{"id":15940,"date":"2014-12-29T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T23:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2014-12-29T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T04:09:38","slug":"the-muppets-most-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"The Muppets Most Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Director: \u00a0<\/strong>James Bobin
\nWriter: \u00a0<\/strong>James Bobin
\nCast: \u00a0<\/strong>Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gizmo, Fozzie Bear, Ricky Gervais<\/p>\n

T<\/em><\/span>he Muppets<\/em> franchise was revived three years ago in rather spectacular fashion by Jason Segel who wrote and starred in a cinematic reboot that was simply titled\u00a0The Muppets<\/em>\u00a0and told a self referential tale of how the forgotten Muppet family dusted themselves off and propelled themselves back into pop culture relevance. \u00a0The film featured a terrific earnest performance from Segel and was complimented by a superb Oscar-winning soundtrack from Bret McKenzie of The Flight of the Conchords fame.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Maybe its because of the quality and originality of the 2011 film that partly explains why\u00a0The Muppets Most Wanted<\/em>, a far less ambitious sequel, received such a frosty reception from critics when it launched at the box office earlier this year. \u00a0Most Wanted<\/em>\u00a0doesn’t really position itself as a film to rival\u00a0The Muppets<\/em> in terms of quality – in fact it opens with a rather cheeky song about how sequels are always inferior -but I found that to be no bad thing. \u00a0Most Wanted<\/em> is a film that wants to tell an anarchic Muppets caper storyline in the vein of The Muppets Take Manhattan\u00a0<\/em>and it does that just fine. \u00a0Its an entertaining and playfully silly affair thats helped along by the casting of Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and a bunch of WWE wrestlers. \u00a0Add in Fozzie Bear and those are the all ingredients you need for a good time.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Most Wanted<\/em>, the Muppets take on a new manager named Dominic Badguy (played by Ricky Gervais) who organizes a European tour for the gang. \u00a0Badguy has an ulterior motive (shocking I know) and is actually in cahoots with Constantine, a deranged doppelg\u00e4nger of Kermit the Frog who has busted out of a Siberian gulag and has his eye on the Crown Jewels of England. \u00a0They pull the ol’ switcheroo on Kermit and whilst our poor amphibian friend languishes in prison, Constantine travels with the Muppets around Europe pulling off heist after heist.<\/p>\n

The Muppets Most Wanted<\/em> is an entertaining serving of ‘more of the same’ for anyone who liked\u00a0The Muppets Show<\/em> and wants to see 90 minutes of silliness, song and celebrity cameos. \u00a0The producers for this film actually went to some pretty impressive lengths on this front and have managed to source Christoph Waltz doing a waltz, Celine Dion as Miss Piggy’s fairy godmother and Danny Trejo playing Danny Trejo. \u00a0There’s at least another dozen famous names that pop up but I won’t spoil the fun.<\/p>\n

The supporting cast that are there for the whole film reads like a who’s who of\u00a0Hollywood’s most affable and likeable comedians. \u00a0Tina Fey was wonderful playing the role of a Russian prison warden with a fixation on Kermit. \u00a0Ty Burrell never failed to draw a laugh out of me as he drove tiny cars around Europe and rivalled Frank Drebin with his incompetence as a police detective. \u00a0And as you’d expect, Ricky Gervais is a great panto villain with his Cheshire Cat smirk and silly banter with the Muppets.<\/p>\n

It ain’t\u00a0Gone With The Wind<\/em>, but you could do much worse than spend a rainy afternoon watching\u00a0The Muppets Most Wanted<\/em>. \u00a0Fans of the show won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n

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