The Muppets

The Muppets
Amy Adams (Actor), Jason Segel (Actor), James Bobin (Director) | Format: DVD
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Release Date: March 20, 2012

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Muppet mastery continues with a waggish new film from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel, Academy Award(R) hopeful Amy Adams (Best Performance By An Actress In a Supporting Role, Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter) and Academy Award leader Chris Cooper (Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role, Adaptation) join everyone's favorite Muppets and an all-star luminary expel in a comic journey for a whole family. While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, a world's biggest Muppet fan, his hermit Gary, and crony Mary expose a sinful tract of a miserly oil millionaire to destroy a Muppet Theater. Now, a Muppet-loving contingent contingency reunite Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and their friends to theatre a biggest Muppet telethon ever and save their dear theater. The squad is behind together again in a must-own film full of overwhelming song and family fun. Bring home a biggest Muppet journey ever on Disney Blu-ray(TM) and DVD!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7 in DVD
• Brand: Walt Disney Studios 1011189
• Released on: 2012-03-20
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Spanish, French, English
• Subtitled in: French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Running time: 103 minutes

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Editorial Reviews

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Movies attempting to collect loving nuggets of cocktail enlightenment mostly stumble, possibly by appealing only to a revolutionary minutia enthusiasts or clunking adult a beat with nonessential additions to a bottom material. (Enough with a tellurian adore triangles, get to a hulk robots fighting.) Thankfully, this reconstruction of Jim Henson's dear characters gets a regulation delightfully right, providing a googly-eyed nostalgia outing for adults while also maintaining a original's clarity of splendid (and softly subversive) wonder. All that's blank is a cameo from Shields and Yarnell, really. Kicking off with a boffo low-pitched number, a story follows Walter (voice of Peter Linz), a parochial child with a singly personal adore for a long-retired Muppets. (OK, he's finished of felt.) Teaming adult with his hermit (Jason Segel, who also co-scripted) and a internal schoolteacher (Amy Adams), they try to get Kermit, Fozzie, and a squad behind together in sequence to save their studio from an immorality oil nobleman (Chris Cooper, going all in). Director James Bobin (Flight of a Conchords) does a miraculous pursuit of updating and honoring his material, weaving wily references to days left by (the hint of Kermit's rolodex are a sold delight) into a brew of songs, luminary cameos, and barn-broad puns that gave a strange uncover a bubbly kick. (Fans of Animal and a Chickens will not go home disappointed.) Even a moments that don't definitely work land with a cornball brio that feels unconditionally of a square with Henson's universe. The outcome is a loyal family film that still brings on a blissful, basic grins days after viewing. No matter what Statler and/or Waldorf competence say, a uncover goes on. --Andrew Wright

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Versions of The Muppets on Blu-ray and DVD

	The Muppets	The Muppets (Single-Disc DVD + Soundtrack Download Card)	The Muppets (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)	The Muppets (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy + Soundtrack Download Card)
Release Date	March 20, 2012	March 20, 2012	March 20, 2012	March 20, 2012
Format/Disc #	DVD	DVD + Soundtrack Download Card	Blu-ray, DVD	Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy + Soundtrack Download Card
Blu-ray	No	No	Yes	Yes
DVD	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Digital Copy	No	No	No	Yes
Bonus Features	None	DVD Feature Film+ Bonus Digital Full-Length Original Soundtrack The Longest Blooper Reel Ever Made (In Muppet History**)	Blu-ray Feature Film + Bonus DVD Feature Film+ Bonus Scratching a Surface: A Hasty Examination of The Making of The Muppets A Little Screen Test on a Way to a Read Through Explaining Evil: The Full Tex Richman Song Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary Disney Intermission The Longest Blooper Reel Ever Made (In Muppet History**)	Same as The Muppets (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) plus: Digital Copy Digital Full-Length  Original Soundtrack

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117 of 127 people found a following examination helpful.
Well finished Segel...well done!

By Steven Grigal

At a finish of a day, a underlying theme of this film is: "We are The Muppets: If complicated multitude decides we are no longer humorous and popular, we're ok with that. We are only here to perform for those who will appreciate."

I'm not a veteran critic, so there's no need for me to gimlet everybody with an over-analyzed, granular review. What we can contend is we (like many folks) have been a die tough Muppet fan given we was a child in a early 80's. Jim Henson was a talent and a universe became a somewhat darker place when we mislaid him. we mislaid reason with The Muppets over a years as they attempted to re-envision themselves and describe to a new generation. Though still popular, it wasn't a same to me. This new film is a closest thing that we have seen in attempting to lapse to their truly crazy days when we had Henson, Oz, Hunt, and Nelson heading a charge.

