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Simply A Masterpiece

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The muppets take manhattan (1984) is truth be told not quite as good as the previous two muppet movies. But even still, it's good. It definitely has good quality humor going for it. The humor mainly comes from miss piggy. The department store makeup scene miss piggy has with late comedian Joan Rivers is just absolutely hysterical! And there are other very funny moments in the movie it's just that almost all of them come from miss piggy. I liked the human characters other than the muppets, they were well written characters that added some depth, especially the waitress that helped Kermit get a job at a New York diner. The script is of course going to be a little childish in some places, but just like the other muppet movies in the series, there are scenes that both children and adults can enjoy. That's what I love about the muppet movies, I feel like all people can watch and enjoy them no matter what age bracket they fall into. The comedy is overall pretty fresh with this film, the musical numbers are entertaining, and the characters are good. Like I said, don't go into this third movie in the series expecting it to be just as good as the previous two, just go into with no previous expectations and I feel like you'll enjoy it. All things considered, I think a 7 out of 10 is pretty fair for this movie.

The best Muppet movies are the ones that use a high concept idea The Muppet Christmas Carol, while the worst tend to be the latter-day television specials which are cheap, and in-jokey with little substance. Even the newer movies sell themselves on pop culture cameos more than innovation. Muppets Take Manhattan is middle ground, being too inoffensive to stand out and not imaginative enough to impress.It's all about Kermit wanting to put on a show (which is almost every damn Muppet movie in existence) on Broadway and his efforts to be taken seriously. The rest of the gang lose faith extremely quickly and abandon him (some friends!) leaving Kermit to bluff his way into an industry that wants nothing to do with him. Not taking no for an answer, he persists. If this is a somewhat autobiographical tale of Jim Henson and Frank Oz's humble beginnings it does lend a credible edge to the material. I think that Henson/Oz do their best work when being daring and edgy (The Dark Crystal , Little Shop of Horrors, and this Muppet adventure, being shot in and around the real Manhattan instead of studio sets, stops just a little shy of that. Kermit keeps complaining that the script for his big show is lacking "something" that he can't quite figure out. I believe that this was a meta moment for Henson/Oz as this movie also lacks just the little extra spark it needs to be a real classic.Still better than the sanitized Disney Muppets we are stuck with these days.(Jason Voorhees fans will get the little joke in my review title)

The Muppets go to New York to try and sell Kermit's musical to a Broadway producer but are met with nothing but rejection. Thinking they are holding Kermit back, the other Muppets leave him in the city and return home. Kermit gets a job working at a café where rats are waiters. When a producer finally shows interest in Kermit's musical, the frog faces two obstacles: first, he must put the whole show together in two weeks; second, he's hit by a car and gets amnesia! Hopefully his friends, new and old, can help him get his memory back and put on the big show.The third Muppets movie is a pleasant, leisurely film. Nowhere near the classic Muppet Movie but the songs are nice and the Muppets endearing as ever. It's kind of a solo movie for Kermit for awhile. The human cast is good, with several little-known actors in supporting parts. The celebrity cameos this time include Dabney Coleman, Brooke Shields, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Joan Rivers, Gregory Hines, and Liza Minnelli. Most importantly, this movie introduced the Muppet Babies in a fantasy sequence. The Muppet Babies would go on to be an adorable cartoon series that was a beloved part of my childhood. This movie is the last of the Muppet films made while Jim Henson was still alive. It will surely please fans and those who love movies with heart and humor and magic.

I bought this film on DVD because I'd seen all the Muppets movies except for the first one and this one.I was thinking that this movie was going to be great. But half an hour later, I was just plain bored.Throughout the film, I kept checking the timer on my DVD player wondering when this was going to end. Most of the film is just Kermit visiting producers and executives trying to get this play made. Kids will be bored by this plot. Also, most of the movie was in the cafe. And don't get me started on Kermit losing his memory and joining a boring company that sells soap. Kids will be yawning at that point. Also, do you think kids will enjoy the overlong dialogue scenes and the "Peoples is people" speech by that Russian guy?If you're making a children's film, you have to know what the children want. Not what only adults want.Some of the jokes I thought were good, but the pace was really slow and the story was just not that interesting.The only two scenes I liked were Miss Piggy chasing after the thief and the Muppet babies scene. Those two scenes don't really have anything to do with the movie.There is one shot I'm trying to figure out how it was done. There is a shot of the rats running out of the restaurant. How did they do that? Was it stop motion animation? That was incredible. Sadly, that was the only thing that grabbed my attention.The cameos were pointless. The scene with Miss Piggy and Joan Rivers (I could barely recognize her) was lame. It's like they turned turned on the camera and said "Okay Joan, do something funny." Whereas the filmmakers found it funny, the audience doesn't.Brooke Shields was just wooden like she always is.For me, this is the weakest out of all the Muppet movies. Muppets From Space, love it or hate it, at least the pacing in that wasn't slow or dull.