FILM REVIEW: THE MUPPETS – FREELANCE PRIMATE
Review By Kyle Nuss
Director: James Bobin
Cast: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Walter, Rashida Jones
Synopsis: On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
Review: What a wonderful movie. Jason Segel, you made a movie that made me feel like a little kid (Which if you ask most people I still am a kid). The movie starts off with Gary (Jason Segel), Gary’s longtime girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), and Gary’s Muppet brother Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) finding out that Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) has learn that there is oil under the Muppets Studio and plans to tear it down.
Its up to Gary, Mary, and Walter to help reunite the Muppets and save the studio. Now the film does have a few plot holes, feels a little rushed in the middle, and the film is missing a few muppets but that didnt really bother me that much. The music seqences are all great fun epsically the chickens singing Cee Lo Greens “Forget You” (or as other people know it as “F**k You”). The celebrity cameos include from Ken Jong to Zach Galifiankis to Rashid Jones but Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parson really goes all out in his small cameo roll. the movie makes you laugh, makes you cry, and makes you laugh again. I personally cant wait to get the dvd of this movie and maybe the soundtrack as well
