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First of all - Happy 17th Birthday, Muppet Central! I've enjoyed being part of this community for the past three years (and lurking for several years prior to that) and I appreciate all the hard work you folks do to celebrate all things Muppet and Henson. In response to your questions: 1. I...

Good news: The AV Club's Jesse Hassenger thinks "Cockatoo in Malibu" is a deserving Best Song candidate and gives the MMW music some Oscar love in a new article. Bad news: The article goes to great lengths to explain why the most deserving Best Song candidates from 2014, including MMW, may not...

Saw it on Canadian TV last night. Just two Piggy bits, but they both came off pretty well - a dressing-room back-and-forth with Michael Buble (part of which I missed because the phone rang at an inopportune time) and a pretty cool reworking of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." I think you Yankees will...

Yeah, I saw that too! Great news! It'll take a little more good luck to get one of those in the final nominations, but I like MMW's odds! I'm still pulling for "We're Doing A Sequel" to be a major Oscar production number with several other "franchise" actors and characters joining the Muppets...

I'm now thinking "We're Doing A Sequel" deserves a nomination specifically for the bang-on musical speculation of The Great Gonzo: http://variety.com/2014/film/news/john-lasseter-to-direct-toy-story-4-out-in-2017-1201349848/

So Indiewire has been posting predictions for various 2015 Academy Award categories, and their recent run-down of potential Best Original Song nominees gives Muppets Most Wanted an outside chance of cracking the final list...

I'm with you on that. And let's face it, The Muppets have the kind of street cred that Mickey, Donald, Goofy and company just don't have in the present day. That in itself should guarantee that Disney will get more use out of them. As for the idea of them being on Disney Junior as opposed to a...

From where I sit, the question will ultimately come down to whether Disney feels that the concept of creating quality Muppet material and being known as the studio that kept the beloved Muppet franchise going trumps the sting of a less-than-stellar box office performance for MMW. Think back on...

Finally saw it again after Mrs. Otter picked up a copy while visiting relatives in central Canada. It still holds up after five months and I think I'm going to enjoy it for a good long time. Stray thoughts from my second viewing: * I completely forgot that Constantine's first line of the...

I find some hope in the fact that, if you take Maleficent and the Marvel movies out of the mix, MMW was actually among the better performers for Disney this year. The Planes sequel, which was likely supposed to represent the next big merchandising push for the Mouse House, is barely treading...

This is EXACTLY what I needed today. And by that, I mean both (a) iced tea and (b) a new Muppet commercial. Thanks Lipton! :)

Mrs. Otter and I saw Elmo in Grouchland for the first time last night so I figured I'd chip in with a few thoughts. While the script and overall production were clearly mining the Elmo's World vibe and aiming for a much younger audience (which, as has been mentioned before, isn't going to sit...

Found another one the other night on ABC's 80's-centric sitcom The Goldbergs (the same show responsible for the wonderful "Fraggles dance their cares away" line referenced earlier in this thread): The mother of the family, Beverly, is packing school lunches for her kids, and there's a great...

Yeah, I'm completely mystified as to why MMW didn't do better internationally, especially since the theme of the film was a Muppet world tour. Maybe international audiences got their hackles up over the thought of semi-clueless American characters barging in on their various territories. I...

Pepe is definitely an acquired taste for some (and a never-to-be-acquired taste for others) but I truly think he could play the lead in a future Muppet production. He's a very unique Muppet in that he's constantly in a crisis of conscience - there's that undercurrent of greed, which often...

Mrs. Otter and I got a pleasant surprise over the weekend when one of the Canadian TV networks, Teletoon Retro, ran TMTM and MFS back-to-back over the past weekend - I was so excited I even decided to waive my disdain for animation-oriented networks running live-action movies! (Besides, the...

While I certainly don't want future Muppet productions to abandon Kermit or Piggy completely (inconceivable!), I think it may be time to give some of the lesser-known characters some breathing room to see if they can win over some new fans and help the franchise grow. Think of it - the most...

Keeping that in mind, I really am intrigued and heartened that MMW is still playing in about 200 theatres across North America. I imagine that this is confined to major centres (NYC, LA, Boston, maybe Toronto or Vancouver up here) but considering how fast MFS was yanked from theatres in 1999...

Oh, I hear you. Mrs. Otter and I don't even want to see 80 per cent of the movies I just listed (although we're disappointed that Million Dollar Arm has already come and gone). I'm not saying I wouldn't have liked a higher box-office total for MMW, nor am I attempting to figure out how a...

What I'm thinking these days (quickly, randomly, and in no particular order): * That I really hope Bret McKenzie keeps contributing music to the Muppets, regardless of whether it's in a film project * That "Something So Right" and "We're Doing A Sequel" would make great Oscar production...