Movie Review - Reptilicus

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Mystery Science Theatre was one of my favourite TV shows. It featured selected really bad B-movies which the MST3000 team heckle during screenings, with various sketches of their own around the movies. In 1999 the series was cancelled despite being popular, but 18 years later in 2017 crowd-funding and internet campaigning gained the show a revival on The Netflix station. The fist film to recieve the MST3000 - The Return treatment was 1961's Reptilicus. This is a dire Godzilla style movie made in Denmark. A dinosaur tail is found and thanks to being left in a heated room, it regenerates the entire creature which then promptly stomps over the city until it can be stopped. The army want to blow Reptilicus up but scientists warn that each piece could generate a whole new monster. They settle for putting Reptilicus to sleep but a severed foot from it threatens to create a new monster anyway. Boring in the long absence of any actual dinosaur action bar for an impressive sequence involving lots of extras running over a genuinely opening swing bridge over a river in Copenhagen. The maoin characters are just dumb and unbelievable including one who plays mental illness for laughs such as deliberately touching an electric eel at an aquarium to see how it feels. The MST3000 treatment is excellent and a great way to reboot the series. Youtube - The new MST 3000 opening credits sequence Arthur Chappelll