It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

The Muppets are preparing a Christmas show at their theatre when a bank owner, Rachel Bitterman, sets her sights on the building. She intends to replace it with a nightclub and tricks Pepe into handing over the only copy of the contract that protects the theatre. Using the altered document, she gives the troupe almost no time to clear a debt they owe. With the theatre on the line, Kermit and his friends try to raise the money while putting on their holiday performance, and their efforts involve a guardian angel named Daniel. The story, built around friendship and the value the Muppets place on one another, borrows from classic Christmas films.

Kirk R. Thatcher directed this 2002 television movie, the first of four Muppet films he would go on to direct, followed by The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa and Muppets Haunted Mansion. Jim Lewis and Tom Martin wrote the screenplay, and the cast mixes Muppet performers with live actors. Steve Whitmire voices Kermit the Frog, Dave Goelz plays Gonzo, Bill Barretta takes on Pepe and several others, and Eric Jacobson performs Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. David Arquette appears as the angel Daniel, with Joan Cusack as Bitterman.

It runs 88 minutes and was released in November 2002. On IMDb it holds a 6.2 rating from around 5,400 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6 out of 10 from roughly 110 votes, so the audience scores from both sources sit close together.