Muppets from Space (or The Desperate Need for Quality Family Films)
Finding a movie that satisfies both the CoComelon-tier toddler and the adults is a perennial challenge for pizza-and-a-movie night. Then I stumbled on Muppets from Space. The kids were rapt, the parents weren't bored, no dodgy themes, and Gonzo finds his people.
Friday's pizza-and-a-movie night shifted to Thursdays starting this week (like you care). We've been doing this (or some variation of it) going back years. It wasn't so much an intentional tradition as it was my desire to have at least one evening a week with a simple, low-effort, no-cook / minimal-clean dinner. And some entertainment.
From the beginning, finding a movie that appeals to all of the kids has been a challenge. At times there's a toddler whose intellectual capacity is best described as CoComelon, and that's just not going to work for the rest of us when it comes to a movie choice. To make things more difficult, I'd like this to be a family thing, which means the adults have to not regret the movie choice. The catalog of family movie choices is just not impressive.
Randomly, I found Muppets from Space.
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I knew instantly that the kids would enjoy it. Glancing at the cast, I gave reasonable odds that the adults would enjoy it as well. And I was not disappointed.
