With exception for A Muppet Christmas Carol, it is a great classic, not only one of the best adaptions of Charles Dikens' novel and one of the best Christmas movies ever but also a great Muppet movie following Jim's legeacy.
This movie was released on the same day as the Roger Moore James Bond film For Your Eyes Only on June 26, 1981. Also fun fact: Diana Rigg who played Lady Holiday played Tracy, the main Bond girl in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). John Cleese who played Neville also played ‘R’ in The World is Not Enough (1999), and later the new ‘Q’ in the next Bond film Die Another Day (2002).
Fun fact: The bearded man that Gonzo takes a photo of at the resturant scene, is Jim Henson making a cameo. Another cameo when Kermit sits at the park depressed before meeting Piggy again, a young woman with her father passes by and talk about wherever is Kermit is a frog or a bear (continuing the identical twins running gag) is in fact Jerry Nelson (Floyd Pepper, Robin the Frog, Lew Zealand, Lewis Kazager and more) and his daughter Christine. Sadly she passed away from cystric fibrosis in 1982, at the young age of 22. Because of caring for his daughter when she was really sick in 1976, Nelson was absent for the first part of recording of The Muppet Show's first season and a lot of the music skits where Floyd Pepper was featured was done later.
The only work I did in a dark room was develop the "artwork" for PC boards. The trivia that interested me that I found out through the experience was that, when the Hunt brothers manipulated silver prices, silver was a huge part of developing photos. A lot of silver was washed down the drain. When the price of silver skyrocketed, it became worthwhile to develop and install silver recovery devices. So a lot of silver got recovered even after the silver prices returned to normal. I hate limited resources getting lost.
Love that you have an appreciation for the classic musicals. I loved the running gag "what color are their hands now?" I saw the first three Muppet movies in cinemas when then came out. The first two were originally released by Warner Bros.
The best one you've still to do, in my opinion is actually a TV movie: It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. A bit out of season, but then so was Christmas Carol.
My favorite muppets movies are Muppets 2011, Muppets from Space , It's a very marry Muppet Christmas movie, Muppets Haunted Mansion, A Muppet Christmas letters to Santa, Kermit’s swamp years, and muppets most wanted.
If you are looking for a fun summer flick, I suggest "Weekend At Bernie's" to be added to your list. Note it's a black-comedy, so go in knowing you have to be in a certain frame of mind. Trivia: The girl in the park who thinks Kermit is a bear is Christine Nelson, daughter of Muppeteer Jerry Nelson (with whom she appears in the scene). Christine suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout her short life, and finally succumbed to the disease in 1982, one year after this movie debuted.
They have cameos in ALL their movies. It is a trademark. Jim himself gets a cameo here at the Dubonet. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JcdFrglhLvQ.html
I grew up with this recorded on the same VHS tape as Return to Oz and Big Bird Goes to Japan. Except for A Muppet Christmas Carol, its my favorite of their films, and it was the first Muppet film I loved.
I really need to revisit Return to Oz. I was about seven when I saw that and it totally terrified me. I haven’t rewatched it since and still have nightmares!
What Gonzo thinks is the Eiffel Tower is the Nelson Column. A monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson,. who saved England from Napoleon. Now, you can go to Paris right across the Channel, by plane or train and see the real Eiffel Tower and Napoleon's tomb. Napoleon had a role in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, classic 80s movie.
Have you seen the 'Evil Under the Sun' movie that Diana Rigg is in with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot and Maggie Smith as Daphne Castle? It's from the dialogue between Maggie Smith and Diana Rigg that I first learned what "bitchiness" is
0 seconds ago Self-aware is also called breaking the fourth wall; when a TV show or movie acknowledges that it is a movie. Good we all know that B.S.C. is British Academy of Cinematographers. Photos-there are people who take your photo at Busch Gardens in Florida. They welcome you; they'll gibe you the pictures; for a fee. :)
Happy 120th Bert Easey founder of the British Society of Cinematographers. August 23, 1901. They don't think its weird etc. that there's a pig climbing up the outside the house.
At long last! This is the follow up to the Muppet Movie, so this is the movie the make shortly after they sign the ‘rich and famous’ contract. Also this is the muppet version of a ‘crime reporter’ movie like ‘His Girl Friday’ or ‘Call Northside 777’
Only three Muppet movies left - wait, no, for5get that, lets not think of a time when there will be no more Muppet reactions to look forward to, let's just enjoy them as they come :)
i'm glad you liked it, this is one of my favorite movies. i had suspected that they were referencing older films with the water dancing, i just hadn't know what movie , they do a similar nod in the Gremlins 2 movie. i liked the part where they put on disguises, i'm sorry that you did't show that part. also when Piggy breaks out of prison, that was an inspiring scene
@@futuramayeah I won't get into why that is not legally able to do anything, but suffice it to say I have studied entertainment law enough to know what I can and cannot do :)
Really enjoyed and got a huge hit of nostalgia. Thanks to my brother’s obsession with the film it was my introduction to the muppets as a kid but I hadn’t watched it in years. I wonder if there’s a super cut or something of Pigs in Space sketches you can react to ?
@@alexachipman I heard those two old men that sat on the balcony, laughing and making comments were called Statler an Waldorf. I never knew what their names were when I was little.
Tch, rats, all I had for trivia on this one were two Charles Grodin stories, but one was political, and the other is R rated and pretty crude. Ah, well. Y'know? You wanting your comments section G-PG rated? I actually like the challenge. It keeps me on my toes. 😏
BSc stands for Bachelor of Science degree, at least in Britain. Isn't it usually just BS in America, or did I dream that? :D Haha, I was out kayaking on the 'English River' today.
It is indeed "BS" in America, I think! I have a BFA, which fortunately sounds better! I hadn't thought of kayaking on that river, but now that I think about it, that makes a lot of sense! Sounds like fun!
@@alexachipman Mine is a BSc. :D I've never been kayaking actually in Central London, as the Thames is a big, intense tidal river by that point and a bit beyond my skill level to do it safely alone. I do intend to do it safely as part of an organized group sometime as it would be cool to kayak through London. I go out in my own kayak on the non-tidal part of the river upstream. The furthest upstream I've been out is Oxford. There are some really picturesque places on the non-tidal Thames!
@@alexachipman I understand. When I first saw the film, I had the jaw-dropping reaction when I heard that line. I still don't know how Jim Henson and Frank Oz came up with the running gag.
@@alexachipman The joke is like how Kermit says Fozzie takes off the hat and they look alike and then you see the newspaper man take out a photo with a Green Fozzie that looks like Kermit it take a couple viewings to catch that joke.
