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The Muppets/The Muppets Most Wanted

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I love the Muppets, in fact I love everything the Henson company did up until the mid-'90s and then things started to go wrong, especially for the Muppets. Muppets' Christmas Carol is the last great film the studio made but they have been making an effort to return to their roots of late with a Dark Crystal sequel and Fragglerock film in development. The first big release we will see is a brand new Muppet movie and for once it isn't based on a classic piece of literature. Written by Jason Segel (also starring) and Nicholas Stoller the film seems to be going back to the old style Muppet movies.

Synopsis: On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the <ccc style="font-size: inherit; background-color: yellow; " title="">£6.34</ccc> million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos, “The Muppets” hits the big screen Nov. 23, 2011.



I'm not even sure half the footage in the teaser even appears in the film considering it seems to be about a fake romantic comedy called Green with Envy (it even gets its own fake film poster) that doesn't sound like it could possibly fit in with the general synopsis for the Muppets movie.
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Well I love every inch of Amy Adams so that's a major plus point and Jason Segel seems to land himself in great, funny roles very often so that's onto a winner for me, add in the glory that is the Muppets and I think I'm sold already.

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

They mess this up people will die! :quote:

After seeing the vampire puppet musical bit in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I'm rather optimistic, on the other hand.

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It is unlikely to ruin your childhood memories, none of the Henson films or series have aged badly at all, perhaps because we rarely see puppets any more unless they are on pre-school shows.

Even Jim Henson's earliest work is still interesting at some level, especially something like The Cube - Full video.

The only thing of his I haven't really liked (I'm ignoring some of the rubbish that came out after his death) was the test pilot for Wizard of Id but I put my dislike down to the source material more than anything.

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Machete " I'm a muppet"

Well I'm in opening day. And i asked twitter with no response will s1 of the muppets ruin my childhood memories?

Nope, I had the best of DVD set before they did the seaosn boxsets and they were still great fun. If nothing else you get to see serious actors like Glenda Jackson having a right load of fun. :)

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Machete " I'm a muppet"

Well I'm in opening day. And i asked twitter with no response will s1 of the muppets ruin my childhood memories?

Nope it's still utterly fabulous, and there's a few gags you maybe didn't understand back then that hit the funny bone now.

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Something about the marketing of this film so far has really grated for me so far, it just seems to be trying too hard to be 'now' and it comes across way too forced. Hopefully the actual film won't have the same tone.

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