Puppet Master 7

Starring:Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart, Jack Donner, Guy Rolfe, Robert Radoveanu, Vitalie Bantas, Sando Teodor, George Calin, Juliano Doman, Vlad Dulea, Dan Fintescu, Serban Celea, Elvira Deatcu, Claudiu Trandafir, Marcello Cobzarju, Viorel Manole, Mihai Verbintschi, Adrian Ciobanu, Razvan Popa
Director: David DeCoteau
Studio: Full Moon Releasing
Product Type: DVD

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Hitting on all cylinders!
" The plot thickens..."
It's truely rare to find a good dubb. This is one.
Nearing the End...
Nearing the End...

Trigun - Puppet Master (Vol. 7)
Starring: Masaya Onosaka , Hiromi Tsuru , Satsuki Yukino , Aya Hisakawa , and Tôru Furusawa
Director: Satoshi Nishimura
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Trigun - High Noon (Vol. 8)
Trigun Vol. 6 - Project Seeds
Trigun Vol. 5 - Angel Arms
Trigun Vol. 4 - Gung-Ho Guns
Trigun Vol. 3 - Wolfwood (Geneon Signature Series)

ASIN: 6305821585
Release Date: 2001-03-27

Description

Vash leaps into the heart of the storm and leads Wolfwood to the spaceship that failed to crash. Unfortunately, the Gung -Ho Guns have also invaded paradise wth two purposes - to destroy a sanctuary for humans, and to inflict as much pain to Vash as possible. Wolfwood chooses to side with Vash, but questions his ability to win - will Wolfwood walk the path of destruction again?! Trigun Vol. 7 - Puppet Master (Episodes 20, 21 & 22) Special chromium front cover! (While supplies last.)

Customer Reviews:

Hitting on all cylinders!.......2003-06-30

In this collection, the plot begins to pick up speed. Having again to decided to bear the burden of being Vash the Stampede, Vash decides to return home. Home, in this case, is a floating sky city - the last operating spaceship in the fleet that brought Knives and Vash to this planet. The denizens of that ship live in their own isolated society. Accompanied by Wolfwood, Vash pays his first visit home in many years. Unknown to him, however, Legato Bluesummers has dispatched three Gung-Ho Guns to the sky city.

With a plot like this, the "Trigun" fan can expect lots of over-the-top action and gunfights. This two-parter doesn't disappoint. Wolfwood begins using his cross as, alternately, a machine gun and rocket launcher. Vash enagages in a number of nifty fight sequences without fatally injuring anyone. What makes these two episodes work, however, is the wrting. The script draws out the emotions behind the characters. There's a lot of suspense and terror behind the Gung-Go Guns slaughter. And the ending is very sad. Impessively so, since the involved characters were only introduced for these two episodes.

Episode 22, "Alternatives", has one of the dumber "Trigun" plots. More mindless hysteria at the mere mention of Vash' name, coupled with giant worms. But, watching it for a second time, I remembered why this series works. Characterization. This episode further defines the principals. Milly's soft-heart, Vash's let-live-at-all-costs philosoph, Wolfwood's weary cyncicism; these viewpoints play nicely off each other. And the ending is pivotal, one of the turning points in "Trigun."

All in all, an excellent run of episodes. Maybe not a five-star classic, but definitely worthy of 4 1/2 stars.

" The plot thickens...".......2002-06-09

Vash the stampede has been having a hard time as it is trying to live with Meryl, get away from the Gung Ho Guns & get enough courage to fight Legato & his brother. Deciding to take a break Vash visits a couple of old friends on one of the Seeds ships that failed to land. While visiting Vash meets up with his old friends including the annoying lil' girl named Jessica who is maddly in love with Vash. But not many of the people in the ship welcome Wolfwood as well as they do Vash. While Wolfwood feels how it is to be left alone for the hunderth time in his life as a guess, Vash gets a new arm and Jessica gets kidnapped. Back on Earth Milly & Meryl are trying to locate Vash but will they get to him in time? It's a race to get Jessica back and stop the Gung Ho Guns before the ship's air is cut off and the ship crashes begins, as well as Milly & Meryl to locate Vash before the law does. But will Wolfwood be the one to take the blame for the ship's crash? Or will Vash? You can't miss this two part episode of Trigun, then Vash, Wolfwood, Milly, & Meryl are traveling to a town but the towns folk don't like them to well and don't allow them in the group has to take the trust of a young boy by the name of Bedet, but will his friendship end in betrayl? And will Vash & Wolfwoods friendship be able to stay alive with what has happened to Bedet? If you haven't seen this volume yet you better because it's last time you'll be seeing are characters ALL together as well as alive, happy, & well.

