Details

Release year: 2014

Storyline

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

Top credits

Directors

James Bobin

Writers

Cast

Ricky Gervais — Dominic Badguy
Ty Burrell — Jean Pierre Napoleon
Tina Fey — Nadya
Steve Whitmire — Kermit the Frog, Foo Foo, Statler, Beaker, Lips, Rizzo the Rat, Link Hogthrob, The Newsman

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Danny Trejo's mother passed away as he was filming his last scenes. As he was finishing so he could fly back to Los Angeles for the funeral, the cast and crew offered their condolences. Trejo, known for his "tough guy" roles and demeanor, shrugged them off. When Steve Whitmire offered his condolences in character as Kermit the Frog, Trejo broke down crying.

• Writer and director James Bobin ensured the special effects in this movie were practical as much as possible: "We never go down the road of having a full CGI character, which you could easily do. The joy of this movie is The Muppets exist. They're real. You can touch them. There are very few forms of entertainment in the contemporary world that exist like that, and The Muppets are the last bastion of it."

• A lot of work went into making Constantine the Frog look slightly different than Kermit: His frill is shorter and wider than Kermit's, His eye slits are more horizontal than Kermit's, making him look angrier. His mouth was constructed to look like a frown. Constantine's puppeteer Matt Vogel swung Constantine when walking, giving the illusion of a heavy-shouldered man's swagger.