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Duke Remington

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Here are some other Muppets that were missing (does anyone care about these people besides me?)
Robin
Rizzo
J.P.Gross
Gladys the Kitchen Lady

Something I had a question about..
Kermit doesn't own the theatre, J.P. Gross does and he wasn't in the movie
Robin is in the movie as well. He's in the background during Kermit's big "I believe in you" speech.

Either way, I certainly hope that the movie will indeed have many more returning minor characters (expected and unexpected alike) than just the ones glimpsed in the trailers, even if a bunch of them end up being so hard to spot in backgrounds, crowds, etc. that we have to wait until the DVD release to pause and zoom in to find them.
 

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Miss Poogy and Foozie are the only Moopets that talk. I saw the movie last night. They don't even mention Miss Poogy's name. No one knew her (?) name.
That's weird, considering her name is widely sourced. I find it weird when a major character in a movie has a proper name that's never mentioned on-screen. I used to wonder what the point of giving characters non-descriptive names was if they weren't going to be mentioned (first I realised it's probably better for character merchandise... After all, what if all Marvin the Martian merchandise was labled "Martian"? Then I realised that when writing scripts the writers probably don't think in advance as to whether there'd be opportunities for all named characters to be mentioned by name, no "if this character has a name we have to mention it in the film" mindset...).

I might have explained that badly.... It's more like when there's a scene focusing on the band and Zoot is there but doesn't have a line, the chances are 99.9% that it's Dave under there. Because it's his character. I think it's that kind of thing. Sully and Richard Hunt might be a better example.
I think I've talked about this in a thread long ago, but I find it interesting that many characters who either rarely or never talk have had consistient performers (Lips, Bruno, Barkley, Foo-Foo, Sully, Gaffer, not sure if Zoot should be counted here), yet quite a few minor characters who get lots of dialogue in their appearances (Doglion, Boppity, Betty Lou in the 1970s and 1980s, etc.) are always performed by whoever's on set to perform them.

EDIT: I started my own thread regarding oddities in the credits: http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/characters-in-the-credits.49059/ But I wonder if the Janice Moopet might have been primarily performed by one of the "additonal Muppet performers". Additional Muppet performers sometimes get speaking roles who don't get noted in the credits.
 

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Reviews are coming in now. (Taken from IMDB)

Positive:11
Avg. rating of positive reviews-8.8 out of 10
Cinema Blend(5 out of 5)
http://tinyurl.com/78ru7c5
Screen International
http://tinyurl.com/7rzvp9b
Variety
http://tinyurl.com/7p7nam2
The Hollywood Reporter
http://tinyurl.com/7573j5z
Crave Online(9 out of 10)
http://tinyurl.com/84rwpfh
Film School Rejects(Rated B+)
http://tinyurl.com/6srqmqp
Inside the Magic
http://tinyurl.com/7la3tk6
AP Press(3 out of 4)
http://tinyurl.com/844etqb
Filmonic
http://tinyurl.com/cude3g8
Matt's Movie Reviews(4 out of 5)
http://tinyurl.com/ccrer22
Huffington Post(Rated A-)
http://tinyurl.com/7gscx4t
 

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The Muppets gives us a chance to say a proper farewell to Jim Henson, to forgive him for dying on us so young and unexpectedly, and to acknowledge the monumental work he gave us in the time he had. Goodbye, Jim. And thank you.
Grade: A-
I cried a bit.
 
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