I grew up with "The Muppets". They premiered on TV when I was 12 and I watched them every week. I loved their off-the-wall humor, the overall craziness of the skits, and how every week Kermit had to keep control of the Muppet cast who were nuts. I looked back on the show with fondness and the nostalgic nerd in me was geared up about the Muppets coming back. I should have known better.

This is an awful reboot. The story is the typical 'someone's-going-to-close-the-theater' tripe. The bad guy is another villain that we've seen countless times out of Hollywood. Yes it's the evil oilman. Even dumber...his name is "Tex Richman". Get it? Ha! Ha! "Tex" as in "Texas" and "Richman"...like "Rich" as in "money"? Isn't that clever?!? My god it's idiotic.

So we get a new Muppet character named "Walter" who wants to be a Muppet. He ends up saving the theater during a fund raising telethon. And his talent? He whistles really well. Whistles! I couldn't believe how stupid that was! I sat there in the theater with my jaw on the floor.

Each Muppet is basically in the movie so we nostalgic types can see our favorites again like Fozzy Bear, Animal etc. But they aren't part of the story. Instead, we get the bland new Muppet Walter, his meat-headed human brother Gary, and his boring girlfriend Mary.

The only reason I give this a 2 out of 10 score is because I liked the recreation of the old "Muppet Show" opening. But that's it.