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The Muppets is a dream project for comic actor Jason Segel. He co-wrote the script and then convinced the Disney studio, which now owns the Muppet characters, to make the film.
"It's hard to get a movie made in general, but I think the big thing we had to get across was that we weren't trying to do it with a sense of irony …that it wasn't us making the Muppets with a 'wink-wink' attached to it," Segel explains. "We had a pure love for the Muppets and we wanted to restore it to the 1970's and '80's Muppet movies."
Director James Bobin is no stranger to innovative comedy as creator of television hits like "Da Ali G Show" with Sacha Baron Cohen. However, he says The Muppets has the added challenge of re-introducing its characters to a younger audience.
"I couldn't just make a movie whereby I just told them the Muppets were great. I had to show them being great, and that's why the second half of the movie is really a Muppet Show, in a way," Bobin says.
FAKE PIGGY "You've been replaced."
MISS PIGGY "Oh yeah? Hi-yah! Ow, that hurt."
But beyond nostalgia, Jason Segel believes there is a place in today's edgier entertainment for something wholesome like The Muppets.
"The Muppets remind us of the best versions of ourselves," Segel says. "You are instantly transported to who you wanted to be when you were a kid. The sense of wide-eyed wonder that the world eventually beats out of you is something the Muppets have refused to let go away. I think in this more cynical world where a lot of comedy now comes through making jokes at other people's expense, the Muppets refuse to go there."
Amy Adams co-stars as the longtime girlfriend of Segel's character. Chris Cooper plays the ruthless tycoon threatening the old theater. And, true to its origins, The Muppets features cameos by an assortment of top music, film and television stars.
