The greatest muppet movie of all time!!!

[Dr. Evil]

Sorry Americans, people like this are the reason your country is the laughing stock of the world. Muppets brainwashing children? Please. Get a ****ing life you tool.

Actually I think we are the laughing stock because of crap like the Kardashians and any and all Real Housewives.

 

[jmc]

And Fox is owned by an Australian.

Actually he became a US citizen.

Stop judging the whole country based on a group of idiots. All countries have issues. I mean, it's not like Austrailia's perfect either.

We're not, but we've got more important **** to be worrying about.

 

[TheDragonator]

Just ignore Fox. They're trashing will just make it all the sweeter when the TV series/ sequel happens.

 

[danoyse]

Actually he became a US citizen.

Don't try to push him on us, we didn't ask for him.

We're not, but we've got more important **** to be worrying about.

So do we. The only reason this was in the news at all was because of how ridiculous it was.

 

[danoyse]

Conan O'Brien proves that the Muppets are commies:

http://teamcoco.com/video/commie-muppets

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Actually he became a US citizen.

We're not, but we've got more important **** to be worrying about.

And the US doesn't?

Take your antiamerican ranting elsewhere.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Take your antiamerican ranting elsewhere.

So I guess you don't believe in freedom of speech, how about the right to vote for whoever you want?

Since when is oil/fossil fuels and Capitalism strictly an American problem?
If the Muppets movie has an anti-capitalist and anti-fossil fuel message, then good for that movie. Too many people use capitalism to **** other people over, it's not all good, what the hell is wrong with putting that message in a movie?

 

[danoyse]

We are so not turning the Muppet thread into political thread.

As far as this issue pertains to the new movie: the only "anti-" message in this movie is an anti-please-don't-tear-down-our-theater message.

Yes, the bad guy is a rich oil baron. But he's not a bad guy because he's a rich oil baron. He's a bad guy because he's a jerk. He not only takes delight in the fact that he's going to destroy the Muppet studios, he's also planning to take over their copyright and replace them hoodlum versions of the Muppets. He raps about gold-plating his own cat.

For the purposes of this story, yes, he's an oil guy. It's not the first or last time a lovable gang of children's characters is threatened by an evil rich businessman. Hell, the original Muppet Movie has essentially the same story involving an evil restaurant chain owner.

The Muppets is so taken from the old "let's put on a show" movies from the 1930s that Mickey Rooney himself actually has a cameo during one of the songs.

At no point in the movie does anyone proclaim that drilling for oil is bad other than that doing so will destroy the beloved Muppets theater. No one in the movie discusses alternative energy.

Think of Tex like Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life.. He wasn't a bad guy because he was rich or owned a bank. He was a bad guy because he was a slumlord who nearly drives George Bailey to suicide because he's hiding the $8000 that George lost.

That's as bad as watching Tex Richman try to cut the power at the Muppet theater because they might make the money they need to save the theater.

The message of both of those movies is that no one is a failure as long as they have family and friends, and anyone who takes anything sinister out of either of those movies clearly wasn't paying attention.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Other than Jack Black, Sarah Silverman and NPH, any other celebrity cameos?

 

[Webhead2006]

fox does trash almost everything. But that is usually just a few folks within the oganization not the whole oganization itself.

 

[Matt]

Oh man, I just got around to watching that ridiculous **** on Fox News. What's crazy is, Fox News even brings on the dumbest liberal possible to defend it. Rather than saying, "You all sound insane, there is no evil, anti-capitalism message in The Muppets," the woman they brought on basically says, "Damn right there is an anti-capitalist message and there should be!"

Oh Fox News....anything to present a skewed viewpoint, eh?

 

[redhawk23]

If the rest of the world judges America based purely on Fox News then they have no reason to be bragging about their superior education systems.

 

[redhawk23]

Question, did he mention the fact that James Carvile is actually in the film?

