Every Muppets Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
Despite being a beloved movie franchise stretching back to 1976, not every film featuring The Muppets has been a critical or financial success — so which Muppets movie ranks best? Across a stellar 46-year run, The Muppets have inhabited diverse worlds, retold traditional tales, and spoofed popular stories and genres. With a witty writing team initially led by creator Jim Henson, these characters have indelibly found a way to capture hearts and minds through hilarious one-liners, absurd scenarios, and instantly loveable characters.
While Jim Henson will always be first remembered for creating The Muppets, he also achieved cultural highs during the 1980s with Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Akin to The Muppets, these other Henson stories are beginning to be remade, rebooted, and retold. In this way, there is a clear and continued demand for puppetry within film and television — when directed to success. In many ways, this demand can be traced back to The Muppets' inception in 1955 — as highlighted by the creatures' enduring imagery in popular culture.
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As a result, The Muppets have played a huge role in television and cinematic history. Yet while Henson's Muppets have experienced a long period of television success, their theatrical releases have not always been received well by audiences and critics alike. In this way, The Muppets have shown how to make movies successfully but also what territory to avoid — as evidenced by some of their oft-maligned capers, such as their 2014 outing in Muppets Most Wanted. Here's every Muppets movie ranked from worst to best.
Placing at the bottom of the list of theatrical releases for The Muppets is Muppets Most Wanted.Being a
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