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At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Steve Whitmire
- Kermit the Frog
- (voice)
- …
Bill Barretta
- Croaker
- (voice)
- …
Joey Mazzarino
- Goggles
- (voice)
- (as Joseph Mazzarino)
- …
John Kennedy
- Blotch
- (voice)
- …
Jerry Nelson
- Statler
- (voice)
Dave Goelz
- Waldorf
- (voice)
Cree Summer
- Pilgrim
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKermit is the only regular Muppet to appear in the movie, unless you count Statler and Waldorf's cameo at the movie theater.
- GoofsIn the scene where Young Kermit, Croaker, and Pilgrim are under the bench in George Washington High School, a dark moving figure (possibly Bill Barretta) is seen moving with Croaker.
- Quotes
Goggles, Turtle #1: Oh... I get it! Dissection must be some kind of full body massage.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #28.9 (2003)
- SoundtracksZip Zibbit Za Ba
Words and Music by Joe Carroll and Peter Thom
Performed by Bill Barretta (as Horace D' Fly)
Featured review
It has been many years since Kermit has been home so he gets on his scooter and heads back to the swamp. Driving down the road to the swamp Kermit reminisces about the first time he saw that road. He was only a small frog when he and his friends ventured out onto it for the first time only for two of them to get picked up by a driver in a red truck. Kermit and his other friend were forced to set out after the truck to try and rescue their friends from the terrors of the outside world.
Using the hook of the famous Muppet character in his early years, this film delivers a version of Toy Story where Kermit is forced out into the unfamiliar world to rescue his friends (although where this leaves Muppet Babies in the Muppet universe is beyond me). The plot is basic though and lacks any real emotion or intelligence in the way that Toy Story was and the total film is pretty basic. It has a few laughs along the way for adults but mainly this will appeal to younger children who will be amused by the puppets and engaged by the bad guy of Dr Krassman. I doubt very much though that such basic antics will appeal to older viewers certainly not to adult viewers who have fond memories of the wit and energy of the Muppet Show.
The voice work is all fine, with Whitmire doing a good job as Kermit, while Barretta, Goelz, Mazzarino and others all fill in well enough. The human cast are so-so; Haggard's not great and try as he might, Hostetter isn't that great a bad guy and can't pull of genuine menace and comedy so he ends up doing neither particularly well. The tone of the film is overly comic and it does prevent it do anything of significance. Overall a so-so film that will please young children but doesn't do anything else well enough to be of greater value.
Using the hook of the famous Muppet character in his early years, this film delivers a version of Toy Story where Kermit is forced out into the unfamiliar world to rescue his friends (although where this leaves Muppet Babies in the Muppet universe is beyond me). The plot is basic though and lacks any real emotion or intelligence in the way that Toy Story was and the total film is pretty basic. It has a few laughs along the way for adults but mainly this will appeal to younger children who will be amused by the puppets and engaged by the bad guy of Dr Krassman. I doubt very much though that such basic antics will appeal to older viewers certainly not to adult viewers who have fond memories of the wit and energy of the Muppet Show.
The voice work is all fine, with Whitmire doing a good job as Kermit, while Barretta, Goelz, Mazzarino and others all fill in well enough. The human cast are so-so; Haggard's not great and try as he might, Hostetter isn't that great a bad guy and can't pull of genuine menace and comedy so he ends up doing neither particularly well. The tone of the film is overly comic and it does prevent it do anything of significance. Overall a so-so film that will please young children but doesn't do anything else well enough to be of greater value.
- bob the moo
- Oct 22, 2005
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Rainbow Connections
- Filming locations
- 220 N Lakeview Avenue, Winter Garden, Florida, USA(Jim Henson's house)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) in Brazil?
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