For every big summer hit film out there there's always a cheaply done knock off by The Asylum however they weren't the only ones that would do those types of movies. As the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today spotlights a film that was made by Full Moon Features and that is a knock off of the Doctor Strange character and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the crew of the satellite of love tackle a bad knock off movie with the episode in question being called simply just "Doctor Mordrid" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is Kinga and Max have to get a host from the past while Emily and the bots have to try and survive the latest bad movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as even tho the plots of this show are usually pretty thin at best the plot of this episode did a good enough job of advancing the overall plot of the season despite it not really being focused on all that much which is pretty in keeping with this show but at the same time given that this is an important episode for this season it would have made more sense if they did focus a bit more on the plot of this season instead of only bringing it up once or twice which is also an issue with alot of the episodes from this season and it's not something that's just an issue with this episode but at the same time tho if this episode did put more focus on the plot of the season then it would mean that it would get in the way of them making jokes about this bad movie which is what alot of people myself included came to this show to see and while it would have been nice to have more of a stronger focus on the plot in this episode when push comes to shove having a weaker plot would mean getting more jokes which is something that this show is all about having with the plot of this episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is this episodes writer Emily Marsh as Emily Connor and Kelsey Ann Brady as The Voice Of Crow. Also starring in this episode is Conor McGiffin as The Voice Of Tom Servo , this episodes writer Yvonne Freese as The Voice Of GPC 2 , Baron Vaughn as Dr. Kabahl , The Guld creator and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog star Felicia Day as Kinga Forrester , King Of Queens star Patton Oswalt as Max , Joel Hodgson as Ardy and J. Elvis Weinstein as Dr. Erhardt.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that' actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which is something that's true for alot of this shows acting as well as this show has always had some pretty decent acting in it which while granted this episodes actors won't ever be as good as say Scrubs for example but for what is meant to be low rent comedy show where not alot of the actors are professional actors the very face that we get good acting in it at all is a miracle in it's own right made even more so when you take into account that alot of this episodes actors only started playing their respective roles in this very season of the show and yet all of this episodes performances are just as fun and just as goofy as you'd want from a show like this one in the first place as this is a show that really doesn't demand good acting in it as having just passable acting would be more then enough for this show and it's one that works well enough for this episode as well with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
While this show is none for making fun of bad movies what it's not really that well known for is for making a ton of references. As just in the first few minuets of the actual movie alone there's more then a handful of references which is a bit beneath this show as while yes they do make references to other things in the past it was usually done in a smart and clever way and yet in this episode they just straight up yell what the reference is and while making references to something can be seen as being funny what made this show work so well was it's wordplay and the fact that they were saying things at the movie that us the audience would never say with the one bright spot during this films many references is the fact that Emily Marsh herself is pretty funny and if she did choose a career in comedy she very easily could be a big thing in comedy as se just has a wicked and quick sense of humor and while she herself does make alot of the references in this episode she does at least balance them out and space them out a bit so that it's not happening all the time where as with the actors playing Crow and Tom it's something that they do alot of the time and that is something that there characters would never do as they both are meant to have a really sarcastic sense of humor and making a reference to say Blackadder and The Flintstones does go against that even if it really does remind people that The Flintstones and Blackadder was once a thing it still would have been nice if they did tone down on the pop culture references or space them out alot more better then what they do because as things are it makes it look like that the only jokes in this episode are just pop culture references and really nothing more then that.
As you can all no doubt work out just from the title of the movie and the films poster Doctor Mordrid is actually a knock off of the Doctor Strange character. With the film even starting out life as a Doctor Strange movie before Full Moon Features lost the rights to the character when this film was in the pre-production stage but instead of cancelling the film all together they instead chose to carry on with the film and only make very small very minor changes to the films script to avoid any legal troubles hence why this film comes off as being a Doctor Strange knock off movie which makes you wonder if the film is this bad and weird as itis then imagine just how bad and weird it would have been if they had managed to keep the rights to the character for a little bit longer as this film is still so similar to the character of Doctor Strange that Marvel and Disney could if they so wanted sue Full Moon Pictures over this film as both of characters are Doctors , both of them deal with the mystic arts and both of them have to deal with end of the world threats and while granted that last one would be stretching it a bit but when you put it with the other two it does add up to something as there really aren't that many superheroes that have a PHD and that deal with the mystic arts as well but at the same time tho if Marvel did sue them then it would mean that this rather odd film would disappear from alot of places and a film that's this weird really should be seen by people and it doesn't really effect the Marvel name in any meaningful way whatsoever.
