Okay let's be fair your enjoyment of this movie's going to come down to whether or not you have an appetite for cheap puppets, bad acting and ridiculously simplistic plots.
This movie kind of rides the line between badly made but pleasantly enjoyable comedy Slasher and something that makes you want to roll your eyes and watch anything else. Honestly it never really leaves that line.
The movies only an hour long and it can barely fill that space with anything of substance.
Now it's almost guarantee that the only reason you're sticking around this movie is because of Gary Busey.
He has about five minutes of actual footage at the beginning and then 20 to 30 lines worth of puppet dialogue afterwards.
He's peppered just enough without the film that you never really forget he's there.
And the movie doesn't waste your time with needless backstory or pointless character development. Gary Busey's character dies; he's ashes are mixed in with spices and he gets baked into a gingerbread man that then acquire sentience.
Then he goes on a surprisingly limited but ultimately entertaining killing spree as he tries to kill a bunch of people stranded in a bakery.
All these people have just enough personality that they're not considered strangers to you but not so much personality as to add useless running time to a film that really can't afford it.
Everyone is simple stereotyped and given just enough screen time before they're killed as you can at least acknowledge them as human beings.
At first I thought this film was going to go down this horrible route of needless dialogue and bad character development involving rival Bakers dealing with a bunch of business transactions.
But luckily the movie doesn't care about any of that and the big badie baker from across the street (who's trying to destroy the protagonists bakery) gets killed relatively quickly and in a fun brutal manner by being squashed by a car.
Our protagonist is this random girl who survives getting shot by the guy who got turned into a gingerbread man. He also killed her brother and father in this robbery attempt from years earlier. And the only character ark our main girl is going to get is suppressing her fear of being nearly killed by this man and then shoving him into an oven so he can die a second time.
All of this happening after the gingerbread man possessed some other random guy who tried to eat him to kill him.
This is one of those movies where you have to just to live with the bad acting and not worry about plot details.
If you do that you'll roll your eyes and never get through the horrible thing.
But if you just decide to watch it for the utter ludicrousness of the gingerbread sentient man filling out one-liners and trying to kill a bunch of random Bakers then you'll enjoy yourself. It benefits greatly from only being an hour long. It's the key reason I'm willing to give it so much leeway compared to other slasher flicks that try to do the same thing.
If you don't waste my time I won't belittle your nonsensical story.
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