All hell breaks out when Sam Eagle loses his re-election campaign for dog catcher. Never mind that the job isn’t an elected position, there can only be one reason that some muppet who is so american wasn’t re-elected; election malfeasance. Sam’s trouble’s begin while during an interview, he recounts how he had to “put down” Gonzo for escaping confinement and “grabbing one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”. No amount of spin can shield Sam from the bleeding hearts who feel that every life, even a whatever like Gonzo, is sacred.
Hunkered down in the Eagle’s Nest, Sam is unsuccessful in weathering the bad press when an unlikely hero arrives to avenge him; Lew Zealand. Lew leads a convoy of muppets to midtown Manhattan to disrupt, bankrupt, and corrupt all those who oppose Sam. Calamity ensues over the next 6 hours as Lew and the muppets agitators destroy institution after institution in increasingly alarming — and hilarious, ways. Only one muppet can do anything about it, but will Sam stand in solidarity with the muppet muckrakers or will the rod up his ass prevent him for calling in the National Guard?
Look, could this pitch have been a funnier? Sure. But if you don’t see the parallels between Sam Eagle’s pro-America hard-on and Fox News or get a little chuckle over an oversized Blue Bird with Sam Waterston eyebrows dragging Gonzo to a gravel pit and blasting him in the face, then you’re on the wrong website. Timely, distasteful, and mildly erotic The Muppets Storm Manhattan is a salute to all nations, but mostly America.