'Muppets Most Wanted' movie review: Kermit the Frog, a comic
caper -- and a case of deja vu  Follow on Twitter on March 21,
2014 at 6:20 AM, updated March 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM  Tracking the
trajectory of the Muppets' big-screen career reveals a pretty-
hard-to-miss arc. It's roughly the same arc you'd get if you
viewed Gonzo the Great in profile.  This is a franchise that was
at its height in 1979 with the lovely, lively and laugh-filled
original "Muppet Movie." The eagerly awaited sequel would end up
being a somewhat less lovely and less lively caper film ("The
Great Muppet Caper"), followed by a string of decreasingly
clever movies that would eventually to a Gonzo-shaped nose-dive
into shrug-worthy material worthy of little more than the
direct-to-DVD bin.  Fast-forward to the post-Disney-acquisition
of Jim Henson's beloved creations and the subsequent rebooting
of the franchise, and it's hard not to feel a bit of déjà vu.
The Muppets' second big-screen life launched with 2011's lovely,
lively and laugh-fill