1 Time Film Excess Nominee:
Best Song: Man or Muppet, Brett McKenzie (lost to Albert Nobbs)
+ Best Musical of the Year
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| The festive, colorful poster for James Bobin's The Muppets |
Walter is a muppet born in Smalltown, USA. Now he goes with his human brother and his girlfriend to Hollywood. But the muppet theater there is in the process of being overtaken by an evil oil baron!
Co-writer/star Jason Segel's (Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)) sympathetic heart-blood pumps through The Muppets, the first Muppets movie in 12 years, in which he partners up with equally endearing Amy Adams (Enchanted (2007)). Chris Cooper (August: Osage County (2013)) plays the rapping villain.
Muppets features lots of tongue-in-cheek humor and meta-comedy. It is warm like a cozy pillow with an excessive amount of cameos, - among them, Alan Arkin (Firewall (2006)) and Jack Black (Bernie (2011)) are funny, - and especially one very good musical number, the Oscar-winning Man or Muppet by Brett McKenzie (Flight of the Conchords (2007-09)).
The Muppets is nostalgic fun in a fairly unengaging, predictable plot. Segel co-wrote it with Nicholas Stoller (Gulliver's Travels (2010)), and James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords)) directed it.
Come together with the lovable muppets for a fun, enthusiastic, family-friendly party!
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Watch the infectious trailer for the movie here
Cost: 45 mil. $
Box office: 165.2 mil. $
= Big hit
[Muppets opened # 2 behind The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. It became the highest-grossing Muppets movie ever, making 88.6 mil. $ in North America (54 % of the total gross). It got good reviews, many award-nominations and wins and a 2014 sequel that did less business, however. The Muppets also DVD/Bluray-debuted at #2 in the US, and made an additional 52.8 mil. $ from this.]
What do you think of The Muppets?
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