Cinema: Green Blues

THE MUPPET MOVIE

Directed by James Frawley

Screenplay by Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns

Muppets by Jim Henson, Frank Oz

and friends

Kermit is sitting on a log in a swamp, and he has just played his big mandolin solo, which went very well. But now, trouble: a fly buzzes past him, and he flicks at it with his tongue. He misses. "First thing to go on a frog, his tongue.'' says Kermit, remembering the great days when he could make the double play—fly to mosquito to gullet—with ease. But Dom DeLuise, the Hollywood agent who...