K A Miller - 09/28/2009 
My partner and best beloved hates this film. HATES IT. Seriously. He has a tendency to flail about and/or dissolve into a whimpering puddle of jelly if he so much as *hears* "SAMPO!"
Despite this, I've played it so often I had to reorder; the old DVD died. Or possibly the DH chewed on it during one of his flails. I swear I didn't overplay it on purpose. PinkySwear.
My point: I overplayed it til it died. That's how funny it is. |
Richard Stahmer - 02/17/2007 
My friends and I had to pause this movie several times during the showing because we were laughing so hard. We didn't want to miss the next jokes. They came early and often in this one. The dancing "failure" song was a classic. |
Johnathan Martin - 02/02/2007
A classic, the first of the Russo-Finnish MST3K episodes. This movie goes to show that a large group of Finns with harps can overcome the powers of darkness. The quality of the disc was far beyond my expectations; the video and audio was as good as Rhino's quality as far as I'm concerned. Thanks to Cheepnis.com for quality at a great price. |
Lyle Richardson - 12/14/2006
A classic, one of the greatest in MST3K history. This was the first one my wife watched with me and that got her hooked on the series, or at least the Joel episodes. The writers and performers were at the top of their game with this one, from Crow's opening line at the intro of "Here Comes The Circus" (H-e-e-r-r-e comes the devil!") to the final line where Crow expresses his disbelief that the witch was actually portrayed by a woman, this is wall-to-wall hilarity. |
Joel Davies - 11/14/2006
This is my all-time favorite MST3K. Great material for the Best Brains, who get to dig deep into their Minnesota souls riffing on this piece of Scandinavinanity. Some gags never fail to make me weep tears of laughter ("Failure, failure, he's such a failure..."). Plus, unlike most MST3K fodder, it's not really a bad picture. Mega-goofy, but watchable, in a Frazier Thomas/Family Classics kind of way--it doesn't make your brain hurt. Bonus for MST3K fans, search Wikipedia for "sampo" and scroll down to the bottom of the entry. The story was based on a 19th-century epic poem that supposedly was one of Tolkien's inspiriations. |
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