A Song from “The Muppets” Has Been Released, and Suddenly I am Less Excited for the Movie

Ever since I heard there was going to be a new Muppet movie, and it didn’t look nearly as shitty as say Muppets in Space, I got excited. Now that I’ve heard this song though, I don’t know. Granted, I will still see it, but I might not love it as much as I planned to.

Let’s look at this song objectively as we can, starting with the “pros”: It was written by Brett McKenzie, Jason Segel and Amy Adams have both proven in past roles that they’re not completely tone deaf. and apparently both Feist and Mickey Rooney sing on it.

and now the cons:

For what appears to the movie’s major theme (its the only song on the soundtrack to have a full cast reprisal), I just don’t think its all that great. It doesn’t feel like a Muppet song, it feels like an attempt at a shitty showtune, but everyone knows Book of Mormon did that way better. I will give the Mickey Rooney cameo a big plus though, I fucking love that guy, and if you don’t you’re a damn liar.

Now, granted, I could now set up a poll and be like “Which is better, this or ‘Rainbow Connection’” but that is a waste of everyone’s time, because Rainbow Connection would win hands down. Instead, I am gonna set up a poll between this song and the worst song from the original Muppet Movie.

Now, I’m sure I just started a whole new debate, but leave that for the comments.