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Songs: "Scrooge", "Good King Wenceslas", "One More Sleep 'Til Christmas", "Marley and Marley", When Love is Gone", "It Feels Like Christmas", "Christmas Scat", "Bless Us All", "Thankful Heart", "When Love is Found/It Feels Like Christmas" Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons • Dinosaurs: The Complete Third and Fourth Seasons Tasha: Yeah, I’m sure not going to try to fight you on Muppet love songs in general. I’m entirely on board with the take that the Muppets are at their best when they’re wholly sincere, and my favorite Muppets songs tend to be the kind of achy melancholy songs Williams writes, including the ones I mentioned above and “When the River Meets the Sea,” a sweet holiday song about death. Susana Polo: Oh, to the contrary. Though it was cut from the theatrical version, “When Love is Gone” was included haphazardly in home video versions. All the copies my family happened to own, from VHS to modern day, included the scene. It’s always been there for me. And yeah, I think it suuuuuuuuu— I mean, uh, I think it’s the weakest part of the film. But how did it hit you, fresh to the glory of Muppet Christmas Carol? This is the first of the Muppet movies in which the focus of the story revolves around characters played by human beings. However, several pivotal roles -- in particular, the three Christmas Spirits -- were portrayed by specially-created Muppet characters. It was at one time considered that well-known Muppets would be cast in these roles (Piggy, Scooter, and Gonzo, specifically) before it was decided that it would detract from the ominous effect the spirits would need to convey. [3]
Susana: Bluntly, I think the whole scene needed to have been rethought before it was ever filmed. There’s the whole thing about how we are not invested in Belle and will not see her again the very moment the music ends on this song. But I have a lot more questions:Susana: See, now this is an interesting flip. I’ve basically never seen the movie without that scene, given that I was in elementary school when it was in theaters. It was not actually clear to me until just now that Katzenberg excised the entirety of that character beat. That was an extremely dumbass thing of him to do. And it makes me doubly glad that Disney Plus has restored it. Why is the visual staging of this solo number so unutterably boring? She never even takes her hands out of her cute little Victorian muff. [ Ed. note: While gathering images to lay out this post I discovered that Belle is actually not wearing a muff at all, she just keeps her hands so still and pinned to her stomach for the whole song that I Mandela Effect-ed one into existence. I am noting this in case you too believed that Belle was a muff-wearer.] Why on earth wasn’t this number designed to be a shared song between Belle, young Scrooge, and older Scrooge from the get-go? We can still culminate with Belle and Present Scrooge harmonizing — that’s perfect and I have no notes. Item: 134768434885 The Muppet Christmas Carol (DVD, 2002). Get ready for a heartwarming holiday experience with The Muppet Christmas Carol on DVD. This 2002 release is filled with laughter, music, and all your favorite Muppet characters. Join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and the rest of the gang as they deliver a timeless tale of redemption and generosity. This G-rated movie is perfect for children and families, with a mix of live-action and puppetry that will keep everyone entertained. Directed by Brian Henson, son of Muppet creator Jim Henson, this film is a must-see for fans of the Muppets and classic Christmas movies. Add it to your collection today! Get ready for a heartwarming holiday experience with The Muppet Christmas Carol on DVD. This 2002 release is filled with laughter, music, and all your favorite Muppet characters. Join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and the rest of the gang as they deliver a timeless tale of redemption and generosity. This G-rated movie is perfect for children and families, with a mix of live-action and puppetry that will keep everyone entertained. Directed by Brian Henson, son of Muppet creator Jim Henson, this film is a must-see for fans of the Muppets and classic Christmas movies. Add it to your collection today! Theatrical Release: December 11, 1992 / Running Time: 86 Minutes (theatrical cut), 89 Minutes (extended cut) / Rating: G A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008) • The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) • Jim Henson's Dog City: The Movie
The trio of ghosts are, of course, The Ghost of Christmas Past (a floating girl apparition), The Ghost of Christmas Present (a large, absent-minded red-bearded man who occasionally sounds like ALF), and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (an eerie, silent, faceless being). By showing Scrooge what has happened, is happening, and will happen, they illustrate how wrong he has been treating those around him and just where such behavior will get him - a death mourned by no one. Mostly what this means is that I’m not coming into this conversation with any long-standing nostalgia for the movie, or any internal meter about what constitutes the “right” version. It doesn’t feel weird and out of place to my ears the way, say, the lost Wizard of Oz musical number “ The Jitterbug” did when the preservationists first found and released the footage. You’re much more of a Muppet Christmas Carol vet than I am, Susana — did that affect your opinion here? Only one supplement from the film's first DVD release has not been presented here, but it's a substantial one. "Frogs, Pigs, and Humbug: Unwrapping a New Holiday Classic" was a (then) newly-produced 22-minute making-of featurette hosted by Brian Henson, Gonzo, and Rizzo. It combined on-set interview clips with Michael Caine and some of the Muppet performersDisney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment • A Very Playhouse Disney Holiday • Disney Channel Holiday Bear in the Big Blue House: Visiting the Doctor with Bear • Early to Bed, Early to Rise • Storytelling with Bear • Sense-sational! Many fans have found new reasons to complain about this DVD release. First, there was the inaccurate press release Disney issued claiming the four films would be presented exclusively in fullscreen. Once that was corrected and the discs' specifications clarified, a new issue arose. For all of Muppet Christmas Carol's previous home video releases, an extended cut of the film was presented. This included the 3-minute musical number "When Love is Gone", performed by Belle to Scrooge as a young man (with the elderly miser listening in). It’s just also that I object to “When Love Is Gone” on the grounds of what makes a good musical. The song itself isn’t all that good, is performed stiffly, and is staged uncreatively, but more than that, it takes the viewer on an overlong detour with a character we barely know and who is about to leave the narrative entirely — marking it as a real outlier in a field of absolute banger musical sequences.
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