Sentences with phrase «muppet films»

They race on 34 tracks based on locations in Muppet films and TV programs.This game marked the first vocal appearance by Scooter and Janice since the death of Richard Hunt.

This fall, to mark the 50th anniversary of Kermit the Frog's first appearance (on NBC's Washington, D.C. - based network WRC - TV's «Sam and Friends») and capitalize upon the holiday season, Disney is re-releasing their two Muppet films (with widescreen DVD presentations to finally appease widely - disappointed fans) and putting their recently - acquired Muppet Movie and Great Muppet Caper back onto the home video market for the first time under the Disney label.

Disney's new animated menus for The Muppet Movie aren't as inspired as the clever selection screens the studio produced (and has this week recycled) for the two in - house Muppet films, but they are a step above the static Sony pages.

With the DVD being boldly and clearly labeled an «Anniversary Edition», you'd think for sure that Disney would take this opportunity to provide some new and exciting bonus material for The Muppet Movie the way they did three years ago (with less reason and no designation) for their two in - house Muppet films.

Not exact matches

The adventures of hero Ace Hart, a canine private eye who battles the film noir villians of Dog City, and Eliot Shag, a dog, a muppet and an animator who creates and controls Ace Hart.

For an additional preview look at how all the films have been newly tweaked for this Blu - ray release, including aspect ratio framing, color corrections, soundtrack enhancement and the replacement of the «Muppet Yoda» with an all - CGI version in the Phantom Menace, check out the report from Slash Film.

THE DVD The kids division of MGM presents It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie in a full - frame «Special Edition» presentation all the more puzzling for the fact that a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer was prepared for the film's R2 release.

However, with no 3 - D option offered, they'll miss the payoff, which must have been significant (at least in theory) based on the way the film serves up such illusions with nearly the regularity of gimmick - based theme park attractions like Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Muppet * Vision 3D.

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.

The anxiety comes from the Muppet - like French accent of Gordon - Levitt and what may happen when the French see this film — worthy of a riot; at least.

The Muppet Christmas Carol has been loved for a generation, a generation who are now passing that love on to their children and still revelling in the warmth and guiltless pleasure the film brings.

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.

If you already own The Muppet Movie on DVD, then this re-release mostly represents unfulfilled potential to honor this terrific film with vast improvements in presentation and bonus features; save your money, your Sony disc will suffice.

That Sony's disc was serviceable entails that even the minor improvement made here results in The Muppet Movie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stocks.

After three seasons on television's «The Muppet Show», Jim Henson's beloved furry creations made the jump to the big screen in a film that showed how the gang met.

Other ’79 films remembered with more - than - average fondness include: Nicholas Meyer's Time after Time, Ettore Scola's Down and Dirty, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Northern Lights, Arthur Hiller's (and Andrew Bergman's) The In - Laws, Diane Kurys's Peppermint Soda, Sydney Pollack's The Electric Horseman, Oldrich Lipsky's Nick Carter in Prague, or Dinner for Adele, Jim Henson and James Frawley's The Muppet Movie, and Don Sharp's The Thirty - nine Steps.

That's certainly a shame as you would think the film's second appearance on the format would present the perfect opportunity for Disney to provide some good in - depth bonus material the way they did for their two movies and to some extent, last summer's Season One box set of «The Muppet Show.»

To celebrate the release of Disney's «The Muppet Christmas Carol: It's Not Easy Being Scrooge Special Edition», Media Mikes would like to giveaway 5 copies of the film on Blu - ray ™ + Digital Copy combo pack.

Besides that Sim film, some of the better - known versions include a 1938 film starring Reginald Owen, the 1970 Albert Finney musical Scrooge, the 1983 animated featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol (starring Scrooge McDuck), the 1988 Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, and 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Henson the Younger also directed two of those films, «Muppet Christmas Carol» and «Muppet Treasure Island» in the 90s.

We travel to the Los Angeles set of the upcoming Disney film, which stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and Jim Henson's iconic Muppet creations.

This film basically forgets all the sequels and literary adaptations to make a film that's just like The Muppet Movie, only better.

If you like this, try: the many films of the story, especially the Muppet, Mr. Magoo, Alastair Sim, and MGM versions.

A seven - second Muppet Studios logo (accompanied by a few chords from «The Muppet Show» theme) now appears before the film starts.

This Kermit's 50th Anniversary re-release of The Muppet Christmas Carol provides definite relief for those who waited years for the film to come to DVD and three more years for it to come in widescreen.

Some of the original Muppet performers, including Frank Oz, declined to work on this film.

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).

Of all the actors and actresses making cameos in this film, Alan Arkin is the only one to ever appear on The Muppet Show, back in 1979.

This week's new Blu - ray releases include a wonderfully compelling drama told entirely from the confines of a car, a quartet of older animated Disney films getting an HD upgrade, a new Muppet movie, and more.

While it's different from the Muppet movies I saw as a child, this film has the same charm and irreverence I've come to expect from these fuzzy little guys.

Though the Muppet Movie fan in me still expects a little more for a film of this stature, I'm at a loss as to what more Disney could provide, apart from one of the gang's many unreleased television programs.

The Muppet Movie opens with Henson's many familiar creations assembling in a studio screening room to watch this film all about how the Muppets first met.

They didn't concern themselves with honoring «Muppet Show» traditions, setting the film in the Muppet Theatre the cast called home, or even establishing a clear connection between this film and the weekly series that would run for another two seasons.

Instead, the Muppets lived on in films long after «Muppet Show» signed off and continue to do so this day, having endured the deaths of Henson and other key personnel, a substantial sale of undisclosed terms, and multiple revivals.

Starting Tuesday, the preferred way for The Muppet Movie and its creators to live on is in Disney's The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + Digital Copy, a disc that improves upon the film's two DVD releases in pronounced ways.

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.

Gary Murray, our resident Comedy Guys entertainer and film buff, has published his latest review for THE MUPPETS at Big Fan Boy.com.

«The first Muppet movie is arguably one of the best films ever made.