Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series) The Sinister Urge (1994) User Reviews

ed wood

[cindysbox · 10/10 · 5 March 2007]

Ed Wood specialized in making pornographic subjects non-erotic, and he is in fine form here. Ed Wood is the only man I know of who stormed Tarawa beach wearing women's underwear. He got away with it apparently because he was a fine combat Marine.

I'm not sure how I would write a spoiler here, since Ed was singularly incapable of making films of any true emotional content at all. (Things he thought were funny weren't, and the laughs he got were mostly unintentional.) However, that being said, this is one of Wood's finer films. The female lead was actually capable of acting, and there was a psychopathic character who came across as a true creep. One of the nifty things about this film is that there is a background decoration in a character's office that contains original movie posters of Wood's films. I have not found a website that has those for sale, so this may be the only place to enjoy those posters.

As funny as it gets

[ericstevenson · 10/10 · 26 June 2016]

This is a great episode because it's set up so wonderfully. The biggest thing is probably how they have this plot of TV's Frank setting up Deep 13 to explode. It's actually nice to see Mike be considerate and help Dr. Forrester, even if it only just concerns him and the bots. The gags with Gypsy and the pinking shears were great too. The sequences out of the theater didn't revolve much around the actual movie, but they did a little. That's rare outside of Season 8. It helps that this was preceded by the short "Keeping Neat And Clean" which just had tons of great material.

My favorite part was probably, "What you need is a shoe shine kit" followed by "Wear this instead!". Another great bit was "That's no way to treat your clothes" with "But that's how they treat me!". It's weird how I thought I had heard of most of Ed Wood's movies, but not this one. It made perfect material for the show. I laughed out loud at "Ed Wood looks great in pantyhouse!". I don't even know why, I just found that really funny. It's great how they reference gluten allergies long before it became mainstream. Another great part was, "How's Cathy doing?" with "Cathy's putting on a bathing suit and saying, "Ack!"". They seem to do a lot of jokes with newspaper comics. There was also "How do you like that?" with "There's a gay character in "For Better Or For Worse!". I know enough about comic strips to understand all of this. It's just pure comedy. ****