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Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Volume 11
By: LinnieGDate: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Loaded with more special features than you can shake a stick at, "Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Volume 11" is an extra-special treat for diehard Misties. Joel, Mike, Crow, and Servo riff their way through "Ring of Terror", "Indestructible Man", "Tormented", and "Horrors of Spider Island," serving up great heaping slabs of comedy and making these God-awful films actually watchable.
"Ring of Terror" has some great host segments (Joel, Crow, and Servo spoof the film's insanely long autopsy scene), as does "Horrors of Spider Island" (Mike, Crow, and Servo reinact the film's ludicrous plane-crash sequence), and the other episodes are really fantastic.
For me, what really makes this collection special are the extra bonus features. The cast reunion of "Tormented" - which features the film's director, Bert I. Gordon, and its two leading start, Susan Gordon and Joe Turkel - is wonderfully funny, but for me, the greatest extra is the MST3K Video Jukebox. The Video Jukebox features some of the gang's greatest song-and-dance numbers, among them "A Patrick Swayze Christmas" (from episode "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"), "The Janitor Song" (from "Teen-Age Strangler"), and "Sodium!" (from "The Horror of Party Beach").
I know I've said this before, but if the show can't be revived, I think there should be another movie, one which would focus on the characters watching "Starcrash".