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agree with Morbz, this was pretty great as far as nostalgia-heavy tributes go. The "Fuck You" bit was great, as were most of the "meta" jokes ("I just did a whole musical number about it", driving by map, etc.) I hope Jason Segel makes a bajillion dollars, love that guy.

this was also my daughter's first movie in a movie theater so that made it extra sentimental for me

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

I totally want to see this, but my mom is all about Hugo

gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

This is OK-ish, but the gulf of quality between the initial three Muppet movies and this is more of an ocean.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link

it met my major criteria of being a) stuffed with gags and b) true to the spirit and tone of the original. My complaints are all pretty minor (voices slightly but noticeably different, cameos underused etc)

xp

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

Saw this yesterday. I liked it well enough, but wasn't really in the right mood to give myself to it wholeheartedly, if you know what I mean.

William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

the gulf of quality between the initial three Muppet movies and this is more of an ocean.

eh, I'll grant you this in terms of the Muppet Movie, and maybe the second one (which is good but has some pretty dragg-y musical numbers). But the Muppets Take Manhattan is not better than this film.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

?! Manhattan is maybe the best of the lot. (Tho the songs are best in Caper.)

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

i laughed many times and even got teary-eyed at the end

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

Manhattan is the best muppet movie, btw xp

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

There's a stretch in Manhattan of, like, eight or nine classic scenes in a row.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

yeah but then there's the wedding

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

the popcorn is popping in your face. IT'S 3D!

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

Ocean Breeze Soap: It's just like taking an ocean cruise, only there's no boat and you don't actually go anywhere.

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link

Something from the grill, Jill?
No thank you, Gil. Meat makes me ill.
Mmm.

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

You are ... Enrico Tortellini ... of Passaic, N.J.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

Muppets Take Manhattan seemed much more aimless than the other two iirc

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

Muppets go to NY, leave NY, come back to NY.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

Chiefly, my biggest problem with the new Muppets movie wasn't that the voices were different or that it didn't have a compelling story. Simply that it just wasn't very funny much of the time.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link

Shakey talking crap about MTM is making me reconsider this whole endeavour

gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

had no idea anybody liked it tbh. always considered it the weakest since I first saw it as a kid.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

is it just because I'm not from NY lol

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link

I liked it, but was slightly put off at the beginning by the overly bright and polished Disney feel - esp that corny small town dance number. I always found the world the Muppets lived in (at least in The Muppet Movie and Caper) to be kind of seedy and sleazy actually

Chris S, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

although the tone got a lot more Muppet-y as the film progressed

Chris S, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

never saw Muppets Take Manhattan. Since I lived in Passaic, N.J. for 4 years, I guess I will have to rectify that some day.

Sarah Silverman took the "I wonder what filthy thing she said in outtakes" cameo spot of Richard Pryor.

"An ocean" doesn't really separate friggin' Muppet movies from each other, even if you were 4 when you saw the first one.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

So yeah, having Fozzie work even a little bit blue was a mistake. Apatowism had to creep in somewhere.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-muppets/5924

Let's hope Walter gets hit by a truck before they make the next one.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

So yeah, having Fozzie work even a little bit blue was a mistake

when did this happen?

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link

Fozzie's always had a predilection for whoopie cushions, if that's what yr on about

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

"An ocean" doesn't really separate friggin' Muppet movies from each other

Then you skipped Muppets from Space too.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

And Muppet Treasure Island...

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

yes.

Fozzie said "FART SHOES." Fozzie doesn't say words like that.

(Disillusioned OG Muppeteers have said so.)

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

Muppets from Space wasn't entirely terrible. I have no use for "Muppets star in a remake of another franchise" movies tho

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

"Man or Muppet" was def one of the highest points of the film.

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

I can see myself quoting years down the line, "If I'm muppet, I'm a very manly muppet. If I'm a man, I'm a muppet of a man."

