Meet the Feebles

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Summary: MUPPETS ON ACID IS AN UNDER STATEMENT!
Review: This movie is pure insanity, once again you have to wonder what the hell is going on in Peter Jackson's head, but some things are best left alone. You really have to be a twisted individual to be able to sit through this movie and really sick if you like it and totally demented if you watch it more than once.
Upon my third viewing of this film I realized that I loved it!
Sex, Gore, and muppets, a recipe for cult status.

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Summary: the real Peter Jackson, full-blown
Review: If only Peter Jackson had continued in this vein. We never would have had to suffer the nine hours of pain that was 'Lord of the Rings.' Jackson once had a true sense of grossness and bad taste comparable to that of John Waters, and his name is spoken with a hushed reverance by many gore-lovers; what happened? Well, Jackson got greedy and sold out.

Before he began his sad trek to commerciality, he completed three movies that were cheap, disgusting, and deliriously funny. 'Bad Taste' was the first, basically a home movie elevated to the status of a cult masterpiece by its sense of black humor about severed body parts which was an obvious homage to classic zombie flicks; the third is 'Dead Alive,' an even more absurdly over-the-top zombie parody with an almost slapstick sensibility and a budget big enough to allow several tons of fake blood to be dumped onscreen in the notorious final sequence.

Between these gore epics is the hysterical adults-only puppet comedy 'Meet the Feebles.' Many people remark being very shocked at seeing puppets behave in this depraved manner; imagine what would have happened if Jackson had tried to do this with people. Jackson could truly realize the sickest jokes imaginable because he could always use the excuse 'it's just a puppet.' Hence we have semen spraying from noses, gallons of barf, heads being stepped on, heads stuck up rectums, sadomasochism, anal sex, oral sex, and practically the entire cast graphically killed and/or dismembered by a machine gun.

All of this is well-complemented by the shabbiness of the puppets and the grainy photography. The unglamorous appearance of these puppets, whether intentional or not, perfectly sends up the gloss of Jim Henson's creations. And despite the cheap appearance, the puppeteering is excellent and the voicing is good, so that the characters are quite lifelike. There isn't much plot here; this is basically a satire of the celebrity lifestyle, which is everything but the elegant, carefree dream life we average people imagine it to be. A necessity for all with a sick sense of humor, but proceed with caution; not to be watched with the easily offended or with parents around.