MST Enters A Movie of Madness...but Doesn't Blame the Screenwriter

 I AM THE WATCHER....
and I have seen countless realities from countless words, but I must not interfere.

Still, aside from the Ultimate Ultron thing, I wish I tried to fix this universe.

Season 13 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is almost at the halfway mark, and it took on a movie that was almost a Marvel movie from 30 years ago. It's called Doctor Mordrid, and features Jeffrey Combs. He's familiar to horror movie and Star Trek fans. Here, he's a sorcerer above average battling an evil magician named Kabal who sadly is a merger between Ric Flair and Lex Luger.

                                    

Thing is, he's also familiar to Buffy fans. Brian Thompson was both Luke (Buffy's first tough vampire rival) and the Judge (who doesn't do well against missles). 

Here, he's a guy who steals platinum and diamonds as part of his plot to destroy the world. He also has to get a magic stone from a museum, then pour hand sanitizer and Vitamin Water to free demons.

Mordrid gets help from a researcher who works for the Dumbest Police Department Ever, run by a lunkhead who finished dead last in the Joe Piscopo contest.
He also seems to have a boss who is just two eyes in space, called the Monitor.

Would have been better if the boss was called Bette Davis Eyes.
Of course, Mordrid wins, and the police still think he's guilty of something. He wisely goes away for a while but returns for Christmas. You think he'd bring some reindeer, or be part of a pathetic romance. 

However, the best part of the show was an extensive interview with screenwriter  C. Courtney Joyner. He talked a lot about how Jack Kirby was part of the movie, and that B movies aren't what they used to be. Anyone who rents the full version (with long intro, commercials and the movie) is in for a treat. The post-game shows are clearly a great addition to MST.

                                       

As far as the show itself, it had some great host segments where Emily shows how tough it can be to be a magical landlord, and her versions of Servo and Crow try to hypnotize each other. It ends with what would have happened if Kevin Feige chose a different career path.

As for the Mads, guess who's back.

The OTHER Kabahl has decided to get one of the original hosts back for another go-around. Fans already know its Joel, but they're surprised how quickly he'll return to the show.

A bigger surprise:  who's going into the Time Bag to get Joel (although it would have been easier to just call him)...

Now, riff time:

Mordrid wakes from a vision

I was going to play Dr. Strange but we lost the rights to the character and then we went ahead and made the movie anyway.

He wows people with his latest lecture on the mystic arts and how they're better than idiot cops.

Paging Dr. Awesome, there's a call for on on the "Nailed It Phone"

Samantha, the female presence, tries to get to Mordrid's place

Do I hear geography?

He's later in full sorcerer mode

James Brown wants his cape back. 

Mordrid gets to his castle in another dimension

I think this movie is having a near-death experience.

Two dinosaur skeletons fight, while Kabal laughs

Harryhausen and the Philosopher's Stone

There's also riffs on Van Wilder, K-Mart, Zardoz, Brazil, Eiffel 65 and MC Hammer.

Oh, and did Dr. Erhardt succeed?

Well, there will be a sale on brown vests soon. He'll take on Demon Squad, a three year old movie about a guy who battles evil but also thinks he's Mike Hammer. Not a good mix. 
It's like Lycan Colony but with three more dollars in its budget. 

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