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A couple of weeks ago, when we did the Videogum 6-Month Performance Review, some of you said that you did not like when the site covered movie trailers very much, which personally I will never understand because I like movie trailers so much, I often like them more than actual movies. But THE PEOPLE BEEN HAD SPOKEN! So, we started doing round-ups of all the movie trailers into one post on Fridays, but you guys don’t seem to like that either? Oh come on, you ding dongs! We’ve got to cover this stuff in one way or another! I’m sorry I called you ding dongs, I got upset. Anyway, after three spoof trailers, it does seem worth talking about the first OFFICIAL trailer for The Muppets. So, let’s talk about it!
It looks good! The Muppets! As an adult human being who is very grown up and picks out his own clothes in the morning and everything, I don’t have much time for nostalgia. What’s the point? Being a kid stinks. Even if you don’t hate school, which I didn’t (FILE UNDER: nerd alert) it’s still a scam. (It’s funny to refer to being a kid as “a scam,” but also being a kid is a scam.) Being an adult is way better. Oh, it’s dark and depressing and expensive and exhausting and stuff, but it’s still better times a million. No joke. But if there is one thing that I do still have nostalgia for, it is the Muppets. Love those guys. So fun and charming but also irreverent with a little bit of that adult darkness that kind of let you know what you were about to get into. ”
“Muppet get emotional.” – Feltye West (Get it?)
I do love that the Muppets are just constantly trying to get the band back together. Oh Muppets. Hahah. Classic Muppet Stuff. Just retire! You earned it! Here, I got you a cake. My one hope for this movie, though, is that it takes a Pixar view of making “children’s” movies, rather than a Dreamworks view of making “children’s” movies. What I mean is, I hope Jason Segal and the gang just set out to make a GOOD movie that kids would love and that adults could also love if they wanted. Rather than a movie that was FOR kids with tiny jokes HIDDEN for the adults. Man, that junk is the worst junk. I watched Despicable Me last week, no pedo, and there is this scene where the Steve Carrell character opens a secret door to a bank that only makes loans to super-villains and there is this sign that says, like, Secret Evil Genius Bank, or whatever, and underneath that it says “Formerly Known As Lehmann Brothers.” OH BARF. Look, I know it makes us all uncomfortable, but I am watching Despicable Me as an adult on my own because I wanted to, not because a child forced me into it, and your Easter eggs are killing this super fan!
So, I hope it’s not like that. We will see! It in the theater!
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This post on your website did not live up to the desires and expectations to which I, as a reader, feel entitled. It is unlikely that my opinion is the problem; I am almost certain that everybody else feels the same way as me, and that instead of finding another site that would be less of a disappointment, it is reasonable and fair for me to expect you to change the way you do things. Disappointment: registered.
They are listening to this in the car!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
Color me pleased.
Fun fact: That song was initially written for Swedish porn. That makes it REALLY WEIRD that it is best known for appearing on a children’s show.
I just assume it is a Fever Ray song then?
Did I just see a muppet gang war mid way through the trailer?
People don’t like movie trailers? Really? Calm down, people. Just don’t click the play button.
Easy for you to say, Mr. My Hands Are Not Possessed By A Malicious Entity
GET THE (BLEEP) OUT OF MY ROOM!
Oh man, as my granny tables always used to say, haters to the left. This post and trailer have made my morning. I mean, the Muppets AND Starship? I must be dead, and this must be heaven.
I don’t have any kids, but I think I’m going to have to borrow one to take with me to see this movie. It’s not that I don’t feel I can go to this movie as an adult sans kids, it’s just that I think it would be fun to make a kid that happy.
I smell a new Videogum Everywhere mission!!!
Related: the following Videogum Everywhere mission will be raising bail money for R2D2, Esq.’s unfortunate kidnapping arrest.
Pfft. They’ll never catch me!
Just posted an ad on Craigslist. Suggested headline: “Child needed for approximately 2 hours of activities involving felt.”
LOOOVE trailers, love trailers every day, love trailers on Friday, love cat farts, love videogum, love GIFS. There was only one complaint I agreed with– NO FATTYS!! i hate hate hate to think that other other posters might be anything but svelt.. It ruins the whole blog reading experience. UGGGGH.
Harry Knowles AKA Garbage Face is not happy about this.
Chance that I overly laugh out of sentimentality and end up kinda crying a little during this movie: One Zillion Percent.
Yes, I’m sure this film will be funny and good, just like all Muppet movies post Henson’s death and after the Disney buyout.*
*With the exceptions of The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz.
But none of those had Jason Segel. Given that he looks like a living muppet, it’s a perfect match!
FLW, you and I might have to get into some fisticuffs over that Muppet Christmas Carol trash talk. Best watch yo self.
I am on your side. Muppet Christmas Carol is a classic, and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Muppet Treasure Island? Come on!
Re: DreamWorks movies – How to Train Your Dragon. That is just a good movie. Case rested.
That and Kung Fu Panda are the exception. As punishment, go watch SharkTale 5 times in a row.
So fun fact about tizzdogg: I used to work for Dreamworks during the SharkTale era and yes that was a terrible movie. So terrible that the company recognized the need a need to change direction and move away from product placement and ‘hip’ pop cultural references. I remember company meetings to that effect. Animated movies take years and years to make, so it took a while for that decision to trickle down to actual movies, but that’s the reason behind more recent slightly better movies like How To Train Your Dragon etc. I’m not saying they always manage to do great movies, and they’re not at pixar’s level by any means, but they are trying.
They actually only went in the pop culture, inside-jokes-for-adults direction because it was so successful, and made so much money with Shrek. Before that Dreamworks was actually trying to be the highbrow artsy animation studio.. remember Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron and Prince of Egypt? No, nobody else does either.. but they were actually pretty ambitiously artistic, if very flawed movies.
Also, as a nerd it’s my job to point out that Despicable Me wasn’t a Dreamworks movie.. it’s more the up-and-coming third-tier animation studios that are pushing that brand of humor these days.
they made a GREAT Porn Parody of that flick. Called it, “How to Train your Dragon,” I think.
I would like to enjoy this trailer (since I like trailers) but Bing’s Kerli add is so frightening I keep closing my eyes and hoping she’ll go away…
I love movie trailers! I love when you post them and make pithy comments on them! Keep it up! For me!
I think the problem with the post you linked to was that none of the trailers looked that good. That’s the movie industry’s fault, not yours. Another vote for continued movie trailer coverage. In fact, we have a Videogum Promise spot open, don’t we?
I think the issue was that the movie trailers didn’t always have much commentary written about them. I’m sure you can simply use your discretion to decide what trailers are worth talking about, and what trailers should go in the weekly round-up. I guess it would just depend on what you had to say about them.
Needs more Gonzo.
Also, this seems like as good a place as any to thow out there that the first Iron Man trailer was my favorite trailer ever. I didn’t know what it was for until Black Sabbath kicked in so… as you can imagine… OMG SO EXCITED. Any other favorite trailers of all time?
Also, too, maybe trailers being online before you happen upon them in the theaters takes away that element of surprise that made me love the Iron Man trailer so much. I wasn’t yet a trailer nerd at that time so I didn’t care to see trailers the minute they came out. I guess that’s just the reality of living in the future!
Here’s hoping Orson Welles will make an appearance in this Muppet movie, too.
What? Why wouldn’t he?
I am so excited for this. This is me right now:
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