I don't want this to sound wrong, but back in the day Piggy wasn't required to be in the "plus size" category, as though she shouldn't be in the standard category. She was acknowledged as a sort of '70s sex symbol in pop culture. (though obviously a strange one, hehe). I don't know, maybe it's just my disgust with the fashion industry in general that puts such ridiculous labels on women and their size. I mean it's good that there are full figured models, but they really shouldn't have to be separated the way they are.
Plus size is a backhanded way of saying at weight or slightly above normal. It was a term created by the same people that gave us Heroin chic to sound empowering. Most of the "plus sized" models I've seen are just slightly above normal weight if anything. And it gets lumped in as a euphemism for really fat, basically saying if you're a little overweight, you're fat. it's like.... you know those boxes they have on surveys that ask your age, and one box says 28-35 and the next says 35-50? That means if you're 35, you're categorized as 50, meaning if you're not under 35, you're already old.
It's nice that they have the technology to show the Muppets doing things they couldn't before, however I hope all their time and effort wasn't put into that as opposed to the script. That's often a red flag with remakes.
I see what you're coming from, but here's the story...
The movie was proposed (by the writers, not the studio) sometime in 2008, and that's when a first draft was written. Now, it took well over 2 years to finish and approve the script, and it went through EVERYONE at Disney, including Pixar before it was approved. I'm sure technical stuff was considered during the approval of the script, but it seems the script always came first... and if nothing else, the relentless arm twisting of the writers (who wanted the film just as much, if not more than we did) alone gets me exited. Often times true "remakes" have so little thought or care put into them, they turn out like... well, the Smurfs. The license is bought and a script is written as an afterthought just before the license expires (which is the ONLY reason we got the Dragonball movie). Even with the last theaterical movie, something was wrong... they were somehow pigeonholed to make a "space" movie (to cash in off Star Wars 1) and had too many people working on passes of a script, only to have a talentless director who didn't care for it outside being a resume addition butcher anything potentially funny.
I don't see any of that with this. The underlining fact is
The guys who are making this movie weren't fans of the last bunch of Muppet films either.
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