Muppets Most Wanted: The Junior Novel

Published	February 11, 2014
Publisher	Little Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN	9780316277648

Muppets Most Wanted: The Junior Novel is a book based on the film Muppets Most Wanted. This 147-page paperback novelization features an 8-page insert of movie photos.

Description

The Muppets are off on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe's most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine - the World's Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit-and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two.

Differences

The book includes many scenes and plot points that did not make it into the film as originally released in theaters:

• When Kermit (mistaken for Constantine) gets arrested in Berlin, the taxi to the Gulag was headed to Disneyland Paris.

• At the train station, Kermit addresses the Muppets about their trip. He shows them the train they'll be taking. The Muppets all awe at the shiny new Amtrak train, until it pulls out of the station revealing the run-down train they're actually using.

• Before the performance in Spain, Constantine refuses to go on at first because of the stage fright he suffered in Berlin. He argues about this with Dominic while Scooter listens at the door.

• When Kermit first meets Nadya at the Gulag, she explains a brief history of Constantine's past. It is revealed that he was abandoned by his mother as a tadpole and was raised in the world's largest bomb factory.

• When the Muppets think that Fozzie and Walter have quit, Dominic explains that they simply couldn't keep up and the show would be better without them. After Constantine sends the group to have fun yet again, they start to believe that Walter was right about "Kermit" acting weird. Miss Piggy, however, dismisses the idea, saying that Kermit's never been more devoted to her, with Pepe replying "that's what we're saying".

• After Constantine proposes to Miss Piggy, he explains to Dominic that getting married was the only way to get inside the Tower of London, since they couldn't throw a variety show there.

• After Kermit arrives at the Tower of London, he is caught by Dominic, who mistakes him for Constantine (since Kermit still has the mole). Kermit manages to do a Constantine impression to get past him.

• At the wedding, when the two Kermits are exposed, Kermit makes a speech about the true meaning of love at one point in order to prove that he is the true Kermit.

• Sam and Jean, who try to arrest the Muppets during Constantine's escape, end up becoming part of the Muppet Ladder.

• When Nadya shows up to arrest the Muppets, she and Kermit make a deal that she will only let them have imprisonment for six months, if he lets her sing a solo at the end of the movie.