MST3K: The Wild World of Batwoman
with a short on cheating.
Ah, a marriage made in heaven: cheapie B flicks + cheesy shorts + snarky jokes by puppet robots! I can see how it would be hard to stomach if you don't like bad movies in themselves, but luckily for me, I have a keen academic interest in stuff like that. Even I, however, would lose patience sitting through a whole piece of crap with no plot, so the jokes make the viewing experience go down a lot easier.
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman was exceptional for MST3K because it has a limited dose of the campy horror - represented only by the mad scientist with his gimpy assistant, and perhaps also by the mention in passing that Batwoman's vixen-minions are vampires - and instead it's almost like a beach party movie, with some action thrown in. In other words, it was totally up my alley, every element of my favorite kind of camp! The bat girls run around and wrestle and, especially, dance in bikinis, sometimes on the beach, sometimes in a cage (with a rope tied as a leash around the bat girl's neck), and once even with a Beatles-esque band playing the tunes. In order to execute the villain's evil designs, the mad scientist devises a pill that makes people feel good and start dancing, and he drops his little roofie number on the bat girls whenever he needs them distracted. Hence the irrelevant dancing.
As the robots comment (paraphrase), "This movie is like a Warhol, except weird."
PS - I forgot to mention that wonderful scene where Batwoman is trying to get information through a seance, and her spirit accidently keeps talking "Chinese" and she keeps repeating, "There is no one here who understands the oriental language" until it gets stale even as a gag! To this the robots say, "It's Asian, not oriental, sister!" and as the scene concludes, "On behalf of all Asians and people everywhere, we apologize." Oh mercy!
Ah, a marriage made in heaven: cheapie B flicks + cheesy shorts + snarky jokes by puppet robots! I can see how it would be hard to stomach if you don't like bad movies in themselves, but luckily for me, I have a keen academic interest in stuff like that. Even I, however, would lose patience sitting through a whole piece of crap with no plot, so the jokes make the viewing experience go down a lot easier.
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman was exceptional for MST3K because it has a limited dose of the campy horror - represented only by the mad scientist with his gimpy assistant, and perhaps also by the mention in passing that Batwoman's vixen-minions are vampires - and instead it's almost like a beach party movie, with some action thrown in. In other words, it was totally up my alley, every element of my favorite kind of camp! The bat girls run around and wrestle and, especially, dance in bikinis, sometimes on the beach, sometimes in a cage (with a rope tied as a leash around the bat girl's neck), and once even with a Beatles-esque band playing the tunes. In order to execute the villain's evil designs, the mad scientist devises a pill that makes people feel good and start dancing, and he drops his little roofie number on the bat girls whenever he needs them distracted. Hence the irrelevant dancing.
As the robots comment (paraphrase), "This movie is like a Warhol, except weird."
PS - I forgot to mention that wonderful scene where Batwoman is trying to get information through a seance, and her spirit accidently keeps talking "Chinese" and she keeps repeating, "There is no one here who understands the oriental language" until it gets stale even as a gag! To this the robots say, "It's Asian, not oriental, sister!" and as the scene concludes, "On behalf of all Asians and people everywhere, we apologize." Oh mercy!
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