Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return Cry Wilderness (2017– ) watch online HD

Cry Wilderness

Unlike many movies pounced on by the MST3K writers, this gem probably can't be viewed without the Satellite Of Love family goofing on it. The film is just too awful... and not in a good way!

Cry Wilderness (1987) follows the adventures of a young boy, Paul Cooper, who gets a vision from old pal Bigfoot while he's at boarding school. His father is in danger so the lad bunks off and makes his way home to warn him. This misunderstood yeti loves Coka Cola and listening to rock and roll on his transistor radio. These radio batteries last forever, too, so when are they coming to my phone, eh?

The biggest gaff here (and there are so many to choose from) is the instantaneous switches of locales. One minute they're in a forest, the next on a snowy mountain top, then by a lake and then in a disused mining factory and even on a flat open plain which is next to a dense forest. It's like a jigsaw puzzle that an impatient child has forced together without regard to the shape or color of the pieces.

The gags and references come thick and fast in the second episode of the reboot of cult fave Mystery Science Theater 3000. So thick and fast in fact, that it'll be several viewings before you are done with it. Unlike the slow start to the first episode (Reptilicus), the crew on the SofL dive straight into the riffing and don't come up for air till the credits roll by.

If you are a fan of the original series, you'll have no trouble getting used to the minor changes and enjoying the widescreen shenanigans of new host Jonah and the bots. Joel Hodgson's fingerprints are everywhere in this reboot even though he doesn't appear on screen.

My favorite gag: "I mean empty!" (It's about halfway in when the crew arrives at the animal sanctuary. You'll know it when it happens!)

MST3K at it's finest... except wider!

While I liked the first episode of this reboot, Cry Wilderness is where the reboot got better. The riffs were better, and overall the kinks were worked out.

Cry Wilderness is a pretty damn bad movie. It ranks up there with some of the worst movies that MST3K had ever riffed. Yea that bad! There's Bigfoot, an annoying child and lots of wilderness and that's about it.

This episode has some fun segments. Pearl, Bobo, and Brain Guy come back in this one, and its a nice treat. Other than that, this episode was better.

8.2/10

After the first episode of the MST3K reboot, I decided to immediately watch the next one. I liked it. While I preferred Reptilicus a little more, Cry Wilderness is another good choice for riffing. The host segments are a lot stronger this time. They even had Pearl Forrester, Bobo and Brain Guy! In conclusion, this was another good episode, even if I felt there was some problems here.

Rating: 8/10 (Out-of-100): 78%

Even better than the first episode of the cult show's Netflix reboot, the second episode, which features the 1987 family Big Foot adventure "Cry Wilderness," finds the writers and performers more relaxed with the format. The jokes are just as sharp as the first episode and the deliveries are confident, and the movie itself is a cheesy hoot. Anybody would be hard pressed to find another family movie quite as inelegant and uncomfortable as this one, which itself makes the movie absolutely fascinating to experience.