MCC: What would you have changed?

[MuppetSpot]

Definitely at least one sesame street Muppet cameo personally I think Grover would have worked well as a lot roles.

 

[Twisted Tails]

Definitely at least one sesame street Muppet cameo personally I think Grover would have worked well as a lot roles.

The more I watch that movie... you are absolutely right. Grover is not there! What a shame!

 

[MuppetSpot]

The more I watch that movie... you are absolutely right. Grover is not there! What a shame!

Agreed Grover is my favorite sesame street character so yeah

 

[rexcrk]

I can't really think of anything I'd change. I really just love the movie the way it is. I mean, yeah, it'd be great if characters like Rowlf and Scooter had bigger parts (or parts at all) or if they Electric Mayhem had speaking parts, but given the circumstances (Jim and Richard's passing), I think Brian Henson and Co. did a spectacular job, that must've been such a daunting task.

 

[Muppet Master]

I would have made it MUCH more muppety with more muppet screen time than human and I'd make ithad be basically like MTI.

 

[LouisTheOtter]

I'm on deck with two observations made repeatedly in this thread - that MCC could have used more Muppet characters in the main roles (including the ghosts) and the basic observation that it should have been "much more Muppety." I know the creative team was trying to stay close to Dickens' original story but the result left me somewhat cold when I saw it in theatres in 1992.

Knowing that it was too soon to recast a lot of Jim's and Richard's characters, I still submit that other Muppet faces could have filled in several of these roles. For example, I think Jerry Nelson's Pops would have worked better as Jacob Marley than the Statler-and-Waldorf brother act (which would have also saved us from a song that still makes me cringe years later).

Glad to see heralde and Drtooth reference Mickey's Christmas Carol in this thread. I think that featurette made much better use of its stable of characters than MCC did with the Muppets/Henson cast (realizing, of course, the difficulty in meting out these roles so soon after Jim and Richard left us). I mean, if a one-dimensional buffoon like Peg-Leg Pete could do a convincing Ghost of Christmas Future, surely there was a Muppet that could command the same gravitas. (I'm looking at you, Uncle Deadly.)

Anyway, I don't want to be too hard on Brian Henson and the early-'90s Muppet crew for a sincere, honest effort. I have teenage nieces who were introduced to the Muppets through MCC and still cite it as a holiday favourite. If the movie accomplished nothing other than that, I would still be grateful - and, of course, it accomplished so much more, and continues to do so to this day.

 

[SkeetScootSquat]

The changes? Hmmmm! Change is good, but... let's see.

If Jim Henson and Richard Hunt were still around in 1992... oh now I know what's missing. Fraggles! They might be background characters, but they should have the singing parts from the "Scrooge" number.

Well at least we got Mc Mooch,Brool,Murray,Sprocket, and Mudwell.