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

They’re also worried that Kermit is now a fat cat who lives in a mansion and that the other Muppets now resent his wealth, leading to the “band” breaking up.

?

I totally missed this

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

like, I don't remember that being identified as the rationale for their breakup at all

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

Was probably in an earlier shooting script, that item is from the summer.

This was better than expected, and I can't imagine quoting anything from it ever. Tho I did leave the theater clucking "Fuck You."

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

saying goodbye is always sad / makes us remember the good times we had

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

how long did it take to get that one line out of Mickey Rooney?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

yeah Man or Muppet was great

Walter is def the most Mary Sue character to come along since Bella Swan though

Chris S, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

it's almost like they decided to put Kermit's nephew Robin at the center

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

i think they really underused / poorly used their cameos in this film.

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

the great choices (NPH, Silverman) barely had any lines, and the cameos that had many lines (like Jack Black) were basically worthless

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, during the postfilm meal, my wife said "they left out Robin" and I said "nah, they renamed him Walter."

William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

nothing quite as sublime as joan rivers in Manhattan or steve martin

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

god its the fuckking muppets they could have gotten anybody so why god why jack black.

eric h. is otm throughout this thread

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

wtf was Selena Gomez and the little kid from Modern Family even doing in this movie?

Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

the mambo?

OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

cuz they're on ABC, part of Disney? xp

Liked Alan Arkin's unenthusiastic scattering of pixie dust, also Amy Adams' 5 seconds of the Chaplin rolls dance. (She was criminally neglected though.)

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

they could have gotten anybody

dunno if this is true really

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

yeah Arkin was good

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

i wanted somebody with gravitas. funny muppet cameos are people like vanessa redgrave or maybe jessica lange or hell even steven tyler

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

Fozzie doesn't say words like that.

Don't know why people are getting so up in arms about this one.

Also, you do know the chickens were clucking "Forget You," right?

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link

Amy Adams' 5 seconds of the Chaplin rolls dance. (She was criminally neglected though.)

Neglecting Adams is like a "keys to the city"-worthy act.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

I kinda hate her for her part in that terrible Julia and Julia movie. which is (I think?) the only other thing I've seen her in

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

no idea why Morbz likes her

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

Enchanted?

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

She was good in The Fighter -- washed the cloying taste of the Julie character right out of my brain.

William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

The Fighter is the one and only time I've been anything other than actively annoyed by her.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link

Also, you do know the chickens were clucking "Forget You," right?

See the diff? The adults supply the dirtiness.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link

i thought all of the fighter was annoying; she wasn't the worst thing in it so....

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

i mean you do know where mah ná mah ná comes from

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

a papa ná and a mah mah ná

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link

THATS DIFFERENT FROM FOZZIE SAYING "FART" WTF IS DA MATTAH WIT U SCREWS

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

Adams is the most Muppety actor to appear w/ them since J Denver

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

I want to make a joke about Massive Attack's "Man Next Door" here but it seems labored

OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

Fuck it, I'm glad Fozzie said "fart shoes" now.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

http://images.wikia.com/puppet/images/b/bf/Marionette.jpg

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link

If they'd made it "whoopee shoes" we'd have to come up with all new reasons to talk about Amy Adams.

William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

also probably would've meant that Whoopi Goldberg got more lines

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

bullet dodged

PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

Were my friends and I the only people to lose their shit during the 'me party' song?

milo z, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

why didja? Needed to have Piggy and AA together.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

'cause it sounded like a song about masturbation

milo z, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link

cretinous

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

Moar muppet jokes for ye olde spank bank plz

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

I purposefully trekked to the Muppet studio in Hollywood in July bcz it's Chaplin's old one. So, better movie with me, eh?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

I once saw Chaplin eat a fart shoe with a fork and knife.

Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link

It's like a kind of torture
To have to read the posts!

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

true story: i once saw fred durst driving into the muppet studio w/ a six foot drag queen in the passenger seat.

