The Muppets

This evening, I had to introduce an advanced screening of The Muppets!

For US folk saying it's already out - It comes out in the UK on Friday but the lovely cinema I attend for my youth group managed to get a showing of it early as the start of our youth film festival.

Now, I'm not a great speaker so when we were being asked to speak before films I just asked if I could do the first one to get it out the way with. Just so happened that the first film was a sold out screening of The Muppets :P

It's been on the cards for a few weeks now and I'd have posted sooner but I've been busy and broken laptop so yeah...
Got to credit my mum though. We were asked to dress up and since I was one of the speaker's, I had to be Kermit the Frog, whose costumes aren't great online and are quite overpriced. So my mum put a lot of effort into making a Kermit head and getting green gloves and socks (just did black suit Kermit, not full green) and it would seem that everyone loved it. We walked on to rapturous applause.

The speeches went well according to my mum. Three of us spoke and apparently, I only sounded nervous at the very start although i know for a fact I mixed up my words towards the end but whatever, the speeches were mostly to show off the costumes :P
Forgot to mention, I brought my banjo along for added Kermit effect ;D

Now the film. I can't honestly claim to be a massive Muppets fan. Obviously, I know of the Muppets (who doesn't) but I've not watched a lot of them. Although, I have watched their first three films in preparation of this and I've seen Christmas Carol years ago but I really enjoyed this new one.

Basically, their old theatre is getting knocked down and a new Muppet (Walter) goes out of his way to get The Muppets back together to save it while some soppy love story between Jason Segel and Amy Adams goes on in the background. Well, I say background but the pair are in it far too much for such an average story. It would have been a lot better had it just been The Muppets trying to save the theatre without the two.
Honestly, at times I thought the movie could have been called Jason Segel + The Muppets.

But The Muppets themselves redeem it, of course. It's great to see all the old, loved characters back. Every scene that's just The Muppets is great, funny and charming. The new Muppet is fine as well. Nowhere near as annoying as Segel or Adams (who remind me of Seth Rogen and Zooey Deschanel, respectively. Bleugh)

One thing that's always a fantastic extra to The Muppets is the cameos and they don't disappoint here at all. Apart from one, and I'm sure you'd agree if you've seen it. I won't give away the rest, though.

Anyway, anyway. There's much more to love than hate about the film and I would definitely recommend going to see it. Just try and pay more attention to The Muppets than the human actors, which is what The Muppets should always be about! The same applies to Muppets' love plot being between Kermit and Miss Piggy, too.


But yeah, I'm mostly glad my speaking is out the way. I don't have to introduce any more films, I can just sit back and enjoy the festival itself and damn, I have a lot of films I want to see!


Rowan <3