The Muppet Movie (1979)
Feb 2, 2001Muppet Movie
The first and best of the Muppet films where Jim Henson spins them off onto the big screen with charm and sly humour
Frank Oz
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Dec 6, 2002Muppet Movie
The second of the Muppet films made when Jim Henson was alive and one of the best, this bubbles with a double level of sly grown-up humour that many of the later post Henson entries miss
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Jul 9, 2013Fantastical Other World/Epic Fantasy Adventure
The film that Jim Henson chose to make as successor to The Muppets. An astonishing technical leap beyond Muppetry to create an entire fantasy world in living, breathing detail all only inhabited by puppets
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Feb 27, 2003Muppet Movie
The third Muppets film, the last Jim Henson would be involved with, this shows them putting on a Broadway show
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Jul 15, 2002Killer Plant Musical
Roger Corman's no-budget comedy about a killer plant is remade as a multi-million dollar musical with top-drawer effects. Missing is the original's black comedy but this has many appealingly eccentric delights of its own
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Aug 25, 2002Toy Indian Comes to Life
A quite delightful film from former Muppeteer Frank Oz in which a boy receives the gift of a magic cabinet that brings his toy Indian and any other toy that is placed inside it
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Oct 18, 2004Android Housewife Replacements Comedy
Frank Oz conducts a remake of The Stepford Wives, which becomes a broad comedy take on the gender wars in the modern world