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Muppets Take Manhattan
Reviewed by Matt Goldsmith

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Director

Frank Oz

Cast
The Muppets,
Louis Zorich,
Juliana Donald,
Lonny Price

Music & Lyrics
Jeff Moss

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Screen Format 1.85:1 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
Audio Tracks DD1.0 English, French German, Spanish
Subtitles English, French, Greek, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hinid, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Swedish, Fisnnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Spanish
Region Code 2/4
Chapters 28
Disc Format Single Sided Single Layer
Running Time 91 minutes
Features - Original Theatrical Trailer
- Muppets From Space Trailer (DD5.1)
Classification G
Distributor Columbia Tristar
Release date 28th June 2000

THIS DVD is 16:9 Enhanced

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Since the early 70’s the Muppets have been entertaining the world over.
So it was no surprise that they make to from the TV set to the big Screen and to date the Muppets have done so no less than 6 times.
For their third outting Muppets creator Jim Henson & Co, took his prized family to Manhattan for a few song and dances! Muppets Take Manhattan!
Right out of College the Muppets decide to take their Show (written by Kermit) to Manhattan to play on Broadway. Not finding it easy to get a backer, the Muppets, for the first time ever, split up and go their own way until Kermit can secure a deal. Left in the city by himself, Kermit makes friends with Local Restuaranteer Pete(Louis Zorich) and his daughter Jenny (Juliana Donald) Miss Piggy, being the ever so jealous swine, stays behind and spies on her Kermie! Just as the show gets the green light thanks to the Ronnie(Lonny Price) a budding Broadway Producer, the green frog is hit by a car and develops amnesia, and becomes, Phil, the newest member of a marketing team for soap!

So How Does This Transfer Hold Up?

VIDEO
Coming from The Columbians I was expecting a decent transfer of this film, and this Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer turned to even better than I had hoped for.  While it does show signs of some edge enhancement, and noise reduction (to remove grain), it’s actually a pretty good looking overall, and the Muppet characters are just full of detail and show a wonderful colour saturation. It’s the Human counterparts that seem to show any real problems, and even those are what you’d consider minor problems! You’ll see the odd bit signs of a dirt print, but with so much going on, as is always the case in any muppet venture, it’s easy to look past!

AUDIO
Being made in the mid 80’s I really would have expected a stereo mix for our Muppet Friends (they certain made up for it with Muppets from Space though). However, MTM is only in dreaded Dolby Digital Mono! It’s still a decent sounding mix for mono with enough clarity and detail for you to clearly hear what’s going on, it’s really just the music that that suffers for lack of stereo here.

EXTRAS
Not much on offer I’m afraid, just the Original Theatrical Movie Trailer and a very nice trailer for Muppets in Space (this one presented in Dolby Digital 5.1!!!)

You gotta Love the Muppets, and their up to true form in this Third Outing!!!

PICTURE QUALITY   7/10 vibrant and sharp, just with a few problems
SOUND Quality   4/10 Clean sounding Mono
FEATURES    1/10 Very Limited


Review Equipment
TV: Pioneer SD-T50W1 (16:9 RPTV)
DVD: Pioneer DV717  (using RGB outputs)
Receiver/Decoder: Marantz SR870 & Sony SDP-EP9ES
Speakers:-
     Fronts: Quadral Phonolgue Gold Amun
     Centre: B&W CDMC-SE
     Rears: B&W 602
     Subby: M&K V125 

- Reviewed 18th June 2000

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