The Muppet Christmas Carol – The Ultimate Christmas Movie | One Room With A View: This was the first Muppet film released since the death of Muppeteer Richard Hunt and Muppets creator – and voice of Kermit – Jim Henson. Although Steve Whitmire brilliantly took up playing Kermit, Hunt and Henson’s deaths resonated among the team and none more so than for the director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, Brian Henson – Jim’s son. When the camera focuses on Tiny Tim’s empty chair in the Cratchit home, it symbolises the void Henson and Hunt have left in the Muppet family, but through, song, colour and humour Tim is saved and lives on, as will they through the Muppet legacy.
A joyous, hilarious, sing-along treat for the festive season, the film is faithful to the source while also being riotously anarchic. But at its core the film contains an emotional honesty that finds form in its redemptive message of love, understanding and goodwill to all men (and Muppets).