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Amazon.co.uk Review
Prepare to do a double take as you check to see what album you just started playing. "Main Title/The Ark" is serious sci-fi stuff--heavenly choir, huge crescendos and a theremin. This is no ordinary Muppets album. Right up to the most recent (Muppet Treasure Island), you'd have got what you'd expect--a song-full laugh-fest. Sharifi's score is by and large a straight-faced affair. With a couple of militaristic touches thrown in by Rupert Gregson-Williams (the excellent "Singer's Theme"), it's more like a movie trip on the Starship Enterprise. That's until "Fanatics for Aliens" introduces a lounge jazz mood replete with saxophone and moog synth to remind you that we're in the company of the kooky glove puppets after all. With "Piggy & the MIBs" there's a trace of Carter Burwell's Conspiracy Theory conveying the secret agency's cool, while "The Ship's Arrive" owes plenty to Alan Silvestri's The Abyss. These and a few other "homages" are the only cute aspects of an otherwise remarkably rousing score. --Paul Tonks
