This is the story of a boy...err... weirdo... errr... whatever... and a chance to discover who he is.
Gonzo the Great is eating his bowl of Kap’n Alphabets, when he accidentally spills some. The letters form out the message “R U There?”
He has a dream/vision (partly in thanks to a ray of light a lá Phenomenon) in which two Cosmic Fish tell him that he must send a reply message, by mowing his lawn.
Which he does, and the government, who has been finding these “R U There” Messages all over the world, goes to investigate, and they arrest Gonzo.
Gonzo and Rizzo are then taken to a secret government lab where Gonzo’s brain is to be sucked out of his head and examined.
The rest of the mupets mount an escape plan, and go after him.
This was, I thought, a good movie. There were some parodies of other movies in it, like James Bond, Star Trek, The Shawshank Redemption, and Phenomenon. The muppets have even more movement to their bodies, and it’s hard to tell that they are actually just glorified hand puppets.
If however, you are going to see it, and hope it is as funny as the other two were, (well, the previous two, I guess there were five other Muppets movies released throughout the Eighties), There are some points, but it isn’t really as funny. That’s what kept it from gaining the plateau of Five Field Mice.
All in all, I give this movie 4 1/2 Field Mice.
Now, for the morality rating.
Given that this movie is a Jim Henson production, and geared at the little kids, there is no sex, no cursing, and no adult situations.
I give it a morality rating of 5 Field Mice.
This is a movie that anyone can go see and enjoy.
