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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.

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.

The third and last Feast part didn't seem as bad as the second, possibly because it was more about running away from the monsters and less about trying to make the characters look funny. It is difficult to enjoy a movie when you can't make yourself to care about any of the characters. And when the gore and weirdness goes completely over the top, you just stop caring.

Bottom line: Feast was a movie I recommend to all my friends, but the second and the third installments are just bad. It is "I wish I would have cleaned the house instead of watching it" bad. It's really depressing to see a movie bring some originality in a tired genre only to try too hard by making sequels that lack the soul of the first and exaggerate everything that didn't matter in the first place.

Better than II or worse then II? There is some debate on that.

At least we can clearly see the monsters in this one.

The gore is worse than ever with decapitations, and the monster eating the head whole, and then, I kid you not, eliminating the uneaten head.

If you have epilepsy, you might not want to watch the last 10 minutes or so. It flashes on and off and it made me dizzy.

It was better that Feast II, but not by much. It was a gore-fest with lots of action, but it was hard to follow exactly what was going on most of the time.

The ending was a real shock!

Loved the first two, very unpredictable and amusing.

This one feels formulaic and dull. You can't really tell what is going on (as mentioned elsewhere) most of the scenes are in darkness with flashing lights and shaky camera work.

I had to constantly prize my finger away from the fast forward button as the characters twittered on or trudged down another pitch black sewer.

It feels like this film is the unwanted runt of the litter, undernourished and unloved.

The ending was so bad I wonder if the director has grown bored of the Feast franchise and hammered nails into its coffin so he wouldn't be bugged about making a fourth.

This movie is the worst of the series, and that's saying a lot . First of all the editing in this movie is confusing and erratic . During the action scenes, its nearly impossible to see what the hell is going on . The combination of the excessively shaky camera, poor lighting, as well as the camera zooming in far too closely, make this movie extremely hard to follow . I had to pause the movie several times just to rest my eyes, and avoid possible seizures . The acting is not that good, but it could just be the mediocre script or perhaps both .

I love gory movies, but whats the point if you cant see anything ?

Don't waste your time on this, you have been warned .

After the demented roller-coaster ride in part two, this boring and literally unwatchable appendix is quite a let-down compared to the earlier installments.

Despite the far-fetched ending, which is so absurd as to be actually funny, we've got more of the same, but with diminishing returns (and badly lit at that.) The newly introduced characters aren't that much of a big deal, either, and the blissfully short running time reflects the uninspired nature of the whole schlock parade.

It was time to end this carnage.

3 out of 10 (h)armless karate kids

Let me start out by saying i am not a horror film fan. I've watched the classics but some how given up on a lot of modern day scary films,as they rely too little on plot and more on nudity,gore, violence and the latter.

Now by saying that, I've watched all three Feast films. I was skeptical,as the reviews had me expecting very little from the films. Let me say,they're not as bad as people give them credit for. A lot of it is gross,and some of the situations are tacky,but i believe the creators of this film are giving the audience the intelligence to know that it's meant to be gross,tacky and out of good taste. With that being said, the movie was quite entertaining. I liked the new characters added to this one,as it follows directly after the second film.

The movie's distasteful points I'm ashamed to admit i found a lot of humor in. I learned that comedy does not need to be intelligent or witty or even crafty to find it funny. If you're expecting Schindler's List or even The Ring, you're definitely not going to get it here. But if you're expecting entertainment packed in a horror-comedy film about disgusting monsters eating humans and killing everything in sight,you will not be too disappointed.

Movies are supposed to entertain,and i think sometimes we get caught up in what's considered a "Good" movie, that we forget that if bad ones didn't exist,we would have little to distinguish the two.

But overall,i'd give it a 7,i would've given it more had they given the new characters more screen time ;p

Even though I have seen all the FEAST films this one is the first of the series I have commented on, I liked both FEAST 1 and 2 but this one, was too overdone and by that I mean the outrageous gross out humor, in the first one it was gross true but it was always unexpected, in two where they took it up a notch it was also still unexpected even if it was more gross, now with three there was no humor it was just gross and when the film gets around to the part where our favorite group of survivors starts to crawl around in the sewers, its so dark the only thing you can make out during the action scenes is screams and roars because you can't see anything.

