"The Muppets" Official Movie Trailer

The trailer looks awesome. I just finished my senior thesis film which features a Muppet I built. Check it out please.

"The Moopets" is a Muppets tribute troupe in Reno that Fozzie has been performing with.

Ah right! I take it that perhaps some of his colleagues there happen to resemble his friends. I should probably stop trying to predict the movie now, as you can probably tell it's really not my forte by this point...

Trailer actually got me emotionally choked up. I've been waiting 25+ years for a BIG BIG Muppet movie release, and I think this was going to be it....

Well guys, I guess its time that I weigh in on the infamous 'Fozzie Fart' joke (something I thought I would NEVER have to say in my life). We don't know where it is in the film, obviously, but in the trailer it is neatly sandwiched between Kermit saying about not using cheap tricks/jokes...and immediately they use a cheap joke/trick and the one distracts from the other (Fozzie with legs distracts from the Fart line, and the Fart line distracts from Fozzie with legs)...and is followed by someone admitting that with jokes and tricks like that "This will be a short movie..."

Thus in one moment, the Muppets acknowledge that all kids movies these days have fart-jokes, they nod at the audience that they have indeed included one, and they move on.

Also...considering the company that Fozzie has been keeping of late (See: Moopets), its lucky he's not lost his humour completly!

A note about the Moopets (and how they have been rumored to be playing a villain role) -- Could it be that their actions are responsible for 'The Muppets' ending up in jail as seen in a previous trailer?

i just noticed something that makes me love this trailer more when gonzos throwing the cannon ball i noticed the cannon it goes past looks like it was molded after the palisades series 2 gonzo figure thats awesome

I enjoy this quote from Jack Black, which suggests that the film may have some colder, more serious notes "I have to give my man Jason Segel credit, there's some dark chocolate in there too." I can believe that from this trailer too...

Someone noticed that the gates have "K" and "P" on them and are suggesting it may have been a mansion once inhabited by both Kermit AND Piggy. Interesting, interesting. Could that MTM marriage have been in fact real?

the HD Version is up on the official muppet youtube

Is it just me, or does that big group shot in the scene where Kermit says he believes in everyone look like portions of the crowd aren't physically there? I'd like to think that all puppets in that scene actually were there live on set, but when I pause or look at a still it almost looks like some were added in.

I wonder if that will be the biggest group shot in the movie, or if there'll be a bigger group shot. The group shot here is impressive, though. I wonder if there's any additional characters in that scene who just appear off-camera in the clips shown. I noticed when we see Kermit's face there we see the back of Sam and Wanda's heads, but I don't know if they're just standing in the spot that Kermit's body blocks in the wide shot, or if they're past the left of the screen.

This group scene and Miss Piggy's "we need you" scene are both scenes I initially assumed were flashbacks, before I noticed Walter in them. Watching them in trailers, they seem a bit similar (I could see the Muppets splitting up after Kermit decides he believes in them and that they don't need his leadership).

In that group shot (and the arches shot) I noticed a few characters I don't recall seeing before (I wonder if they were in any "At the Dance" sketches or musical numbers I haven't seen, but I figure they're just whatnots with random designs chosen). In particular, I noticed a character a few feet/inches away from one of the Mutations, who sort of looks like a Mutation, but is obviously smaller and skinnier than the one that's so close to him (though I did notice only two Mutations are in that shot... Hopefully they cared enough to rebuild three).

I noticed in that one shot of Kermit playing banjo, as the screen widens and we see more characters, that we can catch a glimpse of Sweetums and a Mutation's hands at the very right and left end of the screen.

That...has nothing to do with the trailer, Snuffy.

(....)

I was just thinking,
This is just my Thought,

When Fozzie Says "Wow I can't believe we're all back together"

Doesn't it remind you of "Muppet Family Christmas" a little bit
All we need him to say is at the farm house

that line reminds me of that classic Muppet Christmas special a little bit,

Just wondering if others might see it too,

PS. Not looking to start a Fight

j
Here's a break-down numererd list (in no particular order) of this first legit trailer as i see it:

Not Wild About:

1. Starting off with an ok-sounding Kermit, a weak-sounding Fozzie, an unfamiliar sounding Walter followed by the voices of Segel and Adams before seeing one Muppet. It lends too much credence to the false notion that all we have is “strange-sounding Muppets” these days thus some viewers won’t want to bounce back from that.
2. Fozzie using the word “fart”. The gag works without it.
3. The fight sequences are a little weird and not all that dynamic to be cut into a trailer.
4. The Eiffel Tower sequence with Adams and Segel really has no place or context in the trailer. Cut it for the next one.
5. I’m not wild about the logo, but it's growing on me.

