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Muppets Christmas carol

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Stupidwolf · 06/12/2024 18:22

Is anybody else unreasonably annoyed that they got rid of the love song to shorten the film. I loved it as a child, its my favourite Christmas film. And the song "the love has gone" is now edited out!

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WinterBones · 07/12/2024 15:53

i used to know most of the film word for word.. making me want to watch it again to see how much i remember.

Its one of my favourite films but i haven't actually watched it in a while, bad form!

Compash · 07/12/2024 13:28

Sidebeforeself · 07/12/2024 12:58

You’d be surprised how many times I say “ Light the lamp, not the rat!” And nobody understands what Im talking about !

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Yes! 'Thank you for making me a part of this!' 🐀

ELMhouse · 07/12/2024 13:25

@Stupidwolf Muppets Christmas Carol is my favourite Christmas film and this is a great song (not sure why so many on here don’t like it), there was even a Facebook group dedicated to bringing back the song a few years ago. I’m so pleased it’s back on Disney+! Even if you don’t like the song it literally makes the story make sense in that it is the moment Belle and Scrooge part ways. It also ties into the end song too so I found it so bizarre when they cut it.

as a child in the cinema watching this for the first time, I got emotional during that song and it brought Scrooge into a new light!

in summary I love it too! 😍

SoupDragon · 07/12/2024 13:00

We watched this as our Christmas film last year. I've never seen it before! Absolutely superb. Can't comment on the missing song though.

Muppets Christmas carol
Sidebeforeself · 07/12/2024 12:58

TakeMyLifeAndLetItBe · 06/12/2024 19:04

Couldn't help a 'light the lamp, not the rat!' this week, when my mum showed me and the children a very Rizzo-like toy rat in the garden centre 😂

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You’d be surprised how many times I say “ Light the lamp, not the rat!” And nobody understands what Im talking about !

Toddlerteaplease · 07/12/2024 11:54

AdventuresInMothering · 06/12/2024 19:21

my family frequently exclaim "why, it's old Fozziwig's rubber chicken factory!" when arriving at a party 🤣

I need to do this!

Toddlerteaplease · 07/12/2024 11:52

HermioneWeasley · 06/12/2024 18:27

Nah, it’s a meh song among a collection of absolute bangers. Film is better without.

I said what I said.

I agree, it's an awful song.

MrsSethGecko · 07/12/2024 11:40

I've just put it on. Best film EVER.

InWithThePlums · 07/12/2024 11:22

ShodAndShadySenators · 07/12/2024 10:47

I have never seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol and feel I have missed out BIG TIME

It’s hilarious and lovely.

MrsToothyBitch · 07/12/2024 11:15

Yes I realised it's Simons mum from The Inbetweeners when I watched for the first time in a while last year!

I never minded the song, I always thought it was quite nice and that it was needed to add some real underscoring to young children of how much Ebernezer has lost. It also makes sense because it matches the song at the end - The Love We've Found - and adds more to that and it explains why the fairly cynical Rizzo is crying. Just watching Scrooge get dumped with words isn't quite the same!

MCC is an amazing Christmas film. "No cheeses for us meeces" is lyrical genius!

Compash · 07/12/2024 11:09

pooballs · 07/12/2024 11:03

I watched it the other day and spotted simons mum from the inbetweeners 🤣

YES!!! I forget that every year!

LostTheMarble · 07/12/2024 11:09

ShodAndShadySenators · 07/12/2024 10:47

I have never seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol and feel I have missed out BIG TIME

😮

It’s actually remarkable. How they took the most classic Christmas story (bar the nativity), added Muppets and songs, yet somehow made it one of the most beautiful, heartwarming films ever made, astonishing.

But yes, I’ll be watching the cut version - my attention deficit can’t deal with it 🤣.

Compash · 07/12/2024 11:08

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/12/2024 10:40

It is a bit of a crappy song but it’s actually needed - the song at the end “the love we’ve found” doesn’t work without it.

Plus there’s no reason for Dickens and Rizzo to be crying without it.

DH is that you?!

pooballs · 07/12/2024 11:03

I watched it the other day and spotted simons mum from the inbetweeners 🤣

phoenixrosehere · 07/12/2024 11:00

They did?

I probably wouldn’t listen to the song on its own, but watching the actress singing it, and seeing the emotions on her face, I enjoy the scene.

Hankunamatata · 07/12/2024 10:55

It's just not the same movie without the song and doesn't make sense

MrsSethGecko · 07/12/2024 10:55

Terrible song. Sorry. I always used to fast forward it.

Cattery · 07/12/2024 10:52

ShodAndShadySenators · 07/12/2024 10:47

I have never seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol and feel I have missed out BIG TIME

You haven’t lived. Make you laugh. Make you cry. It’s glorious

ShodAndShadySenators · 07/12/2024 10:47

I have never seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol and feel I have missed out BIG TIME

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/12/2024 10:40

It is a bit of a crappy song but it’s actually needed - the song at the end “the love we’ve found” doesn’t work without it.

Plus there’s no reason for Dickens and Rizzo to be crying without it.

Floralnomad · 07/12/2024 10:30

We prefer the cut version .

Cattery · 07/12/2024 10:28

AlecTrevelyan006 · 07/12/2024 09:44

It is not only Michael Caines’s best film, it is the best film ever made.

It’s utterly magical isn’t it. We watch it every Christmas Eve (we are retired with a grandchild on the way, who I’m going to make sure is a fan). The ending with them all singing captures the spirit of Christmas beautifully x

LemonTT · 07/12/2024 10:03

AlecTrevelyan006 · 07/12/2024 09:44

It is not only Michael Caines’s best film, it is the best film ever made.

Acting with the muppets is a pinnacle of great acting career. Only the best rise to it and the muppets provide the best platform for displaying talent.

If you can’t do the muppets and hold your own you are not Oscar worthy.

Jifmicroliquid · 07/12/2024 09:57

Can’t wait for my annual viewing of this!