I didn't grow up with The Muppet Show, but I've always known the Muppets and this movie made me fall in love with them very quickly.
Kermit the Frog is living in a swamp strumming his banjo when a talent scout rows by and tells him to go to Hollywood. Kermit decides to do that, picking up a cast of strange and wonderful characters who will go on to form the iconic Muppet troupe while the villainous fast food magnate Doc Hopper goes after Kermit's frog legs.
The film, like the best comedies of the seventies, is extremely silly and absurdist in sensibility. No joke is too dumb and no convention is too firm to shatter. It's very much like a kid-friendly Mel Brooks film...which happens to feature Brooks himself. That's the other thing—the film's vignette style leaves room for loads of celebrity cameos, no matter how small, and it's fun to see some of the best talents of the decade showing up for their little interactions.
The charm of the Muppets is how easy it is to buy in and treat them just like people, and the movie goes to great lengths to elevate that. The Muppet cast interacts with humans in the real world very frequently and clever effects are achieved to ensure that they can interact with things in ways previously not possible to maintain the world where Muppets are a fact of life.
The film is a musical as well, and the songs tend to be very catchy, timeless, and sweet. They make the movie even more fun.
There's not a lot to say about the film other than it makes me smile a lot. It's charming, sincere, hilarious, and wonderful.
A wonderful feel-good comedy.
I didn't grow up with The Muppet Show, but I've always known the Muppets and this movie made me fall in love with them very quickly.
Kermit the Frog is living in a swamp strumming his banjo when a talent scout rows by and tells him to go to Hollywood. Kermit decides to do that, picking up a cast of strange and wonderful characters who will go on to form the iconic Muppet troupe while the villainous fast food magnate Doc Hopper goes after Kermit's frog legs.
The film, like the best comedies of the seventies, is extremely silly and absurdist in sensibility. No joke is too dumb and no convention is too firm to shatter. It's very much like a kid-friendly Mel Brooks film...which happens to feature Brooks himself. That's the other thing—the film's vignette style leaves room for loads of celebrity cameos, no matter how small, and it's fun to see some of the best talents of the decade showing up for their little interactions.
The charm of the Muppets is how easy it is to buy in and treat them just like people, and the movie goes to great lengths to elevate that. The Muppet cast interacts with humans in the real world very frequently and clever effects are achieved to ensure that they can interact with things in ways previously not possible to maintain the world where Muppets are a fact of life.
The film is a musical as well, and the songs tend to be very catchy, timeless, and sweet. They make the movie even more fun.
There's not a lot to say about the film other than it makes me smile a lot. It's charming, sincere, hilarious, and wonderful.