Meet The Feebles, a puppet tragedy of gross proportions, relates the fateful events that lead to the infamous Feebles Variety Massacre - a day that rocked the puppet world!
BLETCH, a cigar chomping walrus, has his hands full with his cast of egocentric show-biz stars. When you've got an incompetant panic stricken fox as a director, a junkie knife throwing frog, and a hare with a fatal disease as MC, things do not look sunny. But Bletch's biggest problem is with his star and long time lover, HEIDI the Hippo, who suspects that he is having an affair with a Siamese cat called SAMANTHA.
With two failed suicide attempts and her mental balance totally destroyed, Heidi makes an unannounced entrance centre-stage..... (back cover info)
BACKGROUND
While Peter Jackson and Cameron Chittock were finishing up the special effects for Jackson's first feature film, "Bad Taste", they talked about the idea of making a puppet film--"But one where they're dirty little creatures, taking drugs and all that stuff." The film was made with the profit from "Bad Taste", and from the New Zealand Film Commission. It took only twelve weeks to make. However filming wasn't going smoothly. They were behind schedule and couldn't reach the deadline set by the NZFC. So when asked to submit the film, they submitted what they had and secretly broke into the studio at night to finish the movie, submitting what they had done under another name: 'Frogs of War'.
MOVIE TAGLINES
"The Puppet Spunk Hits The Fan"
"Hell Hath No Fury Like A Psycho Hippo With A Heavy Machine Gun"
"Welcome To The Jungle!"
"Sex, drugs and soft toys."