I recently saw this film and it pretty good. Though here's a little warning: Meet The Feebles is not for everyone. I've seen Happy Tree Friends and The End Of Evangelion, yet there were still some scenes in this that made me squeamish. It's a good movie otherwise, but it's not for everyone. It is a black comedy movie, so of course it's not for everyone.
So think of the Illumination movie Sing, except it's low-budget, in the 80s, is for adults and is in live-action with all the characters being Jim Henson-esque puppets instead of CGI animation. They have a similar setting in a theatre, but the plots of this one and Sing are nothing like each other.
Meet The Feebles was directed by Peter Jackson, who would later go on to make Lord Of The Rings. This was one of his first few films as well.
It's about a group of puppets attempting to get their own show greenlit, but Heidi the Hippo, the star of the show, finds out her boyfriend, Bletch the Walrus, is cheating on her. Bletch also works with Trevor the Rat, a drug-dealing director. The newcomer, Robert the Hedgehog, falls in love with one of the chorus girls, Lucille the Dog.
As the film goes on, we discover that many of the characters have their own problems. Heidi herself has a low self-esteem and an overeating problem. Harry, a rabbit who is also the star of the show, is addicted to sex, then he is diagnosed with what appears to be an STD. Sidney, an elephant, is having a paternity suit filed against him for a child he denies is his. Wynard, a frog who is a Vietnam veteran, is addicted to drugs and uses them to cope with the fact he left a friend to die in the Vietnam war., and there's a filthy, nosy, journalist fly that eats crud and makes up lies about the Feebles cast so he can make an article for the newspaper.
We also get some scenes that go in depth about the secret drug-dealing and porn movie business that Bletch and Trevor are running. Eventually, Trevor decides that Lucille should be in his porn movies, then drugs her and tries to violate her. Robert catches them, but assumes Lucille is cheating on him and leaves her.
In the end of the film, Bletch reveals he never loved Heidi and removes her from the show. She attempts suicide, but the girl Bletch cheated on Heidi with mocks Heidi, which causes her to go on a murderous rampage.
After the end, there's an epilogue that reveals 6 characters survived, including Heidi herself, who spent 10 years in rehab and now is a member of society again under a new identity.
The soundtrack is brilliant, including Heidi's song "Garden of Love", while the song about sodomy that Sebastian the Fox sings is hilarious.
However, like I said earlier in this review, this film is not for everyone, and is not for people who have a weak stomach or don't have a certain sense of humour. Whether you're a kid who secretly watches South Park behind his parents' back, an edgy teen, or an adult, if you watch this, be prepared if you think you can handle this stuff. This is rated R and not NC-17 or X, but still. Don't say I didn't warn you if anything in this film makes you squeamish, vomit, etc.
So think of the Illumination movie Sing, except it's low-budget, in the 80s, is for adults and is in live-action with all the characters being Jim Henson-esque puppets instead of CGI animation. They have a similar setting in a theatre, but the plots of this one and Sing are nothing like each other.
Meet The Feebles was directed by Peter Jackson, who would later go on to make Lord Of The Rings. This was one of his first few films as well.
It's about a group of puppets attempting to get their own show greenlit, but Heidi the Hippo, the star of the show, finds out her boyfriend, Bletch the Walrus, is cheating on her. Bletch also works with Trevor the Rat, a drug-dealing director. The newcomer, Robert the Hedgehog, falls in love with one of the chorus girls, Lucille the Dog.
As the film goes on, we discover that many of the characters have their own problems. Heidi herself has a low self-esteem and an overeating problem. Harry, a rabbit who is also the star of the show, is addicted to sex, then he is diagnosed with what appears to be an STD. Sidney, an elephant, is having a paternity suit filed against him for a child he denies is his. Wynard, a frog who is a Vietnam veteran, is addicted to drugs and uses them to cope with the fact he left a friend to die in the Vietnam war., and there's a filthy, nosy, journalist fly that eats crud and makes up lies about the Feebles cast so he can make an article for the newspaper.
We also get some scenes that go in depth about the secret drug-dealing and porn movie business that Bletch and Trevor are running. Eventually, Trevor decides that Lucille should be in his porn movies, then drugs her and tries to violate her. Robert catches them, but assumes Lucille is cheating on him and leaves her.
In the end of the film, Bletch reveals he never loved Heidi and removes her from the show. She attempts suicide, but the girl Bletch cheated on Heidi with mocks Heidi, which causes her to go on a murderous rampage.
After the end, there's an epilogue that reveals 6 characters survived, including Heidi herself, who spent 10 years in rehab and now is a member of society again under a new identity.
The soundtrack is brilliant, including Heidi's song "Garden of Love", while the song about sodomy that Sebastian the Fox sings is hilarious.
However, like I said earlier in this review, this film is not for everyone, and is not for people who have a weak stomach or don't have a certain sense of humour. Whether you're a kid who secretly watches South Park behind his parents' back, an edgy teen, or an adult, if you watch this, be prepared if you think you can handle this stuff. This is rated R and not NC-17 or X, but still. Don't say I didn't warn you if anything in this film makes you squeamish, vomit, etc.