With plenty of Muppet madness, puppetry feats and celebrity cameos, the first Muppets movie is a big-hearted lesson in self-belief
man is trapped underwater in a diving bell. His body crushed in a painful position, as limited oxygen is pumped into his lungs through a rubber tube. He is kept down there for three hours at a time, over a span of five days. To add to the discomfort, one arm is held vertically above his head and locked into place. He could have died.
The Muppet Movie was his first leap from the relative safety of the television onto the big screen. While there are enough technical film-making feats in this film to wow even the most hardened cinephile, the true achievement lies in its emotional heft. Until the first Muppet movie, the Muppets were slapstick buffoons, dropping one-liners between explosions and on-stage mishaps. Here, Kermit’s wide-eyed romanticism is the key.
But Kermit also attracts the attention of evil Doc Hopper , a southern businessman who thinks Kermit is the perfect talent to advertise his range of delicious frog legs. Kermit is disgusted, but Hopper will stop at nothing to secure his talents. It’s not easy being green. This is the first movie I can remember really loving and it’s been a lifelong love affair. There’s something about Kermit’s belief in his own destiny, his willingness to follow the siren call beckoning him towards a larger, scarier life that is very captivating to a child. Even as an adult, I would follow Kermit anywhere. He believes, and makes everyone around him believe, too. And when Kermit briefly loses belief, the others keep believing until he does again, too.
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