An absolute waste of money

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Back to 1939 we go, with starts off with footage from the beginning of 1989's original film, where Andre Toulin committed suicide. The film follows what happens immediately thereafter, with a young man, Danny, finding the puppets and taking them under his wing. There's nothing great about the dialogue or acting, or story for that matter, but it was an interesting enough continuation of the story. We have two Nazi spies posing as Americans (but they don't even have German accents, so they're not credible Germans either) who work together with a Japanese woman, who is also after the serum that brings the puppets to life. There's a lot of back stabbing and double crossing here, but there are just way too many conveniences and plot flaws. Also, why did Danny trust the puppets so easily into helping him, and how did he know they would or even could, as he knew nothing about them? And why did the puppets trust him in return? The puppets look rather lifeless.

In a Stateside hotel during the height of World War II, young Danny Coogan (Levi Fiehler) dreams of joining the war effort.This film, coming in at barely 80 minutes, reused footage from previous films. So that makes this a total of 60 minutes, maybe? I cannot blame them. They needed to use a dead actor, so the footage had to be old, and it ties the story together more fluidly.What is up with the young Nazis? Is it just me, or does the idea of two young (under 30) Nazis being the only force to infiltrate the American war effort seem silly? Jenna Gallagher was decent as Beth, and fairly attractive. The real mystery is why Full Moon regular Robin Sydney did not get the part (or any part) in this movie. She never fails to entertain and it would be nice to see her in this series.But the real issue with this film is the anachronisms: the movie takes place in 1939, but the U.S. did not enter WWII until the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941. So why are we fighting in France and Japan already? The concentration camp Auschwitz is mentioned, but the camp was build two years after the events depicted in this movie. The female Japanese agent mentions Kamikaze attacks, but no Kamikaze units existed until 1944.The USA flag hanging on the wall in Danny's room has 50 stars on it, but the USA only had 48 states so there would only have been 48 stars on it (1 for each state). It was not until August 21, 1959 when Hawaii became the 50th state that 50 stars appeared on the flag.This film needs work!

I have been a fan of the PUPPET MASTER movies since I was kid watching them on the Sci-Fi Channel, have watched all of them, and have put up with a lot of crap from the more recent entries. After Full Moon Pictures broke off from Paramount, the quality of their movies became noticeably poorer and poorer and they started running out of good ideas. But I stood by the PM series, hoping for a return to the quality of the low budgeted but determined films I grew up watching. But after this entry, I quit. This has to be the worst PM movie ever...and that's saying something! For starters, the Puppets are absent for a large part of the story as the plot often plays like a WWII era drama about a cripple who wants to be a soldier but can't and then stumbles onto an Axis plot to blow up a weapons factory. When the Puppets are around their movements are stiff and lifeless like someone playing with dolls.There is also awful acting, a character who looks older than the actress playing his mother, painfully cheap production values (if the other PM movies Had small budgets, the one for this entry is just microscopic), and even an insult to our intelligence by having WWII be central to the plot while having the setting be 1939...TWO YEARS BEFORE America ENTERED THE WAR!! And to top it all off, the early scenes feature footage from the original PUPPET MASTER that are superior to the rest of the movie and the DVD features trailers for all the other PM movies, which shows how better the older movies were and the unfortunate decline in quality as the series went along.I am now done with the PUPPET MASTER movies. If there is another one I won't watch it, but I doubt there will another one. I imagine this may be the final nail in the coffin to kill the series for good.

I remember watching the first Puppet Master film in my teens and thinking it was a pretty good. I remember watching the second and thinking it was pretty poor. I remember watching the third and thinking that, whilst low budget, it was a good film.I say remember as I'm 31 now and it was quite a while a go. But being the film fanatic that I am, I still remember the puppets and their names.Even though more Puppet Master films were made, I didn't follow the series after the third one....until I noticed that a new film had been released and that the story would take place early Toulon days - like the third film, which worked - so I thought I'd jump back in and see where the series was up to.Unfortunately, by the 10th instalment filming is on a micro budget and it shows! I liked the story and thought it was engaging enough. I looked past some of the shoddy acting and poor performances.....but the thing I just couldn't forgive was the lack of budget given towards the puppets! It was poor and disgraceful. At no point did you feel that Blade (my favourite since the first) and co. were alive. There wasn't the slightest effort made at all. If you were to make a home movie about puppets that are alive, the best you'd be able to do to make it look convincing is move the puppet with your hand so the camera can not see - this is exactly what happened in this film. No attempt at animatronics or stop motion capture.The original Puppet Master was made in 1989 - all these years later, it still outclasses this instalment in every department.The good thing that did come out of this film is that my interest is rekindled and I've obtained Puppet Master 1-9 which I'm going to watch!EDIT - Just watch 1-4 as the series goes down hill from 5 onwards :)