Jason Segel (who co-wrote a screenplay) didn't have to do his research. It's apparent he has been a fan of a Muppet-brand of amusement for a prolonged time. There were so many pointed homages to a classical hint of Henson and The Muppets that will fly underneath a radar of many, and nonetheless they still managed to write a genuinely, caring story that will reason a courtesy of a new generation. Also, in a tradition of classical Muppet movies, keep your eyes peeled for "blink and you'll skip them" cameos by film stars of all generations.

Additionally, we would like to indicate out that it was lovely to see a engorgement of classic, ignored Muppets from a past removing their time in a spotlight in this movie: Lew Zealand, The News Anchor, Marvin Suggs, Uncle Deadly, along with a ALWAYS hip Electric Mayhem only to name a few.

I will tighten this examination by saying, a comprehensive best partial of saying this film was NOT looking around and saying adults and kids in a museum shouting together during a same moments, though sitting subsequent to a lady about my age with her dual kids. (**Very teenager spoiler) - - During a stage in that Kermit is looking around a aged Muppet theater, aged cinema on a wall featuring Jim Henson and other Muppet story came into view. we listened a mom subsequent to me sniffle, and we too wiped a few tears away. Her daughter leaned over and whispered, "....why are we crying?". Her mom incited to her and said, "...you wouldn't understand." we couldn't have pronounced it better.

35 of 41 people found a following examination helpful.
Nothing brief of a masterpiece.

By R. Ree

As someone who is a outrageous fan of film(many would contend im a film snob). we have seen all a classics, we see all a indie films, all a blockbusters, and unfamiliar films. Movies are my passion. So if we told me, that a Muppet film would finish adult being my film of a year, we simply would not trust it. But this film simply works. Its a ideal movie, and their are really few cinema i can contend that about. Do i consider a one of a best cinema of all time? No, though it set out to do be a happy, fun and elementary movie, and it did it succeeded one hundred percent. Never have i walked out of a movie, feeling so definitely happy about it. we saw this with my partner and she agreed, it only creates we feel happy. The songs are great, a essay is great, a pacing is perfect, it never ceased to perform me. This is a contingency see.

23 of 29 people found a following examination helpful.
It took me down memory lane...

By freeismylife

On Saturday (11/19), my son and we attended an allege screening of a new film "The Muppets". From a impulse we perceived a invitation, we started going behind in time to when my whole family would accumulate in a family room to watch The Muppets on TV.

I remember a uncover format being identical to "Laugh In" and 'Sonny and Cher" (if we are aged adequate to remember behind that far). we was in adore with Miss Piggy and Kermit a Frog and Fozzie's stupid jokes burst me up. Everyone was rooting for Gonzo to finally do one of his hair brained stunts right and a dancing chickens were a strike of a evening. And any uncover was always hosted by one of a biggest stars in Hollywood. When we told my son that we was a few years comparison that he is now when a uncover initial came on TV, he pronounced "Dang! The Muppets are that old?" Don't we only adore kids...

The film "The Muppets" starts out behind in a day when a TV uncover was still a vital hit. A small child (well, some-more puppet than boy) named Walter who doesn't fit in with a rest of a kids in a area discovers The Muppets Show on TV and lives and breathes all Muppets associated all a approach into adulthood. His hermit Gary (played by Jason Segel) it really protecting of Walter, most to a discomfit of his very, really prolonged time partner Mary (played by Amy Adams). What was suspect to be regretful getaway to LA for Mary and Gary, turns into a outing to a aged Muppets studios by a threesome.

The Muppet Theater is now in vital disrepair since a squad has all left their apart ways. Kermit is in seclusion. Miss Piggy is now a Vogue editor in Paris. Fonzie Bear is vital tainted doing bad museum in Reno and Animal is in a mental establishment with actor Jack Black. When a immorality oilman skeleton to take over a Muppet Studios and rip it down, Gary talks a Muppet squad into removing behind together to lift adequate income to save a studio from ruin.

The film is a totally lovable car for introducing a new assembly to The Muppets while also holding a people who grew adult examination a uncover in a 1970's behind down memory lane. My son suspicion all a stupid gags and fart jokes were good and we was singing The Muppets strain and totally enjoying removing re-acquitted with all a characters from my youth.

My favorite impression is still Miss Piggy and she was darling with all her wardrobe and hair changes via a movie. My son was rolling when Miss Piggy started karate chopping everyone. And when Kermit started singing "The Rainbow Connection" we was singing right along with him.

Just like in a strange series, his film had cameo appearances from vital Hollywood stars like Mickey Rooney, Alan Arkin, Selena Gomez, Whoopi Goldberg, and Neil Patrick Harris.

If we were not a Muppets fan before, we will be after saying this lovable movie. And don't contend we did not advise we when we start singing "The Rainbow Connection" and "Mahna Mahna" on your approach home :)

"The Muppets" opens in theaters Wednesday Nov 23, 2011 and is rated PG due to signature Muppets anticipation violence.

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