Reasons to See the 2011 Muppet Movie
If there is one film that I think lived up to the hype last year, it was the latest film version of the Muppets. I felt this movie was one of the best films I saw last year and the crowd was very fun to be a part of because the whole crowd was really enjoying the great story, the funny characters, the fun songs, and the funny jokes. If you need more of reasons to see this film, here are a few.
1) This movie is a labor of love. Jason Segel, one of writers and star of this picture, had pitch himself writing a Muppet movie when he had gotten some help from the Jim Henson people with the Dracula puppet musical in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It is clear that he really wanted to have a film that showed respect to the material and do a film that showed his of love of the characters and their movies and the show.
2) One song gets an Oscar, but all the songs are Oscar worthy. One of the songwriters is Bret McKenzie (a member of Flight of the Concords) and each song is well done and fun to sing along to. Some of the noteworthy songs include the opening number “Life’s a Happy Song”, Chris Cooper’s villain rap song “ Let’s Talk About Me”, Kermit’s sentimental song “Pictures in My Head” and finally the feel good song the really does feel good and got an Oscar “Man or Muppet”. These songs go well with the classic Muppets songs like the Muppet show theme and “The Rainbow Connection”. Honorable mention goes to the unoriginal songs in the film like Jefferson Starship’s “We Built This City” and AC/DC’s “Back and Black”.
3) It is an innocent simple story, but it is not dumb, sappy, or made just for kids. The story is that the Muppets’ biggest fan is trying to help Kermit get the group back together in order to prevent an oil tycoon from destroying their old studio. That is it and there is little nothing else in the conflict. But, like as stated before, this does not have the feeling that this was a dumbed down film for kids and it does not have too many jokes that little kids will never understand. It has a good mix.
4) The puppetry is well done. Even if the whole product is clearly garbage, anything with Jim Henson’s name going to have some good looking effects to their fictional characters. The director wanted to keep the old style of Muppets for it and if you get of the heavy use of CGI, then this is the film for you. Each character is lively and believable in each frame of the film.
5) It has good balance of old and new. It was nice to see the film have a great balance in this area because if the had done to many current references then the film may seem to become dated very quickly and to many old jokes would just make the audience think “That is all you can do”.
So here are some of the reasons you should see this move and now that it is out on DVD, it safe to say that it is worth the buy.
Sources
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets_(film)
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