The Great Muppet Caper

1981 "The Muppets... Scotland Yard... jewel thieves... lead to high adventure in London."
7.1| 1h38m| G| en| More Info
Released: 26 June 1981 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: https://movies.disney.com/the-great-muppet-caper
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Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

Genre

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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Director

Jim Henson

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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The Great Muppet Caper Audience Reviews

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
benaboo 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!
utgard14 Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo are reporters investigating a jewel robbery in England, when Miss Piggy finds herself accused of stealing a diamond necklace from her employer, Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg). The second Muppets feature film (and the only one directed by Jim Henson) starts out strong but, as other reviewers before me have pointed out, it doesn't sustain. Part of the problem is too much focus on the jewel thief plot and an especially annoying Charles Grodin. The Muppets are lots of fun here but there's only so much they can do when competing against a ham actor desperately trying to steal a movie about Muppets away from the Muppets. It's not called The Great Grodin Caper, after all. Anyway, the jewel thief plot is dullsville and the movie should not have spent so much time on it, in my opinion. A significant part of the film drags because of this. I appreciate the attempt to pay tribute to movies of the 1930s and 40s but a little goes a long way.Still, there are some funny moments. Fozzie adding sugar to champagne to make it taste like ginger ale is probably my favorite scene from the movie and it's what many would consider a minor gag. Some of the best jokes are the ones that break the fourth wall, like that clever opening with Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo in a hot air balloon commenting on the opening credits, Diana Rigg pointing out her expository dialogue, Miss Piggy complaining about doing her own stunts, and Kermit chastising Miss Piggy for overacting. The celebrity cameos this time include John Cleese, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, and Peter Falk. The Cleese and Falk scenes are the funniest. The songs are cute but not as memorable as the ones from The Muppet Movie. Most die-hard Muppets fans will probably love this despite its flaws. I liked it but didn't love it.
FilmBuff1994 The Great Muppet Caper is a fantastic movie for the whole family to watch,with some of the most loved characters in history.It was one of the films I had in my DVD collection (and still do),and you to watch constantly,I was looking through my DVDs and found this,so I decided to watch it.It brought back some great memories,and since I'm older there where plenty of jokes I didn't get the first time around,thats how great The Muppets are,they make it funny for the whole family.Also there stuff I didn't realize,like John Cleeses hilarious cameo appearance which reminded of his character Basil from Fawlty Towers.Two twins,Kermit The Frog and Fozzie Bear,are trying to make it as new reporters with there photographer Gonzo.They head to England and stay at Happiness Hotel along with several other Muppets,and catch a scandal along with Miss Piggy that a gang have planned to steal jewels from a wealthy lady.The Muppets try to stop it and get a good story out of it.
showtrmp My personal favorite in the "Muppet" series (before the films started miscasting the furry ones as characters in ill-conceived film versions of children's books--I'm looking at you, "Treasure Island"!), this follows up the rural whimsey of "The Muppet Movie" with a trip to London--and gives the incomparable Miss Piggy the star treatment she deserves. Everything the pink one does is memorable--her exuberance at landing a job as receptionist to fashion icon Lady Holiday ("I'll TAKE IT! I'LL TAKE IT!...I'll sit, I can sit, I'm very good at sitting."), her scaling a building in evening gown and heels ("Next time they want stunts, they get a double"), her tap dance (in glass slippers!) her dismissal of the boobish Charles Grodin ("You can't even sing! Your voice was dubbed!") her honest hurt when Kermit breaks character to accuse her of "hamming it up" ("I am TRYING to save this movie!"), and, of course, that climactic motorbike ride. Let film critics talk of Fellini and Antonioni; my never-to-be-topped moment of cinematic nirvana consists of Piggy, clad in white, crashing a motorcycle through a stained-glass window. Diana Rigg, as Lady Holiday, is a perfect foil; she suggests a human Piggy slimmed down and gone cynical. (She tosses off a long, irrelevant monologue, shrugging, "It's plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.") Grodin, recruited as Kermit's rival for the pig's affections, doesn't blink once at the assignment. There are numerous featured bits for the other characters, human and Muppet; John Cleese and Joan Sanderson are married (of course) and more reclusive and upper-class British than anyone in any season of "Masterpiece Theatre". Fozzie gets more good-natured sidekick lines than usual (toying with a glass of champagne, he remarks, "You put enough sugar in this stuff, it tastes just like ginger ale"--it doesn't, I tried), and the Dr. Teeth band also gets their due in the "Happiness Hotel" production number. All this movie wants to do is make you happy--and if that's "corny", go back to your Clint Eastwood movie essays in gloom and leave me alone.