Since making the leap to the big screen with 1979’s “The Muppet Movie,” Kermit and friends have essentially created their own genre of films, ones only they can make. The eight films bearing ...

Seeing Kermit and the gang hang out with real actors and locations may seem mundane now, but it was really groundbreaking in ...

On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

1. The Muppet Movie (1979) 89% The big-screen debut of Jim Henson's plush creations is a successful translation of the Muppets' variety-show antics to a narrative and a family-friendly blend of ...

whose logs-to-riches story was charted in 1979's "The Muppet Movie," which Fathom Events is showing Tuesday in more than 700 theaters nationwide. The heartwarming musical/road-trip comedy was the ...

His own series, The Muppet Show, premiered in 1976. A few years later, in 1979, The Muppet Movie came to cinemas, launching the movie careers of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear ...