Meet the Feebles

Director Peter Jackson's second feature Meet the Feebles offers even more bad taste than his debut. The irreverent, outlandish, part-musical satire is populated almost entirely by puppets, but it is by no means cute. The motley creatures are all members of a variety show that’s working up to a major performance. They include Bletch the two-timing pornographer walrus, an obese hippo femme fatale, a drug-dealing rat, and a heroin-addicted frog — in other words, something to offend everyone. Richard King writes about the creation of New Zealand's first puppet movie here.

Peter Jackson's film sets out to be relentlessly, gratuitiously offensive. Most of the time, fortunately it succeeds.

– Philip Kemp in Sight and Sound, May 1992

Key Cast & Crew

Jim Booth

Producer

Cameron Chittock

Puppet Designer, Head of Puppet Workshop

Peter Jackson

Producer, Writer, Director, Camera Operator

Stephen Sinclair

Writer

Danny Mulheron

Writer, As: Heidi the Hippo

Fran Walsh

Writer