retro puppet master starts in kolewige during 1944 where puppet master andre toulon (guy rolfe) and his living puppets plan to escape germany and hold up in an inn puppet master toulon reminisces about his early life and the point at which he learned the secret of giving life to dead objects way back in 1902 in paris when his younger self (greg sestero) ran the theate magique. he describes the fateful night when he met a 3000 year old egyptian sorcerer named afzel (jack donner) and the eventual love of hi life the young and beautiful ilsa (brigitta dau). he tells the story of how afzel passed the gift of life to himself and gave life to his own wooden puppets that were part of the theatre magique show. however the gift of life was also a curse as the ancient god sutek whom the secret was stolen from in the first place by afzel wants it back and everyone who has learnt it dead. as of late i have been on a bit of a puppet master bender as being a big fan of the first three i decided to watch the rest of the franchise and as such i have seen puppet master 4 (1993) and puppet master 5 represent the final chapter (1994) and curse of the puppet master (1998) and now retro puppet master in the space of a couple of weeks and boy was it tough to get through them all and especially this one as it the worse of the series so far. retro puppet master feels like a cross between puppet master iii represent toulon revenge (1991) with it period setting and puppet master 4 and puppet master 5 represent the final chapter with sutek trying to kill everyone associated with his stolen life giving secret. there not much continuity here either and again there none of the green serum featured in the earlier films and despite andre toulon committing suicide in 1939 at the start of the original puppetmaster (1989) he is seen alive and well during 1944 in this. the majority of the story is told as a flashback and concentrates on andre toulon himself rather than the puppets and the film focuses on his relationship with ilsa and him learning the secret of life and it all rather dull and tedious stuff to be honest. even at only 80 odd minutes retro puppet master feels long and padded with no real pace and the no central concept as the plot never really settles down and generally hops around a lot. then of course there the baffling decision to totally redesign the puppets which i found incredible and i mean why would the makers take the one basic thing that made the puppet master films so memorable and completely do away with it. the puppets are seen briefly at the start and the end but otherwise we get these rubbishy looking wooden caricatures that are nowhere near as cool as their modern re workings. it never even explained why these puppets were used rather than the ones all puppet master fans have come to love although one suspects that full moon was hoping to make yet another sequel which dealt with that very question. if a poor story and a complete lack of our favourite puppets wasn not bad enough full moon decided to go with a pg 13 rating for this making retro puppet master the only puppet master film not rated r in the us (obviously other countries have their own film ratings systems) and therefore there not a single drop of blood in the entire film and the puppets do not kill anyone and there no swearing and no nudity either. this is tamer than tame kids stuff all the way. besides the puppets themselves being rubbish the special effect are the wost of the series too and there no stop motion animation at all in this one and no cgi computer effects (surely in 1999 cgi was cheap enough. ) and all the effects are of the stiff rod puppet type effects. i mean whenever you see a puppet walk the camera is always positioned above it wait so it legs do not have to be shown and there obviously some production assistant just pushing the thing along and that as complex and state of the art as the special effects get. the one positive thing that retro puppet master does have going for it is that it looks rather nice and the period production design and costumes and props are actually quite impressive and it a fairly handsome film to watch at times. apparently filmed in bucharest in romania which doubles up quite nicely for turn of the last century paris. the acting here is awful and maybe the worst of the series. retro puppet master is more or less the final puppet master film as the next one puppet master represent the legacy (2004) basically edits together footage from the previous seven films and it a pretty crappy way to round the series off which started so well with three excellent and distinctive little killer puppet flicks. don not bother with this and just watch one of the first three again and just remember the good times. the killer puppets would return in the terrible spin off flick puppet master vs demonic toys (2004). 
retro puppet master starts in kolewige during 1944 where puppet master andre toulon (guy rolfe) and his living puppets plan to escape germany and hold up in an inn puppet master toulon reminisces about his early life and the point at which he learned the secret of giving life to dead objects way back in 1902 in paris when his younger self (greg sestero) ran the theate magique. he describes the fateful night when he met a 3000 year old egyptian sorcerer named afzel (jack donner) and the eventual love of hi life the young and beautiful ilsa (brigitta dau). he tells the story of how afzel passed the gift of life to himself and gave life to his own wooden puppets that were part of the theatre magique show. however the gift of life was also a curse as the ancient god sutek whom the secret was stolen from in the first place by afzel wants it back and everyone who has learnt it dead. as of late i have been on a bit of a puppet master bender as being a big fan of the first three i decided to watch the rest of the franchise and as such i have seen puppet master 4 (1993) and puppet master 5 represent the final chapter (1994) and curse of the puppet master (1998) and now retro puppet master in the space of a couple of weeks and boy was it tough to get through them all and especially this one as it the worse of the series so far. retro puppet master feels like a cross between puppet master iii represent toulon revenge (1991) with it period setting and puppet master 4 and puppet master 5 represent the final chapter with sutek trying to kill everyone associated with his stolen life giving secret. there not much continuity here either and again there none of the green serum featured in the earlier films and despite andre toulon committing suicide in 1939 at the start of the original puppetmaster (1989) he is seen alive and well during 1944 in this. the majority of the story is told as a flashback and concentrates on andre toulon himself rather than the puppets and the film focuses on his relationship with ilsa and him learning the secret of life and it all rather dull and tedious stuff to be honest. even at only 80 odd minutes retro puppet master feels long and padded with no real pace and the no central concept as the plot never really settles down and generally hops around a lot. then of course there the baffling decision to totally redesign the puppets which i found incredible and i mean why would the makers take the one basic thing that made the puppet master films so memorable and completely do away with it. the puppets are seen briefly at the start and the end but otherwise we get these rubbishy looking wooden caricatures that are nowhere near as cool as their modern re workings. it never even explained why these puppets were used rather than the ones all puppet master fans have come to love although one suspects that full moon was hoping to make yet another sequel which dealt with that very question. if a poor story and a complete lack of our favourite puppets wasn not bad enough full moon decided to go with a pg 13 rating for this making retro puppet master the only puppet master film not rated r in the us (obviously other countries have their own film ratings systems) and therefore there not a single drop of blood in the entire film and the puppets do not kill anyone and there no swearing and no nudity either. this is tamer than tame kids stuff all the way. besides the puppets themselves being rubbish the special effect are the wost of the series too and there no stop motion animation at all in this one and no cgi computer effects (surely in 1999 cgi was cheap enough. ) and all the effects are of the stiff rod puppet type effects. i mean whenever you see a puppet walk the camera is always positioned above it wait so it legs do not have to be shown and there obviously some production assistant just pushing the thing along and that as complex and state of the art as the special effects get. the one positive thing that retro puppet master does have going for it is that it looks rather nice and the period production design and costumes and props are actually quite impressive and it a fairly handsome film to watch at times. apparently filmed in bucharest in romania which doubles up quite nicely for turn of the last century paris. the acting here is awful and maybe the worst of the series. retro puppet master is more or less the final puppet master film as the next one puppet master represent the legacy (2004) basically edits together footage from the previous seven films and it a pretty crappy way to round the series off which started so well with three excellent and distinctive little killer puppet flicks. don not bother with this and just watch one of the first three again and just remember the good times. the killer puppets would return in the terrible spin off flick puppet master vs demonic toys (2004). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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