Kermit's Swamp Years

2002 "His true story, warts and all."
5.3| 1h22m| G| en
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At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
TheLittleSongbird Just for the record, I am a big fan of the Muppets, The Muppet Show and Muppet Babies were part of my childhoods, and I love all their specials and movies, excepting Letters to Santa, Muppet Wizard of Oz and this. Kermit's Swamp Years is not terrible, it's just that I had a very lukewarm reception towards it. The costume and set design are splendid, the voice work is great especially from Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz and there are some cute moments such as the outtakes. However, the songs are mediocre, especially the uninspired lyrics, the script and jokes fall flat due to a lack of comic timing with the human cast with little of the material coming across as memorable or quotable, the story is dull and very basic with too much emphasis on the comic elements consequently the wit and heart is gone and the human cast range from so-so(Drew Haggard) to quite bad(John Hostetter). All in all, didn't do much for me, as much as I do love the Muppets. 4/10 Bethany Cox
rlkrumland There are some very cute things about this film (especially the 'out-takes') and the usual Muppet humor prevails overall. There were some good jokes for the grown-up's as well. (My husband loved the tire tracks on one of the frogs.) However, I was a bit disturbed with the fact that the frogs were going to be dissected. My 3-year-old loved the Muppets, and I think the exaggerated acting was appropriate for her. But the repeated posing above these friendly frogs with sharp knives gave me a chill and frightened her. We talked it through, and she was okay in the end, but couldn't there have been a better climax for what is obviously a young children's movie?
awathen This film is a shoddy and unfortunate attempt at muppetry. The plot is poorly developed, the writing is sadly missing spark, the jokes are not funny, the songs were uneven and flat. The movie didn't even hold the attention of my 3-year old, and he LOVES the muppets.There are MUCH better muppet videos out there including any of the muppet movies and many other small productions (see Muppet Classic Theater PLEASE!!).Avoid this one...it was a major disappointment.
GD Cugham This recent Muppet film has been greeted with accusations of cynical "cashing-in" on the part of the producers. These can be easily batted away, however, when one comes to personally experience this re-imagining of Kermit's origins.With a batch of new, but undeniably 'muppet' friends, Kermit begins life as just another ordinary frog - but it is the fact that he could love and can dream that sets him apart and on the road to fame.I was reminded of the opening scenes of 'The Muppet Movie', when 'Rainbow Connection', and the spindly-legged creature singing it, stole my infant heart and replaced it with a font of dreams and wandering imagination. At that age I wondered what Kermit was doing on the swamp planet of Dagobah,not recognising the Florida everglades. In a way, I feel that this was a correct, spiritual link to make - between Henson's musical amphibian and Oz's diminutive sage the common truth that it is "not easy being green" is shared.With Kermit's name in the title, the film is a must for fans, or rather, kin of the muppets. The 'Disney's franchise' years are behind it, unsavoury memories of the corporate-flavoured 'Muppets in Disneyworld' TV special are expunged from the memory and the renaissance engendered by 'Muppets in Space' continues apace.The original muppet-makers' hands are less in evidence on this film, but don't let that turn you away. In many ways this is the spiritual cousin, and, oddly, natural accompaniment to the Star Wars prequels.

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