Space Mission Impossible

The Film Crew: Killers From Space (2007)
Killers From Space (1954)

In this outing The Film Crew take on the atrocious Killers From Space, a wretchedly bad movie made by Billy Wilder's slow-witted brother Jim-Bob Wilder and which features Peter Graves as a pilot/scientist whose plane crashes during an atomic test and who is subsequently abducted by the killers from space who proceed to use him to make sure that a subsequent test will aid in their ridiculously complex plot to conquer earth using giant spiders and geckos.  

In general I'd like to say that The Film Crew does a better job of being funny with this film than they did with Hollywood After Dark.   On the other hand, I still think they must have had some shackles on them regulating their humor to keep them from exceeding the wry smile line.   The first thing that came to mind was the muted reaction to the fact that the USAF planes in this film are given the call sign "Tar Baby."   Thus, the ground controller is forced to pick up a microphone and check in on Tar Baby 1 and Tar Baby 2.
This is how I know that there must be some manner of humor policing going on with The Film Crew.   Because only a great degree of restraint would stop three comedians from going to town on the Tar Baby issue.

Goose:  Maverick, we've got a bogey on our tail.
Maverick:  Is it Jester?
Goose:  No, man.  It's Tar Baby.  I don't think we're going to be able to shake him off.

I'm fairly sure that Killers From Space was not made with the cooperation of the USAF, but I'm extra sure that Killers From Space was not made with the cooperation of the NAACP.
Seriously folks, the pilots' call signs are Tar Baby 1 and Tar Baby 2.   How could you leave that alone?
If I was doing a commentary track on this film I think every other word out of my mouth would be "tar baby."    But that's probably true of every movie I see, so maybe it's just me.

The crew does better with their reactions to the startling extreme closeups that keep popping up out of nowhere, and in fact they close out the film with some fake film knowledge about the "Robichaix" which is the name they bestow on this technique.  

The film itself is so ridiculous that it makes Hollywood After Dark look like Hollywood After Dark.
Actually, Killers From Space is still more coherent than Hollywood After Dark, but at least Hollywood After Dark had some dancing.   The most action we get here is Peter Graves standing in front of a projection of a "giant" spider.  

And with googly eyed space aliens I would have expected more jokes and better jokes from the commentators.   But maybe they were still in shock from hearing "tar baby."   Or more likely still, they were probably still in shock from seeing Rue McClanahans's naked sweaty back in Hollywood After Dark.  Or maybe they had to cut the part where they couldn't stop talking about Peter Graves's nipples.

There were long chunks of this film that made me wish someone had edited in one of the "dance" sequences from Hollywood After Dark into this film, but then I'm not sure if that would have encouraged The Film Crew to break their imperial conditioning and make a few jokes.  

So, I guess Killers from Space is just for people who like Peter Graves (but still want to hear three guys making fun of his movie), people who insist on seeing the whole Film Crew oeuvre, and for people who really like to hear three guys reacting to extreme closeups.  
It's slightly more amusing than the previous outing, but there's something about it that just isn't adhesive the way other things are, like, say tar babies.  

Bill Corbett
Mike Nelson
Kevin Murphy
Bob Honcho...Mike Dodge
Bob Honcho's Secretary....Beth McKeever

Trailers
The Film Crew 
So, there's this thing called The Film Crew (perhaps you've heard of them?) and here they are commenting on movies and one of those movies is Killers From Space.   I'll bet you're thinking to yourself that you'd like to see that and you'd be in luck because here they are right on this DVD.

Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion
In this stand-up comedy feature Zach Galifianikis plays a rogue CIA agent looking for revenge when a rogue CIA agent kills his family.  A thrill ride.  It's like The Bourne Identity, only with a big beard.

Bonus
"Did you know...?"
In the informative snippet we learn about the technique of backward masking and how it can be used to create things that sound like unintelligible alien speech, sort of like Last Year at Marienbad.

The truly great thing here, though, is that if you let the menu run as long as possible the frustrated Kevin Murphy will repeatedly ask you to make a choice and then eventually get off his stool and leave and then look back in to see if you've selected anything or not.   I'm a big fan of the menu screen comedy, so it was nice to see an attempt.  

Outtakes
This consists of a series of "outtakes" of a scene with an alien on a rock with a raygun speaking in lines that were then run backward and are now "recreated"  to reveal an angry bit player who has a beef with Peter Graves.  
"Pissing Me Off"
In this scene the bit player reveals that Peter Graves is pissing him off because he keeps trying to sell him insurance.
"Stupider"
In this scene the bit player reveals that his googly eyes are stupid and he says that the film's designers are even "stupider."
"This Costume"
Now he talks about how his costume makes him look like a tar baby and smell "like a Dutchman's crotch."  
"My Last Day"
In this scene he reveals that it's his last day and he's going back to work with the phone company because the film industry "smells like a Dutchman's crotch."
"Dressing Room"
Finally, our bit player declares that he's left Peter Graves a warm steaming going away present in his dressing room.