THE MUPPETS (2011)

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The Muppets is an upcoming comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures directed by James Bobin. The script was written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, the writer-director team behind the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. James Bobin, co-creator of the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, is directing the film and Bret McKenzie, co-star of Flight of the Conchords, has written the film's songs.[1] It is the seventh theatrically released feature film to star the Muppets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets_%28film%29

Cameo guest stars

Alan Arkin[4][5]
Jack Black[4][6]
Emily Blunt[7]
Beth Broderick[4]
James Carville[8]
George Clooney[9]
Billy Crystal[4][5]
Lady Gaga[5]
Zach Galifianakis[4]

Ricky Gervais[7]
Donald Glover[4][6]
Whoopi Goldberg[8]
Selena Gomez[8]
Kathy Griffin[10]
Dave Grohl[11]
Neil Patrick Harris[8]
Ed Helms[6]
Judd Hirsch[12]

John Krasinski[6]
Mila Kunis[13]
Rico Rodriguez[14]
Mickey Rooney[15]
French Stewart[16]
Ben Stiller[9]
Eric Stonestreet[6]
Wanda Sykes[5]
Danny Trejo[4][6]

Adam Sandler/David Beckham/The Red Hot Chili Peppers, your agents are slipping.

excited :D

Anyway, psyched.

Not sure if this franchise has legs.

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10-million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit the Frog reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos, "The Muppets" hits the big screen November 23, 2011.

Not sure if this franchise has legs.

haha

Mickey Rooney[15]

aw, hell yeah!

this actually sounds kind of promising. i'll go see it.

i think the muppet movie was the second movie i ever saw in a theater

James Carville. He is, sort of, a Muppet.

haha, totes

for some reason i think ed helms is perfect for hanging out with the muppets

For some reason I was sure I'd seen Billy Crystal with the Muppets before, and then I realised I was thinking of the Flaming Lips.

for some reason i think ed helms is perfect for hanging out with the muppets

Ten bucks says there's a dueling banjos scene with Helms and Kermit.

stoked as balls for this, but Disney are fucking idiots for changing the title from Segel's original

No Pepe the King Prawn, no cred

(checks cast list) phew, cred.

the dracula musical end of FSM made me want to stab myself so not sure i can take segal as a ventriloquist

do you hate everything that is beautiful in life?

odds that this will be Mickey Rooney's last film appearance? and Billy Crystal's?

Rooney's yes, Crystal's no way.

So excited for this film, tbh. Loved the puppet bits in FSM. Also, Chris Cooper is pretty much the best "insert generic villian" character actor ever.

so stoked for this

may be my daughter's first trip to a movie theater

glad they got some of the OG muppets guys in too. altho Frank Oz seems like a curious ommission

was making Crystal joke about his extinct box-office status, ya see

yeah it is weird that Oz isn't involved, who is doing Ms Piggy and Fozzie? Has he had a falling out with Henson or is he just too old now?

otoh Dave Goelz!!

not psyched

I'm not even phobic of puppets but Muppets always had a bit of creep to them. Especially the baby version of Animal.

Has he had a falling out with Henson or is he just too old now?

I...hope you mean the Henson organization specifically.

no. let this die. please.

apparently Frank Oz retired from doing Fozzie and Miss Piggy in 2002, and now some guy named Eric Jacobson has taken over

Ned yes obviously I meant the Henson company.

I'm sure this will be great, the last few Muppet things have not been great (Muppet Letters to Santa was ok; the christmas special a few years before sucked though), Segal has spoken at length about how much he wanted to make an old fashioned muppet movie.

Yeah, its those interviews with Segal that have me actually excited about this project. There wasn't any talk about "bringing them up to date" or "modernizing" or anything.

Having Disney produce a Muppets movie just makes me very, very afraid.

What was the original title?

End Times Are Near: The Musical

Disney has been involved with the Muppets for years, at least ten years, maybe more.

Jim Henson, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

ok I guess since 2004. that includes Muppet Wizard of Oz (apparently awful) and a bunch of tv specials, the last of which was pretty good (Muppets Letters to Santa)

This actually sounds pretty alright. The Muppet Movie was the first movie I saw in the theater.

The Moopets

I have faith in Segel...he talks about the Muppets with total reverence, so I at least trust he wouldnt set out to drag the name thru the mud. Then again the best laid plans of mice & men etc

I'm not even phobic of puppets but Muppets always had a bit of creep to them. Especially the baby version of Animal.

I never found the Muppets creepy, not even in the least. But yeah, the "Muppet Babies" was just sort of disturbing imo

The only disturbing thing about Muppet Babies was "Nanny"

and "Skeeter"

no girl should be named "Skeeter"

glad they got some of the OG muppets guys in too.

The original-original Muppets were seriously OG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ky7g1lgTwc

that's so awesome. jim henson, fuck

the second spot outta control

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, US, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds.

I confess that it was a good long while after reading this and wondering why the role of "Walter" was not credited before I realized ... Walter is the muppet that Jason Segel created.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fn9Q8q6yNmk/TSkX9dABqdI/AAAAAAAAABM/3-2p4ffOfgg/s400/The-Muppets-Jason-Segel-and-Walter.jpg

Yeah, I don't have a lot of time for post-Henson Muppet stuff. Something always feels off.

there was some piece about this new show pointing out how damaged the brand got over the years with the aggressive marketing exclusively to small children, shitty cheaply made low-concept "Muppets do ____" projects, etc. and now they're swinging the other way to try and be hip/adult... yeah idk. I'll give this show a try but I'm a little skeptical. Without Henson at the helm it really is just another property at the mercy of corporate perogatives and poorly thought out one-offs.

