THE MUPPETS FOR MNET STARS

Two movies involving the popular Muppets to be screened on MNet Stars on December 22 and 23.

The MNet Stars channel will screen two movies involving the popular Muppets on MNet Stars on December 22 and 23.

Muppets From Space can be seen on December 22 at 19h30. Directed by Andie MacDowell in 1999, it stars Kermit the Frog and Rizzo Rat. When Gonzo the Muppet finds a message in his bowl of cereal, he becomes convinced that his real family are aliens and that they are coming to fetch him.

Gonzo the Muppet has been having strange dreams, and when his cereal turns up the letters “R u there?”, he becomes convinced that he’s being contacted by aliens from space. As he watches the night skies, he attracts the attention of a government agent, who is desperate to find proof of the existence of aliens. Soon Gonzo is snatched, and it’s up to his Muppet pals – Rizzo, Kermit and Miss Piggy, among others – to save him and get him to a very important rendezvous.

It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie will be screened on December 23 at 19h45. Directed by Kirk R Thatcher in 2002, it stars Liam Aiken (voice) and Joan Cusack. This is a charmer in which a depressed Kermit the Frog gets a visit from an angel who shows him what would have happened to his friends if he never existed.

Kermit the Frog gets horribly depressed when he is unable to save his beloved Muppet Theatre from the clutches of a greedy banker. At that point, God sends an angel to earth to show Kermit that the world would have been a far worse place had Kermit never existed – restoring the Muppet’s faith that everything is possible with the support of family and friends.