It sounds a lot like Girls Gone Wild, only it rolls off the tongue with a Dr. Seuss ring to it.
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During its eleven -year run from 1988-1999, "Mystery Science Theater 3000" aired on popular networks such as Comedy Central and the Sci-Fi Channel, producing 198 episodes and even a feature film during its tenure.
The bizarre concept of the series was unique, merging comedy with complete crap as a man and his two robotic sidekicks were routinely forced to watch some of the most pathetic older movies ever to grace the silver screen. To keep their sanity, the three of them mocked the entire dud of a film with their skewered commentaries and held the premise together with comedy sketches.
I personally didn't catch any of the episodes with the series creator, Joel Hodgson, filling the role as the show's original host, but I did manage to savor the later seasons hosted by Michael J. Nelson, with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett lending voice talents for the robots Tom Servo and Crow. "The Film Crew" reunites these three goofballs to do what they do best, using their twisted sense of humor to provide commentaries for a new wave of awful movies in a series of direct-to-DVD releases from Shout! Factory.
This installment of "The Film Crew" guns for the 1958 rotten tomato, "Wild Women of Wongo." The release definitely caught my interest immediately, because in all honesty, how can you not be intrigued by a title like that? It sounds a lot like "Girls Gone Wild," only it rolls off the tongue with a Dr. Seuss ring to it. Score one for "The Film Crew" before the shrinkwrap is even removed from the DVD.
The show begins with a familiar skit-style introduction by Mike, Kevin, and Bill, only now we get to see the men behind the machines from "MST3K". The premise this time around is that the trio works together in a basement, receiving their assignments by phone from their boss, Bob Honcho. These sketches are lightly humorous, but nowhere near as funny as the actual film commentaries. Their purpose is like Drew Carey on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"--not really necessary, but mainly there just for aesthetic purposes and to keep things from unraveling.
When the movie starts playing, we are treated to a short narration loosely explaining the plot of the film, and it is downright corny right off the bat. Father Time and Mother Nature are overwhelmed by boredom, so just for kicks they come up with a scheme to play a dirty little prank on humanity. They create two tribes and place them on opposite sides of a tropical island, each completely oblivious that the other exists. Screenwriter Cedric Rutherford really should have come up with a better idea for a script that didn't sound like a children's play from elementary school.
The tribe of Wongo consists of beautiful young and voluptuous women, but the men are pretty much your Average Joes. Over in Goona we have the complete opposite, as the women are the ones who are Simple Sallys, some with caterpillar-like unibrows, but the men are beefy, well-greased hunks. A third tribe of Ape-Men supposedly attacks Goona off camera, so the tribe's king sends his son in search of assistance, and he eventually stumbles across Wongo. He meets the Wongo king and tells the story of the massacre, but as this is going on, he unwittingly creates friction within the community because he just can't help himself from checking out the King's sizzling babe of a daughter. The daughter doesn't help matters, as she and the rest of the Wongo maidens drool over the newcomer and discover that the entire roster of men from Goona are also from the same firm slab of man meat. The duds, jealous of the studs, banish their women until they complete a sacrifice to rectify the situation. That's the gist of the story, as this is the catalyst that creates all the havoc on the island.
Mike, Kevin, and Bill never falter with their commentary, and clearly show that they still have what it takes and perhaps are even better than ever. All of their jokes flow magnificently as if they pull them from thin air, and they often have a knack of saying the exact thing that you happen to be thinking at that very moment, which, of course, has a tendency to make it even funnier. It's also worth noting that the Crew's humorous material covers a broad range from pop culture to geeky goodness, so while some of it might go over your head, at least there's always a steady supply of funny remarks that will appeal to everyone.
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