History YMMV / MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie

* MisBlamed: Creator/JoeDante complains on the ''This Island Earth'' documentary about the film being unfairly edited down by The Brains to make the film look more like a weak film, and not make sense to moviegoers. The problem with this complaint is [[CriticalResearchFailure it wasn't The Brains' decision to edit the film down!]] It was [[ExecutiveMeddling Gramercy's]] decision to cut the film down (plus remove a couple host segments), because focus groups complained about the movie being too long.

-->'''Chris "Sampo" Cornell:''' I told Kevin, during a break on the set, about the people who were saying TIE was “too good to riff.” His response was very simple: He threw his head back and laughed uproariously. Then he began to tick off the fundamental flaws in the movie. First of all, he said, Cal, our hero, goes on a mind-bending journey across the universe — and yet he returns [[FlatCharacter utterly unchanged in any way]]. Secondly, [[DesignatedHero Cal is supposed to be the hero]], but his most heroic act is to yell, “Run, Ruth, run!” at one point. Third, it’s fairly clear that both Rex Reason and Jeff Morrow thought THEY were the hero of the movie, and that jumbles everything up. Fourth, the chemistry between Faith Domergue and Rex Reason was tepid at best, and on and on. [[LongList He hadn’t even gotten to all the criticisms]] before he was called back to the set.

** Chris Cornell(no, not the lead singer of Music/{{Soundgarden}}, the site owner of the main [=MST3K=] fan site, Satellite News) relates talking to Kevin Murphy about how ''This Island Earth'' [[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=3210 was too good]].

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Some sci-fi fans were upset when this classic of the genre was subjected to riffing...though they should [[MST3KMantra keep in mind it's just a show, and really just relax]].

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Oh, where to start? The "Waffle Sequence?" "I'm Not An Alien?" The host segments? Or at the end, when Mike and the 'Bots ''riff their own credits?''
** Outside the riffs, there's Crow's attempt to tunnel back to Earth.
---> '''Crow''': I calculated the odds that this would work versus the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid and... [[TooDumbToLive I went ahead anyway]].
** "Mike broke the Hubble! Mike broke the Hubble!"
** "Well, there you have it." "A letter opener."
** "Watch your lips."
** (over footage of the ship flying through space) "They're going 65, so they'll be there in 3 BILLION years."
** "Heil Hitler!"
** "EASTMAN! He came from the east, to do battle with the amazing RANDO!"
** (over footage of a farm from the airplane) "Series/GreenAcres!"
** "I'm too low." "I got the blues so bad, uh-huh."
** "[[ADateWithRosiePalms Should we be seeing this?!]]"
** The entire plane sequence with Cal at the beginning. "Well suddenly I have a refreshing mint flavor!"
*** "Oh, there was a green switch; it was there all the time!"
** Big men sticking screwdrivers into things - turning them - [[MundaneMadeAwesome AND ADJUSTING THEM!]]
** Into the weenie mobile! Weenie Man away!
** The crew imitating Creator/WilliamShatner throughout the movie.
-->'''Servo:''' Captain's log: a bunch of our ship fell off, and, nobody likes me.
** Even at the beginning, they can't help but make fun of Shatner.
-->'''Servo:''' Let's see here... Shatner, Shatner... no, doesn't look like he's in this one. We're safe.
** From a deleted scene, "Mike, did you [[CallBack break the Hubble again]]?"
** From one of the DeletedScenes:
-->'''Crow:''' Ha, ha, ha! Who needs oxygen?
-->'''Mike:''' ''(angrily)'' '''''I''''' do.
** Normal view. Normal view! ''Normal view! NORMAL VIEEEEEEW!!''
** There's an inspired set of riffs as Cal leaves the airfield on the flight to go to Exeter. "There goes a stupid, stupid man." "I'm going to curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days."
** "You're being kidnapped by The Lite FM".