OT POLL: Are you going to see the Muppet movie?

I’m taking whoever wants to come…probably my philosophy professor uncle, of course, and myself, and…..whoever wants to come.

what about Take Manhattan? Great Caper? From Space?

Those are all fantastic. Granted, I haven’t seen Christmas Carol, but everybody says it’s great.

Treasure Island is ’poseta suck I guess. Never seen that one either.

That is all.

and I worked retail for over 10 years, so I’ve earned the right to say that.

Jason Segal wrote a puppet scene in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” to make himself more attractive as a possible lead for a future Muppets movie.

or it opens the day before?

If it opens the day before, I’m going to see it alone on some Acetaminophen-less Vicodens…via cold-water-extraction……because, to me, that will be afforded, and I can’t smoke the herb for employment reasons. This is all something I should probably keep to myself, but I’ll leave it for the purposes of defining further the rich pageant of Crooow.

you can join me wednesday night if it plays then and you are from the kc area. for real.

Maybe I’m turning into a prude, but we didn’t watch Cars 2 because I didn’t want my 3 year old watching gunfights and bomb explosions.

this could be called the Sesame Street factor…I forget what Malcolm Gladwell book it is, Tipping Point maybe, that has a long discussion (maybe 10-15 pages) on how Sesame Street and Blues Clues had oodles and oodles of research in them before airing

on Sesame Street they figured out that just puppets wouldn’t work and just humans wouldn’t work, but when the combination of puppets with humans (“kid’s world” melded with “real world learning”) is when the kids payed the most attention

Sesame Street was well aware of the jokes that flew over the kids’ heads, and this would disengage the children’s interest from the learning, so as you will notice with Sesame Street they make double edged jokes that both the kid and adult understand, like “he’s a potty animal”

JKWard has touched on something here with the “prepubescent forms of dick and fart jokes”…I have noticed it too…when a film is lacking in originality and teaching ability, it goes straight for the dumbed down culture that loves those films…I would say even Bee Movie gets a little adult oriented, but stays within the realm…and Toy Story 3 is one of the greatest movies ever made, was glad to see it get an Oscar Best Picture nod

I’d give it a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, which means it’s exactly league average for kid movies. You get off on some of the nostalgia, but overall, I thought it was weak and disorganized. Too much human, not enough Muppets. I don’t mind musicals (Meet Me in St Louis is one of my all-time faves. No, I don’t have a vagina.) but the music numbers in this show don’t seem to fit very well. Jack Black, Zack Galifinaikas, Sarah Silverman, and others make cameos, but are largely wasted. It just doesn’t work that well…has the feel of too many writers and re-writes, etc….Is it the worst kid movie I’ve ever seen? Hell no, that would be fucking DOOGAL. Is it in the same category as Toy Story, Howl’s Moving Castle, Up, or even Tangled? Not even close. I like Segel, but he’s no Dick Van Dyke.

Can’t argue with Nighthawk’s complaints. It definitely cut some corners and had some noticeable holes. In other words, it tried to do something very awesome, but fell short, and ended up only being a good movie.