The Muppets (film)

The Muppets is an American puppet animation film made in 2011 by the Walt Disney Company. The film is based on the Muppet Show. Premiered the film on November 12, 2011, in Germany the film was released on 19 January 2012. The film had a budget of $ 45 million and played to August 2012, more than $ 158 million a.

Action

Gary and Walter are two very different brothers who live in the idyllic small town Small Town: While Gary is a man, Walter is a puppet figure. Walter, who suffers more and more from its small body size over the years, is a big fan of the Muppet Show, because he feels understood from these figures. When Gary and his girlfriend Mary, an elementary school teacher, to the common anniversary moves to Los Angeles, he takes his brother with spontaneous, so that it can finally visit the Muppet Studios. They have arrived in Los Angeles find that the old splendor of the Muppets is no longer available for some time. The studios have been shut down and run down. During a poor guide Walter separates from the group to get Kermit's old office to look at. When he hears someone coming, he hides and witnesses a conversation of Statler and Waldorf, as representatives of the Muppets, with the multi-millionaire Tex Richman. This will buy the Muppet studios to allegedly open a Muppet museum. In truth, however, he wants to demolish in order to get to the proceeds under the Studio oil well.

Walter, Gary and Mary make then in search of Kermit, the only Muppet who still lives in Los Angeles. Kermit lives quietly in an old mansion and mourns the days of the Muppet Show after. Walter manages to persuade him to a new edition of the Muppet Show, thereby taking $ 10 million in donations. Their payment is the only way to resolve Tex Richman's adhesion contract and so avert the sale and the end of the studios. Together they make their way to bring together the old troop again.

In some Einspielern the fate of the Muppets is shown. Fozzie works as a singer in a Muppets cover band, the Moopets, and can be persuaded to try a comeback soon. Gonzo is the owner of a thriving plumbing company. In reality, however, he has never verschmerzt the end of the Muppets and waiting since then waiting to be active again. The animal is a member of a therapy group that their aggression drawers with the help of yoga exercises and the absence of stimulus words want to get ( with him eg " drums " ) in the handle. Member of this group is also the actor Jack Black.

Miss Piggy works in Paris at the " Vogue" editor in chief of the plus-size department. She and Kermit had separated years ago because Kermit opposite her could not reveal his feelings, but the show put on everything. That's why she says also from first and throws the Muppet troupe from her office. A dinner with Kermit ends up quarreling by issued its final rejection for a Muppet comeback.

Back in Los Angeles try the Muppets with Gary's help to convince a television station to transfer their donations show live. By coincidence occurs when a transmitter CDE program gap of two and a half hours, but the Muppets undertake to win a well-known actor as moderator. While Kermit it is doing everything to find a worthy host, clear the rest of the Muppets with the help of Walter and Gary to the theater and begin to rehearse for the show, which is to go through the transmitter already in two days.

In the meantime, Miss Piggy has recognized that it still depends on Kermit and want to help him. She travels to Paris and took on the specific leadership of the troop, especially in the search for a moderator. Without further ado, kidnap, the Danish chef, Gonzo and the Beast Jack Black and forcing him to moderate the Muppet Show.

The relationship of Gary and Mary gets into a serious crisis, as Gary forgets their anniversary sheer enthusiasm of the Muppet Show. Mary then travels back to her hometown. But the relationship between the two brothers is suffering because Walter feels more accepted by the Muppets as in his human environment in Smalltown. Both recognize that they are at a crossroads in her life and must decide whether they want to be human or Muppet. Gary then leaves Los Angeles and rushes to Mary, while Walter Kermit accepts offer to participate in the show itself. The show starts at eight clock in the evening before a nearly completely empty auditorium ( just some tramp looking for in a warm place of residence). Jack Black, tied to a chair, trying to call for help and the audience to persuade them to call the police instead of the donation hotline. Gary and Mary who view television broadcast, decide to return to Los Angeles to make moral support Walter and the other Muppets. Only when a first number (a stunt of Gonzo with a bowling ball ) completely goes wrong, it seems unintentionally funny and irritating because you laugh, the first donation goes a. The number of viewers watching television begins to rise and also in the theater meet new guests. Tex Richman is alarmed and breaks to the theater to sabotage the show. He first manipulated the power supply, but this stopped by Gary and Mary. Then he climbs onto the roof of the theater, to completely destroy the electric line. Ironically, its most subordinate assistant, Uncle Deadly, which holds him back and throws him off the roof: He just realized that he was a muppet and not Moopet in the heart!

