K10 - Cosmic Princess

Observation: This features the first of many 'Land of Dairy Queen' references.

Movie Description: Not really a movie, but two episodes of the show Space: 1999 from 1975. Two episodes equals two plots: First, in a Star Trek Voyager like start, our heroes, who are drifting around the galaxy with Earth's moon as their spaceship are out of the precious mineral McGuffin. They find a planet that an evil guy and his innocent but naive daughter (the titular Cosmic Princess I imagine) control, complications ensue, and then do explosions. Second episode: Two, two plots for the price of one half. In the main one, the shape-shifting Princess girl keeps turning into various monsters and even though she just joined the cast, they do everything they can not to kill her. Oh, also given five minutes is something about the commander getting lost in a worm hole or something to that effect. Who cares?

Movie review: Remember that episode of Star Trek where a planet holds them hostage and Kirk threatens to blow up the ship instead? Or that episode of Next Generation where one of the crew has terrible dreams and gets taken over by some alien creature? Yeah, this is like one of both of those. Only more talky than Next Generation and cheesier than Trek the original. I can see why Star Wars was such a kick in the butt to sci-fi when it came out if THIS was the best they had. I'm sure this thing has its fans, but I am certainly not one of them.
4/10

Riffing: Crow was on fire in this episode! Usually when I take notes about my favorite riff, they're almost all Joel or Josh, today, Crow was pitching a shut out. Sadly, the other two didn't quite have too much to contribute as this movie, at least the first episode, was far far too talky and didn't leave a lot of breathing room. Both of them resorted to the 'explain what just happened' kind of riff, which get tiresome after awhile. There was some cute interplay between the three of them in the second half though.
Best riff: I think the prop department *just* ran out of money.
4/10

Sketches: Well, two firsts, both positive. The second movie break featured the first time one of the sketches made me laugh out loud and the first time Tom's head falls off. Not only does it fall off, but it continues to fall off, even as he enters the theater. I love the super low budget feel of these things. I do believe that the first break has the most easily dated sketch I've ever seen as not only do they talk about the brand new 'black Carson' (Arsenio Hall) but talk about the Super Bowl game that was on at the same time. I wonder if this was live?
4/10

Overall: Well, I gave every category a four, so in the spirit of fairness and brevity...
4/10

What I learned: It's cold in Minnesota, (duh) because the Time/Temp thing that shows up in the bottom of the screen on these has yet to rise above 40.