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[[File:space_mutiny_-_orig1.jpg|frame|<small>The poster doesn't get the ''title'' right, and the golf carts didn't fly, but everything else is disturbingly accurate, including the railing kills.</small> ]]

 

 

 

The ''Southern Sun'' is a seedship, a spacefaring vessel full of colonists out to settle a new world. [[Generation Ships|Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground.]] This does not please the antagonist, [[Big Bad|Elijah Kalgan]] (not be confused with [[wikipedia:Calgon|Calgon]]), who conspires with the [[Space Pirates|pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system]] and the ship's Chief Engineer MacPhearson. Kalgan hatches a plot to disrupt the ''Southern Sun'''s navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship's police force, to hijack the ship and direct it towards this system. At this point, the inhabitants of the ''Southern Sun'' will have no choice but to accept his 'generosity'.

''[[Space Mutiny]]'' was filmed in [[South Africa]] during [[The Apartheid Era]] (a fact understandably not mentioned on the end credits - see also ''Prisoners of the Lost Universe'', ''Golden Rendezvous'', ''Hellgate'' etc), which some viewers think ties in to all the pseudo-fascistic goings-on (and explains the all-white cast, not that that was exactly unusual in Hollywood action movies of the time).

 

 

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* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: "Constellation" is used as a meaningful locational term.

* [[A-Team Firing]]: Lea among others had poor aim. With both Kalgan and Ryder's "speeders" bearing down on her, she fires at Kalgan... and [[Stop Helping Me!|manages to hit Ryder's speeder]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|temporarily disabling it]].

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Steve Codell says he'd rather jump to his doom than join Kalgan (or be put on ice). He's just climbing over the railing when Kalgan gives him a push.

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: Some of whom are dressed so scantily they may as well be Hugh Hefner Bunnies.

* [[The Captain]]: Commander Jansen.

* [[Chase Scene]]: Done with ''floor waxers.''

* [[Creator Backlash]]: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to [[Alan Smithee]], but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.

** For an encore, Neal Sundstrom, the director who was ''actually'' responsible for the bulk of the film, wasn't very happy with the finished product either, and elected to have a "co-director" title which was buried in the end credits.

* [[Greek Chorus]]: The Bellerians

* [[Groin Attack]]: Repeatedly. On the same guard.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Verbatim from Ryder as he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|called out for letting Professor Spooner burn to death]].

** It doesn't even make sense, since he was teleported out of the fire by an automatic ejection system.

* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Daughter]]: The mutineers attempt this by capturing Lea. Unfortunately, she's savvy enough to get out on her own.

** The people with the distribution rights to the film don't. The packaging for the un-MSTed version of the film clearly states "It's Hilarious... But Not On Purpose".

** Then there's the whole [[Creator Backlash]] thing (see above). They ''meant'' it to be bad, but still didn't want the blame?

* [[Mickey Mousing]]: When MacPherson stabs a dissenting crew member.

* [[Mooks]]: The Enforcers.

* [[Neutral Female]]: Lea's attempts to help out in a firefight are marginally effective at best. At worst, she does more damage to Ryder than to Kalgan, because she shoots ''Ryder's'' go-kart.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Averted, [[Railing Kill|big time]].

** Note that they have exactly no impact on the plot. It's fairly obvious the part was added after everything else was shot, since except for the one brief scene with Santa no-one they interact with ever shows up in the main story even as mooks.

* [[Parody Retcon]]: Assuming you don't take Mrs. Cameron's insistence that this was a [[Stealth Parody]] at face value, of course.

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Not the actual pirates in the movie, who at least try to do something, but this trope does apply to Captain Devers.

** You could arguably count Lobster Boy and the Enforcers as a whole, though they're at the very least openly mean-spirited.

* [[Railing Kill]]: The [[Trope Namer]], seeing as they appear in abundance. Hell, it even appears in the poster above.

* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: After the final make-out session, the camera cuts to a shot of the whatever's engines flaring as it boosts upwards across the screen.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Ryder mentions an "auxiliary backup system."

* [[Space Clothes]]: An unfortunate double standard seems to be set: women often wear Space Leotards (though some do get to wear actual uniforms), the men mostly...don't. The captain wears a silvery muumuu.

* [[Stealth Parody]]: Again, taking Cisse Cameron's word for it, this film was still perhaps ''too good'' at emulating the films it was trying to spoof.

** More of a parody of movie making itself than the sci-fi genre, though.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Female crewmembers besides Lt. Lamont all dress like [[American Gladiators]].

** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.

** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Yet it's supposed to be a laser, despite the loud drill sounds.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Engineer Parsons. At first the faction of mutinous engineers led by MacPhearson aren't actually that bothered by Parsons' refusal to join in the mutiny... until he says these words which, unsurprisingly, proved to be his last:

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