Like this: Like Loading Related posts. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. The Addams Family 2 8. Nine Days Zone 9. The Last Duel Come True Jungle Cruise Witch Hunt Halloween Kills Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ron's Gone Wrong It certainly captured the zeitgeist in a way few of the subsequent projects ever did and engrained the Muppet characters in the hearts and minds of children eveywhere.
Since Disney gained control of the Muppet characters in , the company also maintained the rights to the television show. It's not quite perfect, not the Muppets' best movie I'd give that honor to The Muppet Christmas Carol , despite it being part of the post-Jim Henson age; blasphemy, I know , and more subject to aging than more timeless classics may be.
But nonetheless, it perseveres as a unique musical journey that raised the bar for universally-pleasing entertainment and continues to delight with music, wit, and originality. While Muppets From Space , the sixth theatrically-released Muppet film, came to DVD in the fall of just months after it appeared in multiplexes, the five previous outings took longer to grace the format. The following year , Buena Vista Home Entertainment finally got around to putting the Muppets' fourth and fifth films which were made at Walt Disney Pictures in the s on DVD and they did so with some impressive bonus features and clever menus, but inconceivable fullscreen-only presentations.
The Walt Disney Company's February purchase of The Muppets Holding Company gave them possession of most of the Muppets franchise, including two of the big screen productions previously distributed by Sony.
Disney has touted the foursome of modestly-priced, attractively-packaged 50th Anniversary Edition DVDs as being "restored and remastered", leaving those who already own Movie and Caper to wonder if an upgrade is in order and finer DVD treatment has at last been bestowed upon the Muppets' first two feature films. Wonder no more, Muppets fans, for your answers lie in the paragraphs ahead.
Next to the far-from-spectacular transfer on the film's previous DVD release, this Anniversary Edition disc offers some fairly noticeable but not groundbreaking improvement in the visuals department. The element is cleaner here; blemishes and intrusions remain but appear with less frequency than on Sony's DVD. Perhaps the most evident problem with the previous disc's transfer was grain and a significant amount of that remains here, but it is certainly less troublesome than before.
Colors also have taken a slight turn for the better, with a bit more vibrancy and naturalness to their appearance. In general, movement from frame-to-frame now creates less of the issues it did before, with edge enhancement, pixelation, and softness all seeming to show up less frequently and noticeably. Screencap of same frame from this 50th Anniversary DVD.
Also included is a reformatted 1. The difference between compositions in the two versions are minimal, making the fullscreen offering mostly unnecessary, especially since Disney has almost always forgone including a reformatted version for their animated films' DVDs. Why the studio is so concerned about making available versions of the Muppets that will produce no black bars on 4x3 televisions is more than a little befuddling.
Despite the fact that it allocates both formats of the film to the same disc side occupying less space but assuring the precious label art was present , Disney's disc winds up mildly amplifying the digital bitrate from Sony's 4.
This, which may partly stem from having two less audio tracks, coupled with advances made in compression techniques and supposed remastering work all result in minor improvements. The difference is far from night and day; those with high-end machines may notice drastic betterment, while those watching on a smaller set-up might struggle to find any adjustment. That Sony's disc was serviceable entails that even the minor improvement made here results in The Muppet Movie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stocks.
In the audio department, Disney's disc abandons the two-channel English and Spanish soundtracks of the Sony disc to deliver merely the two remaining options: a Dolby Digital 5. Even though problems in picture quality tend to stare right back at you, it is the sound presentation which leaves more room for complaint. While it is remixed to the 5.
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