The Great Muppet Caper. ‘Great Muppet Caper/Treasure Island’ Blu-ray to Feature ‘Most Wanted’ Sneak Peek, Rediscovered Music Video - Stitch Kingdom.com, Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition DVD review at UltimateDisney.com, https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Muppet_Caper_(video)?oldid=1341970, The first VHS release of the film. This movie is intelligent and filled with cameo appearances of special guest stars, Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2015, Jim Henson lives on. The Great Muppet Caper is presented in anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen that matches its original aspect ratio and simultaneously in pointless pan and scan that serves to attract few, if any, additional consumers and waste plenty of disc space. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Buy Muppet Treasure Island & The Great Muppet Caper Blu-ray + DVD Collection at Amazon.com, Related Reviews: Free shipping . And just like 1981's The Great Muppet Caper. Even dropping a couple of two-channel soundtracks as Disney has done, these new transfers offer an average bitrate nearly 1 Mb/s lower than before simply by putting them both on the same side of the disc. Please try again. Home video releases of The Great Muppet Caper. Filmed right before and released immediately after the final season of "The Muppet Show", Caper would be an okay outing from a lesser franchise or a passable standalone film. Jim becomes cabin boy on the Hispaniola, commanded by Captain Smollett (Kermit the Frog), where he meets peg-legged cook Long John Silver (Tim Curry), a morally ambiguous figure who himself thirsts for treasure. DVDizzy.com Top Stories: All three discs open with promos for The Jungle Book: Diamond Edition, Muppets Most Wanted, and Mary Poppins: 50th Anniversary Edition. Distributed by RCA VideoDisc (SelectaVision), Distributed by RCA VideoDisc (SelectaVision), The first Laserdisc release of the film. As with most Muppet ventures, one is hard-pressed to walk away unhappy, and it's that kind of feel-good, endearing warmth that has enabled their longevity. You can think of Treasure Island as Christmas Carol's Caper, which is to say that the Muppets made something special and profound in Brian Henson's directorial debut, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' holiday redemption tale that is remarkably faithful to the text but also a great deal of fun in the Muppets' tradition. Unable to add item to List. Two years later, they returned to the box office with even more of their uniquely charming humor in The Great Muppet Caper. Piggy doesn't show up until much later, playing the shipwreck "Benjamina" Gunn. Single-sided, dual-layered disc (DVD-9) MUPPETS characters and elements are trademarks of The Muppets Holding Company. google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.ultimatedisney.com/contest/dmcad9.html"; In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. White Keepcase. google_ad_width = 300; As always, though, repeating success proves difficult for the Muppets. The Great Muppet Caper (2005) R1 DVD Cover. Silver leads a mutiny, with Jim caught in between pirates and the ship's crew. Next, "The Tale of the Story Beyond the Tale..." (21:40) is really good making-of featurette that dates back to 2002. Those two Muppets introduce this in a short video (0:49). Given the fact that my 12 year old son can still remember the Baseball Diamond and he's moved on to video games and other things, this movie is a classic Muppet tale that brings out the kid in everyone. Very witty and humorous are His Muppets. Its optical opening and closing credits shots exhibit the heaviest grain, but even the rest of the film doesn't get as sharp or stunning as you'd like.