Python Hyena Muppets From Space (1999): Dir: Timothy Hill / Cast: Jeffrey Tambor, F. Murray Abraham, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell, Rob Schneider: Perhaps the worst of the Muppet films and a definite disgrace to the Jim Henson name. Story opens with a dream where Gonzo is rejected from Noah's ark. He sets out to find out who or what he is. His breakfast cereal indicates that he is from outer space. Too bad it didn't inform him that he was involved in a stupid family film. Jeffrey Tambor plays the villain and he has radar sightings of alien activity and he looks to kidnap Gonzo for tests. While Gonzo and Rizzo the rat chew as much scenery as possible, other Muppets are given little to do. Miss Piggy is featured as a talk show host, and Kermit the frog is given nothing to work with. Horribly directed by Timothy Hill who just doesn't seem to be with the spirit of the Muppets. Tambor is amusing in an otherwise thankless role of a cardboard villain. Other live actors overact to the extremes including F. Murray Abraham, David Arquette, Rob Schneider, and Andie MacDowell. All have done better work in much better films but here they are easily upstaged by the puppets. Sure, the Muppets are the film but the celebrity appearances should count for something other than what they are reduced to here. The whole idea surrounding Gonzo's existence had potential but unfortunately it is reduced to idiocy. Score: 2 / 10

kylehaines96 Director Tim Hill gives us the sixth Muppet Movie with Muppets From Space. The film follows Gonzo who has always been classified as a whatever and wishes to find out what he truly is. When he gets kidnapped by Edgar K. Singer played by Jeffrey Tambor for a top secret government agency to find aliens. Even though this is this is most often called the runt of The Muppet movies I personally found it to be funny, entertaining, and a lot of fun to watch. I really Recommend it for a really good time.Rated G.1hr 28min/88min.****/****

tattooedvirgo I DO like this movie; I appreciate the wry humor and off beat references, but this is NOT a movie for young children...there are too many confusing adult references and the opening salvo of having Noah reject Gonzo for being "different" really upset my 3 year old granddaughter..And Miss Piggy getting repeatedly hit in the face was the final moment before we turned it off... however my 8 year old grandson really likes this movie..This is not your typical early issue Muppet Movie.. More appropriate for pre-teen and up.Pass this one by for the young members of your family!!

DeanNYC If we can understand anything about The Muppets, it's that they are kind, true to their characters, enjoy fun, are self-deprecating, mean well even if they do wrong, and ultimately are about the positives that live in the souls of everyone.All of that is one hundred and eighty degrees from "Muppets From Space," a film that bears absolutely no resemblance to any of the elements that defined the Muppets while Jim Henson was alive. This film is filled with insult humor, gratuitous violent behavior and scary images, most of which are inappropriate for children to see, and all of which are completely out of character for The Muppets.As an example, in the very first moments of the film, Gonzo is trapped in the storm that will flood the earth. Noah doesn't permit him to enter the ark because he doesn't know what he is! It's a horrible message to send at the very start, and the film only goes downhill from that point. It's not funny, it's not entertaining, it's not meaningful and it's not Muppet.If nothing else, "Muppets From Space" proves what a visionary Jim Henson was, and that, unfortunately, no one in his organization grasped his philosophy, even slightly. Now you know why the Muppets have languished since Jim left.