It's not easy being green — and it's not easy being a sequel to "The Muppets."
This weekend, director James Bobin and writer Nick Stoller offer up their all-new Muppet movie, titled "Muppets Most Wanted," to the theater powers that be — namely, the moviegoing public. It appears that 2011's "The Muppets" is a tough act to follow, but even "Muppets Most Wanted" is aware of that fact, addressing the sequel-sized elephant in the room right at the top of the film.
Here's what else critics are saying about the new Muppet movie caper.
The Story
"Bobin and Stoller sally forth with a daft yarn that combines the series' steadfast storytelling modes of chaotic backstage drama and, well, a great Muppet caper. Now reunited, The Muppets immediately sign up with plainly sleazy talent manager Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais) and embark on an ill-rehearsed European tour -- little realizing that their act is a mere front for a series of bank heists engineered by dastardly Kermit lookalike Konstantin. Mistaken identity games naturally ensue, with Kermit hauled off to a Russian gulag ruled with a travel-iron fist by Tina Fey's Broadway-loving wardress. Konstantin, meanwhile, gives the bemused Muppets free rein over their show, with amusingly calamitous results." — Guy Lodge, HitFix
It's Not Easy Being A Sequel
"Any hope you may have had that 'Muppets Most Wanted' would take these characters in any direction besides the most predictable is quickly scuttled with the new film's opening number, 'We're Doing a Sequel,' in which our heroes sing, 'We're doing a sequel/That's what we do in Hollywood/And everybody ...
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