The Muppets factor into my earliest happy memories. I have a huge soft spot for them that overrides most reason. They just released a new movie. After how easy and fun my Bullet Point Review of Divergent was, I figured I would do it again, but this time about Muppets Most Wanted. Plus, I love Tina Fey.
So. Here you go.
• I am always happy when a new Muppet project is released.
• Having said that, I wasn’t exactly thrilled about this one.
• Luckily, it is better overall than the previous film.
• However, it is still not as good as any of the original movies.
• I really enjoyed the Russian Gulag stuff.
• Not so much the Constantine and Badguy Heist stuff.
• I really struggle with the voice of the new Kermit performer.
• Fozzie and Piggy don’t bother me as much.
• I flat out hate the new voices of Statler and Waldorf.
• I miss Rizzo the Rat, and Pepe the King Prawn.
• It feels like there are twice as many songs as there were in the previous movie.
• And all of the songs are great and funny and energetic and contextual.
• Brett Mckenzie is a great fit to write music for the Muppets.
• But I still miss Paul Williams’ more nuanced touch.
• Tina Fey was a sexy-ish Russian Gulag Warden.
• Which totally worked for me.
• Ty Burrell was pretty fun in it.
• By the end, the cameos just felt tacked on.
• (That last bullet point was also a little joke that you might only really get if you stayed to the end credits.)
• Absolute funniest line: “Good night, Danny Trejo.”
• I love Tina Fey.
• I miss Jim Henson.