M Brucia

Made after the entertaining "Bad Taste", and before the excellent "Dead Alive/Braindead" (and years before the horrible Hollywood dreck "Lord of the Rings"), Meet The Feebles is, in a sense, a one joke pony. Take muppets and make them do the unthinkable. This would be a great shock if you were in the "medium = content" frame of mind, where cartoons and puppets are always for children. However, if you've seen a range of anime, you've probably overcome that mental barrier, so seeing puppets have sex and do drugs is probably no more shocking than seeing cartoons have sex and do drugs. If that's the case, the shock value won't carry you, and what's left is the content of the movie itself. Meet the Feebles is actually hampered by its use of puppets, as none of the violence, sex, or other disgustingness can be done very well. Peter Jackson and crew did amazing work with the limited resources that they had, but it isn't quite enough. The only scenes that really get a "Braindead"-like "eww..." are the fly eating feces scene and Harry's super-vomit scene. The story itself is just an excuse for a collage of shock scenes, which is why the movie ultimately fails. If a movie is made to showcase shock scenes which aren't shocking, there isn't much left. Though not a bad movie, per se, it ends up being somewhat bland.

Strong female character reasons that there must be an egg layer among all the soldier creatures, culminating in a terrifying scene with hundreds of eggs and creatures laying in wait, the protagonist telling the big breeder creature to "stay away" from the silent, lonely, orphaned child that she has come to protect as her own, and drawing the creature towards her to protect the kid, only to destroy the creature by blasting it through the airlock.

Airlock? I meant train, sorry.

Anyway, yeah, Aliens was a great movie. I'm just impressed that the scriptwriter for this movie got paid for plagiarizing such famous material.