The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first thing's first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called, "This Island Earth." He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. And since the guys cannot control when the movie begins or ends, they are forced to witness the true horror that is this awful movie that has a lobster creature dressed in slacks. But will this be the ultimate cheese that breaks the boys' spirits? It's up to one test subject's quick wit, sharp sense of humor, and utter intolerance for cinematic garbage to foil the plans of the scientist and to save the Earth.
Review :
I really like the show. It is one of those shows that never really had a completely off episode... but the movie? Not so much.
While the show was able to do rapid pop culture riffs the movie slows them down... While the show thrived on bad movies, they chose an actually good movie for this, which further weakens it. And the show uses it's low budget sets to send up it's own source material the movie ended up with a bigger budget which made those jokes fall flat.
It's not all bad of course - some of the jokes still work after all. But overall this is an almost instantly forgettable and not really worth it.
