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    How well does the new movie have to do?

    Well, we've never had two Muppet films released two years in a row. I wonder if any movies took more development time than The Muppets (recently when Tough Pigs did a series of articles on Muppetzine it mentioned that Muppet Treasure island had numerous production delays).
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    The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Thread!

    I feel like A Boy Named Charlie Brown (and maybe Snoopy Come Home) gave a little bit more effort. ABNCB seems to be very artsy, has a number of cool split-screen scenes, has that cool piano piece from Schroeder, and has the amazing skating scene with Snoopy. Paw Dugam recently reviewed Snoopy...
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I'm thinking that all the characters who only appear during Kermit's big speech were not rebuilt puppets, and all minor characters who appear many times were rebuilt, whether for this movie or recently. Somehow that makes sense, as they pretty much use all minor characters outside of that scene...
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    The Muppets, The Movie Junior Novel

    As those of us who have read the book and seen the movie know, there are many scenes in the book not in the movie. One scene not in the movie involves a member of the audience who does an act, scamming the audience into putting their wallets in a sack which he runs off with. After the telephone...
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    Where's the love for Rocky and Bullwinkle?

    I just remembered something about the movie that I had forgotten about: The credits list "stunt voices" for Rocky. What's a stunt voice for? Were there lines June Foray either couldn't do well or refused to say? I can see actors needing stunt double but voice actors?
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    Does Puppet Heap build The Muppets now?

    Well, when Disney got the Muppets, they made a special deal with The Jim Henson Company allowing them to continue building the Muppets and developing ideas for Muppets for five years (which has expired by now), though it seems most of the Muppet stuff planned during that time got canceled.
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    Anyone else find it odd that Thog was among the relatively small group of characters in the office when they get their chance to do the telethon? Pretty much everyone else there got a scene earlier in the film and had been well-known to casual fans (well, fans would have known who Walter and...
  8. M

    "The Muppets": What made you laugh

    The "Man or Muppet" sequence was a lot funnier than I remember. And I laughed a lot at many of the visual gags in the opening "Life's a Happy Song" number.
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    It's Time To Dress Up Right

    I wore my Kermit Klien t-shirt and Kermit hat. I got one or two compliments from people at the theater.
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    If "The Muppets" is a success: What's next?

    There were many reports that the movie includes "every Muppet you can think of", but unless they were in deleted scenes I doubt every Muppet was in it. I hardly saw anyone I didn't see in the trailers, and the only scene I noticed where there were so many Muppets you'd have to pause to see...
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I thought that the studio and theater were next door to each other, not neccessarily connected. They were both there at the end when Kermit made his big speech, and Rizzo (and the other rats) was with Beauregard during the final song.
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I think he also mentioned Swedish Chefs and boomerang fish. With Rizzo only being in the background a few times and no lines, this must be the first Muppet movie where Lips has more screentime than Rizzo (though Lips doesn't have any lines, ether... I think Rizzo just barely had more...
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    The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Thread!

    Currently watching Snoopy Come Home on ABC Family, and just started wondering, was the scene where Charlie Brown tells Linus about how he first got Snoopy based on an existing strip? The same basic scene appears in Life's a Circus, Charlie Brown as well, so I'm willing to bet it is.
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    What song can you not get out of your head?

    Practically half the songs from The Muppets are stuck in my head now.
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I just realised some irony: This movie and It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie have very similar plots (though this one's not a Christmas movie), and the original releases have been close to the same time of year; this came out on thanksgiving (well, the day before thanksgiving), and Very...
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    How well does the new movie have to do?

    I saw a website (I think Box Office Mojo) which listed the box office totals for all the movies including current results for The Muppets. It looks like it's currently 2 million dollars below what Muppets from Space made, let's hope within a week it at least makes more.
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    "The Muppets": What made you cry

    I never actually cried, but did feel a bit teary during "Pictures in my Head" and the "Rainbow Connection" finale.
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I meant a reference to an earlier joke, where somebody asked about something they were wrong about and someone else just confirmed they were right. Was Judd Hirch's cameo cut? I thought I read he was left in, but I don't remember seeing him in the movie. The montage with characters being...
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I wrote a review for Muppet Central, though now I'm not sure if I was supposed to send a rating in. I give it whatever the highest rating number is that Muppet Central reviews can have. It seems the "aren't you one of the Ninja Turtles?" line was like a callback to a few earlier jokes...
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    Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

    I saw it tonight. It was amazing. This is my best Thanksgiving ever! The movie definately measures up to the original trilogy and The Muppet Show. The reports kept saying it has every Muppet we can think of, but I only noticed a handful of characters I hadn't seen in the trailers (a couple of...
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