Well, it's not bad...
The Muppets
But you don't want to go in with high expectations...
Think Nostalgia... And goofy, silly, hokey fun... You know: Muppet-ish.
Kermit the Frog goes through his Rolodex (!) and calls the White House looking for President Carter, for example...
The typical fun cameos... Wish they'd done more with Mickey Rooney (!) when they were setting up the "Let's all get together and put on a show" theme...
Unfortunately, not even the Muppets can't make Whoopi Goldberg look less smarmy.
And some folk in the know will definitely be aware of the voice differences from the new performers behind the classic characters... Steve Whitmire has made Kermit his own...
But Miss Piggy misses the mark, and the shots of her full bodied are grotesque and jarring...
Appreciation for Dave Goelz back as the original Gonzo and Waldorf.
5 comments:
Thanks for the heads up. I love, love, love The Muppets. BTW, I strongly believe that Muppets should be seen from the waist up!
Thanks for the review.
I think I can wait and see it on TV!
Do you know who wrote the script?
Last night friends of mine asked us to go with them to see a movie made about "the guy who does Elmo". Do you know anything about this?
LAR
When we saw it, someone asked who Mickey Rooney was. I wanted to slap him.
Eevery time I've heard about this movie I remember what you said a while back about where Jim Henson might have taken us if he had lived. It's like if Steve Jobs had died in 1999, where would Apple be today? So instead of soaring to the heights Jim Henson might have taken us, we just do another fond retread of what were essentially his greatest hits to date.
Why are there so many, songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? ~~ We played "The Rainbow Connection" in marching band circa '83.
LUV The Muppets. Especially Fozzie Bear and Janice.
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Steven Michael
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