Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Wild World of Batwoman

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Nothing captures the peculiar pastiche of the pop-cultural zeitgeist like Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K to fans). The formula is simple: subject a hapless temp worker, Mike Nelson, and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow, marooned in space to the worst B, C, even Z-grade movies imaginable and record the results. On The Wild World of Batwoman, they quip through a movie summed up best by Crow: "It looks like they just put a whole lotta movies in a blender and turned it on really fast!" The plot of the movie is hapless at best, inexplicably puncuated by bikini-clad "Batgirls" go-go dancing with guns (Mike quips: "That's 40 pounds of butt in pants with a 30-pound capacity."). The episode starts with a '50s educational short on student cheating that is so dour in tone that Tom wonders, "Is this Ingmar Bergman's first American movie?" In a sub-skit, Tom and Crow go mano a mano (or roboto a roboto) trying to out-shun each other: "I double shun you." Tom trumps with, "I shun you version 3.0 for Windows." The worse the movie, the better and more wacky the MST3K episode; never has subpar art ever inspired such heights of hilarity, and Batwoman is as bad as they come. Which means it's great. Get it? --Tod Nelson

Description

A mad scientist attempts to drive his captive, Mike Nelson, insane by forcing him to watch B-Movies. This episode's feature is "The Wild World of Batwoman" (1966, 70min.) - Batwoman struggles to help her recover a mad scientist's invention, an atomic bomb hearing aid, before the evil villian, Rat Fink, can use it for his own personal agenda.

Customer Reviews:

So bad it's good.......2007-07-26

Great episode of MST3000 but truely Col Kurtz must have been watching this movie when he said in Apocolypse Now " the horror the horror". LOL

One of the most ridiculous movies ever made. MST3000 RIGHTFULLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS........2007-01-10

This movie is a mish-mash of go-go girls, a bat-woman (like Batgirl), a mad scientist named "Ratfink" and various other stupid characters. MST3000 skewers this, I especially liked the part when "You got my Mole Peoole in My Batwoman movie!" The opening 50's educational vignette on "Cheating" is absolutely hilarious.

This One Obviously Slipped Through the Cracks.......2007-01-01

You know...studios have many, many choices in what movies they decide to produce. Yet, there are times when the poorest choice of them all is the one that is actually made. The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman is about as bad of a movie as a studio can possibly produce. Awful sets, awful story, awful sound, awful costuming, the list goes on and on. It proves to be an easy target for the crew of the Satellite of Love.

There's pretty much no plot. Batwoman and her troop of hot girls do random things - dancing around with guns mostly. One of the girls is kidnapped and held hostage by two scientists who are an embarassment, even to a film as bad as this. They're both clearly, clearly non-actors. The top villian, Rat-Fink, is a fairly decent actor though. Too bad he's dressed like a Mexican wrestler.

Rat-Fink is doing something bad, but I never can figure out what it is, no matter how many times I watch this pile of you-know-what. All I know is he makes monsters in his laboratory (that is, if you are allowed to call a few shots of mis-matched footage from "The Mole People" by the term "monsters") and he clones himself several times over. Batwoman goes after Rat-Fink using a cheap prop for a gun that the SOL crew identifies as a microphone.

There's a pill that makes people dance, and a seance scene involving fake Chinese, and about fifty other awful concepts that went into the making of this abomination. This is clearly a must-own for any bad movie collector or MST3K fan. It's so bad, it's shocking even to those who've seen the worst of the worst. Highly recommended.

didn't work.......2006-10-22

I ordered a copy of the Wild World of Batwoman from Amazon and doesn't work. When I first got it, it almost played on my DVD/VCR television and it wouldn't play on my PS2. Now it won't play on any DVD player.

I want a new one

Not The Best MST3K, But Fun.......2006-01-29

As is sometimes the case, especially in these earlier episodes, the movie can't quite be saved. There isn't enough here for Mike and the bots to rip on continuously; there are long periods where no characters talk and nothing worth noting happens. As funny as the whole thing manages to be, it lacks the re-use value of an MST3K film like 'Mitchell' or 'The Painted Hills.' You'll probably watch it a good deal less than you might watch a triumph of awfulness like 'The Giant Spider Invasion,' but it is worth having because of how easy it is to obtain.

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