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* [[Muppet Treasure Island/YMMV|Muppet Treasure Island]]
* [[Muppets From Space/YMMV|Muppets From Space]]
* [[ItsIt's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie/YMMV|Its a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie]]
* [[The Muppets Wizard of Oz/YMMV|The Muppets Wizard of Oz]]
* [[A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa/YMMV|A Muppets Christmas Letters to Santa]]
* [[Muppet Viral Videos/YMMV|Muppet Viral Videos]]
* [[The Muppet Show Comic Book/YMMV|The Muppet Show Comic Book]]
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** Gonzo ''will not'' be [[Muppets From Space|from space]], or at least, the story will never focus on that.
** Several old Muppets making a return, including a few obscure ones.
** [[Human -Focused Adaptation|The humans will]] [[Subverted Trope|not be the central characters,]] and it will mostly focus on the Muppets themselves (though the trailers may show otherwise).
*** This turned out to be subverted for the movie itself. The hierachy of character focus goes something like this: Walter<ref>technically qualifies as both a human and a non-human; he's a "muppet" with a lowercase "m"</ref> -> Kermit, Piggy and Fozzie -> Gary and Mary -> all the other Muppets and human characters.
** Hell, the film's ''entire existence'' is enough for the fans to go crazy.
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** Also, '''[[Pixar]]''' helped doctor the script.
** Well, it has 97% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. The wait was worth it!
* [[Base Breaker]]: Pepe's prior status as one divided fans into two camps: the "[[Demoted to Extra|thank God Pepe didn't have more screentime in this movie]]" camp, and the "[[One -Scene Wonder|Pepe should have had more screentime]]" camp.
** Also the fart shoes.
** "Me Party" doesn't advance the plot, and Mary might have taken too much of it for herself, but it's dang catchy.
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** Amy Adams singing and dancing alone in a diner, surrounded by a border of LEDs? The part where she made bread can-can looked pretty crazy as well.
*** So Amy Adams does her ''[[Fridge Brilliance|own puppetting!]]''
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: '''''Gonzo'''''. Okay, it's really no surprise coming from ''him'', but he takes it to new heights when it's revealed that he's not only been ''[[Crazy Prepared|expecting]]'' a reunion and thus had been wearing his stage outfit under his suit for years, but he also had an automatic '''[[Self -Destruct Mechanism]]''' for the big business he's been in charge of.
* [[Critical Dissonance]]: One of the most frustrating examples. ''The Muppets'' was one of the best-reviewed movies of 2011 and most who saw it did in fact praise the film. Unfortunately, most general audiences seemed to think ''[[Breaking Dawn]]'' and ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks|Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked]]'' looked like the superior movies and saved their money for those, leading to a solid but not certainly great box office total.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: [[Flight of the Conchords|Bret McKenzie]] wrote the new musical numbers for the film. They're a ton of fun and even include some very ''Conchords''-esque lyrics.
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** "Man or Muppet". ''It won an Oscar''.
** Both versions of "Life's A Happy Song", especially the {{spoiler|[[Triumphant Reprise]] led by the Muppets themselves}}. {{spoiler|The [[Crowd Song|entire crowd joins in too]], which is [[Fridge Brilliance|definitely what would happen in real life if the Muppets suddenly broke into song after being cheered on by their fans]]!}}
** "Let's Talk About Me". The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[Big Bad]] breaks into rap [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|for no good reason]], to [[Piss Take Rap|predictable]] ([[Stylistic Suck|and hilarious]]) [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|ends]].
* [[Ear Worm]]: ''Life's a happy song, when there's someone by your side to sing along''.
** The {{spoiler|ending reprise}} especially!
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* [[Spoiled By the Format]]: Lampshaded about half an hour in.
{{quote| '''Mary:''' This is going to be a really short movie.}}
* [[Spot Light Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Walter gets more focus than any other character, even Kermit (it's debatable whether Gary and Mary get more focus than the main Muppets as well). Thankfully, the guy turned out to be [[Ensemble Darkhorse|an immensely popular and likeable character]], preventing him from becoming the [[CreatorsCreator's Pet]] he could have easily become.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: [[The Muppets (Franchise)/Tear Jerker|There are a few moments]].
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Political?]]: Many people on [[Fox News|more conservative news shows]] were upset that the villain was a CEO who wanted to drill for oil, saying that the Muppets were promoting class warfare for children. They [[Did Not Do the Research]], since it later becomes clear that Tex Richman is evil not because he is a CEO, rich, or wants oil, but ''because he is unable to laugh'' and laughter, aka the third greatest gift ever, is necessary for happiness. ...though, anything concerning his back story was cut, which does not help any!
** As well as the fact that any five-year-old would know he's a caricature just by the name and [[Large Ham]] tendencies.
** To say nothing of the fact that Kermit is himself a CEO of The Muppets as an incorporated entity -- and while not stinking rich, was still well off enough to be living in a swanky house and keeping it in good repair. So it was one corp guy against another corp ... er, frog.