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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> ]]
{{quote|''"Ahahah, good, good, back to the rusting septic system of this ''futuristic space ship!''"''
|'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]'''}}
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▲{{quote|''"Ahahah, good, good, back to the rusting septic system of this ''futuristic space ship!''"''|'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]'''}}
▲'''''Space Mutiny''''' (also known as ''Mutiny in Space'') is a 1988 legendarily bad science-fiction action film starring [[Reb Brown]] about, [[Sarcasm Mode|surprisingly enough]], a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the ''Southern Sun''.
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'.
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For the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' version, please go to the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S08/E20 Space Mutiny|episode recap page]].
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* [[Chase Scene]]: Done with ''floor waxers.''
* [[The Chosen One]]: Ryder.
* [[Cool Starship]]: <s>
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Sort of. ''[http://agonybooth.com/recaps/Space_Mutiny_1988.aspx The Agony Booth]'' tells us that the VHS packaging claims the film features "''breathtaking special effects from the team that brought you [[Star Wars]]''." This is ''technically'' true, in the sense that the team that worked on ''[[Star Wars]]'' went on to do SFX for the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[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.
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** 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]].
* [[Stock Footage]]: All the space footage was taken from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in [[Star Trek]].
* [[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."
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: This is how Ryder "ejects" from his crashing ship. It's also how they enable Reb Brown to leave a "ship" that's stock footage from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[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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