Review of Meet the Feebles (1989) by Jason J — 04 Jul 2010

Very funny parody by Peter Jackson of The Muppets except this takes it to the extreme with sex, drugs, blood and devious shenanigans. You'll never have seen anything like this apart for Team America that is. Meet The Feebles is a network TV variety show run by a walrus and his slimy rodent assistant who perform song and dance numbers with a huge cast of animals. The no.1 star of the show is a hippo called Hilda. Without her the show might collapse but that's the scenario when Hilda catches her lover, the bigwig walrus having sex with a cat. She threatens to quit. But that's not all - a fly who works for the media is snooping around backstage hoping for some gossip and gets it when a rabbit is diagnosed with a terminal sexual disease. Various other calamities rock the show before there's a massive bloodbath involving Hilda and a machine gun!!

I laughed a lot watching this. Peter Jackson can do no wrong in my eyes. He can turn his hand to any genre. I wish he'd get back to making gross out comedies such as this. This puppet movie is certainly NOT for kids! There's a great cast of characters such as a heroin-addicted frog, a sex-crazy rabbit, a hippo with low self-esteem and a cow and insect porn movie-making duo. Those that want to watch something unique and have a rather twisted and sick sense of humour will love it. It won't appeal to everybody but I thought it was fantastic!