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Moon Zero Two

From MST3K

111 - Moon Zero Two
Air Date February 1990
Movie Director Roy Ward Baker
Year 1969
Cast James Olson, Catherine Von Schell, Adrienne Corri, Warren Mitchell
Preceded by 110 - Robot Holocaust
Followed by 112 - Untamed Youth

Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

Imagine what would happen if Rowan and Martin were hired to film a Maverick episode using sets from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Well, Moon Zero Two is even worse than that.

What passes for a plot exists only to tie together such a series of 60s era cliches as would leave even Peter Max scratching his head and thinking it all a bit much.

When you see a group of implausibly attired and impossibly vacuous models playing "MOON"-opoly with a purple-shirted eye-patched bearded and ugly bad guy (the 'Baron') in a scene that makes James Bond's villains look realistic, you'll just shrug your shoulders and say, "It figures."

By the time dancers appear on stage wearing cowboy hats the size of Volkswagen Beetles, you'll be long past the point of caring.

The plot, such as it is, revolves around a down on his luck captain Kemp (a limp haired goob who was the first man on Mars, or so goes his backstory), anyway, the extravagantly foreheaded Kemp is hired by the Baron to crash an asteroid into the far side of the moon--provided he makes it look like an accident. Meanwhile, the Baron has also made a miner on the far side of the moon disappear in what appears to be an accident. Will these two plots collide? Of course they will. Will the denouement be paint-by-numbers and flavorless? Of course it will.

The movie's soundtrack? It's brassy, but not in a good way. No, no, no, certainly not in a good way. If Herb Alpert heard this soundtrack, he'd probably take his trumpet out to the driveway and back his car over it.

Information

Moon Zero Two was directed by Roy Ward Baker, who also made a number of pictures for Hammer Films, including the respected sci-fi cult film Quatermass and the Pit.[1]

The Episode

Host Segments

Invention Exchange:

Joel - drive-by food (a step beyond drive-thru, food is teleported directly into your stomach)

Mads - celebrity mouth-to-mouth toothpaste (toothpaste tubes have doll's heads that represent celebrities who puke toothpaste onto your toothbrush)

Segment Two: Joel and the bots put on a play about the first moon landing

Segment Three: Games from futuristic outer space (like Moonopoly)

Segment Four: Crow and Tom argue about which woman in the movie is more attractive. Joel makes them fight it out in zero gravity

Ending Segment: Joel and the bots name good things and bad things about the movie. Then Joel reads a letter

Obscure References

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