Well today was the day that they lit the lights and played the music as I saw the Muppets film today.
As I sat down in the auditorium I had a great feeling that I had been ripped off. (But then again it was a well-known national chain.) I must admit I regretted going to that cinema (that rhymes with clue, as in ‘they didn’t have one’), I was extremely certain that I asked for a seat near the back in the middle. So imagine my delight when I read that my seat was A 1; which was in the far left at the back. So after I accepted the fact that maybe the girl behind the counter did not hear me correctly I begrudgingly took my seat and got stuck into my popcorn. That was also a disappointment. I only eat salt popcorn, that is why I got a large drink with a medium bucket of popcorn, however when I shovelled the first handful near my face (I am a messy eater) I discovered that I had been given sweet. Now would be the time to use a rage face.
So eventually after a multitude of adverts and a rather lengthy discussion with two annoying children who were under the age of five and their nonchalant grandmother the film started. In a nutshell the film was humorous and interesting enough to distract me from my strange thoughts of what did Kermit do/not do on his wedding night with Miss Piggy that made her run to France?
Oh now I get it!
The film involved an interesting addition to the cast by the name of Walter and his idiot brother Gary. (Jason Segel I kid!) I don’t really want to give much away but the story is essentially Walter and others going to Kermit and getting all of the Muppets back together. However of course there is an oil tycoon from a few movies back who tries to ruin it all for them and Miss Piggy has a major strop.
The film however rather disappointed me as it gave away all of the even chuckle-able jokes away in the trailers for the movie. (And I made a point of staying away of the film trailers before I saw this movie.) I’m not quite sure how his happened but I doubt that there was anyone to blame. I not going to say that it was Disney that watered them down or that the Jim Henson puppetry group have lost their edge. But I will say that a bad actor wrote the film script and that never works.
I will say however that there was a surprisingly good amount of hidden cameos. There was a wave of celebrities from both film and TV including such people as; Zach Galifinakas, Sarah Silverman, Micky Rooney, Whoopi Goldberg and my personal favourite Jim Parsons who made a surprisingly brilliant visual joke in a mirror.
Finally I want to talk about the songs. Although the songs were cleverly timed and well executed I cannot remember them for the life of me and that is what makes people remember a musical. Well to be fair I do remember one song which involves chickens dancing and clucking Cee Lo Greens ‘F**k you’. That was truly ‘awesome’.
So to conclude this was film was interesting and disappointing for a Muppets film. However none of that matters as The Muppets’ films have done and always will be classic films for the entire family to enjoy. (Especially me.)
