Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
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| Directed by | Jim Mallon |
| Produced by | Jim Mallon |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 by Joel Hodgson |
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| Music by | Billy Barber |
| Cinematography | Jeff Stonehouse |
| Edited by | Bill Johnson |
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75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1 million |
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is a 1996 American comedy film and a film adaptation of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, produced and set between seasons 6 and 7 of the show. It was distributed by Gramercy Pictures and produced by Best Brains and Universal Studios.
The filmmakers dub a new comic narrative over the 1955 science fiction film This Island Earth, editing out approximately twenty minutes of the original film.
The film opens with mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester, working from an underground laboratory, explaining the premise of the film (and associated TV series). Mike Nelson and the robots Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, along with Gypsy, are aboard the Satellite of Love high in Earth's orbit, when Forrester forces them to watch the film This Island Earth to break their wills; as in the television show, Mike, Crow, and Tom riff the film as it plays.
The film-riffing scenes are book-ended and interspersed with short, unrelated sketches:
A film deal with Paramount Pictures fell through when the studio wanted to explore the characters' back stories instead of heckling on movies. Universal Studios still picked the rights up after studio executives attended the show's "ConventioCon ExpoFest-O-Rama" in 1994, where the cast performed a live riff on This Island Earth, a Universal production. The film was shot away from the Best Brains corporate headquarters and studio in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, at Energy Park Studios in St. Paul.
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