Streaming The Muppet Movie - Kermit’s 50th Anniversary Edition Online
Samedi, juillet 31st, 2010 |
Streaming The Muppet Movie - Kermit’s 50th Anniversary Edition Online.
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OK to clear up some confusion about the latest incarnation of “The Muppet Movie” this edition is celebrating the fact that Kermit always a bit green around the gills is 50 years old. That said I’m completely unimpressed with this edition of a classic family movie. I’ll get to the reasons why in just a bit in the meantime here’s a recap of the plot for those of you who have forgotten what its about.
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Discovered by a big time agent (Dom DeLuise) playing his banjo among the reeds and lilly pads, Kermit (Jim Henson) moves to Hollywood for fame and fortune. Along the way he hooks up with Miss Piggy (Frank Oz), Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) and other Muppets who are looking for their road to the big time. Kermit is pursued by Doc Hopper (Charles Durning) who wants to open a chain of fast food frog leg restaurants. He hopes to make Kermit his company mascot. Along the way Kermit and his friends meet a who’s who of Hollywood’s funniest comedians along the way. Featuring a who’s who list of top notch celebrity talent including Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahnm Richard Pryor, Edgar Bergen, Steve Martin and others, “The Muppet Movie” provided the early template for family films that could also be adult friendly as well.
With bright vivid colors “The Muppet Movie” looks solid in this DVD transfer but the film could have used a bit of restoration. Image clarity and sharpness are not what they could have been as well with an occasional softness that surprised me. Granted, this edition looks better than the Tri-Star release of four years ago but the film really needs to be carefully restored improving the overall image and sound quality. The 5.1 Dolby Digital mix presents dialogue with nice clarity but the music score and just about everything else in the movie’s soundtrack comes across sounding tightly compressed. Again, an overall disappointment even when compared to the previous edition of this movie from four years ago.
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I would have thought that a great movie would deserve great extras. Instead, the best extra from the previous edition (Frawley’s test footage) is missing from this edition. Instead of that we get an underwhelming five minute featurette about Kermit. It’s a waste of money and space on the DVD. We also get the usual assortment of Disney previews at the beginning although you can skip them. A note to Disney–including a full screen version of the same movie no longer counts as a special feature
About the only good thing about this DVD release are the chapters placed throughout the film. It makes navigating to a particular scene pretty easy overall but that’s not saying much in an age where “The Wizard of Oz” gets a deluxe three DVD edition or even the recent “War of the Worlds” a two disc edition. Honestly, it feels like Disney blew it here. I’m not sure they knew what they wanted to put on the disc and this smells suspiciously like a double dip down the line. Considering the deluxe treatment that Disney recently gave “The Muppet Show” on DVD, I’m really surprised at how shabbily they treated this classic film.
A classic that receives truly pedestrian treatment, I’d recommend waiting to see if a deluxe edition of this film is coming out before buying. If you don’t have the very good previous edition of this film on DVD and feel you must have it now by all means feel free to pick it up. I have the distinct feeling you’ll be kicking yourself later however and suggest renting and then taking a wait and see attitude about buying this feeble “Special Edition”. Man talk about being green, watching the treatment this classic received on DVD made me sick to my stomach.
I love the Muppet Movie. Its nods to film noir and buddy films, the music by the fabulous Paul Williams, the celebrity cameos, the characters–especially Miss Piggy and Fozzie.
Now then, I always watched the Muppets very aware that the movies were working on both the child and adult level, and happily put in the DVD anticipating my favorite muppet joke of all: when Kermit walks into a bar after having lost Piggy and says, sadly, “I’ll have a grasshopper, please.”
Great joke! Kids won’t know what a “grasshopper” is or that he is boozing over being stood up–they’ll just tune out til the music!
So why did they cut it from the DVD?
Especially when they kept the visual that Kermit drank alllll the champagne after Piggy left, and Rowlf’s assertion that every night he has “a coupla beers.” This PC thing has gone too far. I suppose it’s not enough to deduct a whole star–except it’s my all time fave muppet moment.
Oh well, love the movie. And love the DVD option of watching it in French, where they have to change Piggy’s trademark “Moi!” to “Me.”
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