The Extended Version of The Muppet Christmas Carol Is the Only Way to Watch the Holiday Classic

Today happens to beryllium a bully time to ticker Brian Henson’s The Muppet Christmas Carol as the household vacation classical celebrates its theatrical merchandise anniversary. The 1992 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—starring Michael Caine arsenic Scrooge, 1 of the lone humans alongside an ensemble of Muppets (in Henson Company tradition)—remains an all-timer retelling of the tale.

For those acceptable to commencement their vacation movie curations for the month, The Muppet Christmas Carol is presently streaming connected Disney+. However, movie nerds and hardcore Muppets fans cognize the lone mode to ticker the movie is successful its archetypal form, with the formerly chopped opus “When Love is Gone,” written by predominant Henson collaborator Paul Williams, reinstated into the film’s cut. This implicit mentation comes acknowledgment to the reel that featured the opus having been precocious unearthed and utilized to hole a 4K remaster of the classical film.

The country is an important one: the opus marks a poignant infinitesimal successful the movie wherever Scrooge makes a prime betwixt emotion and work, resulting successful a beautifully bittersweet representation of erstwhile helium became a cold, heartless man.

Watching the complete, extended mentation of the movie isn’t arsenic casual arsenic accessing the edited version, which is what volition play if you hunt for The Muppet Christmas Carol connected Disney+. Instead, erstwhile you get to the main paper for the movie you’ll request to scroll down and click “Extras” to find the 89-minute “full-length version.”

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It’s worthy the effort, though (fair warning) there’s nary mode to resume the movie if you exit it astatine immoderate point; lone intermission seems to enactment which is reasonably inconvenient. It truly needs its ain Disney+ leafage (similar to the alternate sing-along mentation pages for Moana and Encanto) to optimize entree to the Henson movie arsenic it was intended to beryllium experienced.

Throughout, of course, it’s filled with amusive tunes sung by Kermit the Frog arsenic Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy, and the remainder of the merry Muppets pack successful their mentation of Dickens’ festive classic. Having Williams’ underrated romanticist ballad look earlier successful the movie helps marque the film’s past song—”When Love Is Found/It Feels Like Christmas”—bring adjacent much affectional interaction to the finale.

Image: The Jim Henson Company

Find The Muppet Christmas Carol connected Disney+.

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