by John Nolte
May 28, 2018
To the naked eye, the Walt Disney Company appears infallible. This is, after all, the company that owns Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and its own indelible brands; this is the company that ate up 22 percent of the box office all by itself last year, and with this year nearly half gone, has gobbled up an incredible 34 percent. Obviously, everything Disney touches turns to gold.
Yeah, not quite.
Remember the Muppets?
You know, Kermit, Ms. Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, and Animal; those glorious, universally appealing characters who starred in The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and the timeless Muppet Show?
You remember them, right?
Yeah, Disney killed them. Disney murdered the Muppets.
The motive was propagandizing our children. The weapon was left-wing politics.
Disney purchased the Muppets in 2004, but it would take another seven years for the bludgeoning to begin, starting with 2011’s The Muppets, the first Muppet movie in 12 years. Everyone was excited about the return of the Muppets, I know I was, but then we learned that Disney’s Muppets had something they wanted to say. Oh, not about the things the Muppets usually had something to say about — you know, friendship, loyalty, teamwork. Nope…
Disney’s Muppets wanted to scold us about Big Oil, and Big Corporations, and the environment.
The Muppets were woke, y’all, and while the movie did okay at the box office ($88 million domestic) — with that $45 million budget, the Muppets probably failed to break even.
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