Mongoose Present Meet The Feebles
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Tue 10 April 2007 // 20:00
(Tues 10th / 8pm / £4/3)
(Peter Jackson / 1989 / USA / 94 mins / Cert 18)
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so daring that it defies criticism. These are the films that mock cinematic conventions, happily thrusting themselves beyond the boundaries of good taste and accepted morality.
"Meet the Feebles" is like a cross between "The Muppet Show" and "Valley of the Dolls." It is a monument to cinematic excess. It has been described as 'the Muppets on crack', a fair assessment. The story revolves around "The Fabulous Feeble Variety Hour," a television show that is a pointed satire of the Muppets. Like Jim Henson's much-loved creation, "Meet the Feebles" shows what happens on stage as well as what goes on behind the scenes. However, unlike the Muppets, the behind-the-scenes act is not as clean as what goes on in front of the audience. As a matter of fact, the Feebles are so steeped in debauchery that they are destined to self-destruction. Characters include Blech, a gross and corrupt walrus with a sideline in pornography, and Heidi, the show's star, 300 plus pounds of love-hungry hippopotamus.
Meet the Feebles" treads along a depraved road previously mapped by cinematic mavericks like Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ken Russell, and John Waters. It ain't for kids and it ain't for the faint of heart but whatever it ain't. It certainly is hilarious.
Also the usual mix of Mongoose entertainment – DJ in the bar, special drink promotion and free ‘Feeble Finger Food’...
(Peter Jackson / 1989 / USA / 94 mins / Cert 18)
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so daring that it defies criticism. These are the films that mock cinematic conventions, happily thrusting themselves beyond the boundaries of good taste and accepted morality.
"Meet the Feebles" is like a cross between "The Muppet Show" and "Valley of the Dolls." It is a monument to cinematic excess. It has been described as 'the Muppets on crack', a fair assessment. The story revolves around "The Fabulous Feeble Variety Hour," a television show that is a pointed satire of the Muppets. Like Jim Henson's much-loved creation, "Meet the Feebles" shows what happens on stage as well as what goes on behind the scenes. However, unlike the Muppets, the behind-the-scenes act is not as clean as what goes on in front of the audience. As a matter of fact, the Feebles are so steeped in debauchery that they are destined to self-destruction. Characters include Blech, a gross and corrupt walrus with a sideline in pornography, and Heidi, the show's star, 300 plus pounds of love-hungry hippopotamus.
Meet the Feebles" treads along a depraved road previously mapped by cinematic mavericks like Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ken Russell, and John Waters. It ain't for kids and it ain't for the faint of heart but whatever it ain't. It certainly is hilarious.
Also the usual mix of Mongoose entertainment – DJ in the bar, special drink promotion and free ‘Feeble Finger Food’...