" The plot of the movie is hapless at best, inexplicably puncuated by bikini-clad "Batgirls" go-go dancing with guns (Mike quips: "That's 40 pounds of butt in pants with a 30-pound capacity."). The episode starts with a '50s educational short on student cheating that is so dour in tone that Tom wonders, "Is this Ingmar Bergman's first American movie?" In a sub-skit, Tom and Crow go mano a mano (or roboto a roboto) trying to out-shun each other: "I double shun you." Tom trumps with, "I shun you version 3.0 for Windows." The worse the movie, the better and more wacky the MST3K episode; never has subpar art ever inspired such heights of hilarity, and Batwoman is as bad as they come. Which means it's great. Get it? --Tod Nelson

Description

A mad scientist attempts to drive his captive, Mike Nelson, insane by forcing him to watch B-Movies. This episode's feature is "The Wild World of Batwoman" (1966, 70min.) - Batwoman struggles to help her recover a mad scientist's invention, an atomic bomb hearing aid, before the evil villian, Rat Fink, can use it for his own personal agenda.

Customer Reviews:

One of the most ridiculous movies ever made. MST3000 RIGHTFULLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS........2007-01-10

This movie is a mish-mash of go-go girls, a bat-woman (like Batgirl), a mad scientist named "Ratfink" and various other stupid characters. MST3000 skewers this, I especially liked the part when "You got my Mole Peoole in My Batwoman movie!" The opening 50's educational vignette on "Cheating" is absolutely hilarious.

This One Obviously Slipped Through the Cracks.......2007-01-01

You know...studios have many, many choices in what movies they decide to produce. Yet, there are times when the poorest choice of them all is the one that is actually made. The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman is about as bad of a movie as a studio can possibly produce. Awful sets, awful story, awful sound, awful costuming, the list goes on and on. It proves to be an easy target for the crew of the Satellite of Love.

There's pretty much no plot. Batwoman and her troop of hot girls do random things - dancing around with guns mostly. One of the girls is kidnapped and held hostage by two scientists who are an embarassment, even to a film as bad as this. They're both clearly, clearly non-actors. The top villian, Rat-Fink, is a fairly decent actor though. Too bad he's dressed like a Mexican wrestler.

Rat-Fink is doing something bad, but I never can figure out what it is, no matter how many times I watch this pile of you-know-what. All I know is he makes monsters in his laboratory (that is, if you are allowed to call a few shots of mis-matched footage from "The Mole People" by the term "monsters") and he clones himself several times over. Batwoman goes after Rat-Fink using a cheap prop for a gun that the SOL crew identifies as a microphone.

There's a pill that makes people dance, and a seance scene involving fake Chinese, and about fifty other awful concepts that went into the making of this abomination. This is clearly a must-own for any bad movie collector or MST3K fan. It's so bad, it's shocking even to those who've seen the worst of the worst. Highly recommended.

didn't work.......2006-10-22

I ordered a copy of the Wild World of Batwoman from Amazon and doesn't work. When I first got it, it almost played on my DVD/VCR television and it wouldn't play on my PS2. Now it won't play on any DVD player.

I want a new one

Not The Best MST3K, But Fun.......2006-01-29

As is sometimes the case, especially in these earlier episodes, the movie can't quite be saved. There isn't enough here for Mike and the bots to rip on continuously; there are long periods where no characters talk and nothing worth noting happens. As funny as the whole thing manages to be, it lacks the re-use value of an MST3K film like 'Mitchell' or 'The Painted Hills.' You'll probably watch it a good deal less than you might watch a triumph of awfulness like 'The Giant Spider Invasion,' but it is worth having because of how easy it is to obtain.

From "Wild" to mild to... I know not what........2005-06-18

While I enjoyed watching MST3K, I found the show a bit inconsistent. For every two eppies that contained a good load of laughs, there was one that had a decent amount of guffaws with a few dead spots, and one that grabbed only sparse laughter. Mike & the `Bots' take on "The Wild World of Batwoman" falls into the some-laughs-with-dead-spots department for me. But the thing is, after watching the opening sketch (which was actually funny, and not just "cute" and corny), and finding myself crackin' up every few seconds as the boys cut down the opening short on cheating, I was expecting just as many, if not more laughs from the main feature...

Sadly, this was not to be, although it started off fairly well. Our beloved S.O.L. denizens were in rare form throughout the first half, but then their goofs & cracks were fewer and further between down the home stretch. And when they DID come up with a comedic rejoinder, it usually fell flat, or was a pretty good "groaner" gag. It didn't help that the movie's dialogue became less and less audible as it played on, whilst the music track's volume started increasing. Ya know a flicks's not even good enough for the `bots to bounce killer riffs off of when they beg Mike to "please kill me now" about a dozen times during the flick's last five minutes. Also a hindrance was the fact that "Batwoman" became even more of a confusing, nonsensical mess than it already was as it led up to the climax. Sadly, "The Wild World of Batwoman" was one MST3K experiment that Forrester and Frank should have "pushed the button" on well before it concluded...

Bottom line: if you feel up to it, give this less-than-wild adventure a rent, if only for the "Cheating" short, or if ya wanna watch "Batwoman" all by itself without Mike & the `Bots butting in. Who knows, ya might even do a better job at cuttin' it down than they did! Then again, the mad scientist of roughly European origin and his hunch-backed Igor-looking sidekick are pretty freakin' funny all by themselves; you couldn't put `em down any worse than they do themselves here!

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