WATCHED: The Muppet Movie.
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xyzzysqrlThere were so many ways this could've gone wrong. I thought I saw some of them, creeping up. Let the audience self-insert character do everything. Layer the sentiment on too thick. Get lost in cheap throwaway gags. Vanish into the collective fuzzy navel of the Muppets cast.
They pulled it off. I feel... I feel really good about this film. I'm glad I saw it. It worked.
For the first like... twenty minutes or so, this is one of the most earnest movies about fandom and nostalgia I've seen. How do you deal with falling in love with something fifty years old? How do you deal with realizing that in that time, it's all fallen apart? You might be the only one who cares. How do you cope with that?
If this leads to a proper Muppet show revival, Neil Patrick Harris should totally host at least one episode.
When they went into Rainbow Connection, I pretty much lost it for a few moments. I'm still that kind of person.
I think at some point I fell in love with 80s Robot.
The sentiment was... uneven. Spread too thick sometimes, too thin other places. But it was honest. I really believe that. And there were moments I had to remind myself, "No, this is what they were always like. This is the show with a policy where if they can't work out how to end a sketch, send in a bigger muppet to eat some of the smaller ones. Physical doofy humor is totally in character here."
Parting shot of the movie:
Woof: "Amazing. Who would've guessed that what Fozzie needed all this time was a straight-man?"
Sqrl: "And who would've guessed that all it takes to make Jack Black entertaining is to have him out there trying NOT to be funny?"
Dohhhh ho ho ho ho.
They pulled it off. I feel... I feel really good about this film. I'm glad I saw it. It worked.
For the first like... twenty minutes or so, this is one of the most earnest movies about fandom and nostalgia I've seen. How do you deal with falling in love with something fifty years old? How do you deal with realizing that in that time, it's all fallen apart? You might be the only one who cares. How do you cope with that?
If this leads to a proper Muppet show revival, Neil Patrick Harris should totally host at least one episode.
When they went into Rainbow Connection, I pretty much lost it for a few moments. I'm still that kind of person.
I think at some point I fell in love with 80s Robot.
The sentiment was... uneven. Spread too thick sometimes, too thin other places. But it was honest. I really believe that. And there were moments I had to remind myself, "No, this is what they were always like. This is the show with a policy where if they can't work out how to end a sketch, send in a bigger muppet to eat some of the smaller ones. Physical doofy humor is totally in character here."
Parting shot of the movie:
Woof: "Amazing. Who would've guessed that what Fozzie needed all this time was a straight-man?"
Sqrl: "And who would've guessed that all it takes to make Jack Black entertaining is to have him out there trying NOT to be funny?"
Dohhhh ho ho ho ho.
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Date: 2011-12-08 07:25 am (UTC)One scene which I expected to be filled with fart jokes, wasn't. And it was a better scene for that decision. I figured Jack Black had made a good choice in not going that route. Then I listened to the commentary track, where Black complained that he wanted fart jokes but was overruled by the director.
So, yeah, he gets better when someone stops him from freely exercising his sense of humor.
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Date: 2011-12-19 12:23 am (UTC)