Meet the Feebles

Robert the porcupine applies succesfully for a job in the Meet the Feebles variety show. He immediately falls in love with the show's pretty ballet girl, a poodle. But life is not always so easy in the show company; several actors have serious drug and drink problems, blue films are screened in the basement, the boss is mixed up in drug dealings, and there is a bit more shafting than is really healthy in the AIDS era.

Comment:
Meet the Feebles is a New Zealand puppet film best described as a turbo version of its much better-known (and socially well-adjusted) American cousin The Muppet Show. Officially the Feebles are engaged in a moderately sucessful cabaret, but their real business goes on behind the scenes: grotesque swindles and mammoth private intrigues.
Yes, coarse jokes about artists' lives, drugs, sexual perversion, ultra violence and AIDS, coupled with a dash of shimmering pink romanticism, are the main components of this satire on a satire. If you have that kind of humour, and if you can keep up with a pace which makes ordinary action films look like sleepwalking, then Meet the Feebles is something for you. Otherwise perhaps you should make do with Seventh Day Adventist prayer meetings.

GL

Medverkande
Harry, Heidi, Robert, Sid, Wynyard, Bletch: Producent
Peter Jackson, Jim Booth: Manus
Daniel Mulheron: Foto
Murray Milne: Musik
Peter Dasent: Talat språk
English