"Muppets Most Wanted" G
This is the seventh Muppet movie, based on the reboot from nearly 2 years back. The story brings the iconic felt puppet mayhem back to the roots of some of the earlier films, most noticeably Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper. In the rather oddball plot, Constantine the world's most dangerous frog escapes from a Russian gulag run by a cheery gal trying to do a Russian accent. The story swaps Kermit for Constantine and his evil number two, a human called Badguy, somehow convinces all of them to go on a tour, so he can steal the crown jewels of London. The most disturbing scene is when Piggy imagines herself married to Kermit, believing the evil frog's nuptial plot genuine, and imagines a frog-pig pair of hybrid Muppet babies (ala the Manhattan onle, dream and all, that laughed a cartoon). It seems they're borrowing a lot from Frank Oz but aren't so much making if fresh, just borrowing it. The film is good for a rental later, but not worth general admission.
Review by Adam Browne
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