blackbird's two minute movie review

Each summer (Memorial Day) and each winter (Christmas time) we venture forth, as a family, to the movies. This is not as easy as you think as we are: in various stages of employ at any given time (Middle worked overnight the day after Christmas), don't necessarily have the same taste in films (I am not seeing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and often could not see the same film together (Oldest is not seeing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with me). It can be a challenge to find something we'd all see and then set a date and go. Fortunately, the holidays often provide "family fare" and this time we lucked out and went to see The Muppets.

 

We each had varying knowledge/love for the Muppets and the movie managed to entertain us all for a couple of hours. It was cute enough to make us smile and sprinkled with enough celebrity cameos to keep us looking. (Does anyone know who that huge blue muppet guy is?) As we sat down, Youngest gave me the plot:

So, the way these things usually go is that for some reason the Muppet's theater is going to be knocked down or taken away or something and the only way to save it is to put on a show.


And that, my friends, is exactly what happened.

All the Muppets had to be rounded up (with the help of a montage) to get back together and do a show after Gary and his brother, Walter, learn of a plot to tear down the Muppet studios.




That's Gary and Walter there - don't waste your time wondering why one is a Muppet and one isn't. People don't question things like that in Muppet movies.
In fact, I wasn't really prepared for that and several other facets of Muppet filmage such as breaking into spontaneous song and humans interacting with Muppets. I don't think I'd ever seen a Muppet movie and aside from guest hosts I wasn't sure Muppets interacted with humans.
ANYWAY.




There are bad guys (Middle likes the bear) and funny props and inside jokes and we had a good time despite the fact that we had found ourselves in the filthiest theater in all of Tuvalu. (I brought an orange to eat and was thrilled to be able to sniff it as the stench in the room was awful!)




The best scenes are definitely the big ones, the ones with as many Muppets as possible. Cutecutecute.
We aren't an easy bunch to entertain but we were all smiling.
Have a look at Amy Adams's costumes too, charmingly retro.

I think I'd give it an eight!