It's truely rare to find a good dubb. This is one........2002-01-23

I've never read the manga, but these sure make me want to go out & buy the whole lot.
It's kinda like Outlaw Star meets Cowboy Bebop. It's absolutely hilarious & even modest adults can't escape the spell it puts on you. My only regret id that the last few episodes dramatically switched from humor to seriousness, just like Ruroni Kenshin.

Nearing the End..........2001-05-06

Well, sadly Trigun's almost over. After this volume is the final one with the remaining four episodes, which make this volume look like nothing. But this volume is full of great scenes and drama. It's not as *funny* (although Vash manages to get a few scenes in) as the previous volumes, almost the polar opposite of volume one. The transition started at episode 12, "Diablo" from comedy to drama is complete and everything's spiraling down...

This volume contains three episodes, "Flying Ship", "Out of Time" and the aptly titled "Alternative". Wolfwood follows Vash to a Project SEEDS ship that failed to crash. Of course, the Gung-Ho-Guns follow as well; heartbreak ensues. Meryl and Milly play a much bigger part in the third episode. In "Alternative", the four befriend a group of orphan children living in the desert. But things aren't always what they seem. The volume ends with a moral argument of Vash's idealism versus realism. Wolfwood hits rock bottom mentally.

The character interaction is what sets this series apart from others, and is really the focus of this volume.

Well, 24 days 'til volume eight! ^_^

Nearing the End..........2001-05-06

The character interaction is what sets this series apart from others, and is really the focus of this volume.

Customer Reviews:

Retro Puppet Master.......2005-09-19

Movies like this, which don't fall into the big budget release category, are a genre unto themselves. This is not your typical, slick buckets-of-blood Hollywood horror thriller. There's a wonderful sense of intimacy and as one reviewer has noted, real craftsmanship about this rather scarey movie. It has a charm of its own. It also has a memorable film score by John Massari, a wonderful composer who deserves much more critical acclaim. The score is understated and subtle, rather than a lot of overdone, in-your-face movie soundtracks. It draws you in and keeps you riveted; it complements this little gem of a film.

a dark fairy tale.......2004-11-24

No gore here! It's largely bloodless - but I'm a huge fan of this horror series and I enjoyed Retro Puppet Master. It's "quaint" and I know many Puppet fans and gore-hounds won't like it but the "fairy tale" quality of this one won me over. Guy Rolfe tells the tale of how once upon a time the young Toulon was granted the magic to bring his puppets to life. This is such a charming little movie that some horror fans will love it and others will hate it. I love all types of horror movies (including the bloodier early Puppet Masters) and I *loved* this one.

Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga.......2003-12-24

I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.

When it opened up with the aging Toulon (THE puppetmaster, in my opinion) and his friends, I had high hopes. However, he's not here to act he's here to tell a story about his younger days. You see, a long time ago a bunch of white people pretending to be Arabs stole the secret to revitalizing life from Sutek (who, if I remember my Egyptian lore, was banished to another world and has no powers any way). Sutek gets mad and revives three mummies to catch the Egyptian that stole it.

These mummies are perhaps the craziest part of this movie. For one, they annoyingly repeat each other's sentences. For another, they act and look like the Agents from the first Matrix (even with one leader mummy, the "Agent Smith" of the Undead). Also, they're not that scary. They kill you by basically pointing at you. This means no gore and no real excitement. Any way, back to the puppets:

Toulon originally was head of a puppet troupe entertaining the wealthy of 19th century Paris. The Egyptian comes and teaches Toulon the secret of revitalization. This isn't all that great - the mummies come to the theater and kill off all of Toulon's friends looking for the Egyptian. Toulon finds them and puts their souls into the puppets. The mummies come and attack Toulon, but thankfully Toulon has the puppets to help. Actually, the puppets aren't all that great. One of them just kinda nips a mummy in the ankle and then gets kicked away. And that was your fight scene for the entire movie.

