WARNING!!!
If you watch this movie, it will be 2 hours of your life that you will never get back!
I watched this movie because I held respect for Jim Henson. I grew up on Sesame Street and the Muppets. I enjoyed watching the Muppets movies. I thought it had to be relatively good or at least somewhat nostalgic if Jim Henson was involved. I couldn't have been more wrong.
I kept thinking that the terrible haunting circus music would eventually change, but it didn't. I kept thinking that there would be an interesting and creative twist to the plot, but it never came. This movie was nothing more than a parade of wierdness put to psychedelic circus music. The singing robots scene toward the end was a rude slap in the face to The Carpenters. If someone related to The Carpenters gave them permission to use that song in the movie, it was a move they are likely regretting. In the movie, the Dark Queen perverts the song, "Close to You," and uses it to put the main character into a mind altering trance which turns her to the dark side.
Perhaps the creatures and masks were imaginative, but there was nothing imaginative about the storyline - same old fairytail of good kingdom vs. bad kingdom with a youth that saves the day.
If you like to watch freaky wierdness with no particular point to it, this movie is for you. If not, do yourself a favor and don't watch it!