 

[The Guard]

It bothers me a little that there has been more continuous discussion about this nonsense then there was about the actual movie.

 

[danoyse]

Oh man, I just got around to watching that ridiculous **** on Fox News. What's crazy is, Fox News even brings on the dumbest liberal possible to defend it. Rather than saying, "You all sound insane, there is no evil, anti-capitalism message in The Muppets," the woman they brought on basically says, "Damn right there is an anti-capitalist message and there should be!"

Oh Fox News....anything to present a skewed viewpoint, eh?

And then that idiot suggested that the villain should have been a corrupt bank executive so children could learn what a real villain was. What a bunch of morons.

I've seen exactly one person agree with Fox on this. She's the lone person on the list of comments in friend's Facebook post about it claiming that even her six-year-old caught *that* message when they say the movie.

Since there's hardly a distinguishable difference between Fox News and a six-year-old anymore, she probably shouldn't boast that as an achievement.

 

[danoyse]

Anyone up for a news source more reliable than Fox?

[YT]WBvbzQfMNik[/YT]

 

[nite-owl]

It's not the first time Fox has has accused a Jim Henson production of a liberal bias. They accused Sesame Street of having a liberal agenda.

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

Other than Jack Black, Sarah Silverman and NPH, any other celebrity cameos?

Dave Grohl, Mickey Rooney, Ed Asner, Selena Gomez, Whoopi Goldberg, and Zach Galifinakis.

 

[danoyse]

I saw the movie again tonight, and while I'd rather not belabor the Fox lunacy, there was something I caught tonight that deflates their argument even more:

When Walter, Gary, and Mary meet Kermit for the first time and they mention Tex Richman, Kermit stops them and says "You mean Tex Richman, the famous oil baron and and philanthropist?".

He goes on to explain that he knew that Tex was planning to buy out the studios, but Kermit had been told that Tex planned to turn the studio to a museum. He didn't know anything about oil being under the studio, or that Tex's real plan was to destroy it so he could drill for that oil until Walter told him about it.

So there's the other reason he's a villain: he's lying to the Muppets!!

Anyway...the movie is even better the second time. I think it's my favorite movie of the year too.

 

[Darkness Falls]

still a month til it comes out here

 

[Webhead2006]

Official music video for "Man or a muppet":
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-WWWTW1P8rQ[/YT]

 

[jacobed]

Ah Man or a muppet. Academy award winning best song

 

[danoyse]

I love Man or Muppet, but I'm hoping for at least a nomination for the Life's a Happy Song finale...just to see all of the Muppets perform on the telecast.

My nephew saw the movie last weekend. He's 3. His entire review (as he was coloring) to me was: "I saw Toy Story. Then I saw frog. Then a bear. And a piggy."

I asked him if he liked the movie. He gave me a big nod and said "Yeah!"

I hear he's been watching the Muppet Show dvds now and he loves them.

My mom saw the movie last week too. She texted me afterwards: "I laughed, I cried, I went to the Disney Store and bought a Kermit."

 

[Webhead2006]

I too hope any of the new original songs get oscar noms.

 

[LostSon88]

I just got out of it.

And I know this phrase gets overused but believe me when I say that "The Muppets" is the first movie in a very long time that actually made me feel like a kid as I was watching it.

It was crazy, I had a smile on my face the whole time and just was really into the film. Granted yes, for me the movie started okay but a tad slow, but once we finally got the Muppets together I was hooked.

From the humor, to the songs, to the climax of the film by watching them do an episode of "The Muppet Show" I mean, I literally was like this for most of the film. t:

Another thing I didn't see coming was how much the movie kind of pulls at your heartstrings. I found myself getting a lil choked up quite a few times at the end.

Basically the notion of how different times are now and how the Muppets are "old news" and that they're style of comedy just wouldn't work in today's society…just had me thinking back to when I was a kid and how innocent and pure things were. Just really had me thinking about my childhood (i'm 26).

Nostalgia to the MAX. Great film.