1989 · comedy · horror · musical
Meet the Feebles
Directed by Peter Jackson1h 33m1989
Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.
Our read: Meet the Feebles (1989) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal comedy · horror · musical entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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“You want pre-Lord of the Rings Jackson puppet depravity as transgressive spectacle.”
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