MST3K 911: Devil Fish
Nov. 14th, 2010 06:07 pmI now have my copy of the latest Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD set (complete with Gypsy figure, although I haven't taken it out of the box, just as I haven't taken the Crow T. Robot or Tom Servo figures out of their boxes yet), and to get started with I've watched not the earliest episode in the set, but the latest. "Devil Fish" might be thought of as a Jaws ripoff (to stand among all the other ripoffs the series covered over the years), if a late-by-some-standards one. The "riffing" doesn't dwell too much on this (beyond "A human! We've got to close the oceans!" and "They simply played the Jaws theme backwards."), perhaps instead pointing out how "European" the actors are, but in some ways the special lack of quality of the movie stands very much on its own.
( 'You know, you shoot scuba diving in slow motion you can actually go back in time.' )
( 'Minor boat inconveniences, splayed across the screen!' )