The Stuff I Liked:

1. Seeing the dilapidated set pieces, dusty theater and Mayhem bus.
2. I like the electric fence bit!
3. Walter seems cute.
4. Seeing the classic Mayhem decorations and lights.
5. The Moopits crack me up. Especially the homely pig!

The Stuff I Loved:

1. Rooms full of Muppets and Thog and wow…all of them in so many shots (except Piggy, of course, because in classic Muppet tradition she steals too many scenes to be featured too often).
2. Miss Piggy’s look, clothes and hair look rather fabulous here.
3. Janice has never looked better!
4. Crazy Daredevil Gonzo is back!
5. Full-body Fozzie.
6. The theater looks more accurate than in the VMX special.
7. Seeing the classic Mayhem decorations and lights.
8. Amy Adams speaking to the audience in admitting this is a movie. How Muppety!
9. Segel and Adams do seem to be a good fit for the Muppets.
10. Kermit’s “just one person” line and epic “I believe in you” line in front of countless popular and obscure Muppets! Robin’s there too and Animal’s bunny friend seems to have hit the big time.
11. Seeing Rowlf and Scooter and both together with all the other Muppets in key roles throughout all of this!
12. Rowlf at the piano! It’s been too long, ol’ brown ears!
13. The driving sequence is funny. I’m glad they found a way to get performances of Jim and Frank into this movie somehow.
14. Several big musical numbers. Yaaaaaaay!
15. Lots of Muppet craziness.
16. The arches! (I trust the effects aren’t quite completed on that part yet. Spaces missing, weird comparative sizing issues.)
17. Ending with Scooter, Penguins, Sweetums, Wayne, Wanda, Link, Strangepork and Thog. I’m sure the 80’s pop song is only dubbed in there over a legit one for mood and effect.
18. Get Ready For Muppet Domination!

That's 5 things I don't like, 5 things I do like and 18 things I love! Wow! I liked this better than I thought!

great list...you say the voices in the begining are random and its true but i swear one of those voices is Zach Braf (JD in scrubs). it could just be walter though

Whoopee cushions strapped onto shoes. Now THAT is Fozzie. And it makes "whoopee shoes" even more appropriate.

Fozzie's legs still look kinda long to me. Like the bottom of his feet ought to be where the top of the shoes are.

I hadn't considered the tropey nature of this film, that's a good point.

What I was getting at though, was the difference in how the universe of the film is presented.
In past films, the characters were always sort of aware that they were characters in a movie, and that these characters existed beyond regular "Muppet canon," if you will.
This film seems to break that by referencing the Muppet Show itself. And it seems to have the characters as themselves "for real this time," as opposed to themselves "as another character" or as a non-canon version of themselves.

Maybe I'm thinking too hard about that.

In the crowd photo, look between Lew Zealand and the chicken. It's Nigel from Muppets Tonight!

The trailer briefly shows Animal playing the triangle bell in the orchestra. I assume this is due to his anger management. But I must wonder, if Animal will be playing the triangle, I wonder who'll do the drumming. Animal's counterpart in the Moopets (assuming he does have a Moopets counterpart)? the Solid Foam Drummer? That whatnot drummer from the "Roaring '20s Sketch"? Some celebrity cameo? No drummer at all?

I wonder who the person who opens the door on Kermit is. My guess is Tex Richman, or somebody who informs them that they need to raise money to save the theater.

I wonder if one of the fansites should have a contest where fans put the clips from the trailer in the order they think they'll appear, with the winner being whoever is the closest to being right.

If there are indeed characters digitally removed from that arches scene in the trailer (or maybe they shot several characters and are still deciding who to include and who to leave out), I wonder if maybe Uncle Deadley and Bobo will be added. I expect them to betray the villian and rejoin the Muppets by the end of the movie (I think all hardcore fans do, but non-hardcores unfamiliar with either might not). Otherwise, unless it's a surprise appearance by Sesame Street characters I see no reason to digitally erase anybody from that scene for the sake of a trailer. I don't expect any Sesame Street cameos, but if there is indeed a Sesame cameo I doubt it'll be in the arches.

Actually, that's Crazy Harry.

woah minor muppets take it easy thry not to get ahole of your self and over think it...as with alot of trailers the scene could just be unfisnihed since they had a dealine

actually he means here

i took a better screen shot you can see harry infront of Kermit