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Retro Puppet Master | 
 enlarge | Director: David Decoteau
Actors: Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart, Jack Donner, Guy Rolfe
Studio: Full Moon Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 60942
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1573471399
UPC: 763843803664
EAN: 9781573471398
ASIN: 1573471399
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: March 14, 2000
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 1.5 Stars: Yet Another Horrible Sequel...When will it end? November 19, 2007
The Piper at the Gates (Bakersville, North Carolina)
To begin with, before I even watched this 7th film in the Puppet Master series, I had long given up on expecting anything half-way decent from the folks at Full Moon Video. With that said, I buckled down and forced myself to watch Retro Puppet Master. And what I got was more of the same cheesy crap that pretty much makes up most of the Puppet Master series. Much like the previous film, Curse of the Puppet Master, the only bright spot for this film was the original idea of the plot. This film is basically another prequel in which it shows the young Andre Toulon and how he originally discovered the secrets of bringing his puppets to life, and how he must save himself as well as the one he loves, Ilsa (in previous films, her name had been spelled Elsa, but who's counting?) from the evil servants of the Egyptian god Sutekh. Oh, and while I'm at it, is it worth mentioned that in the very first Puppet Master, Andre Toulon is shown killing myself in 1939. This "flashback" story told by Toulon takes place in 1944. Hmmm..I guess someone didn't do their homework! Now don't get me wrong, the story is pretty cheesy, but for this series, its a step up from some of the others as far as plot goes. But if one can look past the weak plot, it is impossible to ignore the absolute HORRIBLE execution at making this film. The effects of the Puppet Master series has never been that great, but with this film being made in 1999, and the series itself at this point being 10 years old, one would be inclined one to think that the advances in special effects and technology would help out a great deal with a film like this. But to extreme my disappointment, the effects in this film has got to be the worst in the series so far. The puppets in action looked like something a 10 year old kid could do in his spare time in his parent's basement! Not just that, but the effects of the "powers" used by the servants of Sutekh and the old man were just plain stupid looking. Are you telling me that this is the best they could have done? I don't think so, since the effects in the very first Puppet Master were 10 times better than this! As far as acting, I've seen worse, but again, there is some bad acting here. But it just wasn't the actors, the writing was at fault as well. Just some really bad dialog takes place here. For example, the repeating of lines by the three evil servants of Sutekh is just utterly dumb, and the few lines given to Toulon's puppeteer friends toward the beginning of the film is just plain bad. In closing, this is yet another really bad Puppet Master sequel. But like I said before, I had long since given up on this series and wasn't expecting much. This film has no redeeming qualities to cause anyone to watch it more than once, and is really not worth watching even once to begin with. With that said, there's no reason to buy this unless you need it to complete your Puppet Master series.
 It's all abot the RETRO August 8, 2007
Arimis Cedeno (OH, USA)
Personally, I liked PMR. I wouldn't say it was the BEST out of the Puppet Master series, but you must understand the fact that the character Toulon is in fact a storyteller...which is what he's doing in this film. When you take the entire series under the light of Toulon telling a story with his wonderful puppet friends, it gives the Puppet Master videos a sort of creepy Captain Kangaroo vibe. It's like Jim Henson came back from the dead to teach us that we shouldn't have made Elmo the star of Sesame Street...
All I can tell you is that watch each Puppet Master movie with a fresh eye. Forget about what you saw in a previous PM movie, and take in the new story line. It's like watching a new Puppet story. Each film is special in its own way, just like Toulon's lovable, mighty puppets!
 Retro Puppet Master September 19, 2005
L. Malia (Buffalo, NY)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Movies like this, which don't fall into the big budget release category, are a genre unto themselves. This is not your typical, slick buckets-of-blood Hollywood horror thriller. There's a wonderful sense of intimacy and as one reviewer has noted, real craftsmanship about this rather scarey movie. It has a charm of its own. It also has a memorable film score by John Massari, a wonderful composer who deserves much more critical acclaim. The score is understated and subtle, rather than a lot of overdone, in-your-face movie soundtracks. It draws you in and keeps you riveted; it complements this little gem of a film.
a dark fairy tale November 23, 2004
MovieMaven (Karloffornia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
No gore here! It's largely bloodless - but I'm a huge fan of this horror series and I enjoyed Retro Puppet Master. It's "quaint" and I know many Puppet fans and gore-hounds won't like it but the "fairy tale" quality of this one won me over. Guy Rolfe tells the tale of how once upon a time the young Toulon was granted the magic to bring his puppets to life. This is such a charming little movie that some horror fans will love it and others will hate it. I love all types of horror movies (including the bloodier early Puppet Masters) and I *loved* this one.
 Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga December 23, 2003
TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.When it opened up with the aging Toulon (THE puppetmaster, in my opinion) and his friends, I had high hopes. However, he's not here to act he's here to tell a story about his younger days. You see, a long time ago a bunch of white people pretending to be Arabs stole the secret to revitalizing life from Sutek (who, if I remember my Egyptian lore, was banished to another world and has no powers any way). Sutek gets mad and revives three mummies to catch the Egyptian that stole it. These mummies are perhaps the craziest part of this movie. For one, they annoyingly repeat each other's sentences. For another, they act and look like the Agents from the first Matrix (even with one leader mummy, the "Agent Smith" of the Undead). Also, they're not that scary. They kill you by basically pointing at you. This means no gore and no real excitement. Any way, back to the puppets: Toulon originally was head of a puppet troupe entertaining the wealthy of 19th century Paris. The Egyptian comes and teaches Toulon the secret of revitalization. This isn't all that great - the mummies come to the theater and kill off all of Toulon's friends looking for the Egyptian. Toulon finds them and puts their souls into the puppets. The mummies come and attack Toulon, but thankfully Toulon has the puppets to help. Actually, the puppets aren't all that great. One of them just kinda nips a mummy in the ankle and then gets kicked away. And that was your fight scene for the entire movie. Things just kinda happen from there...the love interest gets kidnapped from the Swiss Embassy, Toulon saves her, and then the movie up and ends. Like the reviewer before me said, the film suggests a sequal. Toulon looks to his puppets and says, "that is another story for another day." All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!" This film had a lot of potential (leaving those stupid teenagers getting attacked by demons and going back to Toulon's story) but unfortunately it gets marred by bad scripts and acting. I might also add the special affects in this are HORRIBLE. How horrible? In one scene, you can see the hand holding one of the puppets! No I don't mean if you look hard you see a finger, I mean you can actually see a full-fledged, identifiable hand lifting a puppet up! Did the editor want to kill the movie? What would it have cost them to refilm that part? $2? Maybe a quarter?
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