If you look at the acting you'd probably say these people need to find another profession but if you look at the material you'd think if any of these people can keep a straight face in a film like this they deserve an Oscar.

Overall, this film had the potential to be hugely entertaining, but the execution was simply put to stupid to make it so, and thus it is the weakest entry in the series

I was looking forward for part 3 and the final of Feast. Again it's all in the same way of course of part 1 and part 2. A lot of gore again, bad jokes, tits and all what you want but sometimes it drops a bit. Don't get me wrong, it is still a good flick, but in the sewer it drops a bit, takes too long for me but overall again you will have a big laugh with farts and the way some are killed. Also you have to watch it while the end credits are running, the movie is still going on. Some people really have a problem with this trilogy, just watch the reviews, the first got a lot of reviewers and from then on it drops. If you really want a good feast than just watch, sigh, Feast. Even the ending is great. Nothing to do with the storyline but still the director got away with it. Really, an underrated trilogy!

The Happy Finish is just plain bad. It's pretty much just like the first two, except much, much stupider. And..., the hot chicks that made the 1st one memorable and the 2nd less so, died off. Much like 2, I wanted every single person, except for 1 hot chick, to die a very horrible death. Everybody is just plain retarded. Nothing about this movie, or even the entire trilogy, makes any sense. Everything, the acting, the special and monster effects, the plot, the ending, the dialogue, every single f***ing thing about this movie is just plain stupid. Think about any trilogy and remember how bad the 3rd movie was in comparison to the 1st and/or 2nd? Well..., this is a whole new level of terrible. For some very stupid reason, the Feast trilogy seems to have a cult following. That makes me sad to know there are so many stupid people in this world and fearful of where life on Earth is headed.

Yes, just a few short months after Feast II, here comes the happy finish to the trilogy. And while this one is not as good as the first one, it is a bit better than two. The focus of this one is comedy more than horror, though there is plenty of gore and once again boobs to keep me entertained, but then I am a pervert who likes a good gory movie. The story has our group of survivors right where they were after the last movie and like the last movie they have to do a lot of stuff to try and survive. They have no need to fear though as a butt kicking gun touting hero, a prophet, and a martial arts master come to the aid of our tired and beat down gang. They have to go through many obstacles on their way to finding a way past the deadly creatures that feast upon human flesh. From the rooftop where we left them, to the sheriff's office, and to a drainage pipe. You will get to see one person tired of the abuse get out of the film fairly quickly, lots of deaths, the use of gunpowder to stop the bleeding, and an ending that made me go "what"? It is far from perfect as the tunnel scenes were a bit dark and they used night vision camera's a bit to much. Still the cast is still funny in a strange way and I like the way it follows the first movies format of introducing the characters and the previous movies combined. It is nice in this entire series that the monsters are a combination of costume and makeup rather than the computer generated monsters of the science fiction channel too. I don't understand why the score is so low here on the same level with the abysmal "Automaton Transfusion" as that piece of crap had no sort of ending whatsoever and the effects were not good even for a low budget movie. Though people here probably took pity upon it because it was a beginner film maker who made it.

I haven't read up on the making of, but this one feels like it was shot back-to-back with part 2. Actually it feels more like a successor (in tone and story-wise) to its predecessor than part 1 does with any of those two sequels. If you take into account that the first one was the best one, that isn't really a good thing though. But we have our written introductions back, which is a nice thing. Still worked best in the first Feast movie though.

The subtitle of the movie is happy finish, but I kinda have a feeling they wanted to use "endings" instead of finish. I might be wrong, but that would have been more of a fit (especially thinking of "sloppy seconds" and its meaning). Some nice ideas and one theme towards the end, that reminded me of something out of a Monthy Python movie (and the Holy Grail that is). And because you can't satisfy everybody with an ending, we get the "wtf" treatment here. Same director as the other Feast movies

When it comes to a true relic it's hard to give a review. All I can say is that this (literally) piece of s**t is good cinema.

