The Muppet Christmas Carol was released on 11 December 1992 but there is one sad song that did not make it into the final cut of the original cinema release of the film: a song called "When Love is Gone". When Love is Gone was cut from the film by Jeffrey Katzenberg because he thought the song would not be interesting or might upset little children. Jeffrey Katzenberg will be proved wrong so that he will reinstate the song "When Love is Gone" back into The Muppet Christmas Carol by making a brand new cut of the film for its 25th anniversary and will be rereleased on DVD and Blu-ray around the world, updated with new 1080p Blu-ray screencaps and reuploaded on all film and TV websites. Let's all hope The Muppet Christmas Carol will get a 25th anniversary with the song "When Love is Gone"!

This is a masterpiece. Not because it follows Dickens' marvelous story to the letter, but because it uses the Muppets to take the story to a wonderfully creative level. Michael Caine is Scrooge and he plays him really well. He never flinches at the fact that his clerk is a frog, that Tiny Tim is also a frog, and so on. Jacob Marley is played by those two old guys who carry on a commentary on the Muppet Show. As Scrooges wades through the famous story, meeting the ghosts of past, present, and yet to come, we are starting to believe that what we see on the screen are real characters. There are some wonderful songs that move the plot nicely along. Of course, the Muppets are incredible jokester, punning and dropping one-liners at will. Of course, we have to accept that Scrooge was apprenticed by old Fozziwig at a rubber chicken factory. Make this an annual event at the holidays.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is based on the story of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge(this time played by Micheal Caine)is visited by 3 ghosts one from the past,one from the present and one from the future,as Scrooge isn't very nice to anyone during the Christmas season so he gets to see stuff that may happen to him if he stays the way he is. So will Scrooge become a better man in the end of the movie?Overall I thought the puppeteers were great,the story was nice and the cast was great. I thought Micheal Caine was good as Scrooge as he was unrecognisable in this movie. If you haven't seen this film yet then do watch it before the Christmas period is over. Its definitely one to watch this Christmas.Also all the muppets are in this movie including Kermit,Miss Piggy and co.

"The Muppet Christmas Carol" is Brian Henson's take (Jim was already dead in 1992) on the famous Dickens novel from 23 years ago. It runs for slightly over 80 minutes and has some good parts, some not so good. First of all, Michael Caine is a brilliant actor and he shows it here as well. I would almost say he is too good for the part. Really strong performance that carries the film from start to finish. The Muppets I am usually not the biggest fan of and here they worked well sometimes and sometimes not so much. But as this one is especially for younger audiences, they are absolutely needed for the comic relief away from the dramatic, sometimes creepy story. I also enjoyed the music in here. In terms of emotional impact, this was only partly a success. Probably the loud and boastful Miss Piggy will take heart and feeling out of almost everything. And a little Kermit as Tiny Tim (one of the emotional highlights of the tale usually) is not working particularly well either. I enjoyed this one the most when it's humans only that we see, although I also liked for example the part when one of the gang climbs over an incredibly high fence with all his effort and shows us right afterward that he can easily get in right through the fence. As a whole, a decent watch at the holidays and if you like the Muppets in general, unlike me, you will probably appreciate this one even more than I did. Recommended.