Hot Trailer: ‘The Muppets’

COMMENTS (18)

• Either the jokes don’t translate will for trailer montage or this movie is going to suck.

  Comment by Michael — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 3:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Just because he likes the franchise, doesn’t mean he should have written it. Love the guy, but they should have had a Pixar-quality writer/team on it. Even Forgetting Sarah Marshall, it did well, but it wasn’t a good movie. And I’m not just trying to be a jerk — I think half the reason BAD TEACHER did so well is because of his line reading of the LeBron joke in the commercials. Hilarious was he. But this looks like terrible writing.

  Comment by dude — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Dude-
    Comment very well put. I love Segal. I love the Muppets, but I don’t love this trailer. For some reason, these bits are NOT landing. I am now praying that it’s just this trailer, but with comedies, if the trailer isnt too funny then its not a good sign for the film. PLEASE BE A GOOD MOVIE!!

    Comment by muppetlvr — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• looks fun to me… i think segal is a little too obsessed with the past… but if it does well hopefully next one will be more like great muppet caper or manhataan… sort of new adventures vs lets bring the gang back together and put on a show

  Comment by dman — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 4:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Manhataan wasn’t “let’s bring the gang back together and put on a show”?

    Comment by ILDC — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why is this being made? For the ever so lucrative 30 something hipster crowd? They are idiots. This will flop.

  Comment by Why? — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 4:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Because it’s not CGI?

    Comment by ILDC — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• FLOP!!!?? Boy, are you wrong! This movie is going to be the surprise hit of the year.

  Comment by I Know — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Saying something will be “the surprise hit of the year” is just as meaningless as saying “a cult hit in the making”.

    Comment by ILDC — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• FLOP? Are you kidding me WHY? Seriously, the Muppets are as popular as ever and this movie will do awesome numbers at the box office, considering it will also air during the holiday weekend. Watch the box office numbers after the end of next month and then come back and tell me if it was a flop or not? Definitely seeing this!

  Comment by Jed — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• God, I hate those raggy, flea ridden, puppets. I heard from one crew member that they stink too!

  Comment by angryintern — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 6:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Any Muppets fan would agree that this movie will be a GIANT PIECE OF SHIT.
  Kudos Disney! You and your “dream team” of Lyle and Debbie have succeeded in DESTROYING a franchise.

  Comment by Kthatcherrules — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 6:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • lyle? who??

    Comment by shmoop — Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 5:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Who does Miss Piggy’s voice? It’s awful, it ruined it all for me. So flat, no resonance.

  Comment by DHC — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 7:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I just haven’t enjoyed the muppets much since Jim Henson died. Some ineffable quality is missing. I grieve.

  Comment by Snuggleupagainst — Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 7:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• One trailer is not an indicator of a film’s quality. My guess is they’re probably keeping the good stuff under wraps as much as possible. And think it’s wiser to have somebody who has a genuine affection for the Muppets write a Muppet movie than some idiot who’s trying to ‘update’ or ‘rebrand’ them.

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 4:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• About fifteen years ago or so my then three- and five-year old kids were watching Nickelodeon when the ad for whatever Muppet movie was being released at the time came on the screen.

  Both kids turned to me when the commercial was over and said, “I don’t want to see that.” Kinda says it all about the Muppets (and they’re not more popular now than then).

  Comment by Here In Flyover — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 6:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, and the Simpsons used to be better, and SNL hasn’t been as good as it was during (insert years you were a teenager), and I remember when you could buy coke for a nickel…

  Comment by Bartles and James — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 8:20am PDT  Reply to this post