“Divergent” and “Muppets Most Wanted” Debut at the Weekend Box Office

Two new movies are out in wide release this weekend.  Both for the younger set.

"Divergent"  (PG-13), is based on a Young Adult trilogy, set in a future where society has been divided into five factions dedicated to specific virtues.   At 16, you take an aptitude test to determine which personality trait will define the rest of your life: compassion, honesty, intelligence, selflessness, or bravery.

Great.  I promised to take my nieces to see this one.

Shailene Woodley stars as Tris.  She's a teenage girl whose test result marks her as "divergent", meaning she can't be classified into a single faction, and that's pretty rare, and probably not good.

Kate Winslet is the villain, who wants every divergent hunted down and killed.  See I told you not good!

And then we have the movie that I thank my lucky stars all my relatives are too old to see, "Muppets Most Wanted".  Uh oh, did someone commit a crime?

Well you see there is this master criminal, who looks exactly like Kermit the Frog except for a mole on his cheek, and he steals Kermit's identity.  While the evil frog Constantine is hiding out with the other Muppets on their world tour, the real Kermit is stuck in a Russian prison.

Ricky Gervais plays the evil frog's henchman, Tina Fey is the Russian chick who locks Kermit up, and Ty Burrell from "Modern Family" is a French Interpol agent

Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Puff Daddy, and Danny Trejo have cameos as themselves . . . plus Josh Groban is a maximum security prisoner, Zach Galifianakis is a hobo, Usher is in it as a theater usher, and Tom Hiddleston plays an escape artist.

So "Divergent" here I come, we are going to the real early one, I hope they have one that starts at 9 am.