As a fan of this show from a good way back, I loved this movie. The premise was somewhat hard to understand and bizarre to friends who weren't familiar with the show ("They just talk through movies? Where's the humor?"), but even *they* got it after a while. Indeed, while "This Island Earth" was not nearly as unwatchably hideous as some of the stinkbombs they've done in the past (thoughts of Mitchell still make me faintly nauseous to this day), it provides quite enough camp to riff on (the slacks wearing toad-alien was a favorite). It's a good introduction to the show for people who don't know of it, and it served as an excellent way to get the hard-core MSTies out of the house and into some sort of public activity for at least one night. Basically an episode on a larger screen? Sure, but why not? And for a note of supreme irony, and one which I think Mike and Co. would appreciate, in the theater during my showing there were people sitting ahead of me riffing on the movie of people riffing on a movie. Only in MST. We shall not see its like again, I'm afraid.