Jason Segel Has A Hand Up Your … Backside…Kermit

“The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made”

Back in September of 2009 that was the working title of the latest big screen appearance of the loved and adored puppets. However revently it got changed (in my opinion an improvement) to:

“The Greatest Muppet Movie Of All Time”

The Muppets have had a hard time in recent years. It is hard to capture an audience in a time of CG when you’re made of cloth and stuffing. Though truth to be told Disney (who currently own the Muppets) are media savvy enough to still make a name for the Muppets on the Internet.

However, the first muppet feature film since 2005’s “The Muppet’s Wizard of Oz”, which was a television event, is in production. Some of the minds behind it are the director of TV’s “Flight of the Conchords” James Bobin, and actor/writer Jason Segel, perhaps best known from TV’s “How I Met Your Mother”.

Jason Segel also starred in the film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, which I must admit I haven’t seen myself, but I’m told that there is an excellent puppetry sequence in there somwhere, and that this inspires people with great confidence in the project.

Full details can be found at The Playlist

Personally I am also very excied about this project. The Muppets are, in the right hands, family entertainment of the very best kind. A kind that I only really see Pixar consistently producing these days.

In other words: We need the (censored for you convience) Muppets!

I’ll leave you with two clips. The first from my favorite muppet movie “A Muppet Christmas Carol”:

And this one is one of Internet fame, who says that franchises can’t survive on the Internet?