First Trailer for New Muppets Movie Poses as Generic RomCom

Scott Bullock

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First Trailer for New Muppets Movie Poses as Generic RomCom

This trailer starts as a crummy-looking romantic comedy, cheesy narration and all. It becomes much, much more.

When audiences sat down to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, they were greeted by the trailer for a laughably boring romantic comedy. Jason Segel and Amy Adams meet, fall in love, have some sort of fight, and hilarity (or what passes for hilarity in those types of movies) ensues.

But before the trailer could give away the tearful making-up at the end, something very strange happened. The narrator begins listing cast members, and starts stumbling when Kermit and Piggy show up. And Gonzo. And Animal. And Rolf and Beaker and the Swedish Chef. I'll leave it to Jason Segel's character to sum up America's collective reaction when he interjects, "Woah woah woah, wait wait wait, stop. Are there Muppets in this movie?"

Yes Jason, there are. After over a decade of web shorts and less-than-great TV movies, the Muppets are returning to the silver screen in their upcoming movie titled ... well, The Muppets. Based on the trailer, which quickly becomes rather muppety, the movie has everything that made the Muppets great; over-the-top dance numbers, ludicrous characters, and at least one fourth-wall-defying moment.

First announced back in 2008, the movie has gathered an impressive cast list [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/], following in the grand tradition of The Muppet Movie by giving big stars and famous comedians bit parts and cameos throughout the film, including appearances by Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, Danny Trejo, Katy Perry, Ricky Gervais, and Zach Galifianakis.

The film is supposed to be released this Thanksgiving, and if it doesn't include the balcony-dwelling hecklers Statler and Waldorf, I will hunt you down and teach you the meaning of pain, Segel. Just you watch.

Source: Reddit [http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/hi8wl/trailer_for_green_with_envy_starring_jason_segel/]

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Mantonio

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"I'm glad to see this, because for the past few decades The Muppets have been very medium."

"Medium?"

"Yes. Not rare, and certainly not well done!"

"DO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!"
 

RADlTZ

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Mantonio said:
"I'm glad to see this, because for the past few decades The Muppets have been very medium."

"Medium?"

"Yes. Not rare, and certainly not well done!"

"DO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!"
This made me laugh so hard, did you come up with it or was it a quote?
 

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Mantonio said:
"I'm glad to see this, because for the past few decades The Muppets have been very medium."

"Medium?"

"Yes. Not rare, and certainly not well done!"

"DO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!"
Give this man a biscuit!
 

Sepko

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There's something about watching Jason Segel at 1:08 that makes me lol. Hard.
 

Mantonio

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RADlTZ said:
Mantonio said:
"I'm glad to see this, because for the past few decades The Muppets have been very medium."

"Medium?"

"Yes. Not rare, and certainly not well done!"

"DO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!"
This made me laugh so hard, did you come up with it or was it a quote?
It's from The Muppet Show, although they were criticising a sketch. It's the first in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I
 

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I'm not sure about the romcom premise, but I'm so happy there's going to be a new muppets movie. I hope the humans don't detract from muppety goodness. They're usually the downside to those movies, imo.

Oh, and there better be some mention of shrimps prawns.
 

Chaos-Spider

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This looks like a romantic comedy that I would actually like to wacth, Let's hope the ROM Com doesn't take up too much of the movie. it was boring.
 

ThatNickGuy

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Way to ruin the whole idea behind the fake trailer. At least Bleeding Cool kept the surprise for people until they actually watched it.
 

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Scott Bullock said:
First Trailer for New Muppets Movie Poses as Generic RomCom

The film is supposed to be released this Thanksgiving, and if it doesn't include the balcony-dwelling hecklers Statler and Waldorf, I will hunt you down and teach you the meaning of pain, Segel. Just you watch.
Just make sure to leave some for me... I'm a good teacher.

I seriously can't wait for this movie to come out, although I am hoping the rom-com part is just for the trailer... It would leave less screen time for the Muppets.
 

Casual Shinji

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That was pretty funny.

Fozzie sound very off though... Oh Jim, why'd you have to die?
 
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Mantonio said:
"I'm glad to see this, because for the past few decades The Muppets have been very medium."

"Medium?"

"Yes. Not rare, and certainly not well done!"

"DO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!"
+1 Internet for you sir. If Waldorf and Statler aren't in there, we shall be most disappoint.

Edit: I'm frankly amazed they managed to keep the Mad Bomber in there though...given...certain circumstances.
 

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Not to trying to come off as a dick, but this isn't really news (The trailer to a film came out?) and you utterly ruined the point of the trailer in the title. You guys are kind of slowly doing that with Mass Effect 3 as well.
 

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Live4Lotus said:
I was never a big muppets fan, but I don't recall a terrorist muppet...when did they add him?
That would be Crazy Harry [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Crazy_Harry]
 

Digikid

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Ugh. Muppets are so....so....STUPID.

Come on people! Grow up a little. Muppets are for CHILDREN.