What would have made this episode a little bit better was if we got some build up as to who it is that's actually going to travel back in time to get the next host. As as things stand in the final cut pf the episode it's something that's brought up at the start of the episode and we see nothing from it until the end of the episode whereas if it was something that was built up a little bit more during the episodes host segments then they could have made it into a running gag all throughout the episode with various guest stars popping in which gets Max and Kinga excited only for the guest star in question to turn down the offer to go back un time for whatever reason which granted would start to get old pretty quickly but at the same time tho if you did spread them out a bit it could be a cute little joke that would then build up to the big reveal at the end where we do a have a returning guest star come in and willingly go backwards in time to find the third and final host for this season which does feel a bit anticlimactic as it did start out as being something that was going to be a big part of the episode only for it to instead be something that was barely touched upon or even mentioned for the rest of the episode when you very easily could have built alot of the episodes plot around that one idea and still have the plot with the rest of the crew watching the movie play out the exact same way as the two plots don't really ever connect in the first place and so nothing plot wise would be affected as at this point in the season there not meant to connect to each other which does make you wonder why the makers of this episode chose to dedicate so little time to the seasons main plot when it's never going to connect to the actual plot of the episode.
While this was a pretty average episode at best what made this episode was it's host segments as alot of them where really good. With getting a chance to see how Emily and her bots act around each other compared to Jonah and his bots who have had more time with each other and while both Emily and Jonah are basically the same character something that the episode itself does rightfully call out at the end of the episode what makes them so different from each other is the fact that Emily really is willing to go all in with whatever her bots ask her to do for them and while the same thing could also be said for Jonah as well he is the type of character who would try to talk to them out of it first before then going along with it where as with Emily she's all in from the second that they ask her to do something which is something that I don't think we've seen in a host before now as Mike was kind of the lovable goofball type of character and Joel was their father figure as he made them and this is something that we see all throughout this episodes host segments and it's something that does make those segments be alot more entertaining then what they what they really had any right to be as on paper Tom doing the exact same speech from the movie that he just saw only to then go into a bad comedy routine could be seen as being unfunny and drawn out but because everyone just goes all in on it it makes that segment one that's really fun to watch as by all rights that segment along with alot of the other host segments in this episode could have been seen as being dull to watch but they instead end up being the highlight of the episode because of the fact that all of the episodes characters really do commit to each and every single host segment of this episode.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty six minuets and sixteen seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show with it really being helped by the fact that this episode really does gave more then plot there to cover that amount of running time but the issue is tho is that this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't focus on the plot of them them trying to find a third host which is something that is more then strong enough to carry an entire episode and is something that could have been done without harming the plot with Emily and the bots being forced to watch a really bad movie as the plot about Kinga and Max trying to find a third host could have been the side plot of the episode and all you'd have to do is dedicate one or two host segments to it in order to fully flesh out that part of the episode and that's really it and while it's understandable that the characters aren't all that fleshed out either as the that characters are essentially meant to be us the audience it still would have been nice if the makers of this episode did take the time needed to help to flesh out Emily and her bots as characters but at the same time tho given that they have to squeeze in an entire movie and the fact that the show doesn't really flesh out it's host character there's no reason for them to start now this late in the same as it would seem jarring and unneeded as it's something that they didn't really do in the past episodes of the show nor in the movie either but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So ow then is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having alot of really funny moments in it and while it would be easy to point to any of the jokes that the make about the movie and say that that was the best joke of the episode that just wouldn't be true as while the movie does indeed make some really funny jokes about the movie in question alot of this episodes best jokes oddly come from the host segments which is weird as it's usually the other way around the scenes in the theater being more funnier then the host segments are with the best joke in this whole entire episode coming when Emily and her bots are showing off there latest invention a phone that has fully Gilbert & Sullivan songs on it and while Tom is singing about what the phone can do which is already a pretty funny idea in the first place Emily is there in the background taking pictures or everything and everyone that she sees with it being her over the top facial expressions and action that make that joke so much more funnier then what it really had any right to be and while the jokes in the theater are funny in there own there's just far to many pop culture references and not enough jokes that can stand on there own without us the audience knowing what the characters are referencing in the first place which is something that does make alot of those jokes seem unfunny where as lot of the host segments are just funny in their own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall where t not for the painfully funny host segments then this would be just an average episode of the show but because of the fact that the episodes hist segments are really funny with alot of the jokes in the theater still being really funny just to a much more lesser degree and the fact that Emily Marsh herself is really funny not only on this show but in this episode as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all pf the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.