Where this lacks in structure it makes up in substance. The substance being not the cruelty or injustice of the world, but the driving force of all humanity: fun and love.

Kaufman said that the cinema is a dead art form. Pure hubris. Of course that was after the fact that he'd just created one of the more meaningful pieces of art: Synecdoche New york. Cinema just needs to go boldly where no one has gone before.

Beyond theater, no matter how much as it hurts. Saying farewell to Shakespeare causes physical pain, but sometimes the pain is good. Or like on tn the case of a modern human being, necessary.

In cinema there's nothing to bind us. Nothing to keep us apart. The cycle begins again when nothing is given. Well, except our endless appetite for sex and violence.

Would someone please give Gulager a script worthy of his talent? It is clear in all three "Feast" films that Gulager has genuine talent as a director, but the Feast scripts are increasingly puerile. The writing is neither funny nor clever, though it is clear that it thinks it is. Give Gulager a script like The Man Who Wasn't There or In Bruges and let him shine.

No more Dunstan and Melton scripts...please! Even at the most basic levels, these screenplays are flawed. For example, in Feast II (subtitled "Sloppy Seconds" for no other reason than it makes nine-year-olds titter), characters behave inconsistently--one moment they risk their lives to save another and the next they are chickens who toss kids to monsters to save themselves--actions are implausible, and dialog is juvenile. Pouring gore onto the actors doesn't make up for a flawed story. And...there is no story here to speak of other than a bunch of cartoon characters running around getting eviscerated by monsters. If it weren't for Gulager's contribution, these films would be among the worst ever made.

Simple few sentence review. The series OTHER than the original is utter garbage and a complete mess. The final in the series Happy Finish is just plain dumb.

If you like cheesy (and gory) horror then you'll probably have seen the original 'Feast' film. It was nice and compact, with plenty of claret spewing all over the place, not to mention a few surprising moments which deliberately defied convention. Then came the second chapter, which did its best to 'up the ante' and be more outrageous and generally more violent. It succeeded, but somehow it lost all its charm.

'Part III' was made back to back with Part II and therefore feels exactly like the second half. Sadly, although it too contains extreme violence and black humour, it doesn't compare to the original. Just like Part II, the characters are unlikeable, the monsters look like big men in rubber suits and the story sort of ambles from set-piece to set-piece.

When I'm the mood for a story like 'Feast' I'll watch all three. Parts II and III have their moments, but the original was best and always will be. If you're just a casual horror fan, stick with the first one and avoid the second pair.

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Watching "Feast III" was a bad idea, not just because I knew from beforehand that I was going to hate it, but also because it's been nearly 10 years since I saw parts one and two. As it's a back-to-back sequel, "The Happy Finish" immediately picks up where "Sloppy Seconds" left off, and frankly I didn't have any recollection of who the lead characters were. Obviously, the script isn't rocket science, but I nevertheless missed out on the copious references towards the previous installments. The only things I remember were that I loved the first "Feast" (refreshing and exciting) but that I absolutely disliked "Feast II" (pretentious and boring). And, since I read in most reviews that number 3 is basically just as annoying and redundant as part 2, I probably never should have bothered.

Even though John Gulager's first film was a clever and original horror gem, the sequels seem exclusively aimed at trash-fanatics with an extremely bad taste in cinema and a weakness for vulgar and infantile toilet humor. If you fancy watching rancid stuff like anally getting raped by monsters or swallowed human heads coming right back out of the rear end, you can't afford to let "Feast III" bypass. However, if you have a tiny bit of dignity left, you'll be eye-rolling the entire time and resisting to push the "stop" or "fast-forward" button. Maybe I've become a sourpuss over the years, but I fail to see what's funny about a bloke stumbling and driveling through the entire film with a metal pipe through his head. And, if the tastelessness doesn't turn you off, the downright lousy digital effects and amateurish editing will!

