Movie #896 "Muppets Most Wanted" was a fun, fun film to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end, and there's so much to like here ---- the plot makes fun of Stalag 17, the Great Escape, Shawshank and a host of others, the cast is full of comics like Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, the great Ty Burrell, and tons of cameos of other comics, singers, actors that have been in prison movies (dancing to broadway tunes, no less), and then the film travels all over Europe and those are fun scenes as well. The timing is quickly paced and never do they dwell on a funny gimmick; it all seems so seamless, making fun of themselves along the way. If you miss a joke, don't worry, there's another coming along right away. And I think it's the variety of ways the film tickles the funny bone where it is most successful! Sight gags, silliness, irony, exaggeration, puns, the list goes on.........and the music is tuneful and never a waste of a note to me. I also appreciated the finish off of gags; i.e., they revisit a gag several times to keep the audience going . I highly recommend this, and it's nice to see Walter playing a major role here, after his introduction in the last Muppet movie. But don't worry if you didn't see that one or any Muppet movie --- this one lives on its own. Real good stuff here!
Muppets Most Wanted2014PG I would give this 5 out of 5 stars
In the middle of their global tour, the Muppets inadvertently get mixed up in a perilous drama involving a gang of international jewel thieves. It isn't easy being Kermit the Frog, who happens to be a dead ringer for the world's top criminal.
