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This August marks the 25th anniversary of Follow That Bird](Follow That Bird (1985) - Movie | Moviefone), the first movie based on the *Sesame Street *TV series. I like to think of it – though I sometimes forget to – as a part of the Muppet movie franchise. Yet despite some overlap of characters between *Sesame Street *and the Muppets, few others ever consider this movie when discussing the true Muppet installments, such as its immediate predecessor, 1984’s The Muppets Take Manhattan](The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) - Movie | Moviefone).The disparity in appreciation for the brands is even evident in the fact that *Manhattan *(which features much of the *Sesame Street *cast in cameos) was a relative success, grossing $25 million, while *Bird *(likewise featuring Kermit the Frog in a cameo) was considered a box office flop with final earnings of only $14 million.
Despite that financial disappointment, as well as the even bigger bomb that was 1999’s The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland](The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) - Movie | Moviefone), I’d like to see another attempt at a *Sesame Street *movie. While Jason Segel is off reviving the Muppet brand with a new movie promised to be as good as the originals, and while a *Fraggle Rock *film is in the works, as well, who will step in and similarly make a movie starring Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Ernie and Bert, along with the human cast, that’s as hilarious as Follow That Bird? Actually, can someone just hire *Bird *writers Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, who are longtime *Sesame Street *vets (they also wrote Don Bluth’s *An American Tail *and The Land Before Time)? And Ken Kwapis can return to direct since outside of TV work *Bird *is the best thing he’s ever done (seriously).
Anyone else, whether you have kids to bring to it or not, want another *Sesame Street *movie?