Thursday 1 January 2015
Director: James Bobin
Year: 2011
Stars: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, voices of Steve Whitmore, Eric Jacobsen, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, David Rudman, Matt Vogel
I wanted to watch this when it was released back in 2011, but somehow just never got around to it. Everybody who saw it then seemed to enjoy it, so when I saw that it was on TV this Christmas I made an effort to watch it. And I'm so glad that I did!
The story focuses on Walter (voiced by Linz), a Muppet fanatic who visits the old Muppet studio with his brother Gary (Segel), only to discover that a rich oil tycoon (Tex Richman, played by Cooper) is going to buy it and tear it down without the Muppets knowledge. All this leads to a quest to find The Muppets and get them back together to put on a gala to raise enough money to stop Tex.
The Muppets is exactly what you expect it to be - a fun, all-singing, all-dancing musical with lots of in-movie jokes and a good-humored nature to it. There's nothing nasty or menacing about this, it's just a feel-good movie with some fun songs. Perfect for a relaxing New Years Day afternoon movie.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Watching films is one of my favourite hobbies. Often the films I watch aren't the biggest, or newest, films of the moment - but smaller independent movies, things on late night TV, or simply films I missed first time around. Not to say that the latest cinema releases don't get a look-in: my tastes are pretty diverse and I'll give almost any film a chance! This blog aims to reflect something of that diversity, reviewing as many of the films that I've watched since November 2008 as possible.
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About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
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