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Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Muppets Take Manhattan

Jim Henson's Muppets brighten the screen within 1988's Muppets Take Manhattan. "Dogs, bears, chickens and...things" (a funny quote from the movie) graduate college and head out to New York City in hopes of producing a show on Broadway. They stay in the only housing they can afford--small 25-cents-a-day lockers--and spend their time approaching different Broadway executives, failing to impress any. They decide to split up, including Kermit and Miss Piggy, a frog and pig who are engaged, and follow their own personal career choices. Kermit is the only one who stays in New York with belief that they can still make it. While crossing the street one day, he is hit by a taxi and ends up with amnesia. Through luck, miracles, and the spirit of New York, the muppets get through it all and are successful in the end..."together again." (The title of the hit song from the movie).

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--Lauren, Resident Scholar

Analysis of The Muppets Take Manhattan

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Plot
Comedy, primarily Yes
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
If a cartoon... - muppets
Kind of comedy - vacation or seeing foreign culture

Main Character
Identity: - animal
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - bald
Body type - (man) very skinny
Unclothed? - Full Frontal
Events of movie makes character more... - happy
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - animal
Hair color - blonde
Body type - (woman) fat
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%

Setting
City? Yes
City: - New York
Misc setting - school - theater

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - encouraged
Any profanity? - None
If lots of song/dance... - lot of singing
If this is a kid's movie... - Ages 5-10
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Broadway musical

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