9 Beloved Films With Boring Scenes That Everybody Ignores

2. The Muppets - We Built This City

The initial box office isn't looking too good for Muppets Most Wanted. Following on from The Muppets, which painstakingly brought the not-quite-mop, not-quite-puppets to a new generation, it seems that the success of Jason Segel's passion project may be muted by the sequel's flop. In a way it was silly to expect anything more. The first (or seventh if you go back through the whole franchise) film was an unexpected triumph, meta to just the right level and rightfully bagging the Best Original Song Oscar for Man Or Muppet. In fact, the only point the film ever faltered was when it left this ideology and the brilliant music of Bret McKenzie in favour of more traditional fare. When the gang, together again at last, clean up their dilapidated theatre they do it Starship's We Built This City. Played almost straight (or as straight-faced as the Muppet's can be) it's the exact sort of sequence the film itself had parodied earlier with its reuniting montage; light jokes, roll call of missed characters, you know the deal. When everything else uses McKenzie's fitting tunes, the admittedly great We Built This City just doesn't make any sense here, pedestrian in an thus far high reaching film.