Haven't seen too many marionette films, so this was a newish format. I seem to remember something similar on British tv, quite a long time ago, for kids. If you're in the right mood you might find it fairly funny. However, come to think of it, I didn't laugh once. Like the Amazon man says, don't expect anything subtle. Although the politics may be different, this seemed to me to be in the vein of Blazing Saddles, which I found to be a seriously unfunny film. There's something about this style of American humour, which kills them over there, but which travels extremely badly to other parts of the globe; and I can't really recommend it to anyone outside the good ol' USA.