Nothing wrong with Tim Curry's wonderful sugar-and-battery-acid voice. He was superb as Slagar the Cruel in the Redwall cartoon series. Even his work in Gargoyles, The Wild Thornberry's and Over the Garden Wall was quite enjoyable.
But this movie... a loosely connected tour of setpieces with very little connecting story... this was weak.
I can forgive the "rubbish" puppets and let it slide as a stylistic eccentricity which would be sort of charming if there was more story or wit or creativity. Instead it was more "here's a thing... and here's another thing... and another weird thing" and they don't really connect together or give more than a little insight as to why/how these weird creatures exist, they're just stops that draw out the run time, then one bad guy is killed, then the other bad guy is killed, then the movie ends.
Reminds me of a really half-assed RPG/computer adventure game or something.
Resting upon this pile of a movie are several attempts at humor that are not smart enough to be witty, yet which refused to just go gonzo and over the top like Killer Klowns from Outer Space or Evil Dead II or, really early Peter Jackson or a decent Troma film might.
The end result is a noncommittal "eh...hm..." of a flick where just a little more work would have pushed it into somewhere really fun.
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