I was hoping the Muppets might really make a come back. And no unintentional current event jokes, they seemed to steer clear of anything that might pick on, let alone identify, various international locations (aside from bad accents and location names). I was anticipating a borscht joke, which never came. The Russian prison guards showed up out of the blue in other foreign countries to make arrests on two occasions (not often or funny enough to make it some kind of running joke). The single Muppety moment for me - which was a very small thing - was when Animal clamped his jaws on Constantine and declared, "Bad Frog! Bad Frog!" and later affectionately declared Kermit "Good Frog." Other parts felt cheap and patronizing, like hearing Rainbow Connection for a few seconds coming through a TV. The gulag scenes were visually dreary with insufficient wit or jokes to make it worthwhile.