Review – The Muppet Movie

I hadn’t seen this since I was 13, and in the intervening decades I’d forgotten how many celebrity cameos and musical numbers it featured. The former was a welcome surprise, the latter not so much. The cameos were something like meeting up with old acquaintances missing for years because they died (Madeline Kahn), retired (Mel Brooks) or just aren’t as funny as they used to be (Steve Martin, whose brief performance here is one of the highlights of the movie). The songs, story and dialogue are suffused with Jim Henson’s twee, dated sense of optimism. Still, it’s a fun little picture. Mildly amusing