Muppets' Wizard of Oz, ABC, Friday May 20, 8:00 pm EST
05-18-05, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Big Worms
Thanks for the reminder.
Unfortunately, even with the reminder I'll probably forget.
05-20-05, 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by klandersen
Looking forward to it.
Great News on the Muppet forum link about the Muppet Show being released by Seasons, YEAH! None of this BEST OF Junk.
Great News on the Muppet forum link about the Muppet Show being released by Seasons, YEAH! None of this BEST OF Junk.
Finally! The Muppet Show - Season Sets
the henson company website is sad...every time you click a property it says that it has been sold to another company...sad
glad disney has the muppets...its a good home
05-21-05, 02:33 AM
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ok that was just great.. as I kid I grew up watching the muppets all the time on tv and for me at least it was great to see them in some tv movie again.... Quentin Tarantino showing up in and doing a mini rant on a fight scene was good, you could tell he had to hold back a little being it was a family film..
I think Ashanti did an ok job being she was not really the focus of the film as much as just someone for the muppets to bounce stuff off. I mean she was not the one cracking the jokes and so on.. Pepe was pretty funny.. All around, for a muppet film, pretty darn good...
What's not to like about gonzo looking to get his chicken freak on? hehe
I think Ashanti did an ok job being she was not really the focus of the film as much as just someone for the muppets to bounce stuff off. I mean she was not the one cracking the jokes and so on.. Pepe was pretty funny.. All around, for a muppet film, pretty darn good...
What's not to like about gonzo looking to get his chicken freak on? hehe
05-21-05, 03:27 AM
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I forgot all about this, but caught most of the second half after watching the Suns/Mavs game.
Not bad, but nothing Muppet is ever as good as it was with Jim. Brian does ok, but it's not quite the same.
I loved Mrs. Piggy/The Wicked Witch's snout being the last thing to go down the drain.
Not bad, but nothing Muppet is ever as good as it was with Jim. Brian does ok, but it's not quite the same.
I loved Mrs. Piggy/The Wicked Witch's snout being the last thing to go down the drain.
05-21-05, 10:57 PM
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Not many comments on this so far, but I'm surprised that the few that are there are so positive. I LOVE the Muppets and have someting positive to say about even their weakest moments (most of which have been post-Henson)... but Holy Crap-on-a-Stick that was terrible. Noisy, rushed, dripping with obvious attempts to be 'modern' or 'relevant'.
I couldn't have been more disappointed. And this is coming from someone who owns Kermit's Swamp Years. I thought I read an article where Disney said they considered them to be "timeless" characters and wanted to reintroduce them to people for the long term? This certainly isn't the way to do it. Yuck.
(And, completely aside from the quality of the production itself... why wasn't this in HD?)
I couldn't have been more disappointed. And this is coming from someone who owns Kermit's Swamp Years. I thought I read an article where Disney said they considered them to be "timeless" characters and wanted to reintroduce them to people for the long term? This certainly isn't the way to do it. Yuck.
(And, completely aside from the quality of the production itself... why wasn't this in HD?)
05-22-05, 02:27 PM
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i kept hearing a rumbling noise while we were watching this and i realized it was Jim Henson rolling over and over and over in his grave. Simply awful, dreadful, tripe. even my 6 year old asked to turn it off because she was bored. terrible terrible terrible.
05-23-05, 06:09 AM
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First of all: I thought it was my stupid ABC affiliate forgetting to "flip the HD switch" again (as it does far too often), only to find out nobody seems to have gotten it in HD.
Second: I'm sorta in the middle of the road on this. Pepe was the scene-stealer, no doubt. Other than that, m'eh. No one else was all that funny, Ashanti was fairly forgettable, and the story was all over the place. The ratings* do not seem to be very good: I just hope this doesn't kill future projects.
*I don't see the exact rating listed, but it finished between Dr. Phil's 5.2/10 and Shallow Hal's 2.6/5.
Second: I'm sorta in the middle of the road on this. Pepe was the scene-stealer, no doubt. Other than that, m'eh. No one else was all that funny, Ashanti was fairly forgettable, and the story was all over the place. The ratings* do not seem to be very good: I just hope this doesn't kill future projects.
*I don't see the exact rating listed, but it finished between Dr. Phil's 5.2/10 and Shallow Hal's 2.6/5.
05-23-05, 08:31 AM
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I wasn't exceptionally impressed. Pepe was awesome, it's always good to see a Kermit freak-out, but no Rowlf (other than to show he's there). Ashanti was good looking, but not right for the part.
Pepe twisting Gonzo's nipples was funny. I'll have to watch it again to get a better idea of whether or not I liked it.
Pepe twisting Gonzo's nipples was funny. I'll have to watch it again to get a better idea of whether or not I liked it.
05-26-05, 10:38 AM
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yup gotta agree, Pepe was definately the funniest character - the little "Oz"-Frank Oz reference was blatant but funny. But as the story progressed into the final hour, it just started to fall apart. The Tarantino cameo came out of nowhere, and was a complete WTF kind of moment. It started out okay, but digressed quickly.
