Muppets Most Wanted-awesome fun for all ages

Really, I couldn’t write a better headline than that?  Muppets Most Wanted-fun for all ages sounds so generic to the smiles, joy and laughter that I had when watching it.  After sitting at the keyboard for a while, I keep coming back to that.  It’s a great movie that children will enjoy and adults, especially those that liked The Muppets before, will genuinely laugh at.

Genuinely laugh at is the key phrase.  It wasn’t polite smiles and smirks; it was tears of laughter running down my face in the first five minutes.  I’m not a Muppet fanatic or anything.   The last movie was very good and the TV show back in the day was ahead of its’ time, but I’m not pulling out a Kermit mask out of the closet.

Muppets Most Wanted is a very funny movie.  In the first 30 minutes the jokes come as fast as they do during a great episode of The Simpsons.  They’re quick, don’t linger and if you get them that’s great, if not stick around because more are coming.  The hit ratio for funny jokes slows down a bit, but it gets off to a roaring start.

The movie picks up at the end of the last movie.  They’ve Ordered a Sequel is the first song and has countless cultural references, movie jokes and self depreciating humor peppered through it.  Every song in the film, except for the Piggy one is far superior to those that were in the last film.  They make you laugh, move the plot along just a bit and are wickedly entertaining.

The Muppets engage on a world tour, but Kermit is kidnapped and the world’s most dangerous frog, Constantine takes his place.  Kermit goes to a Russian gulag while the tour goes through Europe allowing Constantine and Dominic Badguy, played to Ricky Gervais to rob various museums.

Muppets Most Wanted has buckets of cameos.  The singing voice in the gulag, various prisoners and more are all people that you’ll recognize and get a laugh out of their performances.

It does lag a little bit just over half way through, but that’s only because it starts so fast and is over all so great.  This was the funniest movie I’ve seen in years and I can’t stop listening to the soundtrack as I write this.

Even if you know nothing about the Muppets you’ll like this movie.  It is rated PG for muppet/cartoony violence.  Our 4 year old saw it and wasn’t scared of anything in it.  He didn’t get most of the jokes in the film, but he liked seeing me laugh and loved the frog.