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Summary: Hilarious
Comment: What a great show...I wish they still made them. Check out any MST3K videos you can get your hands on!
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Summary: Skip "Catching Trouble" and the rest is great!
Comment: It's hard for me to decide whether I like this or Volume 1 better....I must say that I have to fast forward through "Catching Trouble"...too disturbing, can't stand the people trapping the animals...but after that it's just great. "Last Clear Chance" is probably my favorite: The local neighborhood policeman comes to visit the family farm and lectures Junior about the dangers of driving recklessly...but older brother doesn't listen! "What to Do on a Date" and "The Days of Our Years" (another Union Pacific morality gem about how carelessness might just ruin your life) come pretty close. "A Day at the Fair" and "Keeping Clean" are somewhat strange, but still relatively good. I just wish Volume 3 could have kept up the momentum!
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Summary: Short of perfection
Comment: The MST3K gang makes fun of old eduacation and propaganda clips. Humor ensues. Whether you're a fan or not, if you appreciate cracking jokes at outrageously stupid short films, this movie is for you. And when it incorporates several different films, it manages to keep your attention longer, and therefore keep you laughing longer. The first few films are kind of low-quality, but the video gradually gets better and better until reaching the grand finale, one of the funniest clips in the entire Shorts volume. Now Shorts Volume 1 is much better than this, but Volume 2 is still a wonderful installment in the series. Better than most of the feature-length films. Definitely worth your time and money.
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Summary: Entertainment 1000 times over
Comment: I don't know how many times I have watched Shorts 2, but it certainly recommended by me. All our friends want us to put it in when they come over and I laugh every time, even when I know what's coming. Definitely get this if you love humor and the cleverness and wit of Joel, Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo!
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Summary: More classic MST3K shorts (by darkgenius)
Comment: MST3K Shorts Volume 2 gives us 6 more classic short features with our hilarious friends on the Satellite of Love. It is a little shorter than Volume 1, coming in at around 82 minutes in length, and its contents rate a little lower than the gems featured on its predessessor, but it still delivers one laugh after another. Catching Trouble is a little problematic in that it features man's inhumanity toward animals, but Joel and the Bots not only apologize for the actions of Ross the animal trapper, their jokes are directed at him and his rather indecent activities. Basically, we watch Ross (whom the male narrator keeps creepily referring to as "my boy friend Ross") and his Indian guide capture a bobcat, two bear cubs, and three rattlesnakes in the Everglades. Rounding up snakes is one thing, but manhandling a bobcat and kidnapping two young bear cubs is something else. Joel and the Bots succeed in making Ross look the fool, though, which is this short's saving grace. What To Do on a Date is one of my favorite MST3K shorts; the title alone tells you how much fun Joel, Tom, and Crow are going to have with this one. Throw in a real goof like Nick, and you've got classic comedy. In case you are wondering, the whole point of the film's suggestions seems to consist of never allowing a couple to be alone together for a single moment. A Day at the Fair is, predictably, the story of a day at the fair. In the cattle-judging contest, the blue ribbon goes to a girl, at which point Crow unleashes the great line, "The cows are furious!" Keeping Clean is not as funny as it is weird. Apparently, 12-year old kids had to be shown step by step how to take showers and get dressed. The short is basically a how-to guide for becoming anally retentive about grooming, and a kid would spend hours every day trying to do everthing the short tells them to do. Of course, it could be that the narrator just enjoyed watching a boy shower; he seemed just a little bit too interested in children's underwear, too. The most striking things in this short are the sweeping claims the narrator makes--being super-clean is important for your health and the health of those around you, but more than that, good appearance helps you get along with others. Conformity must have ruled the day in 50s elementary schools.
Then we come to two shorts produced by Union Pacific Railroad. They remind me of those safety films we had to watch in elementary school, the ones that tried to scare you to death. "Last Clear Chance" shows you what happens when you ignore traffic signs and signals (trains and convertibles just don't mix), while "The Days of Our Years" features death, maiming, and disfigurement. It's pretty depressing stuff, but the stories are so overdramatic and overdone that Mike and the Bots have no trouble injected lots of laughs into the experience.
What To Do on a Date is certainly a short you don't want to miss, but it's the only real classic on here. It would have been nice to have Crow or Mike "host" this volume the way Servo hosted volume 1, but the lack of a host doesn't detract from the shorts themselves. MSTies can't go wrong with any of these shorts collections.
