If you have ever seen a Peter Jackson movie, you know you're in for something that will make you puke up last night's cold pizza. He created such cult Sick-Flicks as "Bad Taste" and "Dead Alive." This one could be considered the most depraved of the group, AND it's all done with puppets. Listen ... you can hear Jim Henson rolling in his grave. What makes it so damn offensive? Lets check it off:

1) Blech, the creator and director of "The Fabulous Feebles Variety Hour," works on the side by filming pornographic movies in the basement. I believe this is where Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee got the idea. At any rate, these films include bug sex and nasal sex. Yes, you read that correctly, and, no, you don't want to know. He also is currently cheating on his wife, Heidi the Hippo, who's the star of the show.

2) Trevor the Rat, who sounds surprisingly like Peter Lorre, is running a cocaine ring.

3) Wynfred the Frog is a Vietnam veteran who is addicted to smack and has flashbacks. Sadly, his flashbacks sometimes happen during his knife throwing act and he slaughters a stagehand.

...Is it a wonder that this movie is either banned from, or gets a really SHORT run in, theaters?

The movie is, at heart, a love story between a hedgehog and a bear. And you thought the Southern Baptists raised a big stink about "Ellen." Inbetween those character developments are countless tasteless, yet funny as hell, scenes involving sexual diseases, vomit, songs about sodomy complete with statue phalluses spraying out soap bubbles, debauchery and, finally, a blood spattered ending involving poor Heidi going on a machine gun rampage (Hey, she was aquitted!).

The movie was made rather cheaply, although I hear fake blood can get rather expensive. Don't rent it if you hate Australian accents, folks. It was made in New Zeland. Cripes, sometimes Peter Jackson can top some of those REALLY messed up Japanese movies (i.e. "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" or "Entrails of the Virgin" ... you figure it out).

It's dark, it's sick, it's funny and it had musical scenes. It also featured some impressing effects when it comes to gore and just general puppetry. How they got the rat to walk around, I'll never know. It deserves 3 yaks. If you can find it, and have a strong stomach, go ahead and rent the sucker!