Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Benjamin Black I saw this movie on DVD when I was in the fifth grade. This is another straight-to-video release, and it was my favorite movie at the time. Years later...yeah, it's kinda lame.Kermit tells us of his biggest adventure when he was 12 years old. He grew up in the swamp with his friends Croaker and Goggles. When Goggles is bullied out of the swamp by Blotch, a pet store owner finds them in the road and takes them to his store. Kermit and Croaker have to find them and save them. They have to hurry, though, because a high school biology teacher, Dr. Krassman, is a mad scientist who takes pleasure out having his students dissect frogs...OK, so why doesn't this film work? First of all, it goes back to what I said about "Muppets From Space," it's not a Muppet movie, it's the Muppets trying to put on another type of movie. Yeah, that goes for this movie as well. Also, this movie is just for kids. The great thing about the Muppets is that they appealed to both kids and adults. Jim Henson worked hard to make puppets appeal to adults, and did that greatly with "The Muppet Show." Here...this is just a kid's movie.Some of the jokes here don't work (particularly the butt and poop jokes (thank you to the one who mentioned that earlier)), and some of the music can be annoying...that is, the songs that aren't original. Some of the characters can be annoying, but that's a minor problem. The main problems are what I mentioned before, the entertainment style and the target audience.What do I like about the movie? I like the references to the Muppets and "The Muppet Movie." In the beginning of the film, the characters talk to Arnie the Alligator. Kermit passes a boy whose last name is Henson. Kermit has a bad experience with a pig in a farm. That stuff is cool. Some of the jokes work OK, and it's nice to hear Cree Summer's voice in this movie.It's not a bad film, it's OK. If it weren't for those 2 main problems I mentioned earlier, this would have been a good movie. Your kids will enjoy it OK, but I wouldn't expect adults to get too invested in it. BOOYIKA!

TheLittleSongbird Just for the record, I am a big fan of the Muppets, The Muppet Show and Muppet Babies were part of my childhoods, and I love all their specials and movies, excepting Letters to Santa, Muppet Wizard of Oz and this. Kermit's Swamp Years is not terrible, it's just that I had a very lukewarm reception towards it. The costume and set design are splendid, the voice work is great especially from Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz and there are some cute moments such as the outtakes. However, the songs are mediocre, especially the uninspired lyrics, the script and jokes fall flat due to a lack of comic timing with the human cast with little of the material coming across as memorable or quotable, the story is dull and very basic with too much emphasis on the comic elements consequently the wit and heart is gone and the human cast range from so-so(Drew Haggard) to quite bad(John Hostetter). All in all, didn't do much for me, as much as I do love the Muppets. 4/10 Bethany Cox

whitepigeons3 My 3 year old daughter loves this movie. We've seen it too many times. It was hard to watch the first time. The acting is horrible! The puppets out-act the humans. I'm only to guess that the message is don't dissect frogs in science class. Lame unless you're really little.There is also something deeply weird about this movie. It's like it keeps changing its character. At first it's one style and then the next style. I actually feel bad for the actors and actress in the movie. It's like they sold out any chance of doing a future movie for this horrible creation. The music is weird too. Bits of 80s pop, sad hard rock attempts and other forms that just don't sound right in a children's movie.I also don't like the fact that they keep saying "shut up" and insulting each other. It's just not a good example. The animals are loving, the humans are not. Bad.You may wonder why I gave it a five. Um... well. I'm not 3 years old.

Tommy Nelson stars: Steve Whittemire as Kermit and other. Bill Barretta as Croaker and D'fly. John Kennedy as Arnie the alligator and others. Dave Goelz as Waldorf. Jerry Nelson as Statler.Interesting little movie about Kermit when he was little. The good things about it were the great look the movie had due to the cameras they used to film it. It had funny references to the Muppets as they are today, including Kermit mentioning that he doesn't like pigs, an appearance by young men Statler and Waldorf and Arnie the alligator which was a character that appeared on the show and was in the Muppet Movie. The plot was that Kermit and Croaker the frogs are going to be dissected for a school project, but escape. Meant for little kids, but adults will enjoy it too.My rating: B minus. 81 mins.