The movie is a Jim Henson production of Robert Louis Stevenson's seafaring novel, Treasure Island, with a full cast of Muppets and pals.  The musical score, starting from the first note of the opening song, is a wide, elaborate and classy orchestral piece that would be at ease in any major motion picture and then totally crashes down into Muppet-land.  Muppet music is great, mind you, but the opening piece is classic.

Miss Piggy's entrance is suitably exotic and catchy.

Got kids?  I'm sure you've seen this.  If not, get it.

Gonzo:  On a five year mission, going where no man has ever gone before.  Hey, that's catchy.

Gonzo:  Wow! What an exit!  Flying through a brick wall!

Kermit:  I'm sorry.  I got cold feet.
Miss Piggy:  You're a frog.  You are supposed to have cold feet.

Kermit: Don't cry for me Benjamina.

While Conspiracy Theory is my favorite Mel Gibson flick, this rates probably second.  Mel plays the rich executive Tom Mullen who's son is kidnapped for ransom.

In the beginning you get that Tom is too busy for family.  That his "2000 employee" company has to come first.  This is surely a problem for him, but he feels that in the overall scheme of things that prioritizing the business is better for his family overall.

When his son Sean is kidnapped, Tom's outlook changes.  He's frantic.  Maybe even more so than his wife.  He's running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to let the cops do their job.  A slight problem I have with the film is that the lead cop, Agent Lonnie Hawkins, gives you the distinct feeling that he is a mule--that he is in on it.  Maybe it's just other roles that Delroy Lindo has done, or his mannerisms, but I always feel like he's in on it.  But it's that kind of grab you and hold on tension that makes this such a good movie.

After a botched ransom drop, Tom starts to balk.  He realizes that even if he pays he may never see Sean again.  Tensions raise between Tom and his wife, who sees Tom's actions as endangering her son.

Tom turns the 2 Million dollar ransom into a 4 Million dollar reward on the head of the kidnappers and everyone starts turning on everyone, including his wife.

Tensions keep building until the last bullet fires.  A definite "see" and a "see again and again."

Tonight TNT showed a pretty good movie that I have never seen, which is amazing in itself.  Executive Decision with Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal.  Dr. Phil Grant, played by Kurt, is an Intelligence Analyst or the US Military.

In the first few minutes, Kurt Russell, is getting ready to take off on his first solo flight certification.  (Any bets on him having to fly the jumbo jet?)  He receives a phone call.  The call was portrayed using flashback sequence which you rarely see, but really should.  It was a great use of a flashback sequence.  They told the whole story of what happened in seconds, without leaving it to just the "Hello? ... Be right there." that you get in other movies.

A friend of mine watching with me said that if he remembers right, Steven Seagal didn't die when he flung out of the top of the fighter plane without a helmet, oxygen, or a parachute, 100 miles out over the ocean when the plane went down.  He seems to remember that he gets picked up by another plane.  Apparently with Infinite Improbability Drive, or something, cause I think he's whacked.

The plane got a big whole blasted in the side and all this paper flies around and people fly out the hole.  Never did figure that one out.

Oh and look.  Kurt Russell has to land the plane.  Who would of thought that would happen?  Although having the stewardess read the manual to him was a nice addition.  And of course, the stewardess is Halle Berry.  She's always a nice addition.

He crashes the airliner and even demolishes his little Cessna.  The director chose to use the same, tired head-on air crash clipping seen in several other movies.  Sigh.

But it's a pretty good movie, even if it's slightly predictable in places.  And Steven, well.  We don't see him again.

Soldier: I take back every rust-kicking, squid-eatin' thing I've ever said about swabbies.

[After crashing the plane]
Phil: These things almost land themselves, don't they?

The long blonde hair woman (think 70's hippie free-love type) come up and tells her old boyfriend that she has a 17 year old son that she never told him about, and that he's run away.  Then she goes up and tells another old boyfriend the same story, including the part about the boy being his.

In trying to track down their long lost son(s), the men meet up and realize that she told both of them the same story.  But they are determined to find the kid anyway.  After a few pretty funny incidents, including the misconception of a bizarre improper relationship, they finally get the boy home.

The mother admits to the boy that neither man is his real father and that her husband who he grew up with always was.  He went out and told the other men separately that they were each his father and they left happy.

Kinda funny.   I don't think either Billy Crystal or Robin Williams would count this among their top movies.  Although it's a lot closer to Billy Crystal's movies than Robin Williams. 

Mel Gibson makes a great cameo as a drugged-out pierced tattoo artist groupie guy.  I almost didn't recognize him and probably wouldn't of except for his very unique voice.  It's Mel all right.  I had to back up and watch it again.

Dale: "I teach English as a third language at the Jewish Community Center."

Bob: "You aren't a mime are you?"
Dale: "Used to be"
Bob: "I hate them."