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

And then the passenger threw scalding grits on the Swedish Chef?

James Redd, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

in a fit of jealousy, I should have added

James Redd, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

http://iconicland.com/Test%20Pages/Photos/Charlie%20Frog-sm.jpg

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

it was like real life animal and janis, but suckier

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

Animal should've played the Cassavetes part in The Fury

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

blowing up jason segal with his mind

remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

was that Miss Poogy w/ Durst?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link

The Moopets definitely had their own thing going. Grohl might as well just do that for the rest of his days. (Saw it last night; my girlfriend says I was giggling for almost the entire film and I'll take her word for it.)

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

god its the fuckking muppets they could have gotten anybody so why god why jack black.

That's the only thing that irritated me about this movie, I thought the rest was great.

The Moopets kinda reminded me of the Feebles.

Nicole, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link

w/out the fluids

Black's presence destroyed the Nirvana barbershop.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

watched Muppets Take Manhattan with my daughter the other night. all of you that think that's the best one are fucking insane and/or high

aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

Da corn is popping in your face inna 3-D!

Mordy, Friday, 16 December 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link

I realized I didn't really love this* because I was never a Muppet Show fan. I've never seen an episode of it all the way through. So my nostalgia-spot never got touched.

*I didn't hate it either! It was cute and charming enough.

William (C), Friday, 16 December 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link

Who on earth said The Muppets Take Manhattan is the best Muppet movie?! Clearly it was someone who loves antiseptic, shoulder-padded representations of the '80s more than they love fun.

In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Friday, 16 December 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link

i went to see this on tuesday night with someone who, i learned after the movie was over!, had never really watched the muppet show, like, had seen a movie maybe and knew of them 'culturally' or whatevs - i was like, what?? it was his suggestion to see it! no judgment tho... he also thought it was cute and charming. meanwhile i'm totally laughing through the whole thing and tearing up big time when they do the theme song opening number and etc etc etc.
this movie made me realize what a huge part of my formative years the muppets were and that without them my sense of humour would not be what it is.
i liked this movie.

rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link

seriously the muppets make me so emotional that i can't even deal, esp at christmastime -- seeing this movie would make me weep in public, which would be muy embarrassing

the muppets/john denver christmas record was one of my favorites as a kid, and i can't even listen to this song but i invite you to try to listen without crying and then tell me how you did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkIhq-OGGc&feature=related

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link

i can't even THINK about that song without tearing up a little

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link

I can't even THINK about sriracha sauce without sweating a little. honest.

Aimless, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link

i would eat multiple spoonfuls of sriracha before i listened to "it's in every one of us" in public
too embarrassing

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link

I rank Manhattan with Caper as the best one. And if you rank any of the first three below any of the ones that followed it, you're criminally insane.

Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 16 December 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link

xpost

Yeah, don't even get me started (I wrote a Facebook post about the awesomeness of A Muppets Family Christmas earlier this week). If I were to enter any particular science, it would be Muppetology.

In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Friday, 16 December 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link

oh youtube, full of such teary-eyed nostalgia!
i think if i'd seen this with my brother or a childhood friend we would have run out into the streets afterwards and been extremely silly

rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link

basically i haven't seen the new muppets movie because i am not looking forward to crying in public
there, i said it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQwLMkaJsyM&feature=related

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link

aggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah I saw the movie too, and I think it would be pretty hard to actively dislike

Hurting, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link

But I'm sure someone ITT will try!

Hurting, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link

i invite you to try to listen without crying and then tell me how you did it

well, not a big fan of Robin the Frog

Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 December 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link

i guess that's not surprising

league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link

thought the new one is fine and all, nothing much to complain about. but i have to say: walter is an ugly muppet! just unattractive. not cute. really doesn't look like much effort went into the little guy's getup.

andrew m., Friday, 16 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link

i felt like he was supposed to look like a half-assed nu-80s muppets. and nerdy!

rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link


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