Your Thoughts: Muppets From Space

I think about a seven. It's nostalgic for me, plus I love everything with Pepe and Clifford,and the big singing scene.There are really great moments but the overall story is a bit lacking.

My FAVOURITE scene is the poker game!

3 out of 10. I really have problems with the film (not even counting the studios treatment of Jerry Juhl, a scrapped more sophisticated outcome) and they never really went to space - hence the mid production title change. The Muppets seem to not have their fleece and fur hearts in this one. I do love Pepe - and by the way - "Who cut Gonzo's cake?"

Once you find out what the movie could have been, it does make you more dissappointed. But I have to say, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Saw it twice in the theaters. unfortunately, they were the cheaper theaters, packed with screaming kids.

Every problem with that film was conceptual. They lack of original music, the fact they wanted to explain Gonzo's origin (which gets into the studio screwing up the plot line-), and the one non-conceptual problem, Frank Oz basically just looped dialogue, lacking his presence and his amazing ability to ad lib great lines into the characters (without his ad lib, Cookie Monster wouldn't COWABUNGA, Piggy wouldn't HAYYYYYYiiiYA! and Bert wouldn't faint).

But there were things I did like about the film....

The fact the muppets all live in a crowded little house like that really spoke to the Bohemian aspect of the Muppets as a band of poor little performers.

We get some great on screen time with newer characters, Like Johnny, Sal, Pepe, Bobo and of course, Clifford (before Kevin got so busy with Elmo, the character all but disappeared).

and of course, we finally got a movie where the muppets played themselves and were the stars of the movie, unlike the last 2 films, where they were second fiddle to human actors. I will say, I like it a lot more than Muppet Christmas Carol, in which, asdie from Gonzo and Rizzo, there were long periods of time when you only saw the Muppets as background characters (I feel Muppet Treasure Island handled it better, though Piggy's bit was bookended in).

What seems to be contrary to most thoughts here, I LOVED this film! Yes, there were some things that I didn't like, and those things are very important:

-No music! That was definitley a shame.
-The Feel. Yet again the feel was a bit off, but not too off!

What I liked:

I loved how they all lived in one house, I thought that was GREAT! It totally made me fall in love even more with the muppets!

I loved the little gang saving Gonzo, it was cute and funny. I loved seeing more Pepe time, whom I love. I love Rizzo and Gonzo's friendship, and that was shown greatly in the film!

The end was so sad, had me in tears when Gonzo was about to leave and he said his goodbyes. It was such a heartwrenching moment.

All in all, as I've already said, I loved it. It's not my favourite, but I think it's a great addition to the series.

Honestly, this movie is one of my all-time favorite Muppet film.

I loved the focus on Gonzo, his friendships with Rizzo and Kermit, and the fact that (despite her comments regarding him) Piggy does seem to care about the whatever's welfare. The story was great, and pretty heartwarming as well, and the humor was right on the ball to me.

While I did like the usage of 70s music in the background as opposed to the characters singing (it was an interesting change that I wasn't too bothered by), original songs were missed.

I would have liked to at least have Gonzo sing his song that inspired this movie in the first place!

I've heard that the movie had a different ending (I don't know how different the movie as a whole would have been, but I do know about the original ending), and was curious to know if anyone knew if there's a copy of the original script for the film floating around on the net somewhere?

I'd like to read it, if it's around.

Overall, I'd give this movie a 9 out of 10. I honstly loved it!

I remember when it first came out I honestly didn't think much of it. Compared to the other Muppet flicks... nah, it wasn't that great. It was about the third time I watched it when I began to really like it. It's a fairly new Muppet film, but it has that same good vibe as the other movies did. Plus, it had tons of cameos, and it was pretty darn funny in a lot of parts.

If you have the DVD, watch it with the commentary- it's hilerious!

This is one of the funnier muppet films I have seen, and I ate corn for lunch that day. I don't know why I remember that.

Yeah I have to say I love Muppets From Space. It's got some classic lines in it. Alot of the reason why I like it is also to do with the all the times I've watched it with my family. Good Times!

I hate to admit it but I sorta see where you're coming from. Still, I enjoyed it a lot as I said before. Even though it's 10 years old (hard to believe!) I still find it very modern, and I kinda like that vibe twisted with a bit of old-world. Liked it much more than recent-ish films such as IAVMMCM, though.

Blame it on the director. We can confirm (from Joey Mazzarino himself) that he changed so much of the script, Joey got really ticked off. In the film were multiple sci-fi movie parodies (we're left with a brief Star Wars reference and a Men in Black-ish cameo)... and it was the director that changed the ending from the amazing Gonzo doesn't really find his family to the "oh! he's an alien... just like Goku. That explains everything" deal. I always said that saying something's an alien is as big a cheat as something being all a dream.

I still really liked this movie, though. Too bad they had to make so many changes.

One word: WEAK. Jerry Juhl's fantastic script is all but writen over, and Gonzo? An alien? craziest thing ever! The movie had it's funny moments, the lack of original songs held it back.

I agree that having no original music did set the movie back a little bit.

I enjoy this movie just fine, but I feel it didn't have the Muppet magic that other Muppets movies namely "the Muppet Movie" did have.

This movie is alright. I wouldn't say that its bad, but I wouldn't say it's amazing. It's in the middle. I like it, but it's not my favorite.

Well i must say i like the movie and for me its one of the better ones. Even if some aspects of Gonzos origin are weird and maybe not true, its still a nice movie to watch.
Well we mostly watch this Movie and Muppet cristmas carol more often then the others.

i thought it was pretty good. i think in the end, gonzo turned out not to be an alien, and his origin/species would still be a mystery

i agree. were there even any original songs at all?

Nope... for some reason, they wanted a 70's funk/R&B track... I like that type of music and all, but the Muppets aren't famous for having other people's recordings of songs play while they sit by and do nothing. Even in the old days when Jim used old song tracks by other people, they at least acted something hilarious out with them.

I really wish they used the soundtrack "Going to Go Back There Someday," if anything for the end credits sequence. Just for missing that musical spirit, it loses what makes Muppet movies Muppety.

Hey has anyone here seen the video commentary? I just saw it last night and it was cool, if anyone here (not me) thinks the movie suck-diddly-ucked then you might think the commentarys better. If anyone here is familiar with the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 then you might like it even more. Basically its similar: Two puppets in a movie theater, making comments with a single human. And if your not familiar with it, and you think the movie was good (me!) then you'll probably like it anyway! Although sadly Kermit only pops up at the beginning and end but it says it was live so Steve Whitmire probably had to swap inbetween to perform Rizzo. Overall the movie was good too! But any other newer muppet films are gonna have to have a lot in em to beat "The Muppet Movie"!

Ahh, the commentary is brill. =D I like all of their random comments, lol.

Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't use it, either! And yeah, lol, I'm not sure why they used so much R&B and funk stuff from the 70s. I like it but... of all things!

I quite like the explanation that kermit was late because he had wondered into the wrong dvd! Lol "I eventually realized that the character I thought was gonzo was Jar Jar Binks!"