Watch Meet the Feebles (1989) Free Online

Release Date: 1989

Cast: Mark Hadlow, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie

Categories: Movies, Gross-Out Film, Parody, Gross Out, Black Comedy, Comedy

Meet the Feebles (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Just The Feebles) is a 1989 black comedy film directed by Peter Jackson. It features Jim Henson-esque puppets in a perverse comic satire. Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets (though some were people in suits) assembled together as members of a theatre troupe. However, whereas Henson's Muppets characterise the positivity, naïve folly, and innocence in humanity, the Feebles present negativity, vice, and other misanthropic characteristics. The movie has become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity... MORE

Meet the Feebles (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Just The Feebles) is a 1989 black comedy film directed by Peter Jackson. It features Jim Henson-esque puppets in a perverse comic satire. Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets (though some were people in suits) assembled together as members of a theatre troupe. However, whereas Henson's Muppets characterise the positivity, naïve folly, and innocence in humanity, the Feebles present negativity, vice, and other misanthropic characteristics. The movie has become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity since Jackson's success with the Lord of the Rings films. During his acceptance speech at the 2004 Academy Awards, Jackson mentioned the film, noting that it had been "wisely overlooked by the Academy." The eponymous theatre troupe is rehearsing the Meet the Feebles song with hopes to become good enough to picked up for a syndicated network show and become rich and famous. Heidi, the star of the show, is insulted by Trevor (a pornograph director) and comes to complain to the man she loves, Bletch, who is actually in an adulterous relationship with Samantha. Bletch only wants to use Heidi to become LESS