Review of Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003) by Robert H — 18 Nov 2011

When the new Puppet Master returns to the Bodega Bay Inn he is followed by a mysterious woman who will stop at nothing to get the secret of the puppets.

OK, this isn't really a new installment in the franchise, as it is really just a compilation movie with a couple of new framing scenes thrown in. So there isn't really anything I can say about the clips that I haven't already covered in previous reviews. The new scenes do clear up one answered piece of storyline relating to 'Puppet Master III' and 'Retro Puppet Master', but apart form that are just there as linking devices, and the finale just makes no sense whatsoever!! The clips used from the previous entries are of varying quality and the director has tried to put them in chronological order, but due to the meandering nature of the 'Puppet Master' universe, this proves to be very difficult and just serves to highlight some of the problems the franchise has on the whole. So, trying to rate this 'movie' does prove to be difficult and even though I would not really recommend it to anyone (except for die hard fans of the series) I have given the score I have as it is a kind of 'greatest hits' of the franchise and there were a lot of sequences that I did enjoy when I watched them in their respective movies.