Well, I guess Disney is going to keep pretending the Muppets are not puppets, puppeteered by an extremely talented group of people.
Come on, Disney! Give us interviews with Whitmire and company! They're the ones who matter. Don't make a whole group of Adriana Caselottis!
I really hope that one of the main performers gets interviewed for one of the big Muppet websites soon, so we can see one of them give some insight on the film.
I noticed that they only rebuilt six of the five babies from Bobby Benson's Baby Band, and had most of them wear bonnets. I guess they didn't want to put the proper hair on them (either being unsure what hair to give them or sparring an expense... Though is small puppet hair really expensive?). The one not wearing a bonnet is the one that was also used as Statler's grandson, though at first I thought that one was bald. And if it was it'd be ironic, because the only baby who wore a bonnet on the show was bald (that baby was seen without his bonnet in the Loretta Lynn episode).
When the Muppets enter the theater for the first time in years... Are they going past the reception area/Pops' office? It looks like it a little at first, but then we see an opposite view of the theater, and we don't see them going upstairs, and I feel we don't see the right parts of the backstage.
I wonder if Disney let the writers/directors watch all the episodes, or if they had to rely on the DVDs and whatever else they have. Because hardly anything from after the third season is there. The only characters from later seasons shown are Rizzo, Lips, the Attrics drummer (though her hair looks too different), and the JG frackle puppet. And they also knew to have Trumpet Girl be the season five incarnation. So the later seasons didn't have many new recurring characters, and I'm still surprised they didn't put Pops in there somehow. But it would have been cool if they'd included Mulch, and a shame they didn't include Foo-Foo or Gaffer (seems they were also left out of Roger Langridge's comic books). Wouldn't it have been cool if the movie had brought back characters who were previously only used once, like the Hugga Wugga Muppets?
Is that the prop room in some scenes (the ones with Gary and Walter, where Walter rehearses and then Gary gives him confidence to go on)?
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I'm just kind of jaded about the awards shows thing, I don't think they're consistent at all as far as recognizing quality. They're there to keep the Hollywood machine going.