Somehow I went 26 years without seeing this from beginning to end. Maybe I waited too long, maybe I was over familiar with it going in or maybe it actually is a completely average b-movie with one highly influential scene.

Definitely enjoyed this more the second time around free from the weight of everyone's gushing praise. It's still just ENCHANTED with Muppets though.

Violent, shocking and miserable doesn't necessarily equal powerful.

Summed up in two words...

sub·lime - Adjective
Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

gro·tesque - Adjective
Repulsively ugly or distorted.