This is such a weird movie that I wanted to love because, well, I love The Muppets and I love mystery films and heist films. The main problem the film is so hard to watch is the bad guys are so mustache twirling it is hard to take them seriously. Additionally Charles Grodin really wants to have sex with Miss Piggy and that subplot and attraction is just impossible to get past. There are funny moments and some of the songs are nice, but it is not enough to hold the film together. The cameos in the film are also lot of fun, specifically John Cleese and Jack Warden. It must have been a really weird film for American children to see this as it is just a super weird film (like most Jim Henson directed films), but also because it is very steeped in English culture.
