Wonderful character development!

Purely Joyful Movie!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Robert Toulon (Corey Feldman), great-nephew of the master toymaker Andre Toulon, has taken control of the puppet-making destiny his great-uncle began decades prior. When Erica Sharpe (Vanessa Angel) of Sharpe Toys finds out Toulon's secret formula brings the puppets to life, Robert and his daughter, Alexandra (Danielle Keaton), are put in danger and it becomes a battle royale between the. . . Puppet Masters and Demonic Toys!As a ninth sequel (yes, ninth) to the Puppet Master series and the third sequel to the lesser known Demonic Toys series, it's difficult (and foolish) to expect much from this film. The only thing it really needs to achieve is watchability. Toss in some violence & gore, and it's even better. Maybe some laughs? Alright, that's good too. Luckily, it achieves all of those elements. It's definitely entertaining, there's some okay violence, and there's more than a bit of comedy (especially from Feldman's extreme over-acting). Technically, the film is very bad. The script (especially the horrid dialogue) is just plain terrible. The story makes little sense and just randomly tosses in some plot elements without any real cause. The direction is extremely amateurish and the mix of stop motion and puppetry was worse than Team America (and, at least, Team America was purposely bad). The acting was worse than all of this, but bordered on laughably embarrassing, so it made it slightly more funny. Overall, it's not a good film. At all. But, if you're a fan of the previous installments of either series, or if you're just looking for an easy, cheesy way to spend a bit of time, I wouldn't discourage.Obligatory Christmas-Horror Elements:Subgenre: Dolls. . . Possession. . . etc.Christmas Carols: A little bit, but mainly only the Sharpe Toys jingle.Snow: As it was supposed to take place in LA (filmed in Bulgaria), there wasn't any snow.Person in a Santa suit: Perhaps, but I didn't see one.Violence/Gore: Mostly doll attacks, so nothing overly gruesome. . . but there's quite a bit of blood and such.Sex/Nudity: As it's a made-for-TV movie, we got nothing'.Scares/Suspense: Not really. Some of the dolls are pretty creepy, but that's about it.Mystery: Absolutely none.- -Final verdict: 4/10. It's too stupid to entirely hate.-AP3-

I alternate between loving and hating this movie for how bad it is. If you love bad b horror movies this is for you. I was very young whenever I saw any of the "Puppetmaster" movies so I can't really comment on how those relate to this movie. This movie nearly has it all - I say nearly becuz it does not have nudity :( However it does have satanic virgin sacrifices, evil toys that kill with awesomely bad stop-motion, and a stupid unconvincing portrayal of a mad-scientist by a washed-up former child actor (one of the corey's). And it only gets worse (yes worse). There is also a policewoman who wear her police uniform for the entire film! Every single scene, which included many scence were it made no sense for her to be wearing her on-duty police uniform. I mean who the hell did wardrobe for this film? Probably the same idiot that was responsible for casting - the father/daughter are almost the same age! They put her in pigtails and him in a bad wig to, I guess suggest a greater age difference, but its just laughable and a little creepy. Amazingly this is not the most terrible movie in the world - the plot is fairly consistent, its a stupid guilty pleasure horror movie.and demon wearing a mask

I appeal to Charles Band to take back his franchise before it's totally destroyed. This latest venture has got to be the most disappointing yet. Full Moon didn't even have anything to do with it. The Puppet and Demonic Toy effects take a major downgrade, the story is hard to follow. Andre mentioned he had a brother once in the third movie, but he also said he was killed by the Nazi, so having a great Newphew is impossible. I wish writers would study the material they are working on. Research people, if you are adaptation something from another medium, research it. Pinhead didn't have the real human hands he did the other flicks, Blade didn't have those dart things in his eyes. The blade and the hook looked like plastic. I said it before, it's not the budget is how you use it. This one had the largest budget ever in the Puppet Master or Demonic Toys series put together and it still was far worse then the lower budget versions. Please Charles take your children back. I give it 5 STARS.

I cannot believe what I just saw here! I am very much a fan of the series, and have been for a long time, but this was just utter garbage. I know the main thrust of this series is about mindless mayhem and entertainment, but nothing in this film made any sense.In brief - which wont be hard - Robert Toulon (Feldman) is struggling to decipher Andre Toulon's notes and scriptures in order to find the formula to bring the puppets to life. He does this in about the second scene, but unfortunately a major toy company have been spying on him (through a camera hid in a toy in his workshop!) and attempt to snatch the formula from him in order to treat their dolls with it (the Demonic Toys) and unleash them on the unsuspecting public in time for Christmas. After a lot of faffing about, the puppets have a scrap.Corey Feldman speaks in a ridiculous voice all the way through and is the victim of the worst make up department in cinema history. His character isn't written too badly, but it's the only one.The evil creator of the Demonic Toys has a bodyguard who in one scene is lamenting her wicked ways by referring constantly to her noble father, and in the next is torturing and murdering a young girl before consulting with Satan himself (another victim of the make up AND costume department) as to the best method of acquiring Toulons secret. Later he laments about the purpose of Christmas once being time of spreading joy to little girls and boys!!! Excuse me mate, but didn't you just gruesomely torture to death someone in the basement?! His daughter - who is the best in this bad bunch - litters the script with sickly, throwaway phrases such as 'this is gonna be the BEST Christmas EVER, Dad', and as for the aforementioned bodyguard's henchmen.......I don't think they'd stand a chance against the Olsen twins.Then, of course, there are the puppets. And my God, don't they look awful. They appear to have been carved out of plastic for this one. No discernible expressions, walking like the Thunderbirds and jittering about like they have a severe case of Tourette's Syndrome. Just awful. In fact, and perhaps its an irony - they do look like real toys (wrestling figures or something) as their facial expressions are restricted to doing goldfish impressions. Don't even start me on the 'humour' in the film. It wouldn't amuse the most hardened Beethoven 2 fan.I cannot describe how poor this is. I really can't. I'm only glad that I hired this for free as part of a 30 day trial at an online DVD rental company.Who wrote this? Almost 20 years creating the legacy, and it just takes about an hour and twenty minutes to pi$$ all over it.