The Muppet Christmas Carol
Dir: Brian HensonCast: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz (voice), Steve Whitmire (voice)
85mins 1992 US | UK Certificate: U English
The Muppet Christmas Carol
An Everybody Friendly screening
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge.
Other Muppets -- Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle -- weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases -- past, present and future.
They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.
'This is the Muppets' finest film. Its mashup of slapstick, songs and literary adaptation is suitably anarchic, but crucially it gets Dickens right' - Simon Kinnear, Total Film