Meet the Feebles
by Peter Jackson
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Actor: Brian Sergent, Donna Akersten, Mark Hadlow, Ross Jolly, Stuart DevenieDirector: Peter Jackson
Brand: MVD
Writer: Danny Mulheron
Cinematographer: Murray Milne
Producer: Peter Jackson
Writer: Peter Jackson
Editor: Jamie Selkirk
Producer: Jim Booth
Writer: Fran Walsh
Writer: Stephen Sinclair
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 2006-07-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: JEF07707
Studio: Jef Films
Product features:
- Peter Jackson's (Lord of the Rings) twisted take on a "Muppets" like puppet show. MEET THE FEEBLES, a puppet tragedy of gross proportions, relates the fateful events that lead to the infamous Feebles Variety Massacre - a day that rocked the puppet world! Bletch, a cigar chomping walrus has his hands full with his cast of egocentric show-biz stars. When you've got an incompetent panic-stric
Movie Reviews of Meet the Feebles
Movie Review: "The Association was in bad need of a cash injection."
Summary: 5 Stars
This ranks with "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" as two of the best movie musicals ever made.
I've always said to anyone who would listen that this is, in my opinion, Peter Jackson's magnum opus. And I'm talking about the REAL Peter Jackson, not the hired gun (wisely) brought in to juice up LOTR, which it badly needed after Terry Gilliam got detached. LOTR is exemplary fantasy, to be sure. But "Meet The Feebles" is exemplary filmmaking.
No one has the slightest clue about how difficult it is to make a film, let alone one starring only puppets. Jackson's direction is unbelievably clever yet plays a trick on the viewer: you're gonna forget that these are puppets after -- maybe -- seven minutes, these characters are so unique and well-developed. Plus the shoestring budget could only have been aided by imagination, so fortunately Jackson has that in spades.
The draw of such an ambitious, utterly uncompromising project as this lives inside the dialogue and interaction, not plot progression. You want the plot? A chronicle of the twelve hours leading up to the infamous "Feebles Variety Hour Massacre" that would forever shake the world of Puppeton. There, that's the plot. If puppets acted as crazed, stoned, and unpredictably as ordinary people, that hypothesis is fully realized in "Meet The Feebles." And, though too many people cannot help but grimace and make yucky-face whenever someone spits out this title, this is one of the most brazenly hilarious and smartest satires on the entertainment industry I've seen yet. Yes, hilarious as in "funny". Even when the lines aren't funny, their delivery certainly is. "Did I tell you Sandy's slapping a paternity suit on me?" -- is straight outta Liverpool, baby.
Everyone else that reviews this has given you the cast roster, so I won't bother. But the true scene-stealers are Trevor, Winyard, Louie and Heidi at the finale, for obvious reasons. Star-crossed lovers get engaged after nine hours of knowing each other. A bloated "Feeble" producer screws a pussycat behind his wife's back while drug-dealing with underworld kingpins. A pesky fly-on-the-wall extorts a disease-ridden bunny out of his life insurance just to keep his sex scandal out of the hotsheets. And a 'Nam-vet frog suffers through combat flashbacks and hustles his next quick dope fix before his big knife-throwing routine. Oh, and a perverted, panty-sniffing anteater holds the key to the next evolution in hardcore bondage films... These are the dreams that Peter Jackson is made of.
Christ, I quote from this film almost every day, the dialogue is THAT good. Even if Jackson's self-proclaimed sense of humor is moronic, it's probably some of the smartest idiocy ever produced. That aside, yes, indeed the film is, above all, very creepy, very lurid, very disturbing. The puppets themselves look like something split between your best childhood imaginary friend and your worst nightmare simultaneously. (Jackson also helped design the puppets as well as being the camera operator, co-writer, co-producer and director.) Ah yes, the sheer thrill of guerrilla filmmaking, and this is a prime example of it, folks. He photographs the puppets as he would real people, thereby disjoining your association that these are just pieces of designer fabric with human hands shoved up the wah-zoo, or life-sized costumes, or marionettes, or whatever.
And did I mention the songs in this film? They're fabulous. Catchy, simple, stuck in your head for days. "One Leg Missing", sung by a blunt-smoking Raasta-dog, is my favorite.
Forget the fact that what these puppets are doing is vile and degradable, because actual people do all of these things, too. Is this film for kids? Holy S---, NO! Is it an acquired taste? Hell yes, it is. Is it wholy unpleasant and something that can make you nauseous just watching it? Abso-flogging-lutely, people! Is "Meet The Feebles" so consciously tasteless that it achieves its own level of absurdist brilliance through its stabs at all the worst human vices, and can stand on its own as a superb puppet film, musical, comedy, and low-budget creep exercise...?
Rah-ther.
Summary of Meet the Feebles
Synopsis: 0Item Type: Unknown Type
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 07/18/06
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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