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This is a list of productions based on The Muppets characters and franchise, including films, television series and specials, and other media. The franchise's main work is The Muppet Show, a syndicated television series which ran from 1976 to 1981. The franchise includes eight feature films, and other television series.
- The Muppet Movies in Chronological Order
- Muppet Treasure Island
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Muppet Movie
- The Great Muppet Caper
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Muppets from Space
- The Muppets
- Muppets Most Wanted
- The Muppet Movies in Order of Release
The Muppets' roots as a theater troupe essentially mean that both Muppet Treasure Island and the following film The Muppet Christmas Carol are essentially performances put on by the Muppets. Muppet Treasure Island story would be the furthest set in the past with the story taking place in the 18th century so, in chronological terms, it would be the ...
Moving up next by a whole century would be The Muppet Christmas Carol, with the various Muppet characters bringing the classic Charles Dickens Christmas story to life. The central human Ebenezer Scrooge is played by Michael Caine, with the primary Muppets at the center being Gonzo and Rizzo as the story's narrator. Despite featuring a cast of Muppe...
The first movie The Muppets ever starred in and acting as an origin story for how the group came together, The Muppet Movie focuses on Kermit the Frog traveling from the swamp to Los Angeles, and meeting many of the Muppets on the road. The film ends with studio executive Lew Lord (played by Orson Welles himself) signing the Muppets to a "standard ...
While The Muppet Movie told an origin story for the team, The Great Muppet Caper adopted the format of dropping the Muppets into different genres and stories that other films would follow. The film features the Muppets caught up in a jewel heist while investigating the robbery as reporters (with a great gag being that Kermit and Fozzy are supposed ...
The Muppets Take Manhattan is a rather emotional moment in the franchise, as a good portion of the movie is about the group breaking up. While they do reunite, the film felt like a fitting conclusion to the Muppet trilogy as the first film focused on how the team came together with the third film showing the breakup but also their eventual reunitin...
Muppets From Space was the first Muppet movie in fifteen years that saw the characters in a contemporary setting and thought to try to answer one of the franchise's long-held questions that nobody really actually cared about: what is Gonzo? Unlike Kermit, Fozzy, and many others who are clearly animals or some form of a human, Gonzo has always been ...
The Muppets made their grand return to theaters in the 2011 film simply titled The Muppets. The movie was based around the idea of the characters as a pop culture institution, with new character Walter and his brother Gary (Jason Segel, who also was the film's writer) deciding they needed to reunite the group to put on a show to save the old Muppet...
The latest Muppet film is 2014's Muppets Most Wanted. Muppets Most Wanted is the most direct sequel the franchise has ever had, even picking up directly as 2011's The Muppetsend. Yet the film has a lot of fun jokes at how quickly the events of the previous film are forgotten about/ignored (like the fact that Gary and his fiancée Mary are never seen...
- Entertainment Reporter
The Muppet Movie (1979) G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family. Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit. Director: James Frawley | Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt. Votes: 39,131 | Gross: $76.66M.
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3 days ago · The Muppet Movie (1979)88%. #2. Critics Consensus: The Muppet Movie, the big-screen debut of Jim Henson's plush creations, is smart, lighthearted, and fun for all ages. Synopsis: After Kermit the Frog decides to pursue a movie career, he starts his cross-country trip from Florida to California.
The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring the Muppets. The film is a movie-in-a-movie, as we see Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets gathering for the first screening of "The Muppet Movie." Kermit notes to his nephew Robin as the lights dim that the movie is a somewhat fictionalized account of the true story of how the Muppets first got ...
May 12, 2023 · Here are the eight theatrically released Muppets movies, ranked. Photo : ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection. 8. “Muppets From Space” (dir. Tim Hill, 1999) The indisputable black ...
The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy film directed by James Bobin, produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, and written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller. It is the seventh theatrical film featuring the Muppets. [7] The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, and Rashida Jones, as well as Muppet performers Steve Whitmire ...
