Strictly for kids, and the younger the better. The simplicity of the images, the queer lunar lighting, and the 3-D-ish, split-level compositions give you the feeling of looking at a View-Master rather than at a movie. Jim Henson's dead-eyed puppets are pretty uninteresting as shapes and colors, and no matter how much they are magnified, they lack presence on the big screen (they look as though they would be a sure hit at a five-year-old's birthday party, however), as they make their way through a California-here-I-come storyline, several goopy Paul Williams songs, and countless, pointless cameo appearances by the likes of Dom DeLuise, James Coburn, Madeline Kahn, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, and Orson Welles. Directed by James Frawley. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd
This movie is not currently in theaters.