Great, Fun little movie!

In spite of all it's misgivings, MST3K: The Movie is pretty funny, and if you are a MSTie who has always wanted to hear Tom Servo swear, well this is your movie. A few downsides to the film is that the folks at Universal told the MST3K boys that they had to pick one of their movies (obviously) but it couldn't have been a "bad" movie (What the hell? That's the whole point. Movie execs.. I'll never get them.) and while it is shorter than your average MST3K episode (And runs shorter the original version of "This Island Earth" which is the movie the boys riff) it's still an entertaining watch.
Be farwarned though, the movie has been out of print for quite some time and there are certain people out there in internet land who will try and gouge you 100 bucks and upwards for it (as of the time of this writing some knuckle knob is charging 415 bucks for a USED copy.. OBSURD!) I recomend you check EVERYWHERE before you finally open up your wallet.

I managed to find it online for a fairly decent price. Keep your eye out, and if all else fails and your not picky about VHS, get it on VHS as most dealers and getting rid of VHS like the plague.

Mystery Science Torture 3000

Unfortunately they don't screen the TV show here so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. When I read that they were showing a movie on TV about a guy who is forced to watch one of the worst movies in the world, I didn't know that guy was about to become me! Take a bad movie, replace the lines so that all hint of plot is gone, and you are basically left with nothing but a few funny jokes that you could've told better yourself, dragged out over more than an hour.

Congratulations to one of the worst movies I've ever seen half of.

Rex Reason shines as Cal Meechem

This was a pretty good movie for 1955. The special effects, costumes, and sets are high quality. Still, they aren't immune to being made fun of, and the crew of the Satellite of Love picks up on this real quick. They mercilessly joke about the big foreheads of the people on Metalluna and the unfortunately state of the planet with the bald spot.

The MST3K movie is just like a good episode of the show, worth watching, but no noteworthy differences. It's worth having on tape too so you can watch it whenever you want. I would rather watch, "I Accuse My Parents" though.