Kermit's Swamp Years
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Kermit's Swamp Years is a 2002 direct-to-video film, directed by David Gumpel, featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, including a 12-year-old Kermit and best friends Goggles and Croaker, who travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives. The film, which tells the story of Kermit the Frog's early life, is a prequel to The Muppet Movie. As of 2002, this is the last Muppet film to receive a G rating from the MPAA, as a few later Muppet films, starting with the TV Christmas film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, which aired in the same year, have received a PG rating from the MPAA.
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Cast & Crew.
Jim Henson
Creator
Steve Whitmire
Kermit the Frog
Bill Barretta
Croaker
Joey Mazzarino
Goggles
John E. Kennedy
Blotch
Alice Dinnean
Pilgrim
Jerry Nelson
Statler
Dave Goelz
Waldorf
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Kermit's Swamp Years is a 2002 American direct-to-video buddy road adventure film directed by David Gumpel and featuring The Muppets. The plot recounts the early life of Kermit the Frog, offering a prequel to the 1979 Muppet Movie.
Young Kermit ventures beyond his swamp home for the first time, alongside friends Goggles and Croaker, all sharing an extraordinary adventure.
Kermit's Swamp Years was first broadcast on August 18, 2002 on the Starz network, with VHS and DVD releases the following month.
Although produced at Disney-MGM Studios, film rights are held by Sony Pictures rather than The Walt Disney Company.