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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Check in the car! Did you guys leave it in the car?"]] |
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4 | ->'''Kinga Forrester:''' Jonah, your experiment is a fantasy quest full of magic and whiny brats, in which the most charismatic character... is a hat.\ |
5 | '''TV's Son of TV's Frank:''' I'll tell you who was living in a fantasy world--the people who thought they were making a watchable movie! |
6 | |
7 | Film Featured: ''Film/WizardsOfTheLostKingdom.'' |
8 | |
9 | !!The Segments: |
10 | [[AC:Prologue]] |
11 | * Max asks his journal how to make Kinga reciprocate his love. He also finds a giant key, which fits perfectly into a giant keyhole in Moon 13's wall--and which controls a giant metal serpent in the ceiling. |
12 | |
13 | [[AC:Segment 1]] |
14 | * Invention exchange time. Jonah invents Verbal Smoke Bombs--excuses and non-sequiturs guaranteed to end any awkward conversation. Kinga invents the Sponsor Clock, by selling the rights to name every hour of the day to major brands. |
15 | |
16 | [[AC:Segment 2]] |
17 | * Jonah and the bots speculate about how Kor earned his title "The Conqueror." |
18 | |
19 | [[AC:Segment 3]] |
20 | * Inspired by the movie, Tom Servo tries to summon an army of zombies. Jonah the Conqueror sings a song to remind Tom to be a little more patient. Puberty metaphors abound. |
21 | |
22 | [[AC:Segment 4]] |
23 | * Jonah and the bots reply to more fan mail: a drawing of Tom Servo with a massive head, wondering where everyone else is, and another drawing of the whole SOL crew trapped in...mind prisons? |
24 | |
25 | [[AC:Segment 5]] |
26 | * Jonah and the bots advertise the official ''Wizards of the Lost Kingdom'' Suicide Cave play set. Kinga and Max ominously foreshadow that this film... has a sequel... |
27 | |
28 | ---- |
29 | !!Tropes featured in the [=MST3K=] presentation of ''Film/WizardsOfTheLostKingdom'': |
30 | |
31 | * AccidentalHero: Jonah and the bots suggest that this is how Kor became known as "the Conqueror" despite being a doughy drunk. |
32 | -->'''Jonah:''' Maybe he's been the beneficiary of a lot of bizarre coincidences, like, you know, he was fighting a dragon and then the dragon had an aneurysm. |
33 | -->'''Crow:''' Or he was attacked by a forest troll who then fell into a stream and drowned. |
34 | * TheAlcoholic: Hardly a stretch, since wine appears to be Kor's only motivation. Jonah and the bots crack a few jokes about calling Kor's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. |
35 | * AndIMustScream: The princess hypocritically gets annoyed with the statue that Simon brings to life to impress her: |
36 | -->'''Crow ''(imitating the statue)'':''' Kill me! Kill me!!\ |
37 | '''Aura:''' Oh, shut up!\ |
38 | '''Tom Servo ''(as statue)'':''' Oh, I'm sorry, were my cries of pain too loud for you? |
39 | * AngstWhatAngst: [[invoked]] The gang notes how creepy it is for Kor to be mugging and cracking jokes after murdering several people. |
40 | * AntiClimax: The movie is absolutely ''full'' of them, and the guys are aware of every one. Right as Kor is about to face off against three armed lizard-men, [[TemptingFate Jonah gets excited, claiming the movie might finally get a decent action sequence]]--and they all scatter. When they return with a gigantic warrior, he just knocks Kor down and gets immediately blown up by Simon's magic. Even the final battle against Shurka is a huge letdown. |
41 | -->'''Servo:''' You know, that was magically anticlimactic. |
42 | * BadassBystander: When Shurka's soldiers attack a random farm, a Music/GeorgeHarrison-looking farmer puts up a surprisingly good fight against them -- prompting Crow to wish that guy could have been the movie's hero. "Oh, this guy's a badass! Can we trade Kor for him?" Of course he then promptly gets filled full of arrows. "Ohh. Maybe not..." |
43 | * TheBeard: |
44 | -->'''Shurka:''' I intend to rule Axholme. I will need a queen at my side.\ |
45 | '''Crow:''' ''(as Shurka)'' You know, to stop the rumors and all. |
46 | * {{Bridezilla}}: Because Princess Aura seems to spend all of her screen time judging Simon. |
47 | -->'''Princess Aura:''' You ''do'' want to marry me, don't you?!\ |
48 | '''Jonah:''' Child bridezilla! |
49 | * CallBack: "What would [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E22MasterNinja Dick Van Patten]] do?" |
50 | * CatchPhrase: |
51 | -->'''Kor:''' Hold it.\ |
52 | '''Servo:''' ''(as Kor)'' That's my catch phrase. Copyright, trademark me. |
53 | * CelebrityResemblance: Within minutes of meeting Kor, Jonah and the bots call him "twitchy Gordon Ramsay" and "fat Sting", and a later close-up on his eyes prompts "Kenneth Brannagh?" |
54 | * ComicallySmallBribe: According to Tom Servo, Shurka got the loyalty of the soldiers by giving them Vikings tickets. |
55 | * CompanionCube: |
56 | ** The villain's crab-shaped hat is turned into its own [[EnsembleDarkHorse separate character]][[invoked]] named Crabby. |
