Meet the Feebles
“Welcome to the jungle!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 68, rated by 1 admin.
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A puppet variety show prepares to go on air while its performers collapse into addiction, betrayal and spectacular bodily misconduct. Peter Jackson's deliberate gross-out comedy spends impressive practical ingenuity on making every backstage problem worse. Absolutely not an invitation to bring the children.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 7/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 8/10
- Rewatchability
- 7/10
“The puppet show has developed every possible human-resources emergency.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 68
Synopsis and movie facts
Heidi the Hippo, star of 'The Feebles Variety Hour', discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the big show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, Vietnam flashbacks, drug dealing, and murder.
- Released
- 1989
- Directed by
- Peter Jackson
- Running time
- 93 min
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 Harry / Dennis / Abi Bargwan / Mr. Big / Pekingese / others (voice) (uncredited)
- 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 (uncredited)
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 8216. Review uses a different release year; the catalogue follows the canonical TMDB release date.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review details the deliberately obscene puppet satire and inventive grotesque set-pieces.
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