Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta

On Christmas Eve, an angel petitions God to send help for Kermit the Frog who has lost all hope after losing the Muppet Theatre.

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PG, 100 min.

Directed by: Kirk R. Thatcher

Release Date: November 29, 2002

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  • September 22, 2009
    Not as good as the old Christmas episode but it's ok.
  • December 24, 2008
    The muppets' Christmas show is under threat as an evil woman wants to convert the theatre into a night club. Lots of funny moments and special guests like David Arquette and Whoopi Goldberg. I love Fozzie bear, his heart is in the right place.
  • March 10, 2008
    How did the muppets get roped into such garbage? They should have just re-run the original christmas movie that was awesome.
  • December 18, 2007
    How can you not love the Muppet gang? This delightfully festive tale follows Kermits journey through a world where he never existed. The cameos are great and Joan Cusack is a brilliant baddie. Worth it for the hilarious 'Scrubs' gag and to see a steroid fuelled, deep voiced Beake...( read more)r as a bouncer. The Moulin Rouge homage is classic and theres plenty of 'in-jokes' for adults to appreciate. Great fun!
  • December 1, 2007
    Yah, great childhood memories, and that pretty much explains my rating, even though I don't remember it all that well.

    But Jim Henson really is a remarkable genius!
  • January 18, 2009
    i did not watch it but the picture makes me rate it
  • January 3, 2009
    un bon classique pour les fetes
  • December 26, 2008
    Better than Muppet's Christmas Carol :P
  • December 21, 2008
    It's alright. The funniest things happen at the beginning at the movie. Cusackgot old after awhile, but the SCRUBS cast and Lillard were great!
    Best part involving a muppet would be Statler and Waldorf's heckling as always.
    The guest stars are mostly just cameos though, and bar...( read more)ely get a lot of lines (or jokes). Macy, Arquette, and Goldberg all did good in their various parts though, but the story didn't have the heart of most muppet movies and for being a Christmas movie, it didn't focus on Christmas a whole lot either. Just them trying to save the theater. So A MUPPET'S CHRISTMAS CAROL will still be my favorite of their Christmas shows and I won't be making this part of my Christmas tradition any time soon. Plus Scooter didn't sound right at all. It was better when he didn't talk out of respect for Henson's passing.

    "He took my wallet? Unbelievable!"
    "And you don't have pockets. Even more unbelievable."
  • December 17, 2008
    The evil NBC producer Rachel Bitterman (Joan Cusack) has changed the park near the Muppet Theatre into a shopping center without Kermit the frog. The Muppet classic song The Rainbow Connection erected in dedication "for the lovers, the dreamers and you, featuring a statue of Kerm...( read more)it in a park."

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