I will go to see it just for the Toy Story Short. It may turn out to be a good film, but I probably wouldn’t see it at the cinema if it wasn’t for the Toy Story Short.
I love the muppets, and it sounds to me like this is the best muppet anything in a long time, so I would have liked to see it anyway. The Toy Story short is the added bonus that pushed this over the top from “maybe see” to “have to see”.
I would’ve probably just waited for it to come out on DVD and Blu-Ray, instead of going to see it in Theatres if it didn’t have the Toy Story Short with it.
Some are making it sound like their attaching it to Cats and Dogs though like Warner bros did with one of their recent Looney Tunes shorts. Im not exactly a Muppets “fan” as I haven’t seen all the movies, or even know a lot of their names, but I did watch The Muppet Show as a kid and find their appeal to be universal. Pixar even had a hand in the Muppets (heh). The brain trust helped a bit with the story. I think it’s a good pairing myself. And it frees up Pixar’s movies to do original shorts in front of their movies.