The Muppets

Cast
Jason Segel
Amy Adams
Chris Cooper
Rashida Jones
Screenwriters
Jason Segel
Nick Stoller
Director
James Bobin
Running Time
110 minutes

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. (Walt Disney Pictures)



I watched the show in the seventies but can't remember too much about it now. I enjoyed the The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island although Muppets from Space the last film before this one I've never seen although I think it was on TV just a couple days ago but I didn't bother to do anything about it, don't know why really. The first few movies I can't remember what I though of them.
It was a combination of enjoyable (mostly the songs) and dull. Perhaps it's only for very small children in which case it's too long but the story was just overly simple. Two things which surprised me were how few Muppets there were, I seem to remember the other films and the show having what seemed like more than a hundred Muppets in lots of scenes but this seemed to only have a little more than a dozen plus the fur on Fozzie looked ancient.

The Descendants

Cast
George Clooney
Shailene Woodley
Beau Bridges
Judy Greer
Robert Forster
Screenwriters
Alexander Payne
Nat Faxon
Jim Rash
Director
Alexander Payne
Running Time
114 minutes

Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. (Fox Searchlight)

Pleasant and interesting.

Haywire

Cast
Gina Carano
Antonio Banderas
Michael Douglas
Bill Paxton
Ewan McGregor
Michael Fassbender
Channing Tatum
Screenwriter
Lem Dobbs
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Running Time
92 minutes

Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious—and dangerous—trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realizes she’ll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. (Relativity Media)

Enjoyed it a lot but was hoping for something more thrilling both in terms of story and action. Hopefully she'll  be offered more good movies and choose to do them because this could be the start of something great and not before time. I often wonder if Sigourney Weaver had been happy to do action movies and had been offered and said yes to Die Hard how that would have played out.