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
I totally want to see this, but my mom is all about Hugo
This is OK-ish, but the gulf of quality between the initial three Muppet movies and this is more of an ocean.
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)
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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.
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.
?! Manhattan is maybe the best of the lot. (Tho the songs are best in Caper.)
i laughed many times and even got teary-eyed at the end
Manhattan is the best muppet movie, btw xp
There’s a stretch in Manhattan of, like, eight or nine classic scenes in a row.
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?
yeah but then there’s the wedding
the popcorn is popping in your face. IT’S 3D!
Ocean Breeze Soap: It’s just like taking an ocean cruise, only there’s no boat and you don’t actually go anywhere.
Something from the grill, Jill?
No thank you, Gil. Meat makes me ill.
Mmm.
You are ... Enrico Tortellini ... of Passaic, N.J.
Muppets Take Manhattan seemed much more aimless than the other two iirc
Muppets go to NY, leave NY, come back to NY.
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.
Shakey talking crap about MTM is making me reconsider this whole endeavour
had no idea anybody liked it tbh. always considered it the weakest since I first saw it as a kid.
is it just because I’m not from NY lol
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
although the tone got a lot more Muppet-y as the film progressed
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.
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.
So yeah, having Fozzie work even a little bit blue was a mistake
when did this happen?
Fozzie’s always had a predilection for whoopie cushions, if that’s what yr on about
“An ocean” doesn’t really separate friggin’ Muppet movies from each other
Then you skipped Muppets from Space too.
And Muppet Treasure Island...
yes.
Fozzie said “FART SHOES.” Fozzie doesn’t say words like that.
(Disillusioned OG Muppeteers have said so.)
Muppets from Space wasn’t entirely terrible. I have no use for “Muppets star in a remake of another franchise” movies tho
“Man or Muppet” was def one of the highest points of the film.
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.”
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
like, I don’t remember that being identified as the rationale for their breakup at all
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.”
saying goodbye is always sad / makes us remember the good times we had
how long did it take to get that one line out of Mickey Rooney?
yeah Man or Muppet was great
Walter is def the most Mary Sue character to come along since Bella Swan though
it’s almost like they decided to put Kermit’s nephew Robin at the center
i think they really underused / poorly used their cameos in this film.
the great choices (NPH, Silverman) barely had any lines, and the cameos that had many lines (like Jack Black) were basically worthless
Yeah, during the postfilm meal, my wife said “they left out Robin” and I said “nah, they renamed him Walter.”
nothing quite as sublime as joan rivers in Manhattan or steve martin
god its the fuckking muppets they could have gotten anybody so why god why jack black.
eric h. is otm throughout this thread
wtf was Selena Gomez and the little kid from Modern Family even doing in this movie?
the mambo?
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.)
they could have gotten anybody
dunno if this is true really
yeah Arkin was good
i wanted somebody with gravitas. funny muppet cameos are people like vanessa redgrave or maybe jessica lange or hell even steven tyler
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?
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.
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
no idea why Morbz likes her
Enchanted?
She was good in The Fighter — washed the cloying taste of the Julie character right out of my brain.
The Fighter is the one and only time I’ve been anything other than actively annoyed by her.
Also, you do know the chickens were clucking “Forget You,” right?
See the diff? The adults supply the dirtiness.
i thought all of the fighter was annoying; she wasn’t the worst thing in it so....
i mean you do know where mah ná mah ná comes from
a papa ná and a mah mah ná
THATS DIFFERENT FROM FOZZIE SAYING “FART” WTF IS DA MATTAH WIT U SCREWS
Adams is the most Muppety actor to appear w/ them since J Denver
I want to make a joke about Massive Attack’s “Man Next Door” here but it seems labored
Fuck it, I’m glad Fozzie said “fart shoes” now.
If they’d made it “whoopee shoes” we’d have to come up with all new reasons to talk about Amy Adams.
also probably would’ve meant that Whoopi Goldberg got more lines
bullet dodged
Were my friends and I the only people to lose their shit during the ‘me party’ song?
why didja? Needed to have Piggy and AA together.
’cause it sounded like a song about masturbation
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Moar muppet jokes for ye olde spank bank plz
I purposefully trekked to the Muppet studio in Hollywood in July bcz it’s Chaplin’s old one. So, better movie with me, eh?
I once saw Chaplin eat a fart shoe with a fork and knife.
It’s like a kind of torture
To have to read the posts!
true story: i once saw fred durst driving into the muppet studio w/ a six foot drag queen in the passenger seat.
And then the passenger threw scalding grits on the Swedish Chef?
in a fit of jealousy, I should have added
it was like real life animal and janis, but suckier
Animal should’ve played the Cassavetes part in The Fury
blowing up jason segal with his mind
was that Miss Poogy w/ Durst?
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.)
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.
w/out the fluids
Black’s presence destroyed the Nirvana barbershop.
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
Da corn is popping in your face inna 3-D!
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.
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.
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.
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
i can’t even THINK about that song without tearing up a little
I can’t even THINK about sriracha sauce without sweating a little. honest.
i would eat multiple spoonfuls of sriracha before i listened to “it’s in every one of us” in public
too embarrassing
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.
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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.
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
basically i haven’t seen the new muppets movie because i am not looking forward to crying in public
there, i said it
aggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
Yeah I saw the movie too, and I think it would be pretty hard to actively dislike
But I’m sure someone ITT will try!
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
i guess that’s not surprising
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.
i felt like he was supposed to look like a half-assed nu-80s muppets. and nerdy!