I totally want to get stoned with this guy and Walter and talk about the muppets.
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Have you all seen that rad muppets plumbing at the Letterman studio?
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
What happened to Skeeter from Muppet Babies? :((
― unmetalled world (wk), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
are Rooney and Alan Arkin playing Statler & Waldorf?
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never heard of her, but she was in a four-issue non-Langridge drawn storyline in the Roger Langridge Muppets comic last year.
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Saturday, 21 May 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CloKbXtD28&
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 23 May 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
The Muppets look awesome in high-def.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 23 May 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
wow this looks great
― remy bean, Monday, 23 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
I will go see all these Muppets.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
For those of a certain (OK, my) age, getting used to the subs for Henson's voices is as difficult as getting used to the Looney Tunes subs. It's remarkable how attuned our ears are to the subtleties of Muppet speech. Just as imagine there are some who cannot hear Ms. Piggy without hearing Yoda.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Please not the fucking New Radicals
― Radio XL1 (S-), Monday, 23 May 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
not to be a total cornster but i must have seen Muppets Take Manhattan a million times on VHS as a kid over and over and over again until I knew every line by heart - it came out the year i was born. so i'm kinda secretly hoping baby's favorite movie as a kid is gonna be this assuming it's excellent.
― Mordy, Monday, 23 May 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
I am always wary when the muppets are re-mastered. Saying this, muppets from space was awsome. I will hold judgement until I have seen it, I think the muppets are insanely good. Love them to bits.
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
I will be VERY surprised if this is decent. Yeh, the subs for the voices annoy me - it doesn't sound like Kermit, it sounds like someone doing a Kermit impression! - and with teh odd exception and the new muppets suck ass, and not in a good way.
And that poster freaks me out too. Whenever they give muppets legs they look waaaaay creepy.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
If the film manages to capture that goofy, chaotic sense of humour the Muppets have then it shouldn't be too bad.If Disney have taken this franchise and squeezed out the last drop of goodness by making a dreadful cheesy cacophony of shite then as Fozzie Bear would say "shame on youuuuu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbya4kxC6E
Just to show that sub voices aren't always bad.
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
So stoked for this. btw has anyone mentioned Muppet Treasure Island? That one is AWESOME.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Not my favourite, but still good. Best muppet movie ever?
For me it would have to the original The Muppet Movhe ie. I am all over Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgc-_pzzz00&feature=related
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
Movhe ie? = Movie
― “I'm a hero with coward's legs.” (captain rosie), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
I will be VERY surprised if this is decent.
Segel is great, his previous movie was great, he loves the Muppets, he pitched hard for this and won the Hensons over, he has proven enthusiasm for puppetry, director is a great match for the material with his experience on slightly off-kilter musical comedy in realistic settings. Why don't you think it will work?
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Conchords connection gives me hope, but I'm not sure if the ironic distance that works on that TV show will translate to Muppety fun. I think we'll have to agree to disagree on Segal, I've just had a look at his filmography and I find it supremely underwhelming, but ymmv I guess.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I'm being coloured by that terrible Muppets Tonight show tho, I was so disappointed by that.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
That shot in the trailer of Segal walking down the street doing that silly shoulder-shrug Muppet walk was all I needed to convince me he's paid attention to details and this thing is going to be loads of fun.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
For those of a certain (OK, my) age, getting used to the subs for Henson's voices is as difficult as getting used to the Looney Tunes subs. It's remarkable how attuned our ears are to the subtleties of Muppet speech. Just as imagine there are some who cannot hear Ms. Piggy without hearing Yoda.― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 23, 2011 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 23, 2011 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ditto. So far, I haven't heard anything monumentally off-putting in the new Muppet voices, but so much of it is about timing. The post-Mel Blanc Looney Tunes voices are fucking abominable. In Space Jam, you'd hear a voice off-screen and you couldn't tell if it was supposed to be Daffy, Bugs, or Elmer Fudd. They were practically interchangeable.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
if you haven't seen "forgetting sarah marshall" and the dracula puppet show, you can't judge segal's abilities around puppets.
― akm, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
The enthusiasm just about leaks off the screen, he loves puppets so damn much.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
...Why don't you think it will work?― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (3 hours ago)
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:35 (3 hours ago)
Disney?
― Radio XL1 (S-), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever they give muppets legs they look waaaaay creepy.
they've done this since the beginning...?
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't figure out how they got Kermit to ride a bike btw
I've heard he's actually a bicycling enthusiast and brought his own bicycle.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeh, they've done it since the beginning, and it's always looked creepy.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I want these.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/bettieleetwo/cupcakes-1.jpg
― Ray the Otter. (captain rosie), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I've just had a look at his filmography and I find it supremely underwhelming, but ymmv I guess.
are you going by a list of films you've not seen, or by, let's say, his acting in [a bunch of those films and] Freaks & Geeks, his writing on FSM, and the puppetry enthusiasm that saw him Muppeteer a song from his Dracula musical on Craig Ferguson?
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I missed this Craig Ferguson thing! Sounds like something I will be looking up.
― mh, Thursday, 26 May 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0C6YYLo_Jc
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Thursday, 26 May 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to work out who's going to have the best and worst cameo in this. Worst will be Gervais probably and I'm torn between Donald Glover and Wanda Sykes as to which will be the best.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
Actually Jack Black and Gaga could probably rival Gervais for worst.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
Cameos in the original Muppet movie are just so great that they set an unrealistic standard
― mh, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGAAHG0O1A
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
"would you like to smell the cap?" cracks me up every time
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Orson WellesEdgar and Charliea bajillion other fast cameos
― mh, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Gregory Hines was amazing
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Mel Brooks Nazi doctor!
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
"In a few minutes he won't know you from kosher bacon..."
― You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
i always and still do love in muppets take manhattan when kermit dons the orange suit and wig.
― The Chicago Choad (thebingo), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbd9j9-gjKk
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUUcOmgYEhY
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 17 June 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
kinda bummed that they seem to have made statler and waldorf the "villians" instead of just the sardonic greek chorus
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 17 June 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, Swedish Chef jokes get me every time. And I doubt S&W are villains, probably just in a meeting because they represent the theater.
― mh, Friday, 17 June 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
is the swedish chef saying "say hello to my little friend?"
― all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Friday, 17 June 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link