Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys

This should have been a lot better than it was. You have two of the best franchises and Corey Feldman, but the story is lackluster and at times silly. I am probably taking it far too seriously as it's only to be intended as silly gory fun, but the original Puppet Master movie was excellent and so were the first two Demonic Toys, plus Ted Nicolaou directing, since he was the one who directed Subspecies, I thought he could have done a better job. Although he claimed to have not been accustomed to working with puppets and apparently he wasn't happy with the film. Silvia Suvadova as Sergeant Jessica Russell was fun and could actually act. Vanessa Angel as Erica Sharpe is clearly having fun as the villain, and Corey Feldman as Robert Toulon should have been great, but I found his husky voice (I think done to make him appear older,) downright annoying. It's clear that Charles Band didn't have a direct hand in this movie. It's true his company Full Moon produced a lot of crap, but this movie was from two of his best franchises and a very talented director, it's just a shame because it could have been so much better.

There was some real potential there.

OK, so it may not be the best horror film ever made...actually it is one of the worst purely for the concept of it, but hey its only a film! Basically its Christmas Eve...ish, and the demonic toy company are released yeah you guessed it demonic toys set to destroy everything on Christmas day, BUT! Andre Touloun's great nephew Robert Touloun is there to save the day! Accompianed with our old Puppet Master favourites, him, his daughter and a copper attempt to stop the demonic toys and there seemingly demented master. Yes it is completely predictable and the fight scenes are seriously funny, but Corey Feldmnan makes this film watchable as the bumbling hero with some risqué jokes with the copper and just being a generally lovable character :) don't watch if expecting a plot twisting, mind numbing horror film its just a bit of enjoyable carnage

When I first heard about this cross-over, I was eager to watch it, because I've always liked the Puppet Master movies. The only problem was, I had never seen any of the Demonic Toys movies.

But, that wasn't a problem because PM vs. DT didn't have much to do with the DT story-line, or so I've been told. And as for the Puppets . . .

Well, I like how Blade, Pinhead, and Six-Shooter were in it, but, Jester? Why not Drill Sergeant, or Lady Leech? Hell, even Cyclops or Dr. Death would've been better than Jester!

But I digress. The story was enjoyable, and Corey Feldman's acting seemed to be straight out of a '50's B-movie (This Island Earth ring a bell?).

I would've preferred it if the Demonic Toys were in it more, but the Puppets were VERY enjoyable. This is one Puppet Master movie that I will watch again-and-again.

My rating: 7 out of 10.

Wow. This sure was a mess, too bad it could have been better.

-First Paragraph Dicusses The Older Films-

First off, I enjoyed the first Puppet Master movie, as a matter of fact I enjoyed the first three movies in that series. In addition I also enjoyed the first Demonic Toys movie. Now keep in mind when I say enjoy, I mean enjoy them on the level they are at. The original Puppet Master was enjoyable overall, the second film saw some cool additions Puppets wise, unfortunately in one scene involving the Jester I remember actually seeing the puppeteer's hand, urrghhh, then the third one was cool with the battling against the Nazis. However this are cool probably only if you enjoy horror flicks or killer dolls or things like this, fans of the Child's Play series could probably enjoy these, at least the first few anyway, I did. As for Demonic Toys its cool, Babie Oopsie Daisey is the best, obviously a Chucky rip off, but with his own style, I wish there was more of him in the first movie. I also like that Jack in the Box waaaaaaaaay better then the one that appears in this new movie. As for the other few toys, including the Teddy that could grow, well they're OK. However after Puppet Master III it starts going down hill with the puppets turning good and battling those tiny Egyptian demon things, urgh. Then Dollman vs Demonic Toys, well, baby oopsie wasn't even the same voice and it was just really short and lame, the GI Sodlier was ultra lame. But now, a long time later, we have Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys....

-This paragraph reviews the new film "Puppet Mater vs Demonic Toys" So I see that it is directed by Ted Nicalau, personally I enjoy the "Subspecies" series so that gave me some higher hopes for this movie. Well I was wrong, wow this movie was bad. Full Moon (owner of the original two series) had no involvement in this film that I know about and it seems to show, yes thats right, Full Moon not being involved seemed to actually hurt the movie! The film is so cartoony, not a bit scary or enjoyable, just plain lame! Too bad because Corey and whoever played his daughter did fairly good acting jobs and don't look like they really belong with all the other horrible actors, or in this horrid movie at all. This is just a wretched excuse for a movie, it can't even be enjoyed on the cheesy or fun level, or even on the "so bad its good" level, its just awful. Too bad because I really like Baby Oopsie Daisey and a lot of the Puppets. However in this film the puppets look different and they movie really stupidly, its just plain fake looking. This coming from someone who enjoyed the stop motion in the earlier films. As for the Demonic Toys they look different and less menacing then ever, they also movie oddly but not as bad as the puppets, and baby oopsie of course isn't voice by the cool voice from the original, someone else, and he now uses some sort of FART ATTACK?!?!? Thats right read it again he uses a FART ATTACK THAT FLYS HIM UP FROM THE GROUND UP AT PEOPLE!?!? Wow, just avoid this one at all costs, give the daughter some better acting role, put Corey back in "Cursed" and give Ted Nicalau the money to write and direct the final "Subspecies" movies. Then we'll be good, and as the final nail in the coffin, bury both of this series deep under the ground, for good! 0/1000000000

But then perhaps those moments are only cause I haven't seen a puppet master movie in a few years? And by that I mean an original movie not "best of" clips put together and sold under the guise of a movie (I'm looking at you Legacy). This movie had some okay ideas, but they were all hampered by phoney acting. I mean the puppet master movies and the demonic toys were never known for Oscar winning performances, but these characters seemed to lean towards caricatures of what they were suppose to act like (crazy scientist, evil mistress). And all of the puppets and toys seemed to lack detail and all were animated poorly. Of course being a T.V. movie based off direct to video flicks means that they were probably on a shoe string budget, but still why does jack-in-the-box have to look exactly like...well like a jack in the box. I thought they were from a movie called DEMONIC TOYS? And this could be me, but did Blade seem kinda out of character? My image of Blade has never included him standing on one foot while he spends around like a friggin ballerina to kill something. Anywho, this could have been a lot better, but I guess if we ever want to see the movies put on DVD Separately without having to pay $200 bucks for the whole set on ebay, we should try to support Sci-fi's offering and perhaps maybe, just maybe they might listen to our criticism for future installments.