The Muppet Movie changed cinema forever and much like "Rainbow Connection," the iconic classic remains fun for the whole family.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 2, 2024

... this charming musical adventure riffs on movie clichés and conventions with a playfully self-aware spirit.

| Nov 6, 2022

Suffice it to say that I think this movie is funnier than Manhattan, more romantic than Hurricane, and a more sophisticated speculation on illusion and reality than Last Year at Marienbad.

| Nov 3, 2021

There are few things as pure and inspirational (in all senses of the word) as The Muppet Movie.

| Sep 10, 2021

The Muppet Movie packs all the thrills, laughs and excitement of a... well, two-ring circus.

| Jul 19, 2019

There's all of these cameos that are so fun.

| Original Score: A- | May 13, 2019

Comedy director James Frawley imposes pleasing order on the charming proceedings while Henson and his long-time associate Frank Oz delightfully dominate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

Jolson sang, Barrymore spoke, Garbo laughed, and now Kermit the Frog rides a bicycle... If you can figure out how they were able to show Kermit pedaling across the screen, then you are less a romantic than I am: I prefer to believe he did it himself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2015

With charm for the kids and in-jokes for their parents (when Kermit's bicycle gets mangled, he quips, "I thought I was gone with the Schwinn"), Muppet creator Jim Henson tries to give everybody a little something.

| Jun 1, 2015

The cast are all here, along with the technical wizardry, but the dialogue staggers from one leaden gag to another and there is an unmistakeable note of desperation throughout.

| Jun 1, 2015

[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] As expected, Fozzie the Bear and the old geezers Statler and Waldorf receive the lion's share of the choice lines.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2013

while The Muppet Movie is certainly entertaining, the shift to a coherent, linear, feature-length narrative deprives the film the show's brilliantly structured inanity

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2013

With his Muppets, Henson found a balance between fuzzy post-hippie positivism and self-deprecating wit, and he added in the same quality that made many of the era's cultural phenomena so charming: simple problem-solving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2013

'The Muppet Movie' is one big road trip, and like 'The Blues Brothers' there's a payoff not just at the end, but around nearly every corner. Music only sweetens the deal.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 2, 2013

This isn't about one sock puppet's search to be all that he can be. It's about a community combining their talents to bring joy to the world.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 25, 2011

The most condensed and purified expression of the starry-eyed optimistic humanism that defined all of Henson's best work.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 21, 2011

First Muppet movie is a classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

The Muppets were formally inventive long before Charlie Kaufman came on the scene.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 16, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2008

One of the funniest family films of the 1970s.

| May 6, 2008