The Muppet Movie

Oh boy more Muppets. If you haven't guessed, I am huge fan of The Muppets. So I will review the first feature film that The Muppets made. So time to start my review of The Muppet Movie.









The movie starts with The Muppets going to see a movie which is actually The Muppet Movie. So they start the movie and we watch it too. We open with Kermit (Jim Henson) singing "The Rainbow Connection". A Hollywood agent (Dom DeLuise) hears him and say he has talent and gives him an ad saying it wants frogs to try out for movies. So Kermit goes to a nearby town and goes to a bar called El Sleezo. Inside the bar he meets Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) who works as a comedian at the bar. Fozzie makes the crowd angry, so Kermit does a dance routine to make them happy but it doesn't work. So after escaping from the bar, Kermit tells Fozzie about going to Hollywood. So Fozzie decides to come with him, but before they get too far they are stopped by a man. The man introduces himself as Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) and his sidekick Max (Austin Pendleton.) Hopper wants Kermit to be the mascot for his franchise of frog leg restaurants. But Kermit refuses and leaves, but Doc Hopper says he will find him.

So after singing "Moving Right Along" they stop the car at a church. In the church is the band The Electric Mayhem. Kermit and Fozzie tell them everything. So they disguise Fozzie's car with paint and bubbles. So they say goodbye to Electric Mayhem and head on their way. Kermit and Fozzie crash into a plumbing truck owned by The Great Gonzo (Dave Goelz). They take Gonzo with them and stop by a car dealership to trade-in their car. They talk to a man named Mad Man Mooney (Milton Berle) and his assistant Sweetums (Richar Hunt). Sweetums accidentally uses a fly to make the car cheaper (don't ask) so they buy the car. So they leave, but they forget to take Sweetums with them, so he spends the rest of the movie chasing them. They stop at a carnival next. At the carnival the watch a beauty contest and the winner is Miss. Piggy (also Frank Oz). Miss. Piggy falls in love with Kermit and when Kermit tells her they are going to Hollywood she runs off to go pack. Thinking that Miss. Piggy left, Kermit and Fozzie go to buy ice cream from Bob Hope. Gonzo buys some balloons, but he buys so many and they are so light that he starts to fly away. They chase Gonzo and so does Doc Hopper, but Kermit gets Gonzo gets back in the car. Later they stop in a town and Kermit and Miss. Piggy go to dinner. At dinner they are served by a sarcastic Steve Martin. Miss. Piggy gets a phone call and leaves Kermit. Rowlf (also Jim Henson) is a piano player at the diner so they sing a song together, but then Kermit gets a phone call saying that Doc Hopper kidnapped Miss. Piggy. But Kermit stops Doc Hopper, Max, and Mad Scientist Mel Brooks from kidnaping Miss. Piggy. Miss. Piggy gets another phone call and leaves.

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Rowlf comes with them to Hollywood and they run into Miss. Piggy on the side of the road and let her in. But the car runs out of gas and they stop in the desert. But The Electric Mayhem find them and take them to Hollywood. But before they get there, Max pulls them over disguised as a police officer. Max says Hopper is crazy and that they need to stop him. So they decide to face him in the nearby abandoned western town. In the town they meet Dr. Bunson Honeydew (Also Dave Goelz) and Beaker (also Richard Hunt); they show Kermit some temporary growth pills. But then Hopper and his men come into town. But Kermit tries to talk to Hopper and tell him what he is doing is wrong. But Hopper still wants to kill Kermit, but fortunately Animal (also Frank Oz) eats all the growth pills and scares Hopper away. So they all make it to Hollywood and Orson Welles gives them a contract and we end with a reprise of "The Rainbow Connection". The End

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The Muppet Movie in my opinion is the best of the Muppets. I really like the heartwarming moral and the memorable songs (Except for Miss. Piggy's solo, but that was supposed to be silly). All the Muppets are just the way you remembered them, and honestly there are very few thing I dislike about this movie. I also like its sense of humor and all the crazy cameos. But I will say some times the jokes aren't that great and Doc Hopper is too much of the evil business man stereotype. But still this is one of those movies everyone will enjoy. See you in the near future.