I just want to say one thing that I know I shouldn't be too hard on this film. This is a straight to video film, and they're not always good. I do understand, but we're talking about the Muppets. And Kermit's Swamp Years could be the worst to come out of it. The 2000s was a terrible decade when it comes to the Muppet films, and this is heads down the biggest example. This is supposed to be an origin film about Kermit The Frog, but the film failed on doing any of that. The movie is just about Kermit and his childhood friends discovering outside the swamp as a rescue story, which makes it very dull and predictable. There are only some musical numbers but unlike other Muppet films, this has the least amount of that. And they're easily forgettable. The logic in this movie makes no sense, even when we get to the school scene. The characters are really annoying, really bland and really useless. The humor doesn't get any effective, and that's exactly the big problem with the film. Not just that it would contain gross jokes and pop culture references, but mostly with the tone that makes the movie an insult to The Muppets. The cameos the movie would use are the things Kermit would discover what he would experience in The Muppet Movie, and the movie sets him like it would never happen. This movie is shameless in the way they use those cameos. The only thing the movie got right is the puppetry. But even so, the editing feels completely wasted. Honestly, there isn't really the point watching this film judging how it doesn't care anything that it wanted to be Kermit's origins. If you really want to watch the origin to The Muppets, go watch The Muppet Movie. It does a much better job setting up to take place how they got famous before The Muppet Show. In fact, it does contain much useful characters. As a failure as a prequel, the Muppets have been at their worst in this film.
Review of Kermit's Swamp Years
Kermit's Swamp Years
(2002 TV Movie)
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14 August 2021