Those are my nipples......somebody is going to get b****slapped....I want a date with J-Lo....DO ANY OF THESE THINGS BELONG IN A MUPPT MOVIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!???!!?!?!?!!? The answer, of course, is no. One of the most recent examples of Hollywood decision-makers not understanding that children's films should, in fact, be geared towards children, this travesty manages to destroy two beloved childhood institutions in one fell, distasteful blow. Also, it blows! The use of CGI to create the wizard in a puppet movie is jarring and unnecessary and wrong. Turning the field of poppies into a bar called Poppyfields is wrong. Everything about this movie - especially the music and the utterly untalented Ashanti as Dorothy - is wrong.
Turning Dorothy into a ghetto girl might have worked if the movie had a good script, decent score and some semblance of likability, innocence or any sympathetic characters. Instead, it comes off as pandering to a generation with A.D.D. and appealing to the lowest common denominator in our overly-commercialized world.
Once upon a time (remember those words?) the Muppets stood for a certain standard in zany humour that could be appreciated by kids and parents alike. Perhaps the jokes were a little adult, but they were harmless, universal, timeless and could be appreciated on several levels depending on the age of the viewer. The subtlety of those days is missing in this movie in which Dorothy says that the magic shoes (silver Minoloes) make her feel sexy. Ugh! Does a 5 year-old need to know? Do I? I have loved the muppets for many years now and appreciate the contribution of such newer characters as Pepe the Prawn and Clifford. However, let's not leave behind everything that has made the muppets such a success for the past 25+ years.
Can someone please buy this franchise from Disney and fix it...please? Jim Henson is turning in his grave and, after all the years of happiness he brought to children around the world, his memory deserves better.
Turning Dorothy into a ghetto girl might have worked if the movie had a good script, decent score and some semblance of likability, innocence or any sympathetic characters. Instead, it comes off as pandering to a generation with A.D.D. and appealing to the lowest common denominator in our overly-commercialized world.
Once upon a time (remember those words?) the Muppets stood for a certain standard in zany humour that could be appreciated by kids and parents alike. Perhaps the jokes were a little adult, but they were harmless, universal, timeless and could be appreciated on several levels depending on the age of the viewer. The subtlety of those days is missing in this movie in which Dorothy says that the magic shoes (silver Minoloes) make her feel sexy. Ugh! Does a 5 year-old need to know? Do I? I have loved the muppets for many years now and appreciate the contribution of such newer characters as Pepe the Prawn and Clifford. However, let's not leave behind everything that has made the muppets such a success for the past 25+ years.
Can someone please buy this franchise from Disney and fix it...please? Jim Henson is turning in his grave and, after all the years of happiness he brought to children around the world, his memory deserves better.