The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet, Short Bus Gus, who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Seagal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called "The Hive." Armed with this knowledge, they decide to fight back and destroy the beasts once and for all. Ask the best chefs in the world and they will say that 'presentation is everything'; it's an old adage that I really wish director John Gulager had applied when serving up The Happy Finish, the final chapter in his Feast trilogy. Style and attention to detail are in short order, the film being dished up with all the finesse of a pig farmer with a slop bucket; if it was the third course in a meal, it would result in a severe case of indigestion.<br/><br/>Like Beluga caviar, Marmite and Spam, the film's main ingredients—extreme gore, female nudity, offensive humour, rubbery monsters, and random perversion—are an acquired taste, but Gulager's scatter-shot approach results in a chaotic mess that even seasoned fans of trashy horror will be hard pushed to stomach. There are one or two tasty morsels on offer—some decent effects and a couple of genuinely funny gags—but these are completely smothered by the irritating editing, half-baked ideas, unlikable characters, moronic moments, and truly bizarre directorial choices (an entire scene lit by a strobe?!?!) all of which serve to kill the appetite quicker than a short, curly hair in your mashed potato. As breathlessly anticipated, FEAST III brings the most monstrous menage a trois in the history of skinema to a fitting climax… It's a balls-out, balls-to-the-walls wallbanger. Literally. Characters come and go with wild abandon. Monsters come and go. "Short Bus Gus" is easily the funniest "hero" to hit the screen since "Short Bus" Stiller (and Robert Downey) in TROPIC THUNDER. It was sad to see "Tats" go, but, if the prior two FEASTs are any indication, her death may only be temporary. (And the indication that there may be a fourth entry in the series is encouraging.) FEAST III is a fistload of fun, no doubt about it. (And I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing the origin of the monsters done like a black and white 1950s SF shocker. It could be titled FOUR PLAY…) If you liked BUBBA HO-TEP, you'll love the three-course meal that is the FEAST trilogy.
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