Your Thoughts: "The Muppets" Theatrical Film

[minor muppetz]

Buy a copy--go through Muppet Central to Amazon and buy a copy of this DVD for yourself. Get two free movie tickets (it qualifies) and go see the new movie, then sit in your own dark living room with your popcorn and your hot cocoa and get in the Christmas spirit with this movie. You'll be happy.

I don't think It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie comes with free tickets. I'm pretty sure that's only for the movies that Disney has released on DVD. Universal released that one.

 

[Walterfan]

I really enjoyed the new movie. I’ve seen it twice now. I felt it had everything you would want from a Muppet movie (it was funny, it was heartwarming, it had a positive message, etc.). I thought one of the best lines in the movie was when Walter says “As long as there are signing frogs, joking bears, Swedish chefs and boomerang fish, the world can’t be such a bad place”. I wrote a little song about this and put it on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0jHbNX_3A

 

[Oscarfan]

Me and a friend saw it again tonight (my third, his second). Some guy outside the theater tried to test our Muppet knowledge and actually stumped us (something about SNL).

I do have one question: Can someone please explain Fozzie's "Moscow" joke? I don't get it at all.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I do have one question: Can someone please explain Fozzie's "Moscow" joke? I don't get it at all.

I don't remember the exact line but Fozzie starts the joke with a bear but then ends up saying "Mos...cow." Get it?

 

[Oscarfan]

Not really still, but my friend did explain his joke during the credits after Tex is hit with the bowling ball ("Oil bet that hurt!")

One thing I noticed during the opening number was that I can't wait for the DVD, because the audio in the theater wasn't so great and hearing a crisp version would be great.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Not really still, but my friend did explain his joke during the credits after Tex is hit with the bowling ball ("Oil bet that hurt!")

Well granted it's not so much a joke but Fozzie messing up a joke. Since he started out the joke talking about a bear, his punchline was supposed to be bear related. Instead he gets it wrong and the pun is cow related instead, lol.

 

[Oscarfan]

I think I see it now; since it's during the opening where they all mess up.

 

[beaker]

Fozzie has a really abstract, almost existential brand of avant garde performance humor.

 

[Colbynfriends]

I just saw The Muppets this evening. I can’t describe how fantastic it was! (But I sure can try). This was the FIRST muppet movie I’ve had the honor of actually seeing in theaters, what a thrilling experience. Now, I don’t know what has/hasn’t already been said but I’m sorry if I repeat.
First off, Walter is an amazing little Muppet. I like how he is personified as a huge Muppet fan (as we all are). The relationship between him and his brother, Gary, is natural and convincing. It reminds me of the relationship Kermit and Fozzie had in The Great Muppet Caper (“we could be twins”). I admire they’re dedication to each other. Mary I thought was a very nice character too, I like how smart she is with technology and that kind of stuff (Probably why she makes such a good teacher).
The Muppets themselves….where do I begin. Kermit is as inspirational as ever, trying to cope with the thought of the theater and studio being destroyed while dealing with the normal craziness and trying to amend things with Piggy. He’s so strong thoughout the whole thing. Fozzie, while his voice seemed a bit off, (I blame it on him singing those phony hotel/casino songs all day long), was very funny. But I also felt bad for him, and it made me think of those friends you don’t talk to then you do one day later and your like, “I wish we would have talked more”. Gonzo, (who I swear has a thing for plumbing and pipes as much as he does chickens) was also great (pun intended). I do wish he would have gotten more screen time though instead of whirling that bowling ball round and round at the last half of the movie. Rowlf, Scooter, The Electric Mayhem, all just as good as they were back in the 70s. It’s so nice to see (and hear them) on the big screen. Piggy, is well, Piggy. When she came to beat the snot out of Miss Poogy I was like YEA, No one replaces her.
The celebrity cameos, mostly went over my head. Jack Black is hilarious (that whole subplot felt to me like a rework of the John Cleass episode). I’m glad to see Woopie Goldberg again, as well as those kids from the Disney Channel in there. I didn’t really immediately recognize anyone else. I don’t have too much to say about the villains though. I don’t know why Bobo keeps working for the bad guys, is he just easily swayed? Uncle Deadly, his scene on the roof with Richman…fantastic! Tex Richman, is while he’s no Doc Hopper or Nicky Holiday, I like him for who he is. Just a rich greedy pompous boss type character. His little money rap….not my favorite song.
But I’ll tell you what was…the “Life’s a Happy Song” (original and reprise). Such a feel good song, I love it. Rainbow Connection, never gets old. The best non-Muppet song had to be “We Build This City”, and the montage to go with it was probably one of (if not my absolute) most favorite part of the film. Camilla singing “F(rog) You” was another one of my favorite songs, it actually FELT like a Muppet Show.
I love how they kept alluding to and using actual sound clips fom the show, I’d hear it and be like OMG I REMEMBER THAT EPISODE. That and Sweetums being at Mad Man Mooney (and Son’s) used cars (“awe not again!”…priceless). One thing that made me happiest though is the inclusion of some very VERY obscure characters. Droop, Nigel, Behmouth, Link, Strangepork, Beautiful Day Monster, Lips, even Wayne and Wanda (oh yes, I remember what they did when the lights turned back on…..one of the biggest laughs I gave the movie).
The ending, I’m okay with. I like how Kermit pulled the Muppets back together and they all stuck together. I don’t know what to say about the whole “bowling ball to the head” thing, which came literally at the last minute. I’m happy they got the theater/studio back though.
All in all I really enjoyed this movie, and I hope they plan to do another. I am actually wanting to see it again, and again, and even again. Then buy it on DVD as soon as it comes out so I can watch it again and again, all over again. Good Job Muppets, you did amazing.

 

[Wockawocka721]

I've been posting all over this forum, I might as well post here to the movie that got me back into this!

I've seen the Muppets twice, once alone and once with my mom(yes I'm a single grown man who decided to drag his mom to the movies so he wouldn't feel lonely twice) and both times I LOVED it! I wasn't around for The Muppet Show, but I was around to watch all the moves on VHS and Muppet Babies on syndication. The musical numbers were great and it prompted me to buy the whole album (which I only did for Childish Gambino who coincidentally is in the movie as well) and I gotta be honest...singing these songs does make you more cheery in the morning, haha. I liked that the actual movie (aside from credits) didn't end in a completely happy ending. It's so cliche in kids/family movies nowadays so it was nice to see a slight change.