Puppet Master: Axis of Evil starts at Bodega Bay hotel during 1939 as two Nazi's Max (Tom Sandoval) & Klaus (Aaron Riber) search for puppeteer Andre Toulon who has developed a serum to bring his inanimate wooden puppets to life, before Max & Klaus can find Toulon he kills himself & his secrets are seemingly lost forever. However a young craftsman named Danny Coogan (Levi Fiehler) discovers Toulon's puppets & magical serum & takes them back home with him. Frustrated at not being able to fight on the World War II front line Danny recognises one of the Nazi's while visiting his girlfriend & is determined to prove that he is right, Danny learns of the Nazi's teaming up with the Japanese in an attempt to sabotage the American war effort & Danny, along with his killer puppets, decides he has to stop them...
Directed by David DeCoteau this is, believe it or not, the ninth entry in the Puppet Master series of killer toy films that really should have ended after part three although parts four & five are alright but everything after that sucks with this Puppet Master: Axis of Evil being the worst of the lot. The Puppet Master films have long since gone past the point where the makers no longer number them & just try to give them cool sounding subtitles but that doesn't fool anybody, does it? This is total crap if I am being honest, the plot is silly with the killer puppets having less & less to do with each film, here they barely feature & just tend to stand around while the script manages to make an entire spin-off film out of the five minute pre-credits sequence from the original Puppetmaster (1989) which is as bad as it sounds & the puppets get to fight the Nazi's & Japs who are planning to blow up some sort of factory somewhere in the US, hey none of it is explained so don't expect anything more revelatory than that because you will be disappointed. The script takes a stab at bring up moralistic issues about going to war, staying behind, the impact on friends & family & other such points but it's all pretty boring & is badly written sub soap opera melodrama of the worst kind. Is there anything positive I can say about Puppet Master: Axis of Evil? Well, actually no.
There are not enough kills or gore here with the puppets underused yet again, OK I understand special effects are expensive but what else are we even watching this crap for if not for the cool killer puppets? A guy eats a Leech when he mistakes it for some of his dinner (I am not joking either), a guy gets the top of his head drilled & thats about it. The kills, settings, special effects & build-up are very lame & forgettable. The new puppet Ninja is awful & is far to bland & ordinary looking. Set in late 30's America there are a few decent costumes but the majority of the film takes place in one of four locations. In fact the best looking parts of the film are those edited in from the original Puppetmaster.
Filmed in China this is set entirely in the US, I assume it was cheaper to film over there than in the US as penny pinching Charles Band doesn't like to spend money if he doesn't have to. The acting is bad from all involved, it's not just the puppets that look lifeless & wooden here.
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil is terrible, the end leaves things wide open for a further sequel which I can only hope I will never see but know that I will still be dumb enough to watch it. Watch the original again instead or one of the two first sequels when the makers were still trying to make good films.
Directed by David DeCoteau this is, believe it or not, the ninth entry in the Puppet Master series of killer toy films that really should have ended after part three although parts four & five are alright but everything after that sucks with this Puppet Master: Axis of Evil being the worst of the lot. The Puppet Master films have long since gone past the point where the makers no longer number them & just try to give them cool sounding subtitles but that doesn't fool anybody, does it? This is total crap if I am being honest, the plot is silly with the killer puppets having less & less to do with each film, here they barely feature & just tend to stand around while the script manages to make an entire spin-off film out of the five minute pre-credits sequence from the original Puppetmaster (1989) which is as bad as it sounds & the puppets get to fight the Nazi's & Japs who are planning to blow up some sort of factory somewhere in the US, hey none of it is explained so don't expect anything more revelatory than that because you will be disappointed. The script takes a stab at bring up moralistic issues about going to war, staying behind, the impact on friends & family & other such points but it's all pretty boring & is badly written sub soap opera melodrama of the worst kind. Is there anything positive I can say about Puppet Master: Axis of Evil? Well, actually no.
There are not enough kills or gore here with the puppets underused yet again, OK I understand special effects are expensive but what else are we even watching this crap for if not for the cool killer puppets? A guy eats a Leech when he mistakes it for some of his dinner (I am not joking either), a guy gets the top of his head drilled & thats about it. The kills, settings, special effects & build-up are very lame & forgettable. The new puppet Ninja is awful & is far to bland & ordinary looking. Set in late 30's America there are a few decent costumes but the majority of the film takes place in one of four locations. In fact the best looking parts of the film are those edited in from the original Puppetmaster.
Filmed in China this is set entirely in the US, I assume it was cheaper to film over there than in the US as penny pinching Charles Band doesn't like to spend money if he doesn't have to. The acting is bad from all involved, it's not just the puppets that look lifeless & wooden here.
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil is terrible, the end leaves things wide open for a further sequel which I can only hope I will never see but know that I will still be dumb enough to watch it. Watch the original again instead or one of the two first sequels when the makers were still trying to make good films.