It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

2002
6.3| 1h40m| PG| en
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The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have very little time to pay a debt they owe. Meanwhile, the Muppets are trying to put on a Christmas show. After the Muppets are confronted by Bitterman, they make a lot of sacrifices to save up so they can keep the Theatre.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
jasongibbonsxxx The Muppets are always great, I have loved them ever since I was a kid when we would watch all the muppet movies again and again that my mom would show us, probably to keep us from fighting or tearing the whole house apart when she was trying to do something :) I didn't even see the TV show the muppets did until the last couple of years and it is great too, it obviously holds up well because the characters and jokes are so good but also now that I am an adult I still enjoy it and not just because of nostalgia from watching it as a kid, I still think these shows are good! They maybe aren't quite as good as they used to be, I guess that's expected when the creator Jim Henson passed away so long ago, but still awesome and worth buying!
lastliberal I haven't watched the Muppets in years and was looking for The Muppet Christmas Carol when I came across this version of It's a Wonderful Life. Now, I'm not saying that Kermitcan capture the magic of Jimmy Stewart, and Fozzie certainly is not Uncle Billy, but this was an enjoyable trip down memory lane with some outstanding music, a great song (Everyone Matters), and some really funny bits that referenced other shows.Joan Cusack was marvelous as the mean financier who wanted to drive Kermit and the Muppets out of town. Whoopie Goldberg was a great god figure and she had the ultimate accessory - a coffee shrub that produced hot coffee.The funniest bit for me was the old men Statler and Waldorf. i had forgotten how funny they were.An enjoyable Christmas tale.
zakiyyah_shaw This is one of the best Muppet movies that I have seen. It was not as childlike as other Muppet movies. I was older when this movie came out it still made me laugh. I loved all of the characters in this movie because despite was anybody says on the forum, Pepe is so funny to me. Has anybody seen Pepe on Weezer's video ,Gone Fishing? Pepe is hilarious on the New Muppet Show that aired on TGIF in the late 90's. Miss Piggy is still her high-maintenance self. The only thing that had me shocked is Kermit saying, " I wish I have never been born." It was heartbreaking because Kermit has always been my favorite Muppet and always will be. I taped this movie on VHS when it first aired on NBC. I was excited when the premiere came on. Unfortunely, I was about 20 years old when it came out. They need to show this movie at Christmas again on NBC.
aleusong If you tire of "It's a Wonderful Life" copycats around Christmas time, then you don't want to watch this...because it's exactly what it is.It's very unoriginal in terms of story (I was hoping for something BUT a Wonderful Life copyoff). Basically the Muppets run a theater (unlike that of Muppets Tonight, since this is a post Muppets Tonight TV film...or should I say 2hour special) in danger of being bankrupted on Christmas. Alongside the muppets is you stereotypical villain: a greedy banker at Christmas time who wants to do nothing but bad things. And a nerdy misfit angel who comes to the rescue. Yeah...uh where's Jim Henson? Oh yeah he's dead. No wonder this was so lame!The only likable elements are the parodies and spoofs. Unfortunately the storyline of this movie was so terrible and so predictable that they were hard to notice and you only care about watching the end to find out (yes, indeed a "Wonderful Life" copyoff crossedover with a bit of "Hey Arnold: The Movie"). If you seen the Hey Arnold movie then you know that the endings to that and this are no different.The lessons taught are bankers are evil, cheerful people around Xmas time are good guys, and life is worth living. I want a new kind of Christmas movie/special for once! Something different! But trust me, this ain't it. Lord knows how NBC got its hand on the Muppets for this temporary amount of time, but I seriously hope that ABC does better with the Muppets with its Oz movie next year. If not, then I demand you take me back to the golden age of Jim Henson...I'm talking about the late 70s and 80s!!!