Muppets from Space *** (1999, Jeffrey Tambor, F Murray Abraham, Rob Schneider, Josh Charles, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell, Kathy Griffin, Hulk Hogan, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 507

The sixth Muppet movie, the 1999 Muppets from Space, is an amusing, soft-hearted extra-terrestrial adventure about the search for the Great Gonzo’s past.

Directed by Tim Hill in 1999, the sixth Muppet movie, subtitled the Ultimate Muppet Trip, is an amusing, soft-hearted extra-terrestrial adventure about the search for the Great Gonzo’s past.

On a quest with buddy Rizzo to find his real family, Gonzo discovers that his long-lost relations are actually aliens form a distant planet. After announcing to the world on Miss Piggy’s talk show UFOMania that he is living proof that ‘we are not alone in the universe’, Gonzo becomes the target of paranoid government operative K Edgar Singer (Jeffrey Tambor).

In the end, Gonzo must not only escape the Singer compound, but also decide either to board the mothership and join the family that he has always wanted, or stay on Earth with the friends he has always known and loved.

There’s a big, eclectic star cast of humans (F Murray Abraham, Rob Schneider, Josh Charles, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell, Kathy Griffin, Hulk Hogan, Pat Hingle), plus, as usual, the voices of Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson and Brian Henson.

The Muppet movie series so far: The Muppet Movie (1979), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets from Space (1999), The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014).

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