Les Muppets

Malgré la bonne humeur contagieuse, seuls les amateurs du Muppet Show courent la chance d'y trouver leur compte. Mah na! Mah na!

Ce n'est jamais facile d'adapter, des décennies plus tard, une émission de télévision culte. Les Muppets, contrairement à bon nombre de dérivés récents, a le ton juste et reprend quasiment tous les éléments attendus par les admirateurs.

Believing the world could use a little more love in the form of green, blue and red felt creatures, the comic known for more bawdy brands of bromance creates a Muppet movie that not only understands its own world, it successfully reaches into the present and reconnects with a forgotten sense of soul.

I laughed; I cried; I wanted to watch it again as soon as it ended. The Muppets is the family movie of the year!

Watching The Muppets is like being inside joy. The movie's darker moments (and there are some, often also highlighted by amazing music and in one case a blistering rap) only emphasize just how alive and full of hope this story is. In that context, singing and dancing seems natural, and The Muppets does a lot of it.

The Muppets is a celebration of what Jim Henson created. It is inspired and full of some of the biggest laughs I've had at a theatre in years. If the Muppets bring back memories of youth, imagine what it will do for a brand new, wide-eyed innocent crowd.

A mostly winning return for childhood favorites from a prior century looks to accomplish its goal of pleasing old fans and winning new ones.

More fresh than retro, The Muppets bursts with charm and cheeky humor.

How do you reboot an entertainment juggernaut that began to fade before most of its young audience was born? In the case of the Muppets, you make a leap of faith and hope that the charm of these Jim Henson creations, which once flooded children's television and movies, remains irresistible.