One of my all time favorites.

A Major Disappointment

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I had been forewarned that some of the later sequels in this series were not good, but this is the worst so far. I'm watching them all in sequential order. The first six were fine, but this one was obviously written by someone who never watched the previous entries, or just did not care.We are introduced to a young Andre Toulon and Ilsa in 1944, even though in the third movie they were much older in 1941 and Ilsa died! The actor playing young Andre Toulon is just a bad actor, there's no denying it. The puppets are better than him. And that he looks like a teen aged, pre-broken nose, baby-faced Owen Wilson is too distracting.At approximately the 30 minute mark, a dead person is shown to be blinking in the shot! Just careless film making! Bad sequelship, bad acting and badly made, it's simply thrown together without any care for the finished product or the fans. This doesn't bode too well for the next batch of sequels I must endure, does it?

As being a fan of low budget films, I enjoyed this one greatly. It had a good story line that kept me paying attention throughout the whole movie. The acting was fine; I did like Greg Sestero casted as Andre Toulon. I liked the evil minions of SuTekh, with their powers and abilities. There was cool fighting sequences between good and evil. And, was pleased me most of all was the puppets! Their names, features, and abilities were quite interesting. And, let me tell you something; they kicked butt! With this film, it felt like a Full Moon classic again. It was a good entry. I recommend this film to all Puppet Master/Full Moon fans.

This is where it was said that the Puppet Master series begins, but it has also been the last Puppet Master movie made before "Puppet Master: The Legacy", so in a way you can say that it acts as a beginning and an end to Full Moon's brilliant movie series. The puppets all have a new (or since this movie has the word "retro" in the title, I suppose it's an old) look to them, but not all of them do. The ones that were left out were Torch, Jester and Leech Woman (thank God). This movie relates mostly to the storyline of Puppet Master #4 and #5. There were some scenes in this movie that I found to carry on and have less action then they deserved, such as random fight scenes. If you're ever planning on watching the Puppet Master movies, watch this one first. This was actually the last Puppet Master film that Guy Rolfe starred in, which really is a shame; he portrayed the role of Andre Toulon better than any of the previous actors. Guy Rolfe passed away in the year 2003, so that means that if any more Puppet Master movies are made (other than "Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys"),an other actor will have to play as Toulon. Let's hope that person is as good as Guy Rolfe, although that will be impossible.

This is the kind of movie that you rent when you are incredibly tired, or impaired in some other way... The acting in this movie is so bad it seems intentional, and to let you know how bad the special effects are, there is one scene when the puppets are coming alive where you can see most of a hand holding the puppet, moving it about. The movie looked as if it was filmed with a camcorder. When I saw this movie for the first time, a fistfight nearly erupted when my friends and I were calling each other names from this flick, that's how terrible it was. If you enjoy getting mad at movies, I recommend this to you, otherwise, flee as though your very life depended on it.