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Meet the Feebles

New Zealand

1989

94 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR Peter Jackson

PROD Peter Jackson, Jim Booth

SCR Peter Jackson, Danny Mulheron, Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh

DP Murray Milne

CAST Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow, Ross Jolly, Brian Sergent

ED Jamie Selkirk

MUSIC Peter Dasent, Jay Snowfield, Michelle Scullion

Toronto, Stockholm (Midnight Releases)

Synopsis

Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson implores you to meet his odd Muppet look-alikes, who star in a variety show and revel in offscreen drama. Bletch, the program’s cigar-chewing, walrus producer, could get his big break if they pull good ratings. But with an inept, unnerved fox as director, a rabbit with a burning case of herpes as host and the show’s hippo ex-star packing heat, Bletch has his work cut out. –Netflix

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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, including 17 Academy Awards®, 12 British Academy of Film and Television Awards and four Golden Globes.

It was for The Return of the King that Jackson received his most impressive collection of awards. This included three Academy Awards® (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture), two Golden Globes (Best Director and Best Motion Picture-Drama), three BAFTAs (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film and Audience Award), a Directors Guild Award, a Producers Guild Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award.

As a follow-up to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in 2005 Jackson directed, wrote and produced King Kong for Universal Pictures. The film grossed over $500 million and won three… read more

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Chelsea Swift

6Apr13

Watching this film was a very uncomfortable experience. It's not that it was overly vulgar or perverted, it was more of the overall feeling it gave. Obnoxious, cartoon-like puppets kind of disgust me to begin with, so watching them have sex and eat feces was quite awful. Salò was much easier to digest than Meet the Feebles.

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Siavash Aliparast

8Feb13

a great satire of the social structures and the role media and show business play in modern civilization

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Andres Pff

30Aug12

all my childhood nightmares came true.

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Adam Eisentrout

18Jun12

Not as crazy shocking as most claim to be, Jackson's Feebles is an adequate, muppets gone wild romp. Jackson's direction is much better than expected for this sort of thing. The shock value of the film seems rather tame and the film probably worked better before the South Park/Avenue Q era. Jackson focuses too much on the Muppets nasty acts, rather than his knack for set pieces and slapstick(we do get a bit of both).

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