Saw the movie last night and I absotively posolutely loved it!
The one quibble I have that knocks it down from "perfect" to "great" is the ruining of the wedding ending in what others here might call the "typical namby-pamby non-commital frog" Yes, it does allow for Piggy to unequivocally know which of the two frogs is "her" Kermit, but still, that was one of the two optionsI predicted the entire wedding scene would have.
Parts I loved:
1 Saw the movie with my best friend who relayed to me the various location/time updates throughout the scene changes as the Muppets travel through Europe. In the Spanish version, these would be announced out loud for the entire audience to hear by a voiceover narrator.
2 Fourth-wall brakage by Walter as the ending of The Muppets is used for the beginning of MMW.
3 In "We're Doing A Sequel",
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's line of "I don't mean to be a stickler, but this is the seventh sequel to our original motion picture."
4 Plot ideas during the sequel song... Fozzie's suggestion...
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: "Fozzie! Did you even watch our last movie?"
5 Christoph Waltz dancing the waltz,
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made that much funnier than it would have been otherwise.
6 The best part of the Madrid show was
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's indoor running of the bulls. "These bulls are out of control! Who could have forseen such a thing? !"
7 I so agree with the hecklers after the opening number in Madrid.
![Boo :boo: :boo:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/boo.gif)
Incredible, they've done the impossible, I diddn't think they could do it!"
![Sleep :sleep: :sleep:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/sleep.gif)
"What, you actually like that?"
![Boo :boo: :boo:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/boo.gif)
"No! They've made a bad show even worse!"
Both: "Amazing! Bravo!"
8 Much like "Me Party", "Welcome To The Big House" is my fave song from this movie.
9 After
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: and
![Halo :halo: :halo:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/halo.gif)
discover Constantine's plans and leave to rescue Kermit...
Constantine: "Walter and Fozzie have quit the Mappets."
![Sympathy :sympathy: :sympathy:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/sympathy.gif)
"What? Walter quit? We just did a movie about how he joined the Muppets."
![Sing :sing: :sing:](/forum/styles/muppetcentral/smilies/sing.gif)
"Yeah, we spent a lot of time on it."
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"Yeah, some might say at the expense of other long-standing beloved characters."
10 The clips of Kermit included not just the SST News Flash sketch, but the introduction from the Lynn Redgrave Robin Hood episode from the Season 3 DVD set—why haven't Seasons 4 and 5 been released yet Disney?!?—and a brief moment of Kermit singing The Rainbow Connection from TMM.
11 The fact that Danny Trejo is treated as a fourth-wall character. During the gulag review's auditions he says he's not learning a new song. He's a triple threat: a singer, dancer, and murderer!
My friend: "Machete Kills!"
And then when Nadya's saying "good night" to the prisoners she clearly says "Good night Danny Trejo".
12 The song the prisoners sing about how they hope they get the part during the auditions, it reminds me of the musical the MST3K gang put on as a host segment at the end of the short "You're Hired!"
13 The Kermit shrine Nadya has built in her office.
14 "Moves Like Jagger."
15 The relationship between
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and Jean-Pierre Napoleon... It makes me think there's an American Dad stand-offish Stan Smith vibe going there, especially when they tear up saying their goodbyes at the end of the film.
16 We had Muppet Doctor in MFS, Muppet Man in TM, and now Muppet Ladder in MMW. Won't be surprised if we get something like Muppet Chain or Muppet Totempole in the next movie .
17
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got a couple of decent appearances delivering headlines and Foo-Foo had a supporting role in supporting Piggy.
18 A vonderful surprise finding Uncle Deadly playing the organ where he belongs during the wedding scene.
19 Kermit calling Piggy "my woman" in the helicopter confrontation.
20 The Muppet character fireworks at the very ending... They got that from the celebrations we used to have at the MC Dorms.
Overall I loved MMW and laughed the entire way through.