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100Yes, Kermit does reprise The Rainbow Connection, surely one of the loveliest movie songs ever and, yes, it still brings tears to your eyes. Happy tears, realizing some marvelous things never change.
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Nov 23, 201190It's hard not to be both heartened and a little wistful about the fact that The Muppets is probably as good a Muppet project as it's possible to make without Jim Henson.
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90Clever and current without being cynical, smart without being condescending, funny without being exclusionary to grown-ups or to kids.
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90The holiday season just got a whole lot brighter.
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89It is with immense pleasure that I can report that Disney's Muppet reboot movie is an absolute delight.
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88The Muppets is both a delightful family film about the Muppets and a winking, self-referential satire about how lame the Muppets are.
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88More fresh than retro, The Muppets bursts with charm and cheeky humor.
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88I've never seen a movie so perfectly balanced between unabashed nerdiness and hipness.
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88The Muppets may have been born out of a desire to revive a dormant franchise that was once a cash cow, but there isn't a single beat in the film that feels crass or opportunistic. This one is from the heart.
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83You can find movies with better scripts, direction, acting, songs, and jokes than The Muppets -- but you won't find one that's nearly so much fun.
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83For kids, blessedly unironic by nature until wised up by nurture, the movie is just shiny, funny, and filled with songs.
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80Made absolutely for grown-up fans, this is the Muppets as you fondly remember them: funny, smart and gleefully insane. Kermit, it's great to have you back.
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80Like Statler and Waldorf, older viewers may kvetch and cavil about the details, but when that red velvet curtain goes up, we wouldn't give up our balcony seats for the world.
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80Segel and Nicholas Stoller, who made "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" together, wrote the screenplay for The Muppets with obvious intent: to return these icons to their former glory.
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80The rainbow connection is a smooth, unbroken arch.
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75'As long as there are Muppets," muses a little felt guy named Walter, "there is still hope." And indeed, there is something hopeful about The Muppets - Disney's rollicking reboot of the late Jim Henson's furball franchise.
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75Sprinkled throughout, there is also a handful of wonderfully amusing song-and-dance numbers, written by Bret McKenzie.
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75There are several adorable musical numbers that make excellent use of Adams. Segel's dancing is . . . well, he reminded me of a huge star: Big Bird.
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75The Muppets is a rare family film likely to appeal more to parents than to their offspring.
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75A triumph of simplicity, innocence and goofy jokes.
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75A funny, wickedly self-aware musical that opens by acknowledging they've outlived their shelf life.
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Nov 22, 201175The love Segel has for the Muppets is a genuine, perceivable and positive quality that suffuses this good-hearted revitalization of the franchise, and if some wish fulfillment sneaks in there too.
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75At its best, though, The Muppets cuts back on the '80s-flashback self-consciousness and believes in the dream.
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75The troupe's first film in more than a decade, is a more aggressively absurd antidote to what it calls "a hard, cynical world." Happily, it works.
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75The musical comedy whimsically and often cleverly revisits the characters, their shtick and and the TV show and movies that made them most famous.
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75The Muppets slaps a smile on your face you won't want to wipe off.
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75The beloved gang's sweet reunion will melt nostalgic adults into laughter and tears, and maybe kids won't mind drippy new Muppet Walter so much.
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70During the movie's best moments, I recalled exactly what my long-gone father's roars of laughter sounded like. Was it the joyous lunacy of "Mahnamahna" that used to set him off?
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70Unfortunately, this comeback movie, a labor of love for mush-headed screenwriter and star Jason Segel, errs on the side of sweetness and nostalgia; except for a few good zingers from balcony dwellers Statler and Waldorf, there isn't much here for mom and dad.
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70For all its sharpness, the movie has a very sweet streak.
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70I'm being completely sincere - and entirely complimentary! - when I say that The Muppets represents a career high point for Segel, the comedian who reveals himself to be a whimsical writer, capable singer and dancer and appealing straight man.
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70A breezy, keen-to-please attitudes prevails, and director James Bobin (The Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show for TV) moves things along with good cheer.
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70An unexpected treat. Bright and perky, cheeky but never mean-spirited.
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67Henson's characters maintained an essential innocence while sending up the very idea of entertainment. They put on a show with quotation marks around it, but the irony never felt cynical. When it isn't getting bogged down in unearned sentiment, The Muppets gets that right.
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Dec 27, 201160It may not entirely work as a movie, but The Muppets shines as a piece of touching pop nostalgia.
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50The Muppet charm, always more at home within the intimate frame of a TV set, is gone here.
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50Terrified of alienating those who were raised on the originals, The Muppets panders to them instead, constantly blasting or restaging Top 40 hits from the past three-plus decades, continuing the cheap strategy that worked well on YouTube two years ago with the Muppets' cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody."