Muppets On The Run

 is a 2002 American road comedy film produced by PBS Kids Movies and, starring. The film was directed by from a screenplay by,  and Douglas Sloan.

The film was released by on December 24, 2002, receiving mostly positive reviews from critics.

Muppet performers
To save production costs, several of the Muppet performers only played their main/most popular role while their other roles were puppeteered by others and later dubbed by them in post-production (e.g. Dave Goelz puppeteered Gonzo while Ben Bizzotto performed Honeydew, performed Waldorf, and Craig Ngata-Jones performed Zoot, allowing Goelz to dub over Bizzotto, Kynman and Craig in post-production). was also ill during filming, so a similar situation applied to him - his characters were puppeteered by others.
 * as Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker
 * as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Animal, Janice, Sam the Eagle
 * as The Great Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Waldorf, Zoot
 * as Pepé the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Johnny Fiama, Swedish Chef, Lew Zealand, Howard Tubman, Rowlf the Dog
 * as Robin the Frog, Statler, Floyd Pepper
 * Jodi Eichelberger as Dr. Teeth
 * Kristian Haukland as Scooter

Casting
All the regular Muppeteers were called to, for the table read on June 11, 2002, with hotel accommodations provided by.

Filming
The film was shot concurrently with Oscar: The Biggest Disaster Movie and The Bear in the Big Blue House Movie at Studio West in, from June to August of 2002. The fact that all three films were made at the same time required many puppeteers to move back and forth between the three sets. The set was raised so that puppeteers would be able to stand up instead of squatting below street level like usual.

Special effects were produced by in.