Posted AT 10:00 PM EDT on 24/07/08
Colour me tickled
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you've got a franchise, everything starts to look like a licensing opportunity.
That seems to have been the sad fate of the Muppets, those genius creations that started off as implements of education and satire, but wound up endlessly adapted into ever more tiresome remixes — A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppets in Space — whose reviews have become ever more tepid.
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