Walter suffered a bout of stage fright, when he realizes that he has to take the stage for the Muppets. Only Gary can persuade him to finally confront his life and to take a risk. As the last act of the evening Walter is an art Pfeifer on the stage and has a brilliant success. It succeeds Tex Richman, however, finally, to sabotage the show and to interrupt the donation hotline immediately before the level is reached 10,000,000 dollars. Moreover, it turns out that the display of the donation is defective and are found together so far instead of nearly 10 million, only about $ 10,000 and the Muppets anyway thus were far from bringing together the necessary $ 10 million. This Tex Richman has reached its destination, the theater finally to buy.

The Muppets leaving then resignedly the stage and into the street. There they are greeted by a frenzied crowd that congratulated her on her comeback and the former Stars celebrates. Gary makes Mary a marriage proposal, which she answered with " Mah Mah Nà Nà ". Finally Gonzo Tex Richman gets more head-on with the bowling ball from the failed Showeinlage. Then he gives the Muppets surprisingly, the name and license the studio back, what have nothing to do with a head injury, as the press tells a headline.

Production

Puppeteer, performer and synchronization

For the German synchronization, the FFS film and television - Synchron GmbH was responsible. For the FSd studio in Berlin Oliver Rohrbeck took over the synchronous book, Ursula von Langen took over the FSd studio in Munich. The two were jointly responsible for the dialogue director.

The music recordings took place in Jamzone studio in Munich under the direction of Thomas Amper instead. Amper also took over some of the vocal parts, and could be heard as part of the backing vocals.

Music

In the film version, both existing songs were used as well as composing new. Old songs the Muppets are, for example, Mah Mah Nà Nà from the Muppet Show or the 1979 nominee The Rainbow Connection. The soundtrack was released on 22 November 2011. In the scene where the Muppets sing a barbershop version of Smells Like Teen Spirit, the former Nirvana member Dave Grohl has a cameo. The song Man or Muppet was awarded the 2012 Academy Award for Best Song.

Costumes

As Miss Piggy plays an editor of Vogue, clothing and fashion play an important role in the film. Several well-known designers, who designed costumes for the Muppets worked for the production. So Kermit wears at times a tuxedo by Brooks Brothers. In the scene in which Miss Piggy sings The Rainbow Connection, the doll by Zac Posen was fitted. Even she wears in the movie The striking shoes with red soles of Christian Louboutin, which have been specially designed for the doll.

Marketing and controversies in advance

The moderator Eric Bolling criticized the Fox Business Network criticized the film in advance, because he was critical of large companies: basically if it were at the Muppets to "communist propaganda." The attack caused a lot of malice and meant that with # # GOPMuppetHearings created its own popular Twitter hashtag. He also gave the Muppets creators themselves ample opportunity to apply at the expense of Fox the movie. About Miss Piggy, they said " the accusation is almost as laughable, as we would say that Fox News would actually be sent.

Continuation

On May 1, 2014 comes the sequel Muppets Most Wanted, also directed by James Bobin, but without any contribution from Jason Segel, in the German cinemas. He explained, "He had done his job in order to bring the Muppets back into the spotlight. " The script is written by Nicholas Stoller next Bobin. , The U.S. theatrical release was in March 2014.

Reviews

The Muppets received positive reviews. Of 204 evaluated critics at Rotten Tomatoes, the film received 96% positive reviews.

David Kleingers found in the mirror words of praise for the film. He writes, The Muppets " is a brilliant movie comeback " and that the dolls with the " verve of the early years," danced. Kleingers emphasizes the " great as always Amy Adams ' and employees Jason sail on the script.

" Not only the charming and subversive humor of the plush freaks irritates the diaphragm and warms the heart: The satirical musical inflated deposits spray as pure joy as the cameos known show-business. All this makes " The Muppets " one of the most joyous films of recent years. Conclusion "Applause, applause, applause! " All successful comeback of the craziest show force in the world. "

Sight & Sound praises the waiver of trendy gadgets such as CGI in film technique or the waiver thereof necessarily bring smart phones or the Internet in the act - so that distinguish the film to the positive of other recent remakes. In contrast shows the uncynical plot and the prominent blend of idealism and wisdom of pop culture as timeless as the Muppets characters were. Nevertheless, stay the uneasy feeling to see an up -capitalism imaging film, which was produced by The Walt Disney Company.

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