I could write about The Muppet Movie all day, but I have a date later and that would be a really weird excuse for missing it. So this is just a brief note to let you know that The Muppet Movie is playing at 1pm this weekend, Saturday July 16th and Sunday July 17th, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, as part of their amazing-looking Jim Henson exhibit.
The Muppet Movie is the first movie I ever saw. If it was up to me and I had to go back and choose a first movie to see, that’d still be the one. The Muppet Movie was made in the late 1970s but it still holds up today, for children and for grown-ups alike.
It’s a legitimate miracle; a movie starring puppets who sing and dance and are thoroughly winning. It’s all heart. From the opening minute to the end of the credits, the illusion is somehow maintained – these are lovable characters you’ve known forever, rather than simple constructions of felt and plastic, animated by human hands and voices. The jokes and one-liners are usually corny and probably were even at the time, but that’s somehow part of the charm. (Not for nothing did the legendary Steve Martin, no stranger to playing at the edge of corniness, fit right in.)
To see The Muppet Movie is to love The Muppet Movie. Take a favorite kid or a grandparent or a date with a sense of humor, and head over to Queens this weekend.
This is a highly recommended event. Here’s some stars to make it more momentous:
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And here’s a choice excerpt:
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