I get why they continue using the tried-and-true characters, but in a way they aren't as much characters as they are extensions of their original performers. I'd honestly prefer to see the newer performers develop their own characters and bring them to the fore.

but presold is where the biggest bucks come in. that's why Disney grabbed Star Wars too, just as the old stars were ready to hobble back into action.

^^^

I'd honestly prefer to see the newer performers develop their own characters and bring them to the fore.

Segel's muppet analogue was such a non-entity

Yeah, that thing was stupid. Pepe is probably the best character of the post-Henson era, though, and I think that's precisely because he was built from the ground up rather than being stuck on someone else's arm after thirty years. Gonzo is the only one of the old crew that still has any life in him because Dave Goelz is still doing the work. And don't get me started on the increasingly-sleek designs that continually chisel away the visual quirks of the characters.

Like I said, though, I get it. Recognizable IP = $$$. But still.

it is weird/sad to me that Oz is no longer involved

I don't know if he's ever made a public statement about his disengagement, but he's getting up there in years and I know it takes a physical toll, so I get it.

iirc they tried to get him for the reboot and he refused/had issues (I know he objected to Fozzie doing a fart joke)

but he was involved as recently as Muppets in Space, and he still did fucking Yoda so...

Oz just did the voice for Yoda this time around, and Muppets From Space was made >15 years ago. It probably would also suck to return to a thing you used to do with friends who are pretty much all dead now.

Look, at the end of the day Muppets Most Wanted proved that they could still do right by old school Muppets style.

TBF, haven't watched Muppets Most Wanted yet, but I was definitely unimpressed by its predecessor.

it is much better

the plot, the songs, the villain, the cameos, the way the characters interact - it's all an improvement

how damaged the brand got over the years with the aggressive marketing exclusively to small children, shitty cheaply made low-concept "Muppets do ____" projects, etc. and now they're swinging the other way to try and be hip/adult...

Coming next, Muppets: The End Times.

The title of one of the original Muppet Show pilots:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051206062447/muppet/images/8/8d/Title.sex.jpg

They've historically run the demographic gamut.

yeah that's what I meant above about them treading a fine line - at their best (and I would say during most of Henson's stewardship) they were never exclusively for adults or for children, they were kind of in the middle, which is a hard spot to maintain

one of the subway ads has a head-on Kermit pic promising a show with "full frontal nudity"

I think I read that the first episode involves Kermit accidentally sending the rest of the gang his dick pics. Hijinks ensue.

frogs don't have penises

Somebody better send ABC a memo before this thing airs.

Cloaca pics just doesnt have the same ring to it

Have they done a Real Housepigs parody yet?

yet? it hasn't even aired

just want to echo the muppets most wanted love, i enjoyed the muppets (2011) alot but watching muppets most wanted is where i thought 'ok, this is a muppets movie'.

Muppets Most Wanted was fantastic

I thought the songs in Muppets Most Wanted were pretty awful compared to ones used in the Muppets. Kind of a Flight on the Conchords season one vs season two rush problem.

Not even sure I agree with that, but it's been awhile since I heard the first movie's songs.

the idea of kermit having a lookalike with a comedy accent was ridiculous and muppety enough that I can forgive much

"i love you, pig!"

"i am kyirmit"

i remember when gosford park came out telling my friends it was so good that ryan phillipe was good in it. well muppets most wanted is so good that ricky gervais is good in it.

kinda disappointed they're not gonna keep doing movies if that's the case. the stuff w/ the new show has not intrigued me. really think they should've just done a variety show again, maybe even just make it occasional like once a month or twice a month, rotate it w/ a movie or something on saturday nights, boom there's yr new wonderful world of disney, disney could even go hardcore w/ their 'we own all the franchises now' by putting marvel movies and star wars in the rotation (hell they could so the unspecial edition star wars again and hype the hell out of it). then if they wanted to they could do their 'what if the office had starred the muppets? it might go a little something like this...' stuff as shorts and get viral whatever that way.

songs in Muppets most wanted are just. fuckin. *great*.

songs in fotc season two are also j.f.*g*.

And some of the best jokes are in fact the bawdiest, like Fozzie lamenting about declaring yourself a bear in the online dating world and the kind of attention that can attract — complete with a “not that there’s anything wrong with that” panicked punchline — or Animal wistfully lamenting why he doesn’t tour anymore: “So many women, so many towns.”

fuck this

uh that was supposed to be in italics but you get the idea

so Paul Williams has gone from writing songs to dialogue?

it's a whole new tv show, you can probly make a new thread

what do you have against Paul Williams idgi

i just saw that in the doc he said he wasnt proud of boasting of groupie-screwing

i like most of what i know of him actually

http://static.spin.com/files/130510-daft-punk_0.jpg

lol that pic

that doc is a fucking crime btw

hated the first ep of the new show, won't be watching.

watch Phantom of the Paradise instead

Watched "Muppets Most Wanted" two nights ago. So much better than the previous film - ROFLs galore. Kyrmit didn't get old.

new tv show kinda sucked

https://twitter.com/natepatrin/status/646893269616562177

i thought it was fine. nice to see them back on tv.

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"Look at me! I'm Bradley Coopers!"

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