Fans of The Muppets are bound to be excited; A new Muppets movie is about to be released: Muppets Most Wanted!
It stars Ricky Gervais as “Dominic Badguy”, Tina Fey as prison officer “Nadya” and Ty Burrell as Jean Pierre Napoleon from Interpol alongside all of the well known Muppets.
The Muppets Most Wanted introduces us to Constantine the World’s Most Dangerous Frog who looks suspiciously like Kermit, the only difference is one black mole on the side of his face and his distinctive accent.
The Muppets are going on world tour, and Constantine manages to infiltrate and take the place of Kermit with the help of his 2nd in command Dominic Badguy who has secured a position as the Muppets new manager. Together they start to implement their cunning plan to carry out a series of bank robberies all over Europe under the camouflage of being part of the Muppets World Tour.
Meanwhile, Kermit finds himself imprisoned in the Russian Gulag where he helps the inmates to star in their own musical.
We took all 3 of the boys (Age 2-5) to watch Muppets Most Wanted. It is the first time that they have seen a Muppets movie as they are more familiar with Disney animated movies, so some of them did find the realistic nature of some of the scenes a little scary – such as in the Russian Prison. The movie is rated as a PG so do be aware that there is some mild peril involved and more sensitive children may be unsettled.
Muppets Most Wanted has plenty of humour to keep the grown ups entertained as well as the children. This movie has done well to cater for all age groups. There are more subtle jokes which only the grown ups will get, mixed in with more visual slapstick to appeal to the children.
The Muppets are their usual charmingly funny selves and the performances from Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and Ricky Gervais produced a lot of laughs as you can see in the trailer here:
You might also like these Muppets Bloopers, behind the scenes clips (sponsored video)
We enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to families. I feel it may be more suitable to slightly older children. None of us had seen the previous Muppets movie and this did not affect our enjoyment of the movie at all, it’s very accessible to either long term Muppets fans or those who are new to the Muppets.
Muppets Most Wanted is out in UK cinemas March 28th
What do you think of Muppets Most Wanted? Do you think you will go? Let me know in the comments.
We attended a screening of Muppets Most Wanted before its general release so that we could review and help to spread the word.
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This sounds great. I do like Ricky Gervais 🙂 I’m sure this would be a movie that my 9 year old would love! #blogclub
A NEW MUPPETS MOVIE?!?!!?!?! I have been watching the Muppets since…. FOREVER!!! I am far too excited by this! Thanks so much for sharing, I need it in my life! x
I was an extra in this film, can’t wait to see it : )
oh wow, that must have been fun!
I think we will have to go and watch this, I just love Ricky Gervais so it has to be worth a watch :O)
Hooray……I love The Muppets….I can remember watching them when I was little too. A definite must see film I think…..Ma na ma na…..Do do do do do…….(sorry, my attempt at the theme tune) x
I loved The Muppets as a kid, and was very excited about the last one- I took my older son, and we both loved it! We now have it on DVD and my toddler sings along with all the songs- we are SO excited about seeing the new one in the Easter hols!
This definitely sounds like something my son would enjoy – and quite a good one for grown ups to sit through too!
My kids are desperate to see this! I have fond memories of the Muppets on Saturday afternoons as a child!
We’re all SO EXCITED about this! Ours are 8, 6 and 4 and often it’s hard to find films that the 4 year old will enjoy as much as the big ones, but this is one that we’ll all be going to, and we can’t wait! #blogclub
Ooooh my kids like the Muppets films! Great review it sounds fab!
Oh 6yo and Hubby are going to be so excited by this
I love the the muppets!! My two are still a little young for the cinema but will be getting this on dvd when it comes out!
I used to really love the muppets. I think my two might be too young for this one but it is one we will enjoy in the future!
Sounds great, love the Muppets. Pity Baby is too young to go x
I can’t believe Kitty has got to 6 without watching any Muppets – I grew up on it!
I love the muppets . Looks a great film thanks x
Oh wow! I had no idea there was a new Muppet Movie on the cards. I think it would be too ‘old’ for my little one but I am a huge Muppet fan so I would go with hubby on our own! I’ve always loved Kermit and can’t pass up the chance to see him on the big screen 🙂
Ooh sounds good. I know what you mean though, I suspect my twins may be a tad scared if there’s anything to be scared of especially in the cinema when it’s dark and very loud!! I like Ricky Gervais though so could be tempted hehe x
This looks like such a good movie ( the first one is excellent ) me and the kids can’t wait to see it.
I love Ricky Gervais but I don’t think my children could sit through it. I’ll have to look out for it on DVD.
Ooooh, I love the Muppets! My two won’t sit still for a whole film (yet!), so I tend to wait until films come out on DVD and then we can watch in installments, but both of them love the Muppet shorts on YouTube – especially the Swedish Chef’s pop-di-corn (Google if you haven’t seen it – it is HILARIOUS)… x
YOU can never go wrong with the muppets . I just love them.
My two would be a bit young for this, but we DID go and see the Lego Movie with Austin the other day. I didn’t think it was as good as everyone’s been raving about, but it was fairly amusing. Aren’t children’s films so cleverly made these days?
I love the Muppets, and this one is defiantly on my to be watched list!!
love the muppets! x
I used to be a huge Muppets fan… haven’t seen them for ages… time for a change I see
This is definitely on our list of family trips, we are all massive muppet fans!
We all loved the last Muppets movie with Jason Segel so will definitely be wanting to see this. It sounds great! I love that there are jokes for little ones and plenty for older ones too.
We are big fans of the Muppets in this house and have enjoyed both of the Muppets movies (although Muppets Christmas Carol is still my favourite!) Thanks for linking up with #100 Days of Disney xx