"The Muppet Movie" Original Trailer (1979)

Park Circle Films screened THE MUPPET MOVIE on April 12th as part of its Silver Screen series. Sponsored by the North Charleston Cultural Arts Department. Tickets: $5 (Free for premium PCF members.)

"...there's always room in movies for unbridled amiability when it's governed by intelligence and wit.

...One of the movie's funniest sequences is a montage that dramatizes in lyrical slow-motion how Kermit and Miss Piggy discover their love as they gambol across meadows, stop by a waterfall and punt across a still lake until their passion takes control. I should stress, though, that "The Muppet Movie" is always discreet.

It's also very well written by Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns and directed by James Frawley ("Kid Blue," "The Big Bus") with a comic touch that never becomes facetious.

I'm in particular awe of the techniques by which these hand puppets are made to walk, run, sing and play musical instruments. As do the other actors in the movie, we very quickly come to accept the Muppets as real people who just happen to be made largely of felt." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times

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The Muppet Movie
Director: James Frawley
Writers: Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl
Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Orson Welles
Distributor: Associated Film Distribution
Released: June 22, 1979
Running time: 95 minutes
Rated G

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