Warrior of the Lost World (1985)

According to this craptastic 80's apocalyptic Sci-Fi fest, the future of mankind is endangered, depressing and – most of all - utterly CHEESY! Personally I don't understand why this film receives such an embarrassingly low rating around here, because it's hugely entertaining, grotesque as hell, never boring and not even that bad; really. Most reviewers around here tend to label "Warrior of the Lost World" as a low-grade and shameless imitation of "Mad Max", but I feel it's more like a crossover between the Mel Gibson classic and more specifically the insanely popular TV-show "Knight Rider", because the heroic lead character has goofy interactions with the board computer on his fancy hi-tech motorcycle. That machine is nearly too insane for words, as it shout out phrases like "Beep Bop A Loola", "Bad Mothers! Bad Mothers!", "Whoopee!", etc… This is also one of them films that start with an exaggeratedly long introduction scrolling over the screen, explaining that the earth's population was nearly extinct after a nuclear war, one tyrant took over all leadership and created the Omega Police Force (similar to the Gestapo, in fact) and outside the perimeters of the Metropolitan city it's a wasteland of different gangs and battles for survival. But there's one man, the chosen one, who will rise and bring an end to Prossor's (Donald Pleasance in yet another demented villainous role) dictatorship. All this is information is provided in the intro, so you almost start to wonder why you should even bother to watch the rest of the film. Robert Ginty, who starred in another early 80's favorite of mine called "The Exterminator", plays The Rider and he's obviously very aware of the script's questionable quality, as he doesn't have the energy to speak one of his lines convincingly. But, the professional actor he is, Ginty reluctantly does what he has to do and that includes fighting a truckload of crazed people (S&M freaks, mutants, midget lumberjacks, geeks), playfully argue with his squeaky board computer, fall in love with the Wiseman's daughter and destroy the tyrant empire. The script is entirely derivative, notwithstanding there's a surprisingly ingenious (at least, according to me) twist near the end that I honestly didn't see coming. There's zero building up tension, but the action sequences are pleasingly OTT, with multiple types of vehicles (and people) exploding to pieces and virulent gang showdowns. It was also nice to see Donald Pleasance's still fits in his Ernest Blofeld outfit! His character is the mirror image of the notorious Bond villain, only without the scar around the eye. This was a very amusing film and it's really too bad most people only remember the MST3K version.

You could imagine this is what the writers of this "movie" had, because only severe childhood trauma could possibly explain how a story this outrageously stupid even gets past the "spontaneous idea" point, let alone becomes an entire movie! But here it is, existing solely for the purpose of our, the viewers', ridicule: Warrior of the Lost World! An epic of badness in which the well cast Paperchase guy showcases his immense acting talent, ranging from disgruntled mumbling to would be-sexy mumbling. Paperchase guy also has a totally awesome, talking motorcycle which could be described as HAL-9000's retarded little brother, more or less. Together Paperchase guy and HAL's retard brother must battle the combined forces of a crummy-looking villain in the form of a disoriented Donald Pleasance and the hauntingly named Megaweapon. In the end Paperchase guy gets the girl and uncontrollable gagging is guaranteed as the two tongue-wrestle.This is a fun piece of junk which moves at a high enough speed and features enough silliness to actually be worth seeing. The special effects are of course ridiculous, but what would you expect from a MST3K movie? What matters is that Warrior of the Lost World (the title could've easily been a catchy 80's pop song, by the way) is dopey, ridiculous, and ultimately quite fun to watch. And who can forget Megaweapon? What a beauty! Makes me want to build a plastic superweapon of doom myself!Fun piece of trivia for all movie nerds out there: one of the extras - Scott Coffey, who plays "geek" - eventually went on to work with none other than David Lynch! This, if anything, is proof that we all have to start somewhere! Thank you, good night!

Alright, here's how my experience with this movie went, my brother bought a copy on VHS and we watched it. And I almost died of laughter. Some people would say, "hey, if it's that pitifully funny, why not give it a bad rating?" but the thing is, it was so ungodly entertaining, that I couldn't give it possibly anything less than a nine, and the fact that it has the best theme music ever, coupled with the run time on the box being wrong, and another excellent performance by Donald Pleaeance, it was just too good to be true. So basically, go find this movie, I haven't seen the MST3k version, but would like to, it doesn't matter, all I know is that the original is a true wonder to behold.

I first saw this movie on MST3K, and it was my all time favorite. Even without the wiseass robots this is damn funny. I mean, from the stoner motorcycle, to Donald Pleasance as the blue print for Mike Myer's Dr. Evil character, to Robert Ginty's unbelievably wooden performance....oh man this is a great movie!!!! This and another Fred Williamson feature, Warriors of the Wasteland are the greatest of all the crappy Italian Mad Max knockoffs of the early to Mid 80s!