Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I Accuse My Parents [VHS]
A strong contender for inclusion in a compilation ofMST3K's  greatest hits, this roasting of a 1945 morality tale demonstrates how funnyMST3Kcan be when Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow are matched against a blandly  well-meaning melodrama. The target for derision isI Accuse My Parents, a  typically tacky dose of cautionary "authority" from the poverty-row auteurs at  Producers Releasing Corp. (PRC), in which the errant son of alcoholic parents  falls for the torch-singer flame of a cut-rate mobster. Since the dialogue is so  perfectly atrocious, Joel & Co. provide a steady feast of ad-libs, line  extensions, and couch-potato counterpoint, and this time their material is  frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious. Pointless out of context but impressively  hip against the film's riotous moralizing, theMST3Kripostes (which are  also aimed at a vintage grade-school short, "The Truck Farmer") are especially  refined for movie buffs, who will benefit most from the rambling retorts of  comedy's savviest cinephiles.--Jeff Shannon