Season Five Episode One: Warrior of the Lost World
Network: Comedy Central
Riffers: Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank
Plot Synopsis: The Rider (Robert Ginty, aka the Guy from Paper Chase) arrives on his advanced motorcycle with its artificial intelligence computer Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the 'wall of illusion' and is found and brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. They have chosen him to lead their fight against the evil Omega, an Orwellian state run by the evil Prossor (Donald Pleasence, of James Bond and Puma Man fame). The Elders are allied with the resistance movement, the Outsiders. The Rider first helps Nastasia and the other Outsiders by rescuing McWayne, Nastasia's father and leader of the Outsiders. While the Rider and McWayne successfully escape, Nastasia is captured and tortured by Prossor.
The Rider gains acceptance from various Marginals (amazons, martial artists, truckers, punks, soldiers, Omega defectors) by winning in the ritual brawl which determines who is the strongest. The Rider and the Outsiders launch their final attack on Prossor's regime, but are intercepted by the Omegas and a giant armored truck, called Megaweapon. As the rebels destroy the Omega patrols with their cars, helicopters and tankers, the Rider manages to destroy the Megaweapon by short circuiting it, but not before his speedcycle is destroyed under the truck's wheels. The Rider and McWayne storm Prossor's headquarters where they face the dictator and a brainwashed Nastasia. She wounds the Rider, but when ordered to kill her father, she rebels, turns on Prossor and shoots him instead. The Omega has been overthrown and the Outsiders and Marginals celebrate as the Rider prepares to move on with his repaired speedcycle.
Host Segments:
Prologue: Servo gets to do the formal welcome speech on behalf of the SoL crew, but Crow is bound and determined to ruin it.
Segment One/Invention Exchange: Servo apologizes for making Crow eat his speech. Crow's cool with it. The Mads have created the Square Master, a special excercise mat which maximizes potential. JatBs have Bittersweet Hearts, candy hearts for adults. They feature phrases like get out, still mad, you'll do and weird face.
Segment Two: Joel turns the Bots into a giant slot car set. Crow rules the road, but Servo has some major design flaws.
Segment Three: We see what the apocalypse would be like if the Warrior of the Lost World hadn't got his driving permit yet and was forced to save the world in the back of his mom's Vista Cruiser station wagon.
Segment Four: JatBs discuss what outrageous things they'd do after the apocalypse, after seeing today's apocalypse in this movie.
Ending Segment: The Bots lament the loss of Megaweapon, but a phone call from their hero puts them at ease. Joel reads a letter from a couple of kids whose dad claims to have paid ‘good’ money to have seen many of the movies you ‘rip’ on. The Mads enjoy an active lifestyle thanks to the Square Master.
Stinger: The Paper Chase Guy checks out Persis Khambatta.
Review:
A Mad Max ripoff. Not the first one shown on MST3K, and I don't think it's the last. The lead in this flick sounds reminds me of Tommy Wiseau from The Room. He mumbles a lot, has a strange accent, and for some reason, is the lead. There really isn't much to say about this. It's a bad Mad Max ripoff in a sea of other bad Mad Max ripoffs.
The riffing though was pretty good, to say the least. They did a good job of keeping an otherwise forgettable film entertaining, so you can't say anything about that. The host segments were enjoyable, and overall this was a nice start to the season. 8/10
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