Cuz people are asking ...

[scarfman]

...and I don't want to cut-and-paste the same response to everyone who commented on the last post.

It's been a long time since 1979 and what I remember best now about the abridgments in The Muppet Movie is, in the unabridged cut, the flashback while Dr. Teeth is reading the screenplay in the church is more elaborate. In the abridged, home video version there's voice-over from Dr. Teeth as the camera pans up to the stained-glass window, and then it cuts directly to the flashback of Kermit and Fozzie entering the church. In the unabridged version, there were other clips from previous scenes between the window and the flashback, and longer voice-over.

I think that's the first major difference between the versions, because that's always been what I've looked for to tell the difference. Never since the original theatrical release of the movie have I failed to be disappointed and, if weds can't even find documentation that the unabridged cut ever existed, the future doesn't look good. It doesn't make any sense to me because there can't have been more than about five minutes' difference.

Other things I remember about the unabridged version: The dialog under the end title music is more audible. The sequence when the sets fall over at the end of the finale lasts longer. Um ... that's all I got.

Comments

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

http://www.toughpigs.com/anthmovie00.htm

[pedanther]

Is about things that weren't filmed in the first place, not things that were filmed and then cut.

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

The only cut IMDb notes is at the bar, where Rolf offers Kermit a drink, and he asks for a grasshopper.

[scarfman]

That's not in the DVD I'm watching now.