Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15590 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

From the Back Cover
It's Mystery Science Theater 3000, America's only show that makes fun of really bad B movies from the comfort of a spaceship floating above Earth. Mike Nelson, along with his mechanical companions, wisecracking Crow and well-read chick magnet Tom Servo, make suffering through Hollywood's worst films a breeze. Adding their own dialogue, barrage of witty remarks, and an occasional colorful skit, they next hour and a half will fly by like it were only 90 minutes. There's no ushers with flashlights, crying babies, or women with big hair to spoil the fun.

Ok, so your fiancé is brutally gunned down in the middle of a picnic. What do you do?

If you answered: team up with his brother and join a biker gang, you're right!

Joel, Servo, and Crow certainly have a lot of fuel for their commentary, and the results are hilarious. Parodying a song featured during one of the excessive party scenes, Joel recites "I'm losing my dignity." Perhaps this statement alone can describe Hellcats. Although another musical parody, later offered by Crow might summarize the film: "Mass confusion; they're talking about the plot!" During a strange scene involving a tractor stunt, Joel comments, "Obviously kids shouldn't try this at home." His observation is followed by Tom's, who adds "No kidding, kids shouldn't be WATCHING this at home." We'll let you be the judge! Show #209; original airdate December 8, 1990.

Customer Reviews

Bob Slatzer---- " I never met a movie, I didn't direct."
Oh Lord, where to start, with this epic?? Joel and the Bots, send this back to Hell, where it came!! This could have been used to show just how NOT to direct a film, without the always stimulating commentary. Slatzer the director, probably didn't know from day to day, whether the funding would run out, to finish this stinker. The acting was wonderfully inept, the sound poor, and the director could have been referred to, as " One-Shot Slatzer!!" All for the funnier, Folks.....All for the funnier!!!

Great show, good price
Any review of Mystery Science Theater 3000 written by me is boilerplate. MST3K was one of the funniest and most intelligent TV series ever to inhabit the ether. I am proud to possess a copy of every episode (except the missing K0-K3 titles, and you Misties know of what I speak).

Sidehackers is Better
Much like Sidehackers, this is a season 2 episode starring Ross Hagan in a biker movie. Only there are much more drugs in this one and - believe it or not - much less plot. Actually, it has less plot than darn near any movie I've ever seen. Less plot than Incredibly Strange Creatures even.

Hellcats really is one of the worst movies out there. Heck, it's even worse than Girl in Gold Boots.

I still consider it to be an episode worth owning, like all the other MST3K DVD releases (except The Atomic Brain). As the old saying goes, even a mediocre episode of MST3K is way better than the best episodes of other shows. If you're on a limited budget though, and can only choose Hellcats or Sidehackers, go with Sidehackers.

(On a side note, Ross Hagan's name in Sidehackers is Rommel, and I don't even know what his name is in this one. The movie never bothers to tell the audience I guess.)