The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper (1981) is a family comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jim Henson himself. Charles Grodin plays the villain with cheerful commitment, Diana Rigg commands the fashion world, and a parade of cameos — John Cleese, Peter Falk, Peter Ustinov — pop in and out as the story demands.

Kermit and Fozzie are twin newspaper reporters (go with it) dispatched to London after a famous designer's jewellery collection is stolen. Kermit falls for Miss Piggy, who has told everyone she IS the designer. Meanwhile the actual thief, the designer's brother Nicky — whose office door reads "Nicky: Irresponsible Parasite" — is planning a second heist and engineering it so that Miss Piggy takes the blame.

The film is looser and wilder than the first Muppet movie, which is saying something. Henson breaks the fourth wall whenever he feels like it and stages one bicycle number that defies what puppets are supposed to be able to do. Stream The Great Muppet Caper online on iFILM.