Review – Robot Monster

Even Ed Wood never made anything this laughably terrible. Ro-Man, a guy in a saggy gorilla suit with a space helmet for a head, destroys all of humanity except for six people. That’s no simple task, particularly given his apparent slow wit and reliance on a bubble-blowing machine for communication, mass destruction and/or general décor. We had a great time making up our own dialogue and hurling invective at the screen. Indeed, if you can’t MST3K-ize this hunk of junk, you might be better off buying yourself a pack of clove cigarettes and sticking to art movies. On the other hand, the picture features some unnecessary animal violence (though it’s hard to define “unnecessary” in a movie where everything seems unnecessary), and whenever Ro-Man turns on his communication screen it emits an ear-splitting tone that often goes on for quite awhile. See if desperate