It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

With a friend being a fan of Family movies,I decided to search around for a title which she could watch during the Christmas period.Talking to a family friend,I was pleased to learn that he had picked up a Muppet film which I had some fond memories of,which led to me getting ready to pay a visit to the swamp.The plot:Heading back to the swamp where he grew up with his family,Kermit begins to think back to his childhood…Years earlier:Spending their entire lives in the swamp,Kermit and his 2 friends Goggles & Croaker find themselves wondering about what lays beyond the swamp.Ignoring their parents advice,the gang sneak out of the swamp and enter an unknown world.As they head to the exit of the swamp,Googles accidentally starts a fight with a tough frog called Blotch.Driving past in his truck,a pet store owner notices Goggles and Blotch having a fight,which leads to the pet store owner kidnapping Goggles & Blotch,and taking them as new pets for his store.Originally planning for this to be an adventurous day soon,Kermit and Croaker realise that they must leave their comfort zone,in order to save their Goggles.View on the film:Whilst the screenplay by Jim Lewis and Joey Mazzarino shares more than a few similarities with the first Toy Story movie,the writers give the movie a nice fluffy atmosphere,thanks to the writers giving Kermit a real sincerity over his fears of entering the outside world.Contrasting the easy-going coming of age tale,the writers give the title a juvenile sense of humour,which despite offering 1 or 2 good punch lines,also suffers from one poo (h) joke too many,which never fully settle into Kermit's swamp life.

My 3 year old daughter loves this movie. We've seen it too many times. It was hard to watch the first time. The acting is horrible! The puppets out-act the humans. I'm only to guess that the message is don't dissect frogs in science class. Lame unless you're really little.There is also something deeply weird about this movie. It's like it keeps changing its character. At first it's one style and then the next style. I actually feel bad for the actors and actress in the movie. It's like they sold out any chance of doing a future movie for this horrible creation. The music is weird too. Bits of 80s pop, sad hard rock attempts and other forms that just don't sound right in a children's movie.I also don't like the fact that they keep saying "shut up" and insulting each other. It's just not a good example. The animals are loving, the humans are not. Bad.You may wonder why I gave it a five. Um... well. I'm not 3 years old.

It is almost unfair to the movie makers who work so hard to produce an entertaining piece of art. I am asked to grade their work solely based upon what I saw on the screen. The key phrase here is "what I saw." If I choose the "see" the whole movie, then a fair opinion can be respected. But what if I cannot bear to sit through a poor opening; one where I cannot embrace the characters or situation enough to care? This is the problem with Kermit's Swamp Years. Because of this, I truly believe that no matter how the story begs to be told, movie makers better hook you in for the long haul or else. I am a big Muppet fan and could not get past the first 10 minutes. That is sad. Brian Henson, Frank Oz, where were you?

Oddly, "The Swamp Years" is about Kermit's adventures away from the swamp. The plot takes its good-hearted turns rather abruptly, without much signalling in advance. There are some in-jokes like Kermit's first encounter with a pig-- the sort of joke more likely to inspire a knowing nod than a guffaw. There are some poop jokes, which I don't think Jim Henson would have put up with. Kermit's voice is pretty good, except for an occasional underpronounced vowel. The music is well chosen, but there isn't enough of it and some of the lyrics are lame. I think my favorite character was Kermit's mother, who is more obviously a human hand than today's Muppets usually are. For some reason, I found it rather touching that when you go back in Kermit's ancestry you find the human creator more thinly disguised.