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Ranking the Celebrity Cameos of The Muppets (New York Magazine)
The big-screen revival of _The Muppets_ did pretty well this past weekend,
both at the box office (where it survived a brutal same-day pileup of family
films) and with the critics (where its 98 percent fresh rating on Rotten
Tomatoes places it above even _The Artist_ and _The Descendants_). And though
those are usually the only two metrics that matter with a movie, when you’re
evaluating a Muppet movie, there’s a third set of criteria you have to judge,
too: How were the celebrity cameos? Fortunately, Vulture is here to help, and
we’ve taken the liberty of ranking the famous walk-on roles in _The Muppets_
from “best-used” to “biggest missed opportunity.”
****Dave Grohl: ****The Foo Fighters front man is no stranger to fill-in
drumming (he recently subbed for an ailing member of Cage the Elephant), and
in _The Muppets_, Grohl played the stand-in to drumming maniac Animal in the
movie’s bizarro version of our heroes, “The Moopets.” It’s a brief cameo that
works on several levels, and it’s hilarious to see a super-eager Grohl
towering over his Moopet bandmates after they finish their gig. Too bad it
means that we’ll never get Courtney Love as …
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