Synopsis

F5: Fuzzywhumple Resurrection is the longest, biggest, and most ambitious Tokugawa movie yet. It picks up right where A Fuzzywhumple Christmas ends and concludes the series in a very dramatic and gory fashion.

Fred Parker (David Benjamin) has finally slayed all the fuzzywhumples and destroyed all their storybooks. When he is about to destroy the last book, a government man, Bishop, approaches him. Bishop tries to talk Fred into giving him the whumple book (evil government man that he is, he wants to utilize the whumples as Weapons of Mass Destruction™). Fred turns down Bishop's offer, swallows the book, and leaps to his fiery death.

200 years later, in a totalitarian Confederacy governed by the brainwashing "wisdom" of a man called Grandfather (Jeff Cumpston), Fred Parker is cloned--twice!--by a madman (Clark Kirkman) who wants nothing more than the destruction of the Confederacy and all its citizens. Apparently this madman did some research, because he knows full well what happens when people don't believe in the Fuzzywhumple Storybook: the whumples come to this dimension and kill everyone they encounter. So, wishing to topple Grandfather's horrid rule, the madman removes the book from the first Fred clone and gets it published. The second Fred clone does not have his book removed, and will pay for this later when a whumple emerges from the book and bursts from his chest--but until that fateful day, the two clones are on a mission to stop the horrendous beasts.

Who else can stop the whumples? Why, there's Immanuel Goldstein (Kyle Kuypers) and his band of mercenaries! Goldstein, like the madman, does not care for the Confederacy, but rather than taking out hundreds of innocent people by means of vicious fairy-tale creatures, he prefers to do things the right way, by striking back at the government itself. A member of the government, Dr. Kreizler (Kendall McConnel), also joins in the fight, and ultimately both Goldstein and Kreizler team up with the clones to exterminate the beasts.

Influences

Numerous other sources influenced F5 besides the obvious Alien Resurrection: Brave New World, 1984, Alien 3, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Legends of the Fall, Ransom, and a few other Tokugawa movies including the previous whumple installments, The Escape, and the first and third Diuretic Park movies.

Method

Perhaps the most significant thing to know about F5 is that it was filmed without a script. A few other Tokugawa movies had been improvised (The Suburban Samurai and the Adventures of Jeff and The Meaning of Life), but never on a scale this large and with such a good outcome. The only pre-written dialogue were the Grandfather speeches and the poems read from the Fuzzywhumple Storybook. Other than that, the scenes were "written" the day of filming, with a lot of input from the various actors. Writing credit is given to David Benjamin and Kyle Kuypers because they envisioned the premise, the futuristic "Confederacy," the characters, and the general flow of the movie, but Fuzzywhumple Resurrection can be seen as a somewhat loose, improvisational work.

Firsts

• A somewhat realistic queen fuzzywhumple heart was made by filling a sandwich bag with ketchup and barbecue sauce, tying it shut, coating it with more barbecue sauce, and covering it in plastic wrap. (Naturally, this would also work for a human heart.)
• A spider whumple web/cocoon for Dr. Kreizler was created with 200 feet of plastic wrap.
• An "ambient noise" tape was produced for the Fuzzywhumple Land scenes to add to the atmosphere.

Lessons learned

• The bigger the better: At the time of its creation, F5 had the largest cast, the most on-screen deaths, and the most blood and gore, and covered the largest expanse of time (200 years as opposed to The Escape's 50-60 years). While it could have very easily turned into two hours of boring garbage, this movie's plot was interesting enough to keep the movie going. Nothing was really learned in the making of this movie that wasn't already learned in previous endeavours, and nothing new was done. This movie is a success because everything is done better than before, and it proves the cliché that "practice makes perfect."

What people think

"It's great."

--Robin Ivester