Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ethan Robinson Watching the movie we can all tell it's recycled, that's the most I will say of that, so now I'll start.The first five movies had continuity, even if the third was a prequel, the first five movies all made sense in the end. Andre Toulon fled Berlin during WWII and found himself at Bodega Bay Inn where he has hidden the puppets and that's where they have been even when they got a new puppet master, Rick Myers.The movies showed little to no flaws in story (other than six-shooter not existing for one & two) which is confusing as to where this movie takes place. Leech Lady is "featured" in this film (playing no role what-so-ever) which would place it between one and two. Now this is my question, how did the puppets get to, wherever this takes place, back to Bodega Bay?The story was rather predictable from watching the first two scenes (other than the love story, that wasn't necessary) but they could have thrown in some more deaths, there was only four which they squeezed in the last 30 minutes.Director: David DeCoteau. Actors: Good looking muscular boys (not men) and one female. Tank was shown in his skivvies three times through the movie and one other actor was gonna bust-a-nut while working out. They probably spent all their animation of the puppets having Tank pillow fight with the puppets. Later editing they must have taken a vote to burn the footage and pledge never to speak what they saw. Distraught, David DeCoteau slapped a fake director name wanting his puppet pillow fight.Six-shooter lasso was cool, I added a fourth star just for that.

MaximumMadness From director David Decoteau (under an alias for some reason in the credits) comes the sixth movie in the "Puppet Master" franchise- "Curse of the Puppet Master." And to me, this is the first film in the series that was an all-in-all bad movie. Sure the previous five movies weren't high art, but they had a lot going for them. The first two films were fun little creepy horror movies that were easily accessible and had some nifty special effects. The third movie (also directed by Decoteau) was actually a decent revenge tale telling the origins of the story in Nazi Germany and had a lot of cool (albeit low budget) moments. And the fourth and fifth films, which were shot back-to-back and were essentially one movie split in half, were silly but a lot of fun and were the first movies to turn the puppets into "heroes", and actually explain more of the magic behind it all.The sixth film tries very hard to be unique, at times feeling like an ode to classic Universal monster movies like "Frankenstein", but it just can't quite pull itself together. It lacks back-story, is extremely rushed and feels a lot cheaper than the previous movies.The evil Dr. Magrew (George Peck in a delightfully hammy performance) has somehow taken possession of Andre Toulon's magical puppets, and uses them in his "House of Marvels" tourist attraction. His daughter Jane (Emily Harrison) has returned home to visit, and seems worried that his past assistant has gone missing. They soon meet socially awkward Robert "Tank" (Josh Green), a kind-hearted but meek young man whom is a talented sculptor, but is bullied by others. Magrew hired Robert to help sculpt him a new puppet, and a friendship between the two grows, as does a romance with Jane.However, when a bully from Robert's past threatens Jane, the puppets must once again resume their deadly deeds, and Magrew's devious secret plans are revealed shortly after... plans that may spell doom for the innocent Robert...The problems with the film begin from the opening credits, which made me realize this film was going to be padded beyond belief with re-used footage from the previous films. The credits seem to stretch on forever, and it's simply a montage of poorly edited snippets from previous films. And this film is very bad at hiding the fact that most of the puppet footage is re-used. You will recognize shots from the previous movies constantly, and its very distracting.This film also has a ton of continuity problems from the cheap budget- you can tell the didn't have time to shoot all of the footage they needed. (Case in point is one hilarious scene where the puppet Pinhead is injured, and while he is being fixed, they show a shot where you can clearly see him in a cage, put back together, before cutting back to him being fixed again. It was atrociously bad editing.)The biggest problem, though, is the lack of explanation of the story- the film makes no effort to connect itself to prior entries with no explanation of what happened to characters from the previous films. Also, the film seems to make up the rules as it goes along, and it's very messy- the story simply doesn't make sense, and without spoiling anything, the final 20 minutes are a poorly edited pile of shots with almost no coherence or logic. The story needed a lot more work than the screenwriters gave it.This is the first truly awful movie in the series. While a few of the entries after this one (particularly the more light-hearted and fun "Retro Puppet Master") were actually decent, starting from this movie onward, the series fell in a big, bad way. This gets a pretty-bad 3 out of 10.

Woodyanders The puppets find a new master in feisty mad scientist Dr. Magrew (well played by George Peck), who's doing sadistic experiments with humans by transferring their souls into puppets. Director David DeCoteau, working from a blah and talky script by Benjamin Carr and David Schmoeller, lets the insipid plot plod along at a sluggish pace and crucially fails to develop much in the way of either suspense or spooky atmosphere. Instead this picture gets too bogged down in a tepid romance between the gentle, browbeaten, dim-witted Robert "Tank" Winsley (a likable turn by Josh Green) and Magrew's sweet daughter Jane (a charming performance by the lovely Emily Harrison). Moreover, the puppets are given precious little to do and nothing really happens until the last third of the film. Worst of all, the crummy abrupt ending fails to wrap things up in a satisfying manner. That said, the infrequent scenes of the puppets attacking folks are staged with some flair and deliver the gory goods and the cast struggle valiantly with the so-so material (Michael Guerin in particular does well as mean local bully Joey Carp). Both Howard Wexler's sharp cinematography and Jeffrey Walton's shivery score are up to par. Okay, but it could (and should) have been much better.

barnthebarn A little random entry in the Puppet Master series with a 'gentle giant' gas station attendant Robert 'Tank' being offered a job for Dr. Magrew mirroring the work of Andre Toulon. George Peck who plays Magrew is fairly similar to the original Puppet Master (William Hickey). Anyway, Magrew daughter, pretty Jane (Emily Harrison) falls in love with Tank while Magrew wants to use him not only in recreating the dolls of Toulon but also more literally in his quest to create a range of 'perfect human puppets'. Of course Jane wouldn't want Tank to be used in this way and perhaps neither do our lovable puppet friends...Well made film, directed by David DeCoteau. Fairly tame (except for a few scenes of Tunneller) but fun and a pleasant aside from the main series tale of Toulon's plight and his puppets adventures. Entertaining.