 416 - FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE
Genre: Low Budget Space Travel Sci-Fi
(1956, B&W)
Synopsis: Scientists discover a moon around Jupiter, so, naturally, five guys in a V2 rocket that’s controlled by only two levers are immediately sent to explore this new moon.
The rocket guys soon are in the “obligatory danger scene” when their rocket runs into a shower of space popcorn, but through careful pushing of the all-powerful two levers, they are able to escape harm.
When rocket guys get to the newly discovered Jupiter moon, they are so full of the spirit of adventure in being able to explore a new world that the first thing they do is... sit around and smoke some cigarettes.
After smoking a pack or two, they finally decide to get out and actually look around.
And what they see is that this new world looks remarkable like a national park.
The five guys next wander around and save a beautiful woman from some Really Ugly Guy.
Two of the guys are then lead by the woman to a Compound called “New Atlantis”
that’s full of beautiful women in short skirts who like to prance about to the
Polovtsian Dances by Borodin.
The compound also has one Really Old Guy who likes to point to a picture of his late grandma and tell the guys how she was a real hot mama in her day.
Anyway, the two men are taken prisoner and locked in different rooms to sit around and smoke cigarettes between visits from some of the women.
Down to just their last few cigarettes, the two guys then escape their rooms by moving furniture around.
Meanwhile, the other three rocket guys who have been locked out of the Compound finally dig their way in and are captured by the women, who tie them up for some sort of ceremony that basically looks like a sorority hazing with fire, chanting, and a lame interpretive dance.
Somehow the Really Ugly Guy gets inside the Compound and kills the Really Old Guy.
He then crashes the hazing party and the rocket guys save the women from the Really Ugly Guy
by blasting him into an open fire.
Now that they are heroes, the rocket guys are released and take off to return to Earth with one of the woman in tow, but they promise to return someday. (Boy, I hope not!)
Don’s Review: If the title alone
wasn’t proof enough that this Cy Roth production would be a lame movie, the opening scene inside an observatory soon provided it – the sound is so poorly recorded that, not only do the
actor’s voices sound distant and
echoey, you can clearly heard the traffic noise outside (Servo makes a great riff about this).
This extremely lame film is infamous for padding, padding, and more padding.
There are long scenes of the men running and running, or of the men sitting around for long stretches of time just lazily smoking cigarettes.
It all reduces the Bots to tears. The riffing on this was pretty good but not standout. And the host segments feature
Crow’s dark double Timmy in a running skit that at first
doesn’t seen to be going anywhere, but ends in a humorous spoof of
the movie Aliens (although was Servo supposed to be the cocooned boy in a scene from that movie, or Avocado Man from
Robot Holocaust?). Overall, this is a
good, though unexceptional, episode.
Don’s Rating: 
Related Link:
(1) Mighty Jack’s MST3K Review (Episode Review)
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