Review of Meet the Feebles (1989) by Rich Z — 08 Aug 2007

A smack-addicted knife-throwing lizard; a Scottish drug-dealing boar; a love-struck hedgehog; a voyeuristic panty-sniffing pachyderm who spies on bunny orgies; a rat who sounds like Peter Lorre and films dungeon porn with large-uddered cows and nasal sex; a love triangle between a walrus, a feline, and a hippo; and an elitist fox who sings about sodomy.

If you're still reading, you'd probably like this movie...Peter Jackson's X-rated muppet extravaganza! For a film as obviously depraved and disgusting as this, it's actually really intelligent, with cleverly subversive satires on show business and film genre cliches.

For evidence, just look at the Vietnam flashback sequence and the way it spoofs Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and The Deer Hunter (and its racism). Oh, and there's still room for such zingers as "It's your loss.

..philistine faggot", or "I asked for a pennant, not a pedant", and "there is Black Forest Cherry Cake in your CLEAVAGE!!" My greatest wish is to travel back to 1989, go to a US screening of this movie (by a Kiwi director then unknown in the States), and tell people afterwards, "You know, call me crazy, but I think this director's gonna win an Oscar someday.

" This is a masterpiece of rockbottom tastelessness, and the preponderance of really bad puns makes me love it even more!