MST3K Episode #K10 - Cosmic Princess

Wow. Where to start with this one. Hmmm...

Well, Martin Landau, best known for his role as Rollin Hand in the original Mission Impossible series, stars as the captain of a space ship. Him and his crew are out searching for minerals on different planets and stumble across a planet they believe to be uninhabited. They take a space shuttle down to the planet to collect minerals and land in a space ship grave yard. When they go inside, they meet a bizarro fat-Elvis period Orson Welles wanna-be king named Mentor and his daughter. His daughter is the Cosmic Princess in the title, I believe. Anyway, he wants to somehow turn Martin and his crew into shapeless blob slaves by stealing their liquid brain matter and putting it into glass Otter Pop tubes. This is supposed to save his world from being destroyed by volcanoes and make the world reborn into a new world.

Somehow, Martin and his crew see a group of slaves working away under the surface of the planet. Martin then realizes the king is bad and tricks him by telling his crew that they should self-destruct the ship rather than land on the planet, making the king furious. He throws them in jail, but Martin then exposes Mentor's daughter to the cruel slavery which she didn't know existed while she's down in the prison, trying to negotiate with Martin. She then helps them to escape their prison and Martin goes on a rampage, smashing up the Otter Pop room, somehow blowing up the planet? Anyway, they grab the princess and race off the planet. This is where the movie SHOULD have ended.

But no, it continues onward. So they are exploring the universe when they find an abandoned space ship. Martin and a few of his crew shuttle off again and go inside (didn't they just learn their lesson from the first part of the movie?). While they're gone, Mentor's daughter gets sick and starts shape-shifting and going on rampages, killing people and destroying their ship. First, she turns into a combination of Chewbacca, the Cowardly Lion and Shelob. When they finally get her to calm down, she then turns into her dad, Mentor (wth?). Then she turns into a dark, 1950s horror movie version of the love-child of Sigmund from Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and Swamp Thing. This is where the movie gets stupidly ridiculous. The people in the space ship (or station!?) follow her outside as she's jumping all over the surface of the moon? They end up LITERALLY running around in circles for aobut 15 minutes.

There wasn't too many jokes in this episode, although for more than the first half, they were all pretty funny and were centered around Dairy Queen. It was interesting to see MST3K so early along, it definitely changed so much through the years. I think it definitely got funnier as time went on. Definitely worth watching though, pretty good episode for such a mind-blowing horrible film.