Things just kinda happen from there...the love interest gets kidnapped from the Swiss Embassy, Toulon saves her, and then the movie up and ends. Like the reviewer before me said, the film suggests a sequal. Toulon looks to his puppets and says, "that is another story for another day."

All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!"

This film had a lot of potential (leaving those stupid teenagers getting attacked by demons and going back to Toulon's story) but unfortunately it gets marred by bad scripts and acting. I might also add the special affects in this are HORRIBLE. How horrible? In one scene, you can see the hand holding one of the puppets! No I don't mean if you look hard you see a finger, I mean you can actually see a full-fledged, identifiable hand lifting a puppet up! Did the editor want to kill the movie? What would it have cost them to refilm that part? $2? Maybe a quarter?

Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER........2002-03-25

The Puppet Master series, definitely tired after Part III, drags terribly in this, the seventh installment, less a movie than a commercial for more Puppet Master toys. Basically a prequel, an aged Toulon tells his puppets the story of the origins of his powers and the puppets themselves, introducing a few new puppets and "retro" versions of those we already know.

Fans of the Puppet Master series are a forgiving bunch. As an owner of the box set of all seven films (so far), I must admit that my standards aren't too high when it comes to horror films, especially these Full Moon creations. This time, however, there was no gratifying gore or over-the-top characters (a la BLOOD DOLLS) to make up for the downright terrible acting and lack of action or compelling story. I'm sure the budget for this production was ultra-low, but even the traditionally bad animation of the puppets was especially stilted in this chapter. There are zero scares - and zero blood for that matter. The puppets merely slash at reanimated mummies sent to retrieve Toulon's secret--and they barely manage to scare up some sawdust while dispatching the villains.

The film's ending in itself is a reason to celebrate, save for the fact that yet another sequel is set up with a last line of "that's another story for another time." In the accompanying VideoZone feature, Charles Band assures the viewer that a full line of action figures will be marketed for this film. No kidding. If you're a Puppet Master fan, though, you'll need to own this. There's just something about a film that's so bad as to make it irresistable. In the end, I don't know what's worse: this film or the fact that I know I'll be first in line to buy Part 8 when it's released...and Part 9...and 10...

JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.......2001-11-08

I hadn't heard of the 'Puppet Master' series at all when this came on the SFI channel recently. 'Retro' has craftsmanship from the very start, with good acting and well-done scene-setting. Nonetheless I was startled at the high quality of the depiction of the evil followers of Zutek, a forgotten god of Ancient Egyptian times. They spoke and comported themselves exactly like the 'Bicameral Man' of Julian Jaynes book 'Origin of Consciousness..'. When Zutek spoke to them, the hypnotic power of that voice was excellently rendered. I don't know if the producers had read Jaynes, but the highly expert way they did the villains is typical of the entire movie. The puppets themselves, mere pieces of painted wood bobbing up and down, became powerful beings just via a few grunts and some very effectively rythmic music. This is one of the few movies I wanted to see again right away, and to own on DVD.

Average customer rating:

Retro Puppet Master
a dark fairy tale
Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga
Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER.
JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT

Puppet Master 7 [Region 2]
Starring: Greg Sestero , Brigitta Dau , Stephen Blackehart , Jack Donner , and Guy Rolfe
Director: David DeCoteau
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005N9M7

Customer Reviews:

Retro Puppet Master.......2005-09-19

a dark fairy tale.......2004-11-24

Bad attempt at revitalizing the saga.......2003-12-24

I personally think the series should have ended at Puppetmaster III. Unfortunately, I'm not the people in charge of the films, so we get things like this.

All I had to think of was, "NO GOD! NOOOOO!!!"

Glutton for punishment? Check out RETRO PUPPET MASTER........2002-03-25

JULIAN JAYNES WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.......2001-11-08

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