Sentences with phrase «muppet characters»

The game includes the choice of 25 muppet characters driving 25 vehicles.

Building on the critically acclaimed Superbowl commercial, the Muppets will join the Toyota Highlander in an exhibit which will give auto show patrons a chance to play three iPad games featuring the luxurious SUV and the Muppet characters.

The latest birth among the fuzzy Muppet characters happened in a bathroom stall last July.

When we answer a few simple questions to let our friends and family know which Muppet character we're the most like or which car we'd drive if we had our pick, we're sharing a digital piece of our analog lives.

Miss Piggy is a Muppet character known for her breakout role in Jim Henson's The Muppet Show.

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Creating a brand - new official Muppet character is a task few people in this world have the opportunity to undertake.

I saw many folks holding their favorite Muppet character or wearing their favorite green Kermit shirt.

In short, Netflix's future presence on Twitter has now turned into a high - stakes race between the company and every pot - smoking Muppet character for a usable Twitter name.

Who is YOUR favorite Muppet character?

Not exact matches

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an old television series as a film residing between homage and parody, or as in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.

Anyways, with the occasional clip from The Muppet Movie, a bit of footage from the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Muppets» Wizard of Oz, and plenty of in - character comments from Kermit's long - time co-stars including Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Statler, and Waldorf, Kermit is profiled in a breezy, semi-entertaining and mostly forgettable manner.

Global anticipation was huge for the follow - up to Star Wars, but few were expecting this darkly sophisticated transitional tale, loaded with psychological trauma, unresolved daddy issues, massive action sequences and a wholly believable Muppet main character.

While the key to the episode is a huge Griffin Muppet animated, in part, by Henson's son Brian, the humour of its spoiled prissiness is offset by a melancholy subplot involving a doomed ferryman played with convincing dourness by veteran character actor Robert Eddison.

Following on from 2011's smash - hit The Muppets, all your favorite characters are back in an hilarious all - new spy thriller adventure in Disney's MUPPETS: MOST WANTED, hitting cinemas March 2014.

In order to save their beloved old stomping grounds, it is up to Kermit and company to round up all of the old Muppet Show characters to put on a telethon and try to come up with enough money, $ 10 million, to thwart Richman's scheme from going forward before it is too late.

Characters move to a new location, start bickering, get interrupted by zombies, at which point a character cocks his / her weapon, exclaiming some variation of «Get out of the East End you zombie muppet!»

Those characters and ones played by Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones are otherwise not even mentioned, but Muppet fan turned Muppet Walter retains a fairly prominent presence and one cameo (Zach Galifianakis» Hobo Joe) gets a reprise.

Each of the primary characters is lovable in their own way — even Ted, but that's largely because his voice reminds me of Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show.

Rather than updating the personalities to suit modern moviegoers» tastes, the movie stays true to the timeless characters, assigning most prominence to the classic Jim Henson «Muppet Show» gang.

There are at least ten Disney films that have gotten this treatment, and some of them have gotten it more than once — adaptation of The Jungle Book, for instance, has resulted in both TaleSpin (a debatable example, but many of the characters are clearly named and patterned after ones in the film) and Jungle Cubs (which gives the characters the «Muppet Babies» treatment).

That's the general Muppet - style approach to character in this edition, in which Helena Bonham Carter enacts disturbed heiress Miss Havisham broadly enough to confuse her with the saucy hostess she played in «Les Miserables», or any of her Tim Burton vamps.

I think there was something generic about the writing for each specific Muppet, which led to some characters like Janice, The Swedish Chef, and Mr. Teeth left with only a couple of lines of dialogue not fully showing their unique personalities.

The film is populated entirely by «muppet» characters created by the Henson team, performed using virtually every trick of puppetry they had developed to date.