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Meet the Feebles
Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Heidi the Hippo, star of 'The Feebles Variety Hour', discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the big show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, Vietnam flashbacks, drug dealing, and murder.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy grotesque puppet satire, outrageous musical set pieces, and deliberately transgressive comedy that turns backstage melodrama into anarchic spectacle.
- Tone
- darkly comic, surreal, campy
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- exploitation, celebrity culture, betrayal, addiction, show-business corruption
- Setting
- contemporary, shabby theatrical backstage and stage sets