The Muppets

The Muppets

Rating 7.5 out of 10

I have been a Muppet fan for a long time.  Back in my high school days (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) in rural Louisiana we got two tv stations on our barely color television.  NBC and NBC.  So pickin's were slim on what we wanted to watch that night.  The Muppets Show was a weekly treat.  Yes, I have Rainbow Connection on my iPod.  If you are not a Muppets fan you can take my review with a grain of salt.

The movie takes place (amazingly enough) in 2011.  The once famous Muppet Theater in Hollywood has fallen in disrepair and the Muppets have gone different directions.  An evil oil barren has plans to take over the theater and drill for oil (in downtown Hollywood?).  The Muppets have two weeks to raise $10 million to save the theater.

Yeah, I know plots are not big on Muppet movies.  It's the characters.  Kermit and the gang are back.  Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Animal and the whole gang.  Is it strange that I found the blond singer in the Electric Mayhem band appealing?  Probably.

While Jason Segel and Amy Adams do a good job as the main humans in the film what is always the most entertaining in Muppets shows are the short cameos of well known stars.  We get plenty here.  From Jack Black to Emily Blunt to that lead singer guy in Foo Fighters and everyone in between.

If you ever enjoyed a Muppets Show you will like this movie.  I couldn't get the wife or fourteen year old son to go with me.  Their loss.  I had a great time.