YMMV / Prisoners of the Lost Universe

• Complete Monster: Kleel is a barbarian warlord who makes extensive use of slavery. Capturing a scientist from Earth, Kleel is only convinced to not enslave him when he learns that the scientist can make firearms, which are significantly more advanced technologically than anything in his universe. When some slaves plot to take the guns, Kleel hangs one and takes the other to face his justice, which is facing him in single combat while still exhausted from having been forced to walk for several days. During these events, he captures Carrie Madison to be his Sex Slave, of which he has many, ordering her locked in a cage to starve until she agrees to the arrangements. When Kleel learns that he doesn't have sufficient material for his scientist to make nitroglycerin, he orders the slave mines worked 24/7 to get production up. After Kleel's previous favorite slave tries to kill him for liking Carrie more, the warlord ties her up to be eaten by zombies. When Dan, Carrie's Love Interest, arrives with a group of heroes that includes the ex-favorite slave to rescue his girlfriend, Kleel guns the slave down and takes the other heroes hostage as a bargaining chip to force Carrie to marry him.
• Moral Event Horizon: Kleel leaving Carrie Madison to starve in a cage until she agrees to become his Sex Slave.
• Narm: This infamous moment. Apparently getting kicked in the balls doesn't even slow down a machete-wielding fighter, but getting his foot stomped causes him to fall over in agony. And then he stumbles around a bit before hitting a boulder and exploding for no reason. It's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.
• The Scrappy: You know who, but just to make it perfectly clear, Malachi is so annoying you may not even finish the film. He only barely has any plot relevance, betrays the "heroes" a couple of times, and ultimately isn't funny even though he's intended to be the Plucky Comic Relief. When Rifftrax announced this particular riff, they did a fake video where Kevin was supposed to name nice things about the movie to entice people to buy the Rifftrax, but every single time he tries, he can't stop yelling about how ungodly annoying Malachi is. He even wishes he could "slit him to groin to neck with a rusty can opener" and insists that "as long as this little motherfucker is around, ''there is no joy in the universe, life is shit, SHIT, I tell you!" That's how annoying he is in the film.
• Special Effects Failure: Due to the film's No Budget status (much like Hawk the Slayer), the effect used for when they cross over into the lost universe is laughably cheap. The actors just freeze in place, a fake beam comes down, and then it jump-cuts them out of the scene to give the effect of disappearing. It's hard not to let out derisive laughter upon seeing it.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: John Saxon's resolute refusal to phone in a performance (even in Mitchell) serves him well as Kleel, but it does truly make you wince to see someone who was in one of the best martial arts movies of all time (Enter the Dragon) and has to be in...well...this movie.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Dear God, both leads. Carrie is a shrieking harpy for most of the movie, and to be fair, she is paired with an asshole and is trying to be turned into a Sex Slave by the villain, and Dan is just as bad given his foul temper and the fact that he was totally fine murdering people to get them out of scrapes when any normal person would at least pause first before taking a life. And he threatens to hit her after an earthquake makes her accidentally run him off the road. Then there's Malachi The Scrappy, who is supposed to be the comic relief, but instead never shuts up and is about as entertaining as Jar Jar Binks. Wanna watch this movie yet?!

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