Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

richspenc I loved the Muppet show and the original three Muppet movies when I was a kid: The Muppet movie, this-The great Muppet caper, and Muppets take Manhattan. All of the Muppet stuff in the years before Jim Henson died and when I was still a kid. The great Muppet caper was wonderful starting with them being thrown out of their plane in their stow away boxes and landing in a pond, their ckecking into the happiness hotel and the song that went with it, miss piggy meeting Lady Holiday and her witty conversation with her. It almost has the combination of old time charm and typical Muppet humor combined. A lot of the movie has that. I really liked the Esther Williams style water ballet with miss piggy, even when I was a kid and I didn't know then what was being satired. In recent times when I've really started loving old time golden age Hollywood musicals with golden age stars like Judy Garland, June Allyson, Esther Williams, etc., that has caused me to really love the Esther Williams water ballet scene in the Muppet caper, especially when it turned out to be miss piggy's dream and then she in reality dives into a small fountain, being the only one who gets wet. Another great scene is when all of the muppets are riding their bikes through the park singing. It sort of, in a way reminds me of a time when I was about 8 years old walking through Hyde park in London with my family when I was on vacation in England. That scene, for that reason added, makes the Muppet bike riding scene and song even more terrific. There's also lots of humorous wit through the movie, especially from Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and of course Miss piggy. And a number of great cameos from John Cleese, Charles Groden, and from the great Muppet man himself, Jim Henson in a restaurant. And the guard, while Scooter delivers a pizza, "but I hate pepperoni". Funny. Some reviewers have commented on the diamond plot not being good. The diamond plot is only a small part of the movie to me. The bigger picture, all of the things I've written above, is what makes this movie great. And of course, don't miss the cameo from Oscar the grouch.

showtrmp My personal favorite in the "Muppet" series (before the films started miscasting the furry ones as characters in ill-conceived film versions of children's books--I'm looking at you, "Treasure Island"!), this follows up the rural whimsey of "The Muppet Movie" with a trip to London--and gives the incomparable Miss Piggy the star treatment she deserves. Everything the pink one does is memorable--her exuberance at landing a job as receptionist to fashion icon Lady Holiday ("I'll TAKE IT! I'LL TAKE IT!...I'll sit, I can sit, I'm very good at sitting."), her scaling a building in evening gown and heels ("Next time they want stunts, they get a double"), her tap dance (in glass slippers!) her dismissal of the boobish Charles Grodin ("You can't even sing! Your voice was dubbed!") her honest hurt when Kermit breaks character to accuse her of "hamming it up" ("I am TRYING to save this movie!"), and, of course, that climactic motorbike ride. Let film critics talk of Fellini and Antonioni; my never-to-be-topped moment of cinematic nirvana consists of Piggy, clad in white, crashing a motorcycle through a stained-glass window. Diana Rigg, as Lady Holiday, is a perfect foil; she suggests a human Piggy slimmed down and gone cynical. (She tosses off a long, irrelevant monologue, shrugging, "It's plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.") Grodin, recruited as Kermit's rival for the pig's affections, doesn't blink once at the assignment. There are numerous featured bits for the other characters, human and Muppet; John Cleese and Joan Sanderson are married (of course) and more reclusive and upper-class British than anyone in any season of "Masterpiece Theatre". Fozzie gets more good-natured sidekick lines than usual (toying with a glass of champagne, he remarks, "You put enough sugar in this stuff, it tastes just like ginger ale"--it doesn't, I tried), and the Dr. Teeth band also gets their due in the "Happiness Hotel" production number. All this movie wants to do is make you happy--and if that's "corny", go back to your Clint Eastwood movie essays in gloom and leave me alone.

Electrified_Voltage All the films in the original Muppet movie trilogy, done with their late creator, Jim Henson, were made before I was born, but I first started listening to the soundtracks of the first two, "The Muppet Movie" and "The Great Muppet Caper", around the mid-nineties, and it wasn't long before I saw both films for the first time. I was within my last few years before adolescence at the time, and may have liked both movies equally when I first saw them. I've watched both of them again twice in recent years, and don't recall ever having an opinion on which one was better before those viewings. I now think the first one, from 1979, is the stronger of the two (I think most Muppets fans would agree), but this 1981 follow-up is still an impressive family movie.Kermit and Fozzie are reporters for the Daily Chronicle, and Gonzo is their photographer. One day, they are out on the street trying to get a good news story, when jewels are stolen from English fashion designer Lady Holiday! This happens when they aren't looking, so they don't notice, and instead write an article on Kermit and Fozzie as twins joining the newspaper staff, which they are fired for. The three of them then travel to London, England in the cargo hold of a plane to interview Lady Holiday. They stay at Happiness Hotel, a decaying building with free accommodation! When Kermit goes to meet Lady Holiday in her office, she isn't there, but he meets her new receptionist, Miss Piggy, instead. Trying to impress him, Miss Piggy lies and says she is Lady Holiday, and they quickly fall in love. However, she obviously can't keep her secret for long, and the jewel thieves are trying to frame her! If you ask me, the main thing that makes "The Great Muppet Caper" inferior to its predecessor is the set of songs. None of the songs can match "Rainbow Connection" and certain other memorable ones from "The Muppet Movie", and two of the songs here, "The First Time It Happens" and "Miss Piggy's Fantasy", make for two fairly lacklustre and tedious sequences. This second Muppet movie also doesn't have the same poignancy and meaningfulness as the first one. However, there's still a lot to like. The songs generally aren't bad, and of course, there are the same lovable Muppets in the movie. They also didn't forget about the humour, as the film definitely is funny, even if it's not usually hilarious. There are celebrity cameos here (though not as many as there are in "The Muppet Movie"), including one from John Cleese, of Monty Python fame. He helps make the part where Miss Piggy sneaks into 17 Highbrow Street a comic highlight. The plot also works well for a lighthearted family movie like this.Jim Henson's Muppets made an excellent silver screen debut in 1979, in a film that's still widely admired after just over thirty years. I guess it's no surprise that this 1981 follow-up is inferior, since that's often the case with franchise movies. However, overall, "The Great Muppet Caper" is a very good family comedy adventure, and is still much better than "Muppets from Space", the last theatrical movie featuring the famous puppet characters, released in 1999. I saw that one for the first time over a year ago and had never been so disappointed by anything featuring the Muppets! Anyway, kids could really enjoy this second installment in the franchise, and as usual with these films, it's not just for them. There's enough to make it worth watching for adults who still like the Muppets as well. Just because it's not as good as its predecessor doesn't mean it's not another noteworthy accomplishment.

hsutter A ragged yet sometimes delightful mess of comedy and songs with a clever story and a few too many cute cameos I still enjoy this movie but it would be stronger if it didn't feel like such a pastiche. There was a great sense of nostalgia in 1970's Hollywood that sucked a lot of creative energy into parodies and tributes and this movie feels a lot like the victim of that era. Too much talent squandered trying to make a hip version of an old Hollywood musical cum newspaper mystery cum international adventure, and yet the muppets are The Muppets and there is the charm of Kermit and Gonzo and Miss Piggy and the rest just being silly and making bad jokes work by sheer force of silliness.Like a weaker Marx Bros movie is has its moments and when it is over it feels like it was worth it, but while you are watching---hmmm, maybe not so much.