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Summary: Best movie my kids ever saw!! They love it
Review: Ever since we have this video, my kids (4 and 2 years), ask to see it again and again and again! I also have a lot of fun with Kermit, Gonzo, Rizzo et all. If you like Muppets, or only if you would like to have a really nice and technically perfect movie (everything with Muppets generally is technically perfect), then this is the movie to choose.
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Summary: Tim Curry for president!
Review: I love the muppet movies. They are fun for adults. Frankly, many of the lines would sail right over kids heads! Like the "me, I couldda been a contender" No kid will get the Brando joke! Add in Tim Curry who I would watch read the phone book, you have one super movie.My only complaint!! WHY did they not replease this in WIDE screen. It would have been so much better. For 5 stars for Curry 1 or cheap a** Disney for not giving us letter box!
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Summary: Funny movie, but not for younger kids
Review: My 4, 5, and 7 year olds love this movie. It's really funny (even from an adult persective) However, because of the pirate violence, some of the songs (Cabin Fever and the one played on the island scared my younger kids), and ect, this movie is probably best served for older kids.
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Summary: CLASSIC BRIAN HENSON MOVIE IS A TRAVESTY WITHOUT WIDESCREEN
Review: If anyone at Disney reads this, PLEASE do the right thing and release MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND and MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL in anamorphic widescreen. You listened when people complained about THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR being released only in a pan&scan COLORIZED version. No sooner did you get wind of your error, you immediately released the original widescreen black&white film. I ask you to please realize your error with your two Muppet movies as well. As I scroll down these reviews, I see that there are plenty of unhappy people who would gladly run right out and purchase the widescreen versions . . . if it they were made available.
MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND is an outstanding movie. Easily worth five stars. The score is sensational. The Muppet twist is great. The Muppets and human actors do an outstanding job. The movie is colorful, song-filled, fun that stays true to the original Stevenson story. Sometimes my spine tingles during some of the production numbers. So why am I giving it only one star?
Someone in the Disney Home Video division decided that MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND was ONLY a children's movie. Therefore, the DVD, so their thinking must have gone, must be "kid-friendly" or "family-friendly." Which means the DVD was released ONLY in pan&scan. There is no widescreen presentation. Disney, out-of-hand, has chosen to deprive the movie's loyal fans of the ability to enjoy the movie properly.
It seems totally arbitrary since SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, RAIDERS DOWN UNDER, THE PARENT TRAP, THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE, and, as I said, THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (among many others) have all been given lavish widescreen treatments. In addition, everything I just said also goes for MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL. I wish Disney Home Video WILL RECONSIDER and release both of these MUPPET films in anamorphic widescreen as they should have been. I have seen these full-screen DVD presentations at a friend's home, and as much as I love these two movies, I WILL NOT buy either one in their current DVD formats, as I don't want to inflate the sales statistics and help them think that what they are doing is right! Disney's Home Video's decision to NOT release their two MUPPET movies in anamorphic widescreen was a poor one at best.
But another problem every bit as bad as Disney's really lame decision, is the fact that so MANY of the reviews posted both here and for MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL go on and on about how fabulous these DVDs are. The people who write these glowing reviews seem totally oblivious to the fact they are praising INCOMPLETE and DISTORTED movies. Because the images are in pan&scan, about 25% of the movie is not visible and, on top of that, often the images need to be SQUISHED BADLY so that all the important action in the frame can be seen on a TV set. Granted, young children might not notice these desecrations of the film makers' hard work, but adult fans of the movie certainly do. I have a 16x9 TV and if MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND had been issued in anamorphic widescreen, then the film would be presented crystal clear on my set--just as it deserves because it is a positively, prodigiously wonderful movie.
You might ask why I am spending so much of my time to write this review. It's because I hope it will serve as a WARNING to potential customers who might not otherwise know that they are being cheated of the opportunity to watch the movie as it was meant to be seen. Also, because I was waiting FOR AT LEAST SIX YEARS (since the advent of the DVD) with great anticipation for the DVD version to come out, and then the rug was pulled out from under me. Talk about frustration!
Yes, I understand intellectually that Disney was striving for the "family audience," but I DON'T understand why, at the least, the company didn't release the film so that the viewer could CHOOSE the format they preferred.
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Summary: A boy, a rat, and a... whatever.
Review: Well, Brian Henson's done it again. After his last success at adapting Dickens' A Christmas Carol, he has once again succeeded, albeit in a different way, at story adaptation. Only this time, he makes a fine Muppet movie based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The film stars Tim Curry as the Long John Silvers, although many other humans had strong parts as well, including Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins (the boy), and Billy Connolly (proprietor of map.) All the fun is here though, and basically the whole storyline of the novel, as the Muppets sing and dance their way through the film.
This film is very entertaining for the whole family. A few dark parts might mar it for really young children, but I find that most kids would enjoy it, as I did when I was younger.
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Summary: Tim Curry for president!
Review: I love the muppet movies. They are fun for adults. Frankly, many of the lines would sail right over kids heads! Like the "me, I couldda been a contender" No kid will get the Brando joke! Add in Tim Curry who I would watch read the phone book, you have one super movie. My only complaint!! WHY did they not replease this in WIDE screen. It would have been so much better. For 5 stars for Curry 1 or cheap a** Disney for not giving us letter box!
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Summary: Tim Rock!
Review: I will watch Tim Curry in anything, but when put him with Muppets you have magic!!! I think this is the BEST Muppet ever! Love the songs they are a HOWL!!
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Summary: Please, please, Disney, release this in Widescreen
Review: "Muppet Treasure Island" is a wonderful film. It is very funny and the acting is great. And while there are some nice special features on this DVD release, Disney has decided that they need to release the edited Full screen version because this film does not appeal to adults. Can you believe that? Disney thinks that adults don't like the Muppets. Well, I hope that Disney can release a Widescreen version in the future. If you want a pan-and-scan Foolscreen DVD, go ahead and buy it, but I suggest that people who want to see the film unedited should wait for when Disney decides to release it in Widescreen. Give the DVD a rent for the special features.
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