Of course, the evil frog’s evil accent threatens to get in the way.
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Meanwhile, pretending to be Kermit, Constantine uses the world tour as a cover to stage an elaborate, multi-nation jewel heist. Soon enough, Constantine has taken over the Muppets, and Kermit has been shipped to the gulag, where he has to contend with a warden played by Tina Fey (who looks awfully fetching in an ushanka, for some reason). Halfway across the world, however, Constantine, the world’s most dangerous frog and a Kermit look-alike, escapes from a Siberian gulag.
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This time, no longer worried about reuniting or reintroducing themselves, the Muppets are on a world tour with their new manager, played by Ricky Gervais and named Dominic Badguy (ha-ha). It’s funny ’cause it’s true, and Muppets Most Wanted pretty much exists on the self-aware level of that lyric throughout - charming, but uninspired. But any hope you may have had that Muppets Most Wanted would take these characters in any direction besides the most predictable is quickly scuttled with the new film’s opening number, “We’re Doing a Sequel,” in which our heroes sing, “ We’re doing a sequel/That’s what we do in Hollywood/And everybody knows/The sequel’s never quite as good.” Related StoriesĢ0 Amazing Musical Numbers From The Muppet Show It’d be impossible to replicate that earlier film’s unique trajectory after all, it had to reintroduce the homespun, ambling charm of the Muppets to a world more familiar with slick CGI and 3-D animation. The kids in the audience may have wondered why their parents were both singing along and crying at the same time.
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James Bobin’s reboot was knowingly frivolous - at times, it barely seemed to hold together as a movie - but it also milked the genuine nostalgic power of its plot, which built up to a climactic, cathartic performance of The Muppet Show itself. Three years ago, when The Muppets injected new cinematic life into Jim Henson’s long-dormant creation, it did so with equal doses of parody and pathos.