History Film / TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra

* GoshDangItToHeck: Only to be expected from a movie parodying films made in the heyday of the UsefulNotes/HaysCode.

* AffectionateParody: The movie was clearly made in good fun of classic B-movies.

** Dan Conroy, the actor who played Ranger Brad, plays his character as though he were [[CastTheExpert an actual park ranger who got talked into playing a role in the movie]] because he had his own costume.
** Andrew Parks, who plays Kro-Bar, explained that he played the role as an [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously actor embracing what he felt was the role of a lifetime]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: At the end of their fight, the mutant throws the Skeleton over a cliff. When it hits the ground, it breaks up into its component bones.

* HumanAliens: Kro-Bar and Lattis.

* CatchPhrase:
** Seems like it's a day for Catch Phrases! Oh well.
** "Rawr."

* NiceHat: The Cantaloupe People. Guess what they wear on their heads.

The plot revolves around Dr. Paul Armstrong (a man OF SCIENCE), [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Roger Fleming (a man OF EVIL), and Kro-Bar and Lattis (aliens FROM OUTER SPACE), all of whom wish to acquire the rare radioactive element "[[{{Unobtainium}} atmosphereum]]" for various reasons: [[ForScience to do science,]] to revive a [[DemBones mysterious lost skeleton]] and to [[AppliedPhlebotinum power their spaceship,]] respectively. A mutant (WHO KILLS FOR KICKS!) and a BeastMan factor in here somehow also.

* DeadToBeginWith: The Lost Skeleton himself. There's no discussion of who he was when he was alive, or whose skeleton he is, or how he got lost, or even what "Cadavra" is. He's just a skeleton, and he's evil.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs as a parody of the casual sexism often seen in TheFifties genre films. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from a society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Someone asks Paul if, since he studies meteors, he's a meteorologist. Paul laughs, and explains that a meteorologist is a weather man. No, he's a ''meteographer''. Which, if that was a real word, would mean something like "one who writes in the air."[[note]]For those wondering, there's actually a few different branches of science, like Chemistry, Geology, and Astronomy, that study meteors, or in Paul's specific case, meteorites.[[/note]]

* {{Retraux}}: Made to look like a movie from the 1950s.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment / RevengeOfTheSequel: The title.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The title.

* MsFanservice: Animala if you're into {{Cat Girl}}s. Rowr.

* BadBadActing: Everyone. Dan Conroy, the actor who played Ranger Brad, plays his character as though he were [[CastTheExpert an actual park ranger who got talked into playing a role in the movie]] because he had his own costume. Andrew Parks, who plays Kro-Bar, explained that he played the role as an [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously actor embracing what he felt was the role of a lifetime]].

* AgentScully: Dr. Fleming is a scientist; he doesn't believe in ''anything'' but science.

* AsYouKnow: Crobar is fond of pointing out to his wife that they are aliens from the planet Marva. He also likes to explain technology that's just as familiar to her as it is to him.
** Paul actually pulls his car onto the shoulder in order to explain atmosphereum and its implications (actual advances in the field of Science) to his wife, who must have already known this prior to being asked to go out to the middle of nowhere to look for some.
* BadBadActing: Everyone. Dan Conroy, the actor who played Ranger Brad, plays his character as though he were [[CastTheExpert an actual park ranger who got talked into playing a role in the movie]] because he had his own costume. Andrew Parks, who plays Kro-Bar, explained that he played the role as an actor embracing what he felt was the role of a lifetime.
* BadBoss: The Skeleton. It constantly mocks Roger for no real reason, and once Roger outlives his usefulness, the skeleton [[spoiler: tries to strangle him]].

* CatchPhrase: Seems like it's a day for Catch Phrases! Oh well.

* ClusterFBomb: Not in the film's final cut, but the actor in the Mutant costume swore up a storm during his fight with the skeleton which can be heard on the gag reel.

* ContemplateOurNavels: After their HeelFaceTurn, Kro-Bar and Lattis invite the Armstrongs over for dinner, and discuss the differences between Earth and the planet Marva, even though a mutant (WHO KILLS FOR KICKS) and an evil skeleton are running around.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Three sets of people just happen to be looking for atmospherium in the same place at the same time.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire film was shot in color, and then made black and white in post-production. Not for any artistic reasons, just because 50s B movies were always in black and white.

%%* DemBones: The Skeleton of course.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: As sayeth the Skeleton: "When I am brought to life, together you and I will rule the world together!"

* [[ForScience For SCIENCE!]]: Paul's motivation in locating the atmosphereum.

* GreenRocks: That rarest of all metals, atmosphereum, which can do such things as fuel spaceships and bring magical skeletons back to life.

-->'''Lattis:''' I certainly am a normal earth female. Isn't that right, my little space comet?

%%* LeaveTheCameraRunning: A requirement for a film spoofing 50s B-movies. Though they purposely made the padding funny, unlike the movies they're referencing.

%%* MsFanservice: Animala. Rowr.
%%* OverlyLongGag: The scene mentioned in ContemplateOurNavels. It goes on so long that it goes from funny to tedious to funny again.

--> '''Skeleton:''' You must find the atmosphereum.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Someone asks Paul if, since he studies meteors, he's a meteorologist. Paul laughs, and explains that a meteorologist is a weather man. No, he's a ''meteographer''. Which, if that was a real word, would mean something like "one who writes in the air."[[note]]For those wondering, there's actually a few different brances of science, like Chemistry, Geology, and Astronomy, that study meteors, or in Paul's specific case, meteorites.[[/note]]
* {{Phlebotinum}}: Atmospherium. It can power a spaceship, resurrect skeletons, and presumably other things.

%%* ScreamingWoman

--> '''Dr. Armstrong:''' Do you realize what this meteor could mean to science? If we find it, and it's real, it could mean a lot. It could mean actual advances in the field of science.
* ShowSomeLeg: Betty draws the mutant to [[spoiler:the Skeleton's wedding to Lattis]] this way.

* VeryFalseAdvertising: The trailer. [[InvokedTrope On purpose]].
-->Years in the making -- on the world's most spectacular locations! A cast of thousands! A cost of millions!

* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Brother]]: As well as Peter Fleming, they also encounter Ranger Brad's twin brother, Jungle Brad.

* YouLookFamiliar: All the actors from the first movie turn up again. Even the ones whose character's died.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Everything's Better With Trilobites]]

* AntagonistTitle: The film's title is the "name" of the its BigBad.