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The Muppet Movie
A story of Kermit - the Frog who is persuaded to pursue a career in Hollywood attempt to find success with his friends & colleagues
17 January 1933, New York City, New York, USA
May 20, 1956
1 August 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 September 1942, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 February 1941
25 April 1965, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
3 August 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 February 1923, Highland Falls, New York, USA
25 August 1958, Burbank, California, USA
22 August 1951
June 01, 2015
With charm for the kids and in-jokes for their parents (when Kermit's bicycle gets mangled, he quips, "I thought I was gone with the Schwinn"), Muppet creator Jim Henson tries to give everybody a little something.
February 09, 2006
Slapstick chases and weak movie references look tired, while the attitude towards Miss Piggy and Camilla the Chicken is, well, less than progressive.
August 02, 2013
'The Muppet Movie' is one big road trip, and like 'The Blues Brothers' there's a payoff not just at the end, but around nearly every corner. Music only sweetens the deal.
August 13, 2013
With his Muppets, Henson found a balance between fuzzy post-hippie positivism and self-deprecating wit, and he added in the same quality that made many of the era's cultural phenomena so charming: simple problem-solving.
May 06, 2008
The transition from the yank-'em-off-if-they-bomb lunacy of the TV show to the coherent narration of the film is not a complete success.
November 25, 2011
This isn't about one sock puppet's search to be all that he can be. It's about a community combining their talents to bring joy to the world.
May 06, 2008
Jim Henson, Muppet originator, and Frank Oz, creative consultant, have abandoned the successful format of their vidshow, and inserted their creations into a well-crafted combo of musical comedy and fantasy adventure.
May 09, 2005
There's always room in movies for unbridled amiability when it's governed by intelligence and wit.
June 01, 2015
Jolson sang, Barrymore spoke, Garbo laughed, and now Kermit the Frog rides a bicycle... If you can figure out how they were able to show Kermit pedaling across the screen, then you are less a romantic than I am: I prefer to believe he did it himself.
August 15, 2013
while The Muppet Movie is certainly entertaining, the shift to a coherent, linear, feature-length narrative deprives the film the show's brilliantly structured inanity