The Muppets

i rewatched this because of a big bird tweet somehow. more meta than i remembered, the blatant ads of disney properties like cars 2 and the disney store with the amount of celebs i know as cameos,,, i unironically like this ? read more

i fell in love with this hard when this first came out. perfect amount of nostalgia as well as irreverence. for some reason, when i showed it to ripley, i didnt connect to it as much as the first time. maybe because she got bored with it about 45 minutes in. read more

the return of the muppets is certainly a successful one; in fact, it's not out of the ballpark to call the muppets the best film in the franchise. writers jason segel and nicholas stoller do an excellent job of showing how comedy can be universal and timeless by staying firmly in the vein of the characters we've come to know and love, but keeping the film from feeling dated. the songs are top-notch and the performances by segel, amy adams, chris cooper and the host of celebrity cameos are all funny. the film doesn't try to make any bold statements about the state of the world or the human read more