Meet the Feebles (DVD)

Meet the Feebles is one of those highly original films you don't come across all too often, all the characters are puppets! The plot is pretty simple, there is a show on television titled "The Feebles Variety Hour", the cast and crew for the show are planning for an upcoming live show with the hopes that it will boost the show's popularity. During this time there is tension between the producer, a drug dealing walrus, and one of the stars of the show, a slightly overweight pink hippo. Apparently there used to be some relationship between the two that has deteriorated, now the walrus prefers a slim petite pussycat rather than hippo. Other ...

Meet The Feebles is a Peter Jackson film, so if you've seen his others, (Bad Taste, Braindead) you may know what to expect. The cover states "The adult puppet movie with something to offend everyone." That is very accurate. The Feebles are a group of all singing all dancing puppets who have their own weekly TV show. Off camera though, things are not quite so fun. Thers a hippo, who is a Ms Piggy type character, shes the star of the of the show. Her husband, Bletch, whos a sealion type thing, is cheating on her with a cat. Sounds strange? Well it gets worse, theres drug dealing, cocaine snorting, murders, sexual transmitted ...

When you think of a puppet film you most people will think of a muppet film or something for children but others, who have seen meet the feebles will probably think in a very different way. Meet the Feebles is all about the cast of the feeble varitey hour, that get massacred and show them preparing for their big tv show. The show stars Heidi the Hippo and along with her they are other people like Harry the Rabbit, Wynyard the frog and the newest addition Robert (Wobert) the hedgehog. The show it's self seems like a nice family show but what happens backstage is not for kids. Heidi's boyfriend Bletch, a seal is having an affair with a siamese ...