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Fun fact, the Matt Damon puppet was actually supposed to be a super intelligent spy with state of the art spy gadgets! But because the puppet turned out so bad and they ran out of time, they decided to make it seem like it was mentally challenged!
Whenever he hands Gary the hammer I laugh. Just the mental imagine of a panicked puppet struggling to bash his own head in with a hammer? It’s funny to me.
There was a TV show back in the 60's called "Thunderbirds" that used very similar puppetry. The choice to use puppets here is a "take-off", satire or spoof of it and was probably influenced by that show in many ways.
My absolute favorite show! I used to watch the reruns of it on TV as a kid 20 years ago! But my first introduction to this show was watching the Thunderbirds Are Go movie on VHS! I really wish I could have bought the VHS tape back then!
Yes, this is 100% the inspiration, particularly their America Jet. It's as on-the-nose as you can get, but most of us who saw it (i saw it in the theater when it released during the 2004 general election cycle), were too young to remember Thunderbirds. I think that show was from the late 60s maybe early 70s.
This movie honestly wouldn't be funny as it is if it didn't have puppets, it would also just be another typical comedy movie and not be close to this level of funny.
This, Tropic Thunder, Sausage Party and a few others are films I like to point to when they say films like Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today. It can, it just requires a good satirical script, just like Blazing Saddles had, and good satire is few and far between.
Comparing Sausage Party to Blazing Saddles makes me want to reach through the internet and smack you in the mouth. One is a piece of comedic history, and the other is a CG nightmare that thinks dick jokes and food puns are the cutting edge of funny.
In the 1960’s there were 3 kid’s TV shows from the UK that used marionettes: Stingray, Captain Scarlet, and Thunderbirds. Tray Parker and Matt Stone wanted to do a comedic remake of Thunderbirds, but someone had already bought the film rights to Thunderbirds which was released a few years later. (although that one did not use puppets) So Parker and Stone decided to write their own movie using marionettes. They assumed it would be easy but learned the hard way that it wasn’t. The film bombed, and they hated making it. Which is probably why it is the only major motion picture to use marrionettes.
I mean it's south park creators who still make south park today, which we could say is even crazier since they literal children doing the completely insane things.
When this came out, my msg alert for months was "ahh durka durka durk" i thought my muslim colleagues would be upset til i went to work and like 30 of them had the same idea 😂
no, puppets/marionettes are a thousand time more expensive and time consuming than animation. this is probably the longest puppet movie that will ever be made because they're such a pain in the ass, until we program AI to work them.
Yes it's puppetry but if you're being very specific they are called "Marionettes" because they're controlled with strings from above. Pinocchio is probably the most well known marionette of all time along with Howdy Doody. In the case of this movie and many such TV shows with marionette like this, the eyes face and mouth are all moved by Servo Motors and electronics inside the head. As a joke for the most part they don't take out the strings in the movie so you can see the puppets are hanging by the strings which is usually not done because it would be like showing Superman's ropes that are holding him up that. One of the more fun Parts about it is the Puppet Masters were actually quite good and could make them puppets move fairly realistically. Trey Parker and Matt Stone thought it would be way funnier if they walked around horribly and it looked even more like a puppet show. They also made that first opening scene with the really crappy marionette a couple of minutes long just to mess with the studio so that they would think that was what the movie they made looks like. The studio gave them all the money to go out and make a movie with marionettes and as soon as they started playing the test view to them, one of the executives stood up and went "God dammit they f&*ked us" thinking they had kept all the production money and just put out this absolutely horrible looking marionette movie. The Matt Damon puppet was actually supposed to be a gadget using super spy type deal for the actors but when the original puppet came in and it looks so ridiculous and stupid they changed the character to just be as stupid as the puppet looked because they didn't think it would fit doing it with the part that they had. There was actually nothing personal that they were doing against Matt Damon in that.
Unfortunately there will never be a sequel because both Matt and Trey have both sworn to never work with puppets again because of what a logistical nightmare was to make the movie.
The puppets are an homage to an old TV show called Thunderbirds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BfIAKj3Gl1E.html I used to love watching reruns as a kid. Plus it's just awesome and hilarious 😜
