Call me a glum frog with a hand flapping up my ass, but I didn’t love The Muppets. Jim Henson’s franchise is about goofy, heartfelt antics, and his whimsy warps into a barrage of Glee tunes, self-conscious dorkiness and perky, perky people under the pen of Jason Segel. It’s a no for me. Luckily, the ’90s already gave us a solid, if stupendously, un-self-consciously dorky Muppets update in the form of Muppets From Space. It’s not exactly a part of the classic Kermit cannon, but that’s because it’s a tangential Henson operation. Think of it as Muppets Origins: Gonzo. Now you’re in.
Muppets From Space is an 85-minute detour into Gonzo’s extraterrestrial heritage, and that we should appreciate. Even if it doesn’t take an Ancestry.com printout to realize Gonzo is a hybrid of Grover’s comic exasperation and Fozzie’s showbiz jones, it’s great fun to watch the classic Muppet mine his past. Very Born This Way. As the movie starts, we glimpse his recurring dream that he can’t board Noah’s ark because he’s the only member of his species, and that’s a resonant and traumatizing vision — even if you don’t realize that Noah, in this case, is played by F. Murray Abraham. Which he is. Soon, Gonzo receives paranormal messages in breakfast cereal letters, and he and the other Muppets are led on an adventure that connects them with his intergalactic loved ones. Harmless, often hilarious, and light as air. Like many Bad Movies We Love, it’s slow in spots and dotted with unremarkable characters, but that doesn’t mean it skimps on fun. Here are the best five moments in Muppets From Space; I hope you’ve ironed your polyester leisure suit in advance. Or your…
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