It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963)

I don't know alot about the story behind the making of this film, but I'm guessing that Stanley Kramer, who normally directed dramas, wanted to do an all-star slapstick comedy. I've seen parts of the movie when I was younger but recently watched the whole movie. Watching the movie in 2022, 60 years after it was first released, it feels like a product of its time. Dialogue and jokes seem very old fashioned and dated, such as when Buddy Hacket calls the mother-in-law character (Ethel Merman) an old bag and various other names. Mickey Rooney is cast as Hacket's best friend, but he seems really miscast among the other comedians. It was nice to see a couple of Black comedians such as Eddie Anderson but when they appear they only appear for a few seconds, sadly.

As I watched the movie I kept thinking of a better title. I thought "Greedy" might be good, since all the characters are rushing to find a stash of hidden cash before the other does.

This movie reminded me of another film I enjoyed watching on tv as a kid years ago - "Scavenger Hunt". I remember enjoying it at the time but maybe it doesn't hold up, either; will have to look for it one day.

Another review from:
Confessions of a Film Philistine

The Muppet Movie (1979) and Muppets from Space (1999)

I love how this movie attempts to tells the story of how the Muppet characters first "met".  We first meet Kermit the Frog who leaves his swamp and heads to Hollywood on a road trip, uniting him with the other puppets from the show along the way. And also along the way we see a number of celebrity cameos: Orson Welles, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and more. Also making an appearance (final film role) is Edgar Bergen, who was a pioneering puppeteer/ventriloquist famous for performing the "Charlie McCarthy" dummy in vaudeville, radio, film, and television, as well as an inspiration for Henson and his puppeteers. Most modern audiences will probably only know him from this film, but he was pretty popular decades earlier.

There's a subplot involving greedy restaurant entrepreneur Charles Durning who wants to exploit Kermit's talent for his frog-leg restaurant chain. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film three and half stars and called it "magical". I really enjoyed watching this again on its twentieth anniversary year in September of 1999, the same year that Muppets from Space came out in theaters, which I went to see. It was OK, but lacked the excitement of the original.