The Muppets made my Top 10 of 2011 list (view them all here!) checking in at #5. I loved the direction the new film took. It was a return to the roots of the franchise with the story focused heavily on the core group of Muppets we know and love. Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and the new Muppet Walter had the most screen time, but the story was really about reuniting the old gang. Almost all of the guys had screen time, and it was refreshing to see Kermit as the star again.
Happily, the movie made pretty good money at the box office ($88 million or so domestic). That's not the kind of money that sets the world on fire, but it represents a good return on a $45 million estimated budget. It's taken some time, but the studio heads at Disney are pushing ahead with another film.
It's early in the filmmaking process, but the screenwriters from the 2011 film are back to write another script. Here's hoping that they keep going with the momentum of that film and don't revert to the terrible "Muppet movie based on fictional story" model that more or less ruined the Muppets in the late 1990s.
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