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- Only in "The Muppets Take Manhattan," your third film, do you really seem to come into your own. You take charge. You are the central figure in the plot, you do not allow yourself to get shouldered aside by Miss Piggy, and you seem thoroughly at home with the requirements of genre, stereotype, and cliché.
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Only in "The Muppets Take Manhattan," your third film, do you really seem to come into your own. You take charge. You are the central figure in the plot, you do not allow yourself to get shouldered aside by Miss Piggy, and you seem thoroughly at home with the requirements of genre, stereotype, and cliché.
- Jim Henson Wanted to Make An Entertaining Movie For everyone.
- Working with Frank Oz Wasn't Easy For everyone.
- Frank Oz Kept The Movie Grounded with Character Development.
- Frank Oz Wanted The Movie to Have More “Lunacy.”
- Frank Oz Cast The Celebrity Cameos Based on Merit.
- Dustin Hoffman Almost Had A Cameo.
- The TV Show Glow Paid Homage to The Muppets Take Manhattan’s “Whisper Campaign.”
- Joan Rivers Was A Little Tipsy When She Filmed Her Scene.
- Martin Scorsese’s Parents Were Extras in The Muppets Take Manhattan.
- The Muppets Take Manhattan Led to Muppet Babies.
The Muppets Take Manhattan came out in the summer of 1984, where it faced off against violent “family films” like Gremlins andIndiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. In fact, films had become so violent that the MPAA introduced the PG-13 rating with Red Dawn’s release on August 10, 1984. But a month before, during an interviewwith Gene Shalit, Henson...
Because The Muppets Take Manhattan was Frank Oz’s first solo feature, the pressure was on for the director—and some of the cast felt it. In 2018, Gonzo voice actor Dave Goelz told Smithsonianthat working with Oz "was torture. We had the hardest time working with him. Frank felt he had to make every decision, dictate every tiny detail, and he microm...
In past Muppet films, Oz thought the humor was a bit “wilder.” But in The Muppets Take Manhattan, he reined in the comedy and grounded it in realism. “Muppets Take Manhattan was more grounded than the other stuff you’ve seen,” Oz toldTough Pigs. “Some people love that—I felt it was a failure on my part because it didn’t have that kind of Muppet wil...
“It doesn’t have enough lunacy,” Oz said of the movie in Jim Henson: The Biography. “I think the story is your basic old-fashioned story, and it was a well-crafted thing because of that. But it didn’t have flights of fancy like The Muppet Movie.”
Throughout Muppets history, celebrities from Mel Brooks to Julie Andrews appeared in Muppet shows and films. In The Muppets Take Manhattan, everyone from Gregory Hines to John Landis (who was a puppeteer on The Muppet Movie) makes an appearance. When asked how he decided on casting the cameos, Oz stated, “We wanted to have the cameos as part of the...
David Misch, who was a writing consultant on The Muppets Take Manhattan, told Tough Pigs that he and Oz wanted bigger name celebrities, like Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Richard Pryor, and Laurence Olivier. “Hoffman was going to play a Broadway producer and planned to do an imitation of legendary film producer Robert Evans, which he later did in th...
During the second season of Netflix girl wrestling show GLOW, producer Bash (Chris Lowell) and wrestler Debbie (Emmy nominee Betty Gilpin) try to sell the show GLOW at a TV expo. Bash has the idea to start a “whisper campaign” like they did in The Muppets Take Manhattan, in which Kermit goes to Sardi’s, replaces Liza Minnelli’s portrait with his ow...
In a brief but memorable scene, Joan Rivers works at Bergdorf Goodman’s perfume counter with Miss Piggy selling Quelle Difference perfume. Rivers tells Piggy she could use some makeup. “Pigs don’t have eyebrows,” Piggy protests, but Joan gives them to her anyway. They get carried away with the makeover, and the store manager fires them both. Oz tol...
In an interview, Juliana Donald revealed that Martin Scorsese’s parents had roles as extras. “They were so sweet and overjoyed to be extras,” she said. “It was great because their son was one of the all-time greatest directors, and they could have had regular parts in any of his films, but they only wanted to be extras. I think they liked the fact ...
During a carriage ride through Central Park with her Kermie, Piggy tells him she wishes they would’ve met as toddlers. She envisions a fantasy sequence of baby Kermie, her, Gonzo, Rowlf, Fozzie, and Scooter playing in a nursery and singing the song “I’m Gonna Always Love You.” A few months after the film came out, CBS launched the animated series M...
The Muppets Take Manhattan: Directed by Frank Oz. With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire. Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
- Frank Oz
- 41 sec
Oct 27, 2023 · THE MUPPETS® TAKE MANHATTAN by storm in this magical musical about breaking into show business! Fresh out of college, Kermit,® Fozzie® and the entire cast of Kermit's musical "Manhattan ...
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- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Apr 1, 2021 · TOGETHER AGAIN! In 1984, Jim Henson brought his world-famous Muppets to New York for a wacky musical comedy that satirized the gritty, jaded environment of 1980s Manhattan while providing fascinating views of some of its most glamorous landmarks.
Nov 22, 2011 · The Muppets Take Manhattan is more of the same: charming but not saccharine, bright and emphatically corny. This time it’s back to the original model of the Muppets playing themselves, now ...
Jul 22, 2011 · The bright young things who are tenacious enough to find their own way in Manhattan today will find a kindred spirit in Kermit, especially during his speech on top of the Empire State Building.
