Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Rhino / Wea
• VHS Release Date: October 5, 1999
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00001U0DQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,217 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just shove me out of a moving plane--make the agony end, June 15, 2000

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Matthew Patton - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Skydivers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film contains things that an impressionable young mind should not be exposed to. Adultery. Murder. Elderly, lustful pharmacists. Swing Choir.

Yes, it's another trip into cinema's nether regions with the folks from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, and this time they have a doozy on their hands.

To explain this movie is almost impossible--It was co-written, produced, and directed by one Coleman Francis, who earned most of his show-biz money playing the Man at Bar or the Third Soldier. And was so bad that even Russ Meyer (Russ Meyer! )wouldn't give him more than bit parts. Francis' only distinction as a filmmaker is the odd nature of his editing. Most directors use editing to help move the story along and generate tension. Francis used editing to recreate the sensation of an epileptic fit--people jump from one end of a room to another without taking a step, whole chunks of dialogue disappear, people explode from stasis into violent action, all of which contribute to the general feeling that every nerve ending in your brain is misfiring at once. Top all of this off with a long, pointless party sequence featuring every show-biz oddball that Coleman could round up, a crowd that might have made Fellini's mouth water, right down to an amazonian blonde who's almost a dead-ringer for Anita Ekberg. Alas, Marcello Mastroianni is nowhere in sight . . .

And then there's the swing-choir competition initiated by Dr. Forrester. I would go into detail, but this is a family audience, and the details are too grisly for young minds.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Uh, roger tower. Which way is the sky?", November 7, 2000

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Michelle "Mish" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Skydivers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Director Coleman Francis certainly gives the crew of the SoL a lot of material to work with in this episode. Francis' editing in crazy, as you can also see in another MST episode, "Red Zone Cuba".

The 'plot' (if you want to call it that) of "Skydivers" involves the trials and tribulations of a skydiving school. Tony Cardoza, who stars in practically every Francis movie, plays the owner of the school along with his wife...uh, whats-her-face. There's murder, adultery, acid laced parachutes, and a dance number at the end. It's everything a MST watcher loves to see Mike and the Bots tear apart. The hackling is great, including a short called, "Why Study Industrial Arts?", a mighty frightening look at industrial arts by a few highschool kids and their basketball coach.

I highly recommend this film for anyone who needs a good laugh, a grand guffaw, or a busted diaphram. Get it today!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Finally! COFFEE!", March 13, 2000

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Regina A. Lamb (Jersey City, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Skydivers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Skydivers" ranks in the upper echelon of MST3K episodes. It's prime heckling fodder, complete with continuity problems, a cast that is lackluster at best, repeated references to coffee ("Coffee is a major plot point"), and an impenetrable hairstyle on the heroine. I won't even get started on the "plot." The opening scenes are hysterical, and it just gets better from there. This movie is a must for any MST3K fan!