The Muppet Christmas Carol
Dec. 29th, 2025 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrI planned to watch more holiday movies this Christmas break, but I got caught up trying to binge Shadowhunters, a trashy young adult urban fantasy series based on a young adult book series before it left Netflix :-D Oh well...
Somehow, I missed watching The Muppet Christmas Carol up until now. It was on sale on Google Play for $4.99, and figured that was a good year after year investment ;-D
I kinda wish I had watched it when I was younger--knowing this movie came out the year after Jim Henson died made it bittersweet for me, and the main song, "It Feels like Christmas" gave me so many feels! It was hard to watch it through a child's eyes, and instead, I saw through my art student eyes, marvelling at the range of puppets, and noticing how well the old CGI held up. More interestingly, I noticed the scale of the sets and the angles of the buildings. And yes, pairing Michael Caine with Muppets was such a good choice! One thing I've always loved about Muppets is how you don't see them as puppets, but bona fide actors.
Somehow, I missed watching The Muppet Christmas Carol up until now. It was on sale on Google Play for $4.99, and figured that was a good year after year investment ;-D
I kinda wish I had watched it when I was younger--knowing this movie came out the year after Jim Henson died made it bittersweet for me, and the main song, "It Feels like Christmas" gave me so many feels! It was hard to watch it through a child's eyes, and instead, I saw through my art student eyes, marvelling at the range of puppets, and noticing how well the old CGI held up. More interestingly, I noticed the scale of the sets and the angles of the buildings. And yes, pairing Michael Caine with Muppets was such a good choice! One thing I've always loved about Muppets is how you don't see them as puppets, but bona fide actors.
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Date: 2025-12-29 03:46 pm (UTC)Agree it’s surreal how well the suspension of belief happens even as an adult.
There was a discussion elsewhere on the 1987 muppet family Christmas is pretty epic. It had the mashup of all the characters, including fraggle rock, the muppet show, and Sesame Street. It’s on YouTube for the interested.
I probably watched it when it came out, but don’t recall. It would have been something that was on cbc or ctv.
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Date: 2025-12-29 05:43 pm (UTC)Ah yes, I was thinking of that Christmas special--"Watch out for the slippy spot!" "Ahhhh!" I haven't watched that one in years--I'm going to take a guess it was on CBC :-)
We had The Sesame Street Christmas album and it complimented the holiday special so well.
The Storyteller is on Plex if you haven't watched that in ages--I'm going to dig into it soon.
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Date: 2025-12-29 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-30 06:09 am (UTC)I'm up to season 3, so I gotta boogie!