LET MY PUPPETS COME (1976) ****

Let My Puppets Come is the world’s first puppet musical comedy porno movie.  Leave it to Gerard Damiano, the director of The Devil in Miss Jones to come up with something like this.  Sure, the idea of puppets singing, cursing, and fucking seems crude and obvious, but the surprising thing is, it manages to get a lot of laughs.  Although I can’t quite say I was aroused by all this, I have to admit the sight of puppets going at it works better than you’d probably expect.  

A trio of brothers are up to their necks in debt.  “Mr. Big” is giving them 24 hours to pay up, so they have to think up a get-rich-quick scheme, and fast.  They decide to pool their resources and, naturally, make a porno.  

Previously only available in a shortened forty-three-minute version, Vinegar Syndrome has released Let My Puppets Come it in its original uncut form.  Now we can see it in all its puppet-fucking glory.  Even at seventy-five minutes, it feels like half that because it whizzes by at such a dizzying clip.  

The scenes of puppets sucking and fucking are warped, weird, and/or just plain fun.  One involves a dog fucking its owner.  Another has the “head nurse” blowing her terminally ill patient.  (This is the only scene that contains an actual onscreen “orgasm”.)  Pinocchio, predictably, bangs girls with his nose.  

This was probably the inspiration for Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles.  It’s not as consistently funny or crazy as that film, but man, is it something to see.  If there is a complaint, its that the human cast is kind of sparse, so there’s only a handful of nude scenes involving flesh and blood women.  Even then, these scenes manage to get some big laughs.  

Besides, pornos with human casts are a dime a dozen.  Pornos with puppets are precious and few.  Thank God Vinegar Syndrome is there to preserve this one for all time.