A Muppet movie is usually cheered on whether it is good or bad or in between. This time many said that this was a really good movie. Critics cheered on especially Jennifer. They enjoyed her enthusiastic performance and felt that she carried the audience along with her. Well I can’t deny that it's a joy to see her acting with the lengendary Muppets. And as someone else said she should be declared 'an honorary Muppet'. That’s about the most awarding thing someone can say in the ‘World of the Muppets’, ain't it.
Jennifer plays an arrogant and fat innkeeper called Mrs Bluveridge, who slams into pirate puppets with her padded belly. She screams at anything that comes in her way but sucks up to the custumers of coarse. Although she wouldn’t win the award for boss of the year. She stil helps Jim and the boys to escape. How’s that for a heart of gold, eh.
I accepted immediately, because the Muppets are such huge, massive stars and I have been a fan, for as long as I can remember them being alive! I was really flattered to be asked. In my kids eyes, celebrity status does not compare to the fact that I am in a Muppet movie! As far as they are concerned I have finally made it, and you thank God they’ve asked you, at last! This is my entry into Hollywood!
It is definitely one of my most glamorous roles! I play the landlady of the Benbow Inn, where Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo live as cleaning boys. We work in a very small space, which is quite difficult in my condition! I think it’s called obesity! I knock them all about a bit and sen them flying. In fact there are probably a couple of Muppets up my skirts right now that I don’t know about! I am having to be operated as well - you can’t just come and act in a Muppet Movie -- there is always someone underneath. That’s why I look so big -- there is a Henson somewhere under there operating me as I speak!
I thought it was going to be quite hard to act with puppets but it’s not, it’s very easy -- easier than actors. They behave much better, and they are much funnier! After a while you don’t look at the puppeteer at all. They play together so well, and in between takes the Muppets ad lib. I loved it all!
I got direction from Brian Henson in the conventional sense. Things should go flying and I shout and spit. It’s like working in a little Disneyland set, perfect and small, except for me! I have to beat off pirates to get the boys safely on their journey that leads into the adventure. I think of it as the most important part of the film.
Yo-ho-ho! Cast off for hilarious high-seas adventure with all your favourite Muppets in this swashbuckling send-up of Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal tale! The fun begins when young Jim Hawkins, with pals Gonzo, Rizzo and notorious one-legged pirate Long John Silver (Tim Curry) board a rickety ship on a quest for buried treasure. Commanded by the dashing Captain Smollet (Kermit the Frog) and his all-Muppet crew, the motley bunch sails for a remote island. There, Silver and his mutinous clan of cut-throats kidnap young Jim and his treasure map! Although Smollet stages a heroic rescue, he’s no match for the island queen of the warthogs - none other than his scorned lost love Benjamina Gunn (Miss Piggy). Wide critical acclaim, dazzling musical numbers and irrelevant madcap humour make 'Muppet Treasure Island' a richly entertaining film for all ages!
Mrs Bluveridge: Hey, gentleman. It’s closing time. Ooh, raise your belts and then you shuff off. Come on, out you go. Men: Aaaah. Mrs Bluveridge: Ooh, drunk again, are you. Cow: Boooh. Mrs Bluveridge: And boys look at the state of this place. How comst it gets to be such a pigsty, he. Men: Aaaah. Mrs Bluveridge: No offence mend, gentlemen. Serious, no offence mend. Man: Here’s to you boys. Mrs Bluveridge: Aaaaah. Out you go. Don’t forget and come back tomorrow for our lunch time special roast suckling potato stew. No offence Madame. No offence, ha ha ha. Aaaah.
Mrs Bluveridge: Right boys, when you’ve finished you can go and clear up in the kitchen. I left some table scraps for you in there for your supper. Oh yes, and boys last night you forgot to put out the lantern. If you forget that again there will be no table scraps for a week. Aaaah.
Jim: Navigating my father’s old compass to wherever the wind may take us. Gonzo: Yeah, off to Zanzibar to meet the Zanzabarians. Rizzo: Here they go again. Jim: To the Southwest. Partisans. Gonzo: To the Southeast. Multi-armed Zanzibarian short women and their exploding wigs of death. Mrs Bluveridge: To the Northwest. Dirty dishes. Jim: I’ll wash. Gonzo: I’ll dry. Rizzo: I’ll break.
Jim: Mrs Bluveridge. Mrs Bluveridge: Can’t a woman get her beauty sleep anymore. Ooh, Jim what your doing. Pirates: Open up in there we want the map. And we’ll scar anybody who’s in the way. Mrs Bluveridge: Quick Jim the back stairs. Come on. Run, run. Pirates: Aaaaah Mrs Bluveridge: Aaaah. Get out of my inn, you tattooed miseries. How will I get a night sleep alone. You come here, you.
Jim: Wait a minute. What about Mrs Bluveridge. Mrs Bluveridge: I’ll be fine boys run for it. All: How does she do that. Mrs Bluveridge: Who’s gonna clean this all up.
After filming was done Jennifer took her children to meet Miss Piggy and Kermit.