57 | ** "You know, they auditioned dozens of waterfalls for this role, but when ''this'' waterfall was in the room with Simon, the chemistry was just electric." |
58 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Discussed. When the narration talks about magic and sorcery, Jonah asks what the difference is. Servo responds that [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Sorcery is an inborn talent, whereas Magic is a skill based on book learning.]] |
59 | * DisqualificationInducedVictory: One theory for why Kor is "The Conqueror": the actual Conqueror had his title stripped for using steroids, so Kor became the Conqueror by default. |
60 | * {{Dissimile}}: "It's like ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' without all the fancy, good stuff." |
61 | * EnforcedMethodActing: [[invoked]] |
62 | -->'''Jonah:''' Whoa, a real, on-camera explosion, no digital effects. See, that guy is actually screaming because he almost got hurt. This is a real outtake. |
63 | * EnsembleDarkHorse (in universe): Crabby! The hat that Kinga mentions in her intro is in the movie merely part of Shurka's outfit, but Jonah and the bots make it out to be so much more. |
64 | * FaceHeelTurn: The score takes a slightly dark turn as Simon and Gulfax intimidate/bully Shurka's dwarf minion into giving them the RingOfPower: |
65 | -->'''Jonah:''' This music means [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain they're the bad guys now]]. |
66 | * FingerPokeOfDoom: The gang notes how the inept fight choreography often has Kor killing {{mook}}s simply by shoving them. |
67 | * FramedForHeroism: Another theory for how Kor became "The Conqueror": his "victories" were all a bunch of bizarre coincidences. He fought a dragon that suddenly died from an unrelated heart condition; he fought an evil witch who spontaneously combusted; that sort of thing. |
68 | * FullCircleRevolution: Tom Servo and Crow are convinced that Simon, once he gets the throne, will become just as evil as Shurka, and have to be overthrown himself: |
69 | -->'''Crow:''' And Simon will be killed in battle by his own son, so that the cycle may begin anew.\ |
70 | '''Servo:''' A throne gained in blood shall be lost in the same. |
71 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the final Moon 13 segment, Synthia forms a bird-shape with her hands and flaps the wings over and over -- like a less-coordinated version of Film/NapoleonDynamite's sign language song. |
72 | * FusionFic: According to Jonah, one scene of the film is "a ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' / ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' mash-up." |
73 | * HeAlsoDid: [[invoked]] Upon noticing that Music/JamesHorner scored this film:[[note]]Like Deathstalker 3 and a few other films, Corman just reused the theme from Film/BattleBeyondTheStars[[/note]] |
74 | -->'''Crow:''' Ah, yes. ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', and this movie.\ |
75 | '''Servo:''' Yeah, when Cameron was scoring ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', he said, "I want that ''Wizards of Lost Kingdom'' sound." |
76 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
77 | -->'''Kor:''' Soldiers, be they dead or alive, [...] deserve some respect.\ |
78 | '''Crow:''' So let's go kill us some soldiers, huh? I'm buying. |
79 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: |
80 | -->'''Tom:''' So how come wizards have such terrible aim?\ |
81 | '''Jonah:''' Must be all the extra fabric in their sleeves; throws off their movements. |
82 | * IncrediblyLameFun: "I hope your wildest dreams include rose petals, because that's kind of all we've got right now." |
83 | * INeedToGoIronMyDog: Jonah's "Verbal Smoke Bombs" include such bizarre conversation-enders as "Gotta go, I can't feel my arms!" and "Whoops, the unborn twin I absorbed in the womb is trying to fight its way out of me!" |
84 | * InferredHolocaust: [[invoked]] The movie ends with Simon as the heir apparent. Tom Servo and Crow describe how, ''obviously'', Simon's going to enact a bloody purge of Shurka loyalists, go mad from paranoia, and become a theocratic tyrant.[[note]]And given the events of the sequel, they may have a point.[[/note]] |
85 | * TheLoad: They point out how Gulfax, for all his attention-getting appearance, never does a damn thing throughout the whole movie. |
86 | * LickingTheBlade: When Simon fights off a phantom, Crow encourages him afterwards: "Come on. Lick it. First kill. Come on, lick the sword. Lick it." |
87 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: Jonah and the bots' last theory for Kor's title, "the Conqueror": that he earned it by doing something much more mundane. Say, by "conquering" a seventeen-platter dinner at a greasy spoon diner, or by "conquering" the high score on ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'' at the local pizza parlor. |
88 | * MicroMonarchy: "Legendary magical kingdom, population: twenty-two." |
