little jack horner sat in the corner collecting his paycheck from jurassic park 3
Man, how long have you been sitting on that joke?
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Well, another day, another long period of tedious lawn work followed by another Muppet movie, this time being
Muppet Treasure Island. I liked this movie back when I first saw it, and I still had a good time watching it now. The storytelling is fairly solid (I haven't read Treasure Island in nearly 2 decades, but this version feels true to the beats of that story), the Muppeteering is as good as ever, and the two main live actors for Hawkins and Long John Silver are superbly well-cast to be in a Muppet movie. Then-young Kevin Bishop has just the right amount of emotion and whimsy to play this Jim Hawkins, and if that
is him singing in the movie I have to applaud his seeming perfect pitch considering how high up the scale his part is.
The real star of the show, of course, is Tim Curry as Long John Silver. As the undisputed
King of hammy acting and hilarious facial contortions, you couldn't have picked a better actor to play the villain in a Muppet movie. And he's obviously having the time of his life trying to over-act a collection of felt puppets. But to his credit, when he's not hamming it up and randomly laughing like a mad man, he has some genuinely good scenes with Kevin Bishop. He's just pure fun to watch on-screen in a movie where he's
supposed to be incredibly cheesy.
As for the humor, it's definitely downplayed a bit compared to something like Great Muppet Caper, but I think the comedy is still very much prevalent. It is very odd to hear Muppets utter the word "kill", though. And the music is overall surprisingly good, with the opening "Shiver My Timbers!" song being one of the catchier songs I've heard in a long time.
Now, I'm going to put Muppet Christmas Carol on hold for a while until we're closer to Christmas, as I just don't feel in the spirit for Christmas movies or music just yet. I'm still on the fence on whether I'll watch the original Muppet Movie. No, watching an old Nostalgia Critic video got me in the mood to to watch more of a goofy movie. I might even be in the mood for an
extremely goofy movie I've never seen before, if you will.