The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Very best movie i ever watch

Simply A Masterpiece

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is my second favorite Muppet movie after The Muppet Movie. One of the reasons I love it so much is because it relies more on Muppets and gags than humans and cute moments. Two things that the two most recent movies are bad about (as good as those movies are). This was long before Walter came along and Gonzo was one of the stars. I feel like all the Muppets really come to play here (Although Statler and Waldorf are underused) most especially Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, Pops, and Beauregard. The music in this movie is great. You can't watch the bicycle and water scenes without being a little impressed. I am an aspiring filmmaker and I want to make some Muppet movies someday (partly because I'm worried that Muppets Most Wanted was the final nail in the coffin) and if I do I want there to be humans but I want them to take a backseat to the Stars themselves and that would be the Muppets. I intend to do a better job than the most recent movies have. The Great Muppet Caper is a perfect example of this and I highly recommend it! It's a classic!

I loved the Muppet show and the original three Muppet movies when I was a kid: The Muppet movie, this-The great Muppet caper, and Muppets take Manhattan. All of the Muppet stuff in the years before Jim Henson died and when I was still a kid. The great Muppet caper was wonderful starting with them being thrown out of their plane in their stow away boxes and landing in a pond, their ckecking into the happiness hotel and the song that went with it, miss piggy meeting Lady Holiday and her witty conversation with her. It almost has the combination of old time charm and typical Muppet humor combined. A lot of the movie has that. I really liked the Esther Williams style water ballet with miss piggy, even when I was a kid and I didn't know then what was being satired. In recent times when I've really started loving old time golden age Hollywood musicals with golden age stars like Judy Garland, June Allyson, Esther Williams, etc., that has caused me to really love the Esther Williams water ballet scene in the Muppet caper, especially when it turned out to be miss piggy's dream and then she in reality dives into a small fountain, being the only one who gets wet. Another great scene is when all of the muppets are riding their bikes through the park singing. It sort of, in a way reminds me of a time when I was about 8 years old walking through Hyde park in London with my family when I was on vacation in England. That scene, for that reason added, makes the Muppet bike riding scene and song even more terrific. There's also lots of humorous wit through the movie, especially from Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and of course Miss piggy. And a number of great cameos from John Cleese, Charles Groden, and from the great Muppet man himself, Jim Henson in a restaurant. And the guard, while Scooter delivers a pizza, "but I hate pepperoni". Funny. Some reviewers have commented on the diamond plot not being good. The diamond plot is only a small part of the movie to me. The bigger picture, all of the things I've written above, is what makes this movie great. And of course, don't miss the cameo from Oscar the grouch.

Now, I think I can tell you my perspective on this movie from two points of view: When I was a kid and when I became an adult. As a kid, you take things for granted like the amazing puppet work in this movie, the set design, the great script. All you see if you're a kid watching this movie is a bunch of colorful characters involved in a light-hearted crime drama.But from the perspective of an adult, you appreciate everything in this movie. You appreciate the wacky humor which constantly breaks the fourth wall(even in the emotional scenes), and all the cameos from some terrific actors. You've got John Cleese, Peter Ustinov, Jack Warden, and even Peter Falk! Even though these are just cameos, this film has some terrific star power and actually appreciates those great actors that don't get nearly the appreciation they do today.This movie is seriously, seriously funny. The muppets are all wonderfully realized characters who actually all serve a dramatic purpose in the framework of the film, and they interact beautifully with the main stars of the film, Charles Grodin and Diana Rigg.Charles Grodin is excellent as this thief named Nicky who really steals the show with his fantastic overacting, which actually works to this movie's advantage and serves to make it even funnier.But seriously, if you've never seen The Great Muppet Caper before, you're missing out. The Muppets crack wise and tell great jokes in practically every scene and this film will leave you satisfied with a big smile on your face. This is actually the perfect family film. It's not too sappy, and even when you think it's going to get to that point, it goes in the opposite direction.

A ragged yet sometimes delightful mess of comedy and songs with a clever story and a few too many cute cameos I still enjoy this movie but it would be stronger if it didn't feel like such a pastiche. There was a great sense of nostalgia in 1970's Hollywood that sucked a lot of creative energy into parodies and tributes and this movie feels a lot like the victim of that era. Too much talent squandered trying to make a hip version of an old Hollywood musical cum newspaper mystery cum international adventure, and yet the muppets are The Muppets and there is the charm of Kermit and Gonzo and Miss Piggy and the rest just being silly and making bad jokes work by sheer force of silliness.Like a weaker Marx Bros movie is has its moments and when it is over it feels like it was worth it, but while you are watching---hmmm, maybe not so much.