Meet The Feebles - Movie Review

Rating: 2 out of 5

Peter Jackson at his least explicable... we're talking a movie about puppets -- nasty, filthy puppets and gross folks in animal costumes. Nothing like a stuffed walrus humping a plush toy cat, is there? Sorry, Robert Smigel, but Jackson beats you by being years ahead of your TV Funhouse and three times as raunchy ("Do you think people are really interested in... nasal sex?"). Alas, this Chuck E. Cheese experience-gone-wrong (about a TV variety-hour group called The Feebles) is pretty stupid, though it has its moments of sarcastic giddiness. Still, I can't imagine seeing this under the influence of anything but the most powerful of narcotics.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1989

Run time: 94 mins

In Theaters: Friday 1st September 1995

Budget: $750 thousand

Distributed by: Dead Alive

Production compaines: WingNut Films

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 2 / 5

Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
Fresh: 16 Rotten: 7

IMDB: 6.7 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Peter Jackson

Producer: Jim Booth, Peter Jackson

Screenwriter: Peter Jackson, Danny Mulheron, Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh

Starring: Donna Akersten as Samantha the Cat / The Sheep (voice), Stuart Devenie as Sebastian / Dr. Quack / Daisy the Cow / Sandy the Chicken (voice), Mark Hadlow as Heidi / Robert / Barry the Bulldog (voice), Brian Sergent as Wynyard the Frog / Trevor the Rat / The Fly (voice), Ross Jolly as (voice), Peter Vere-Jones as Bletch / Arfur the Worm (voice), Mark Wright as Sid the Elephant / The Cockroach / Louie the Fish (voice), Danny Mulheron as Heidi the Hippo, Jay Snowfield as Killer man (uncredited), Doug Wren as Bletch (voice) (uncredited)

Also starring: Jim Booth, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh