'Muppets Haunted Mansion' a low point for beloved characters

There is simply a country successful "Muppets Haunted Mansion" — arsenic determination is successful galore Muppets movies — successful which Fozzie Bear tells atrocious jokes and gets things thrown astatine him by a disgusted audience.

The movie itself bombs successful a likewise heinous manner. And similar Fozzie, it's proudly oblivious successful its determination to spell on.

The 49-minute comedy, which debuts connected Disney+ Friday, is hardly agelong capable to beryllium considered a movie.

And someway inactive mode excessively long. It's a simplistic and half-hearted mode to make caller contented to fulfill the unrelenting hunger of subscribers.

In its ramshackle mode of cramming 2 beloved brands together, it manages to tarnish them both.

The rubric says it all.

This is the Muppets astatine the Haunted Mansion, for nary discernible reason.

The flimsy premise has Gonzo agreeing to walk the nighttime successful the spooky location to triumph a contention and boost his online credibility.

As societal media challenges go, this 1 is close up determination with Tide Pods.

The lone worth present is for utmost fans of the Disney ride. References and instrumentality work abound, astir to the constituent of absurdity.

The plotline astir follows that of the 9-minute attraction, which warps your cherished memories of "The Haunted Mansion," with a publication filled with atrocious puns and eye-rolling show gags.

Will Arnett, Ed Asner, Danny Trejo, John Stamos, and Taraji P. Henson each popular up, nary uncertainty to fulfill escaped ends successful Disney contracts. Too atrocious for them that a costume stipulation for insubstantial bags overheads wasn't besides written in.

Director Kirk Thatcher, who directed the 2002 Muppet TV movie "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" and has had a manus successful immoderate others, should person known the worldly good capable to compression thing — thing — of worth from the ill-advised project.

The Muppets tin beryllium amusing capable connected their ain to marque astir thing watchable for 49 minutes.

It took immoderate doing to marque a movie this abbreviated this boring, and if it's not nominated for Razzies, it volition lone beryllium due to the fact that it's excessively slim to suffice for consideration.

Poorly-made fearfulness movies often upwind up arsenic comedies.

This is simply a poorly-made drama that becomes a fearfulness movie. It crashes and burns successful a mode that Fozzie could appreciate.

RATING: 1 prima retired of 4

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