The Muppets
Nov. 28th, 2011 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishIt's no Muppet Movie, but it'll do.
80s Robot was absolutely perfect. Ditto Neil Patrick Harris. Jack Black, being somewhat Muppet-like himself, was acceptable.
The Muppets themselves are... not quite right, in a way that's both more subtle and more jarring than if they were actors fifty years older than their first performances. (Mostly noticeable in Kermit's singing, but bits of voice and characterization are off for many of them.)
Occasionally the self-referential humor felt heavy-handed. "We'll travel by map" worked for me; "This is gonna be a short movie," not so much. I think The Muppet Movie got away with it because it was a film-within-a-film.
Mostly it needed the human characters to not be the main focus. Also more Statler and Waldorf.
Good times. Recommended despite the nigh-Muppetless first twenty minutes.
80s Robot was absolutely perfect. Ditto Neil Patrick Harris. Jack Black, being somewhat Muppet-like himself, was acceptable.
The Muppets themselves are... not quite right, in a way that's both more subtle and more jarring than if they were actors fifty years older than their first performances. (Mostly noticeable in Kermit's singing, but bits of voice and characterization are off for many of them.)
Occasionally the self-referential humor felt heavy-handed. "We'll travel by map" worked for me; "This is gonna be a short movie," not so much. I think The Muppet Movie got away with it because it was a film-within-a-film.
Mostly it needed the human characters to not be the main focus. Also more Statler and Waldorf.
Good times. Recommended despite the nigh-Muppetless first twenty minutes.
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Date: 2011-11-28 10:59 pm (UTC)This is going to become an inside joke at work. By sheer force of will.
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Date: 2011-11-29 05:58 am (UTC)