Extra Terrestrial Visitors

With the above quote, Dr. Forrester began the MST3K showing of this really awful and really foggy remake of ET. This is film at its worst. A bunch of underdeveloped and unappealing people who behave in totally illogical ways in a heavily contrived plot (if it can be called a plot) are attacked by a really, really, really ridiculous looking monster from space who "isn't really evil", he just kills everyone he meets. The first fifteen minutes of the movie is just a bunch of meaningless, random, unexplained stuff that happens. The rest of the movie is just . . . exactly the same thing but you know who everyone is. The film is dominated by a sickeningly chauvinistic pop singer and the most annoying little boy on the planet. Also, the opening and ending credits feature monsters and actors who never appear in the movie. Always a bad sign. Despite being a really dull and confusing monster movie, the film is saved (almost) by one of the best MST3K riffing sessions every. Personally this is my favorite Mystery Science Theater movie. But to watch it on its own would be a painful experience.