Muppet Treasure Island

⭐7/10

I liked this movie as a kid, but I didn't exactly love it. Muppet humour is so weird because it's hard to know who the audience is. Much of it is for adults, and yet some of it is so silly it's hard for adults to sit through the whole thing. 

Well, I still liked but didn't love it, watching it now 20 years later. My likes and dislikes are all different now, but it still has that problem of not really having an audience. It was pretty funny at times, and Tim Curry was absolutely born to play a pirate, but there are also huge lulls to sit through. One of my primary takeaways was that the story is pretty cool and it makes me want to read Treasure Island. The Muppets always do a great job of adapting classics, having plenty of lines right from the book, but also, ya know, the pirate ship doubles as a cruise ship for Rizzo's rat friends. 

Good movie, maybe one to watch with your 8 year old as is the intended experience.