I just finished watching Moon Zero Two, episode 11 from the first season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Here goes the next review in the series.
This is the second movie from the first season that was in color. Moon Zero Two was about a washed-up lunar lander pilot who’s had better days, and how he gets mixed in with a criminal element trying to crash a giant asteroid made of sapphire on the moon, which is, for some unspecified reason, illegal. It’s also a story about a woman looking to find her brother who hasn’t contacted her in a while. His mineral claim supposedly has some worthy minerals on it, but he’s disappeared. It turns out that the criminals have killed her brother, who’s claim happened to be the spot they chose for the crash-landing of the sapphire asteroid. Various cronies attempt to murder our hero and his probably-soon-to-be love interest, but they escape, the bad guys get to crash into the moon riding the asteroid down thanks to some quick thinking by our hero. The girl inherits the claim, with the crashed sapphire asteroid, and our hero says something about her looking better now that she’s really rich.
The best part about this movie had to be the cartoon beginning. Well, either that, or their theme song. I still hear “moon…zero two!” in my head.