I just hoped for more vaudevillian anarchy and less sentimentality. Sometimes, it is a mistake to revisit your childhood with the same expectations.

| Aug 31, 2018

It's a film for 2012, for the 99 per cent, for the Occupiers who have been criticised as Starbucks-quaffing smartphone revolutionaries seeking a rainbow connection that could only be called 'kermunism'.

| Jul 9, 2018

... The Muppets not only restore their name in the movie, but they prove to the audience that they're back and they're still as cute and entertaining as ever before.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

This is comedic gold!

| Sep 24, 2012

If you're not a joyless maniac with a soul of anthracite then you will work hard to imagine how this project could have been better handled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2012

| Original Score: A | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2012

Welcome back, Muppets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2012

Unfortunately the pang of loss - the "you can't go back again" - is reflected in the film's own inability go back again. After a meditative midsection it tries to re-establish cuteness and comic zeal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2012

Kermit, we're sorry we forgot about you - never leave again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2012

A film bursting at the seams with sheer, unadulterated joy: watch it, and the world seems just that little bit brighter...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2012

Made absolutely for grown-up fans, this is the Muppets as you fondly remember them: funny, smart and gleefully insane.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2012

The Muppets is an awful lot of fun, that fact is unmistakable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

So genial, so joyous, and suffused with such a lip-smacking sweetness, that the occasional pacing issues and subplot hiccups simply don't seem to matter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2012

It's never cloying or too knowing. Cynicism and wariness are real world concerns that have no place among the foam and felt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2012

It may not entirely work as a movie, but The Muppets shines as a piece of touching pop nostalgia.

| Jan 3, 2012

The purity of the nostalgia turns this franchise film into a love letter to childhood.

| Dec 5, 2011

All of our old favorites are here, from Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy to the original grumpy old men, Statler and Waldorf, along with a number of celebrities in amusing cameos...

| Dec 2, 2011

It is with immense pleasure that I can report that Disney's Muppet reboot movie is an absolute delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2011

You can rest easy - if you have previously loved the Muppets, you will likely currently love The Muppets.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 24, 2011