The Muppets

2011 • 102 minutes

About this movie

Muppet domination continues with a hilarious new movie from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel, Academy Award®-nominee Amy Adams and Academy Award®-winner Chris Cooper join everyone's favorite Muppets and an all-star celebrity cast in a comic adventure for the whole family. While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary, and friend Mary uncover the diabolical plot of a greedy oil millionaire to destroy the Muppet Theater. Now, the Muppet-loving trio must reunite Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and their friends to stage the greatest Muppet telethon ever and save their beloved theater.

Ratings and reviews

Quite a dissapointment. There was so much praise for this movie I had high hopes. Jason Stegl and Amy Whatsherface were awkward as the grinned fakely at the camera. Half of the Muppet voices were pretty cringe worthy especially Kermits. Most of the movie Kermit's face was over acting and he just seemed like a wishy washy push over. There was only really one good original song in the film and that was only just okay. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly I suppose) this movie felt like a rehash of the old movies. This seems to be Disney's MO with aquired franchises, create a passable reproduction of an original and try to get both old fans exited as well as hook in a new audience.

That's exactly how I feel about this movie, it's just not too bad. The muppets are great, of course, and I don't hate Jason Segel or Amy Adams. Honestly some of the best parts of the movie are scenes in the beginning where Jason's character is growing up with Walter, and the rest of the movie falls pretty flat to me for some reason. But look at the other muppet movies, none of them hold a candle to stuff like Muppet Christmas Carol, I guess that's fine.

Anyone who complained that this is full of left wing propaganda needs to lighten up. It's the Muppets for Guisseppe's sake! Or perhaps you'd prefer something along these lines: A Mexican drug cartel is trying to buy and raze the Muppet Theatre because it sits atop prime coca plant growing land. The Muppets receive training from the country's top NARC officers and face off in a final showdown with the boss and his thugs...