89 | -->'''Jonah:''' Help me reign over my lobby-palace and 800 square feet of a kingdom. |
90 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: |
91 | -->'''Kor:''' Soldiers, be they dead or alive...\ |
92 | '''Servo:''' Or middle-aged. |
93 | * NonuniformUniform: During the battle as Shurka attacks Axhome: "I've never seen uniforms that are so ''un-uniform''." |
94 | * ObsessivelyOrganized: Jonah jokes that Simon must have UsefulNotes/{{OCD}}, since his clothes are ''spotless'' even after all his adventures. |
95 | * OwMyBodyPart: "My lower G.I.!" |
96 | * PutTheirHeadsTogether: Jonah tells Tom Servo and Crow to knock off their [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt Crypt Keeper impressions]]. When they persist, he knocks their skulls together to shut them up. |
97 | * QuestionableCasting: [[invoked]] Jonah and the bots specifically call out the scrawny actor who plays the phantom warrior as being wholly unsuited to the role. |
98 | * RootingForTheEmpire: [[invoked]] When Acrasia (the insect woman) attacks Simon, the bots are evenly split between rooting for Simon and rooting for Acrasia. |
99 | * RunningGag: |
100 | ** Many, many jokes featuring "Crabby", the villain's supposedly sentient, wisecracking, crab-shaped hat. |
101 | ** Every time Kor draws or sheaths his sword, he cuts himself. |
102 | * ShoutOut: |
103 | ** Chanting the Trashmen's SurfRock EarWorm "Surfin' Bird (Bird Is the Word)" to the tune of the Winkies' "Oh-ee-oh" marching song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' during the march of the bird-helmet soldiers at the beginning. |
104 | --->'''Jonah and 'Bots:''' BUH-UUURR-UURD, BIRD IS THE WORD, BUH-UUUUUR-URRD... |
105 | ** The riff about the Suicide Cavern is done in the style of JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf. Doh-ho-ho-hoh! |
106 | ** The bots make a HurricaneOfPuns a la the Cryptkeeper from ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''. |
107 | ** The phantom warrior who attacks Simon is a scrawny, unintimidating dork, so the guys opt to give him lines from ''Film/NapoleonDynamite''. |
108 | ** As a soldier runs away while the film is sped up, "Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime of the Lost Kingdom." |
109 | * SoundtrackDissonance: |
110 | ** "Something's happening! I can tell by the music! Oh, maybe not." |
111 | ** "Surprisingly upbeat music for a scene featuring a woman being shot in the back with an arrow." |
112 | * SpecialEffectFailure: [[invoked]] "It's less Medieval Times and more ''Medieval Tim's''." |
113 | -->'''Crow:''' He's caught between a rock and a fake place. |
114 | * SticksToTheBack: Kor has his sheath slung across his back, so every time he draws or sheaths his weapon: "Oh, that really cut my back, actually. Oh." |
115 | * StockFootage: Because the prologue was cobbled together from footage of other Roger Corman-produced sword & sorcery films, the result is a rapid succession of people who look like they should be major characters--but aren't. |
116 | -->'''Crow:''' Jonah, I'm having a hard time keeping track of the characters in this movie. We're two minutes in, and I've seen like 90 people.\ |
117 | '''Servo:''' Maybe this is the menu, and we have to click on one of these to choose the story we want. |
118 | * TheStoner: In the opening minutes, the riffers turn some kind of wizard duel into a stoner's get-together. |
119 | -->'''Jonah:''' Uh, Kev, you're green dude. This is some dank weed. ''[laughs]''\ |
120 | '''Servo:''' Can you even hear me when you're green, man? Oh, no, he's gone! That's harsh! ''[normal voice]'' And I'm all out of stoner jargon. |
121 | * SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: "Does ''everyone'' in this kingdom have the power to spy on each other?" They also naturally point out how Shurka is spying on Simon ''immediately'' after a scene where Simon casts a spell to stop him doing that. |
122 | * TakeOurWordForIt: "Wow. Kor's a good swordsman when it's too dark to actually see what he's doing." |
123 | * TemptingFate: Every time Jonah and the bots get excited about an upcoming action scene, it just winds up being another AntiClimax. |
124 | -->'''Jonah:''' Okay. You know, movie, I doubted you before, but Kor the Conqueror versus three wicked-ass demon men? This is gonna be great. Ha ha ha!\ |
125 | ''[The demon-men run away instead of fighting.]''\ |
126 | '''Jonah:''' And I'm disappointed again. |
127 | * TotallyRadical: "This is so lame. I'm gonna go to my room and text emojis or whatever teens do." |
128 | * VisualGag: When a vine-covered pillar is in the foreground, Crow climbs up it to see if there are any treasure chests at the top. |
129 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: The only sign that Kor the "Conqueror" deserves his title is the fact he kills four men without blinking an eye. |
130 | |
131 | ---- |
132 | ->''[[TheStinger Scrying pool explodes.]]'' [[TheStinger "Damn him! He has beaten me this time, Bobino!!!"]] |
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