{"id":7071,"date":"2011-12-18T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2011-12-18T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:28:40","slug":"the-muppets-2011-james-bobin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7071","title":{"rendered":"The Muppets (2011, James Bobin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large-faced actor Jason Segal had a dream to resurrect the Muppets on the big screen, full of celeb cameos and musical numbers  so he called up Flight of the Conchords (not Jemaine &#8211; he must&#8217;ve been busy on <em>Men In Black 3<\/em>).  Proven cutey musical lead Amy &#8220;<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/466\">Enchanted<\/a><\/em>&#8221; Adams is a love interest, Chris Cooper a villain, and Jack Black an unwilling celebrity guest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/muppets.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And it worked!  Good movie, full of the same self-referential humor and silliness as the originals.  Plot revolves around Segal&#8217;s friend (brother?) Walter, who is a muppet, idolizes the 1970&#8217;s Muppets and convinces them to reunite to hold a fundraiser to save their old studio from an evil oil baron.  Two of the voice actors\/puppeteers are from the original <em>Muppet Show<\/em> (and <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em> too) &#8211; including Gonzo.  So why is Gonzo barely in the movie? (edit: oh it&#8217;s because of <em>Muppets From Space<\/em>)  This one was Kermit and Fozzie-heavy, so maybe they&#8217;re saving the others for the next movie.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite bit from the IMDB trivia: &#8220;Bret McKenzie taught Chris Cooper how to rap.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large-faced actor Jason Segal had a dream to resurrect the Muppets on the big screen, full of celeb cameos and musical numbers so he called up Flight of the Conchords (not Jemaine &#8211; he must&#8217;ve been busy on Men In Black 3). Proven cutey musical lead Amy &#8220;Enchanted&#8221; Adams is a love interest, Chris Cooper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1463,1464,89,1461,1462,1465,80,402],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-amy-adams","tag-chris-cooper","tag-jack-black","tag-james-bobin","tag-jason-segal","tag-muppets","tag-musical","tag-puppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}