Muppets fans it's been well over a year since we say anything new from The Muppets brand and out of nowhere they announce that they they have made a Muppets halloween special for Disney+. Well the special in question has now been released and well i was just so intrigued by the title of this special that you just knew that I had to check out my / this very SPOILER FREE special and so here is my review of what I think is quite possibly the worst Muppets Disney production with the special in question being called simply just "Muppets Haunted Mansion" enjoy.
The plot of this special is that both Gonzo and Pepe are invited to spend the night at the most haunted house in the world where both of them are both challenged to face there fears and to find away to escape the house in question before they to become ghosts and trapped inside the very house in question for forever. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this special in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the plot of this special was rather weak which is a shame because the idea alone could have made for a rather interesting and possibly even a rather freaking funny special or film or whatever in my opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Dave Goelz as The Great Gonzo , Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as a Staring Bust , Waldorf as a Happy Haunt , Zoot as a member of Madame Pigota's ghost band and Chip Pickwick the Chandelier Ghost and this specials co-writer and co-producer Bill Barretta as Pepe The King Prawn , Rowlf The Dog as The Organist , Dr. Teeth as a member of Madame Pigota's ghost band , Johnny Fiama as one of Constance Hatchaway's husbands , Howard Tubman as a Happy Haunt , Bobo The Bear as a Happy Haunt , Big Mean Carl as a Happy Haunt and The Swedish Chef as a Happy Haunt. Also starring in this special is Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy as herself and Madame Pigota , Fozzie Bear as himself and Gauzey the Hatbox Bear , Sam Eagle as a Duelist and Animal as a member of Madame Pigota's ghost band , Matt Vogel as Kermit the Frog as himself and a ghost , Floyd Pepper as a member of Madame Pigota's ghost band , Pops as a Duelist , Crazy Harry as a Happy Haunt , Dr. Strangepork as a Stretching Portrait of a Man in Quicksand , Lew Zealand as one of Constance Hatchaway's husbands , Uncle Deadly as the Justice of the Peace and Sweetums , Peter Linz as Walter as one of Constance Hatchaway's husbands , Link Hogthrob as a Stretching Portrait of a Man in Quicksand , Lips as a member of Madame Pigota's band , Robin The Frog as the Birthday Ghost and Statler as a Happy Haunt , David Rudman as Scooter as himself and as a ghost , Janice as a member of Madame Pigota's band and Beaker as a Staring Bust and Brian Henson as Sal Minella as one of Constance Hatchaway's husbands and Dr. Phil Van Neuter as a Happy Haunt.
Now then in terms of this special human cast we have Will Arnett as Ghost Host and Yvette Nicole Brown as the Hearse Driver. Also starring in the human cast for this special are Darren Criss as The Caretaker , Taraji P. Henson as Constance Hatchaway , Kim Irvine as Maid , Quinn McPherson as Hallway Night , John Stamos as himself , the late Ed Asner as Claude , Jeannie Mai as Maude , Chrissy Metz as Harriet , Alfonso Ribeiro as Fred , Danny Trejo as Huet and Sasheer Zamata as Mary. Now in terms of what I personally thought about the acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was shockingly really good and that's from both the Muppets cast and the human cast in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then after doing some very basic and some very freaking quick research I found that this special is actually the very first Muppets special since 2008's A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. What is even more shocking is that the director of that special Kirk R. Thatcher also directed this special as well and honestly I hope to god that they don't get this guy to direct any more Muppets special because just based of this one special the director of this special seems like that he's a freaking terrible freaking director in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I think that it's pretty freaking obvious what Disneyland ride that this special is borrowing elements from since it's right there in the freaking title. However I have to ask why did they use The Haunted Mansion ride as a basis for this special especially when they had The Tower Of Terror ride that they could have used as a basis for this special plus very little to no people actually talk about The Haunted Mansion ride or The Haunted Mansion movie for that matter in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.
So now then this is I believe the first Muppets production to have Gonzo be a main character since 1999's Muppets From Space and well I really cannot see a reason as to why future Muppets productions don't have Gonzo be a main character. Since his character gets so little focus in all forms of live Muppets media anyways and so it would only make sense for Gonzo to be the main character of at least a few Muppets productions in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then for some reason even tho Pepe The King Prawn is technically still a main character in this film the character just straight up disappears near the end of this movie. Don't get me wrong they give an actual plausible reason as to why he disappears but since he adds nothing to the actual plot of the special I almost forgot that he was a main character in this special and that is not a good thing at all in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then this very /particular Muppets special has / had a grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and fifty one seconds and well in all honesty I in all honesty think / feel that this very / particular special could or even should have been a lot longer. Heck you even could have made this special the very Muppets Disney+ feature length film since there's more then story here to cover at the vert least one hour and thirty minuets in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then since this special is a comedy special after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual jokes that are featured / presented to us in this very special and well in all honesty I in all honesty think / feel that the actual jokes that actually featured / presented to us in this very special are perhaps the worst aspect of this very special. Since so few of this specials jokes are actually funny which for a Muppets production is not a good thing at all in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this is just an average The Muppets special which for the The Muppets isn't even close to even being anywhere near good enough in my opinion anyways / at least now can I see little kids being entertained by this special yes of course since this special is very freaking entertaining but The Muppets was meant to be for the whole family and not just little kids when one half of your target audience isn't laughing then you quite clearly have a huge freaking problem in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that means that this very special earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Muppets fandom wiki page and from the official Disney fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images that I actually and personally used in this very special being the official The Muppets fandom wiki page just simply due to the fact that nearly all of the images that are up , and n and featured on the official The Muppets fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition in my opinion anyways / at least.
