THE MUPPETS
Clean, joyful family entertainment with a strong moral heart.
Should You Watch It?
Yes. The Muppets is a widely entertaining adventure filled with fun, clean laughs. It brings back the beloved Muppets while celebrating wholesome entertainment, family loyalty, and the value of working together.
The film’s mild environmentalist undertone makes the oil entrepreneur the bad guy, and some comic scenes show Muppets hitting each other. Those concerns are outweighed by the movie’s strong moral worldview and its clear belief that families and audiences still want good, clean entertainment.
If you want a movie night the whole family can enjoy, take the trip to The Muppets.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESWalter has always loved the Muppets, and at last he gets the chance to meet them at their Los Angeles studio. There he learns that oilman Tex Richman wants to buy the studio and drill for oil.
Walter, his brother Gary, and Gary’s girlfriend Mary search for Kermit the Frog. To save the Muppets’ home, they must reunite the scattered gang, put together a new show, and find an A-level actor to host it.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is top-tier family entertainment. The Muppets is well made, highly entertaining, and full of clean laughs. The movie’s singing, dancing, comedy, and reunion of the Muppet gang make it a widely enjoyable adventure.
Its central storyline also gives the entertainment real purpose. The Muppets defend clean, wholesome programming against grungy imitators and bad television, while their effort to work together gives the film warmth and momentum.
The Worldview
The film strongly celebrates family and clean entertainment. It values marriage, teachers, children as the greatest gift, and the idea that people want good, wholesome content rather than harsh or negative programming. It also presents the Muppets’ teamwork as a way to preserve something worth sharing with others.
The worldview has a mild environmentalist undertone because the oil entrepreneur is the bad guy. However, his redemption comes in a capitalist way, and the film also contains very strong capitalist content as the Muppets work to save their business and brand. A scene involving Kermit leaving a “Good Shepherded Church” van with beams of light coming from it adds a religious image.
The movie’s central longing is for loving people to support one another and remain a family. Scripture calls believers to the same kind of shared care: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Very strong moral worldview extolling family and clean entertainment, marriage valued, teachers valued, children are said to be the greatest gift, and extols the idea that people want good and clean content rather than harsh, bad content, plus a scene where Kermit the frog gets out of the “Good Shepherded Church” van and beams of light come from it, an environmentalist undertone as the oil entrepreneur is the bad guy but he’s redeemed in a capitalist way, and very strong capitalist content where the Muppets try to save their business and their brand, and ; one mild exclamatory profanity and some scatological jokes as Fozzie the Bear walks around in fart shoes; light comic violence includes Muppets hitting each other, Muppet pushes bad guy off a tall building, child hits teacher (but rebuked), man hits other man; no sex but man kisses woman on the cheek; upper male nudity; no drinking; no smoking or drug use; kidnapping but rebuked and yoga references.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Why do Walter, Kermit, and the others work so hard to save the Muppets’ studio? What makes a place or tradition worth preserving?
Proverbs 22:28 · 2 Thessalonians 2:15The Muppets must reunite and support one another after being apart. What does loving support look like in your family?
Galatians 6:2 · Romans 12:10The film argues that people want good and clean entertainment. How can Christians choose entertainment that is wholesome and beneficial?
Philippians 4:8 · Ephesians 5:15–16The movie values marriage, teachers, and children. How does Scripture call us to honor each of these gifts and responsibilities?
Ephesians 5:25 · 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13 · Psalm 127:3The Final Word
The Muppets offers rare family entertainment that is both genuinely fun and morally encouraging. Its mild environmentalist message and comic violence are worth noting, but the whole family can enjoy its clean humor, warmth, and strong emphasis on love and support. WORTH THE TRIP.