Forced to find new battle strategies, the dwindling number of survivors are caught in a race through underground sewers in an effort to finally escape from the marauding creatures once and for all.

On the whole this one turned out to be a minor disappointment compared to the others in the series. The biggest problem with this one tends to be the rather shortened length of time here, barely running a full hour despite a non-stop pace that features a ton of action throughout here. This tends to make this feel more like it should've been built together into the second entry and tacked onto that one rather than being shuffled off into a new effort as several scenes from that could've been taken out and replaced with the action of this one to make for a seamless transition. That tends to make this one feel a tad worthless and expendable with not really needing to be featured at all which is quite disappointing overall. Still, this one really gets a lot to like throughout as this one tends to continue on in the series' penchant for over-the-top extremity throughout with not only the scatological references and intensely sexualized nature of both the creatures and the survivors but also in regards to the gore which is again quite gruesome and endearing. In addition to limbs being ripped off and entrails splattered across the ground but also there's vicious stab-wounds, tons of scratches and clawed up bodies, decapitations and bodies bursting from the inside out among other vicious tactics which is quite fun here. This rampant amount of gore comes from the nearly-relentless pace featured here with the attacks continuing on throughout the film with the race through the car-yard, a battle in an underground hole and the numerous battles in the sewers providing both action and suspense as the vicious creatures create several encounters here that are quite enjoyable including the blazing final battle in a strobe-light-lit rave scene that's quite thrilling and exciting. The creatures still look good, there's a lot to like here, but those few small problems do hold this down.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language, Nudity, plenty of scatological references and gross creature humor.

If you are looking for art, this isn't the place. Then again, Feast 3 is a really decent splatter movie. We got wonderfully stereotypical characters, good presentation and decent camera work. An awful story and great effects. I laughed and I enjoyed the effects immensely.

Now, the movie is of course enjoy even more if you have already seen the other movies. But basically, it's about these people being hunted by a bunch of gruesome monsters. The amusing part of them being the fact that they have rather large... erm... reproducing organs.

People nice in hilarious ways, there is plenty of exposed boobs and the movie is certainly not for the squeamish. But as much violence, gore and blood there is, just as much humour it's got. I mean, come on, it's got a martial artist named "Jean-Claude Segal"! Just how serious do you really think it is? In the end, the production value is dead serious, though. Just about all effects are well done and it's clear that the crew was enjoying themselves.

Great effort for a STV movie with a relatively small budget.

Filmed back-to-back with Feast II, this one continues where part II left off but this one has a couple of surprises. It starts with yet another unnecessary disgusting scene. There's a silly intro presenting us all the characters with some lines that don't really do much to describe them but make clear that this movie will be all about who ends up alive or dead. The group of survivors from part II decide to come down from the roof, when a stranger arrives crashing into the jail. He's all action and wants to shoot his way out of town. But out of the suddenly something hilariously surprising happens and that plan cannot be carried out.

They end up splitting and some find a buried bus that they then use to get to the surface but the bus, of course, dies and they're back on the streets. This bus scene is poorly conceived, executed, and shot. There's even dirt on the camera lens. When almost all seems lost a strange character appears who can control the monsters- or so it appears. He guides them into the sewers.

In the sewers they run into a karate kid, who also meets an outrageously funny fate. But there are also some type of partying cannibal people making things difficult. And suddenly, as if 10 minutes of the movie were missing, they're back on the surface.

This movie adds some interesting characters because part II sorely lacked them and also some funny twists. The ugly chick who was the main character isn't so important here, thankfully. In fact, there is no main character. And the monsters who were scary in part I are reduced to bad latex jokes and the story often makes no sense.

What a disappointment. They ruined everything and it started so well

The third movie isn't good, its full dark all the time, i spent 1 hour of not seeing anything only dark and screams, and some screenshots. And an unfair unreasonable ending. It has so much potential it could go so perfect and they messed it up. Im done with Feasts R.I.P.