MST3K:The Corpse Vanishes

This opens with the short serial film "Radar Men From The Moon" which I thought was pretty entertaining all by itself but of course you get your supplemental wisecracks from Joel and co.,..."signal your intent" as a slow-moving space ship jockeys for take off. Loved the space man costumes. But the main course, of course is the Corpse Vanishes starring Bela Lugosi as a polite bride killer foiled by perky cub reporter Pat Hunter played by Luana Walters. Walters got me through this creaking slow boat to China seeming to be the only character with a pulse! Joel does get some good lines in: "dr. Lorenze is a doctor himself but he has no license to practise"-Joel:"making him a quack" and Crow: "how do I know the rest isn't a cockeyed nightmare?"-Crow:"or a nighteyed cockmare" but I was REALLY put to sleep with first season's Josh Weinstein voicing Tom Servo as if he were in a club-bludgeoned trance. I could not WAIT to return to a non-season 1 episode to get my Murphy/Servo back! Joel treats us with a perfect Lugosi impression which, actually, isn't THAT hard to duplicate but still-very fun! The intermission skits were dull as dishwater with the exception of Joel and the mad's invention exchange.I did like Shout Factory's inclusion of two trailers for The Middle Man(had not heard of this and the actress reminds me of Janeane Garofalo) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose sets. My overall feeling for this disc is the short and the feature were good enough on their own to watch even without the MST-freshmen quips and delivery of, but they DO get in some good zingers here and there so you really can't lose either way you slice it.     1/5/10