Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas
DVD - 2005
In Frogtown Hollow live Emmet and Ma Otter, a family with little money but lots of love. With Christmas coming, they want very much to buy each other a store-bought gift, but are barely scraping by doing odd jobs. When a local talent contest offers a special prize. Emmet must make a sacrifice to join his jug band for the competition. Will the jug band prevail or will fierce competition from the Riverbottom Gang steal the show - and the prize?
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Publisher:
[United States] : Hit Entertainment, c2005
Edition:
Collector's ed
ISBN:
9781586683955
1586683950
1586683950
Branch Call Number:
DVD (JUV)
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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In Frogtown Hollow live Emmet and Ma Otter, a family with little money but lots of love. With Christmas coming, they want very much to buy each other a store-bought gift, but are barely scraping by doing odd jobs. When a local talent contest offers a special prize. Emmet must make a sacrifice to ... Read More »
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ArapahoeTina
Feb 06, 2020
Ma Otter: Emmet, what do you say? Sounds better than selling snake oil.
Emmet: Why, sure. Nobody want to oil a snake these days!
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Add a CommentThis is a must-watch for me every Christmas season. Jim Henson gives the classic tale "The Gift of the Magi" a Muppets-style makeover.
This was a good story, there was just no Christmas scenery.
This is one of the best Christmas specials ever commited to film. Jim Henson and Company tell this fantastic tale of a down on their luck mother and son, who through the Christmas season with buying each other a store bought gift. They both join the local talent contest to attain the top prize. What this special does, like any decent one, is put into focus that the amount a gift costs does not bear fruit in what a heartfelt gift would do in return. "Emmet Otters Jug-Band Christmas" special is a masterwork because of the well told story. And the singing is superb. Really, a very great treasure brought to us by the man who gave so many dreamers flight, Jim Henson :)
A Muppet classic. An incredible blending of fine detail, great story and original music that is a Muppet tradition. Some of the Muppet effects here are incredible, which of course is lost on today's CGI crowd.