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One of MST3K s best, most hilarious experiments - Skydivers was basically the perfect vehicle for the MST3K treatment, featuring a meaningless plot, horribly untalented actors, and Coleman Francis as the brains (or lack thereof) behind it all. This is truly a classic, one of the best MST3K experiments of all time, featuring the best and most hilarious opening skit the guys at Best Brains ever came up with. Servo is Tom Starshow, but his planetarium show is constantly interrupted and eventually broken up completely by Crow s loaded questions about Uranus, as far as I m concerned, this is the funniest thing MST3K ever bestowed upon us. In later skits, Crow gives himself a double jock lock and accidentally saws himself in two. This whole video is really a Crow T. Robot showcase, he delivers one killer zinger after another while watching the movie, giving us some of his all-time best quips. Before the movie starts, we are treated to the wonderful Why Study Industrial Arts?, one of my all-time favorite shorts. Then the movie begins, Mike cogently points out about halfway through it, Seems like they forgot to have things happen in this movie. Of course, Coleman Francis is one of the masters of making films where nothing happens. He also goes out of his way to make sure that nobody with an ounce of acting talent finds his way in front of the camera. Tony Cardoza gives one of the most wooden, thoroughly unemotional performances I ve ever seen. His character Harry runs a skydiving facility in the middle of nowhere with his wife, whom he is cheating on, the other woman has bad news written all over her. The wife is unhappy but perks up when Harry hires an old friend to replace the mechanic he fired. Things are going all right for the morbid pair until a jumper panics and waits far too late (as in never) to open his chute. Sadly, all we get to see is the guy lying placidly out in the field. The feds shut Harry s little airport down momentarily, but he is soon back in business. To celebrate, the gang has a big shin-dig, complete with such unexplainable partygoers as a Scotsman, an incredibly buxom blonde, and a really weird band, ironically, given the inane importance placed on coffee in the earlier dialogue, none is apparently served at the party. After the festivities, Harry and the gang all go on a parachute jump. What they don t know is that Harry s former mechanic and former squeeze have set in motion a plot of revenge against him. There s a lot of skydiving here, so I can t fault Francis Coleman for the title of the movie. There are several successful jumps for each less successful one, so you find yourself disappointed more often than not to see everyone s chute open. The one good thing about all the boring skydiving action is the fact that it cuts dramatically down on the inane dialogue and painfully bad acting we would otherwise be forced to endure for a longer duration. All this quiet time also gives Mike and the Bots plenty of opportunities to ridicule the movie and every thing about it. I daresay you won t come across many MST3K experiments as hilarious as this one. The Uranus skit alone makes Skydivers a must-have for MST3K fans.

Don t make me stay up until 1 a.m. watching this again! - With everyone s good reviews on this movie, I m very tempted to stay up until 1 a.m. to watch this again. At first I was a bit ",eh?", when I saw this movie, but when I watched it again, I was laughing the whole time! And what was the deal with that guy who kept on wanting coffee?I think I may have to watch it again for old timesake....

Sky Divers...I didn t realize we d go this high!?! - The riffs in this movie are some of the best ever in the series and the host segments are MST3K genius. If Manos the Hands of Fate is the best Joel episode, Skydivers is the best Mike episode. Petey the plane, the big one, the twisting Scotsman, the polka dots of choice, a sky diver who forgot his teeth, the mysterious photographer, Tobacco Worm, piggy back in free fall, the elusive cup of coffee and cigar chomping Coleman with a rifle...all make for great fun. Crow T. ROX! You too Servo...

Why Study Industrial Arts? - Coleman Francis-the Picasso of ... movies! His films are truly works of art. Every time I watch this or Red Zone Cuba, I see something that I hadn t noticed before. It s much less expensive to own a Coleman Francis than a Picasso. A special treat is the short that precedes the film: Why Study Industrial Arts? A 1950 s work of homoeroticism, cleverly disguised by talk of tools and manly endeavors like furniture building. I laugh until I have to go lie down everytime I pop this baby into the VCR.

A Mistie must-have! - Of all the MST3K movies I have had the good fortune to see(nearly all of them,I think),this one is in the top 5.If you have been channel-surfing on a Saturday morning,ended up at the Sci-Fi Channel(the rats who decided to end the best comedy show ever on TV),and wondered what the heck is with the robots,then started getting the hang of it,and by movies end decided you had to have more,more,more!!...then this is the one you must buy first. Anything with Coleman Francis and Tony Cardoza in it is an immediate red flag of severe humor ahead.You ve read the other reviews..trust them. Trust me. You will never tire of watching Coleman,for some inexplicable reason,chewing on a cigar until it is hanging out of his teeth..don t ask why..just buy this.You will cherish every second of Mike and the bots.I m so glad Rhino had the foresight and decency to start putting out the mistied movies on VHS and DVD.Now..if only Jack Frost would make it to DVD!!!