It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Genre: Family / Comedy
Duration: 100 minuten / 85 minuten (DVD-versie)
Country:
United States
Directed by: Kirk R. Thatcher
Stars: Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz and Eric Jacobson
IMDb score:
6,2 (5.441)
Releasedate: 29 November 2002
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie plot
It's the night before Christmas and the Muppet Theater is about to close. This makes Kermit so miserable that he thinks the world would be better off without him...
Actors and actresses
Daniel
Rachel Bitterman
Luc Fromage
Glenn
Daniel's 'Boss'
Himself
Herself
Joe Snow (voice)
Nancy Nut-What
Sally Ann Santa Claus
Reviews & comments
Mescaline
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- 7125 messages
- 3520 votes
It all starts very nice, but as soon as the human roles take over the story and also start overacting, it unfortunately becomes a lot less.
Not as bad as Letters to Santa, fortunately the film also contains nice scenes and fortunately lasts just under an hour and a half. It is a film that is easy to sit through, but where the easy way of telling and simple acting has been chosen.
The whole god story just doesn't work, nothing against Whoopi Goldberg but it didn't really fit.
Final verdict:
It's going to be fun for once.
2.5*
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arno74
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- 8700 messages
- 3342 votes
Not quite successful. When I put on a Christmas movie I expect a nice warm Christmas atmosphere, and this movie is certainly the opposite during the first half. The film is rather depressing and you don't expect that from a muppet film. It is a not entirely successful muppet variant of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but as a parody of it there are some missed opportunities. I also didn't think the cast completely fit their characters, Whoopi Goldberg seems more suitable to play the role of the angel than the role of God. The humor was also on the sparse side. A big difference with the great A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) where you will find a merry Christmas atmosphere, a fast pace and a high joke density. 2.5*
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N00dles
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- 647 messages
- 2327 votes
A Very Boring Muppet Christmas Movie, more like it.
Muppets movies aren't really known for being cinematic anyway, but sometimes there's still a nostalgic factor when you saw them as a kid, or a contemporary version is really fun and touchingly performed (like The Muppets (2011)). This movie didn't have that.
I especially wonder who it was made for. For children, the whole plot with the money-hungry Joan Cusack will not give a damn. There's too little to laugh at for adults and the references are easygoing and bland. As makers you can pick up on (then) popular films, celebs and TV series (Scrubs, A Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge), but nowadays it is quite dated. A cameo from Triumph the Insult Dog won't mean much to most people, just to name a few.
A (quite obvious) 'ode' to It's a Wonderful Life manages to save the film somewhat in the second half, but otherwise it was nothing to write home about.
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