A 1981 musical comedy, The Great Muppet Caper is the second full-length movie featuring The Muppets, the iconic characters created by Jim Henson. It is a delightful musical comedy that follows ...

I sometimes refer to The Great Muppet Caper as “ The Empire Strikes Back of Muppet movies” – because, in the mid-1980s, Caper was the middle film that seemed to get overlooked amidst the ...

Its predecessor, The Muppet Movie, wowed moviegoers by putting Kermit The Frog on a bike, so The Great Muppet Caper put an entire felt-and-fur ensemble on wheels.

The Great Muppet Caper is part two of Jim Henson's Muppet movie 'trilogy'. Unlike the other two installments, Jim Henson directed this feature himself - which becomes evident within seconds of the ...

Just go watch The Great Muppet Caper, again, with your jaded grown-up eyes, and marvel at the loosely-controlled absurdity of the whole experiment. It’s barely 90 minutes long.

By James Keast Published Dec 01, 2005 To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Kermit the Frog's arrival on the cultural landscape come some DVD reissues of Muppet classics and some not-so classics.

Lavish musical numbers. I leave you with the greatest of all Muppet production numbers: “Piggy’s Fantasy,” the synchronized-swimming tour-de-force from “The Great Muppet Caper.” ...

One I came back to recently is The Great Muppet Caper. The 1981 film isn’t the best muppet movie – that would be 1979’s The Muppet Movie – but to my mind it’s the funniest and weirdest.

Maybe the issue is that the Muppets are too big to be confined to TV, as great as their original show was. Since making the leap to the big screen with 1979’s “The Muppet Movie,” Kermit and friends ...