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{{quote|''A lost city... A cult of unholy warriors... And a boy's quest for the secret of his father's death.''|The tagline}}

 

 

{{quote|''"You know what? You lose me straight away when your movie's protagonist is named 'Zap Rowsdower'. The second I hear him identified as 'Zap Rowsdower' I am squeezing past you and climbing over your legs and muttering "excuse me" and I am getting the hell out of the movie. Only this time I couldn't because I was at work and I'm hourly and I had used up all my vacation and sick time. How about Plink Holmgren? Or Pow Flowhauer?"''|'''Mary Jo Pehl'''}}

 

 

Ruled by the evil Satoris, an ancient cult of [[Mooks|Canadian wrestlers]] is bent on world domination. Instrumental to their plan is a map to the ancient [[Precursors|Ziox]] cult idol, recently discovered by a young boy, Troy McGreggor. When the cult [[Call to Adventure|invades his home to recover the map]], he flees and ends up in the bed of a passing pickup truck, driven by the film's [[Designated Hero]]--a burly, surly Randy Bachman-lookalike hilariously named [[Awesome McCoolname|Zap Rowsdower]]. At first Rowsdower considers turning Troy over to the police, but after Troy helps him to fix his broken-down truck and Rowsdower helps Troy escape from the cult leaders again, he decides to let Troy stay with him. Rowsdower and Troy become friends and together search for the [[MacGuffin|lost idol]] before the cult can claim it and take over the world.

Contrast with the films of [[David Cronenberg]] and [[Atom Egoyan]], both of whom make ''good'' Canadian movies.

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* [[Achey Scars]]: Rowsdower's tattoo.

* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Troy, although he ranks as the wussiest one ever.

* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: Eagle Hat is the center of the Ziox civilization.

* [[The Alleged Car]]: The Rowsdower-mobile, which apparently needs hard liquor to start it up.

* [[Atlantis]]: It turns out the city was sunk because the Ziox worshiped a cheap mock up idol.

* [[The Atoner]]: Rowsdower is a former member of Satoris' cult.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Satoris has one. The badass part is debatable.

* [[Big Bad]]: Satoris.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Rowsdower has an unnecessarily dramatic yell after having a nightmare about getting his cult sign burned into his arm.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''Zap Rowsdower!''

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Satoris gets a lot of these.

* [[Cult]]/[[Religion of Evil]]: The goal of this particular religion is to raise an army of zombies to [[Take Over the World]].

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Killed by the cult in the beginning of the film.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Satoris. Just hearing him say "Zap Rowsdower!" just makes that name all the more funny.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Garth Vader, for Satoris.

** [[The Hero]]: Rowsdower/Troy.

** [[The Lancer]]: Rowsdower/Troy.

** [[The Chick]]: Troy.

** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Pipper.

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Mike Pipper turned into one of these over time.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]

* [[The Hero]]: It's debatable who's the hero here. The insufferable, useless wimp or the doughy, unlikeable asshole, hmm...

** Rowsdower does way more heroic stuff than Troy; it's even debatable as to whether Troy was responsible for setting right what went wrong.

** Meanwhile Troy, in what is probably his first and only useful act, picks up the perfectly serviceable ''rifle'' from the exact same area.

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: '''Rowsdower!'''

* [[Magnetic Plot Device]]: The map to the idol.

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]/[[Mooks]]: The black clad wrestlers.

* [[Old Shame]]: Averted, at least for Bruce Mitchell a.k.a. Rowsdower. To this day he's a great sport about acting in this flick -even though neither he nor the rest of the cast received any compensation for the job- and doesn't consider any of his previous work a total waste (although we have a suspicion that Mitchell isn't returning Tjardus Greidanus' calls anymore).

** In an interview on the DVD release, Mitchell admits to never having seen the entire MST3K version of this film. Would one of our fellow MSTies to the north please do something ''aboot'' that?

* [[Older Sidekick]]: Rowsdower has the indignity of being the sidekick to a 97 pound weakling.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Troy's pretty much ordinary other than the wrestlers coming after him.

* [[Tell Me About My Father]]

* [[Title Drop]]: Failed.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: During the car chase, cultists [[Plot Armor|fail to shoot at Rowsdower]] while he's setting up Molotov cocktails. Furthermore, when they're sent off road down a very gentle grade, they fail to attempt to brake or steer.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Rowsdower is run down and struck on foot by a truck driven by the cultists chasing him. He lays motionless, then the next shot shows Rowsdower up and running with no ill effect. Or pursuers for that matter.

* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: One of the cultists, when they attack the house.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Satoris sounds like a cross between Darth Vader and Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Troy is led to believe that Rowsdower killed his father and loses faith in him. Eventually it's revealed that Rowsdower actually tried to prevent the death. Of course, since Satoris would have given the order, he's still the figure that gets the lion's share of the blame anyway.

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Satoris, after initially subduing Rowsdower and keeping him at bay by having every one of his goons pointing rifles at him...asks two of his minions to leave and kill him, thus providing Rowsdower with plenty of opportunity to escape. As opposed to just shooting him *right there* when he was helpless.

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[[The Stinger|Rowsdower!]]

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