The Bert & Ernie Movie

The Sesame Street Mystery Movie is a 2022 mystery comedy film directed by Matt Vogel in his feature film debut, and is the third based on the popular children's television series Sesame Street, after 1985's Follow that Bird and 1999's The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. The film naturally stars the Muppet characters from Sesame Street, as well as Jonathan Groff, Tilda Swinton, and James Marsters as the villain.

Bert and Ernie are the stars of this film, as, while they and the rest of the gang are on a month-long vacation to Los Angeles, they receive a mysterious phone call from the chief of the L.A. Police Department (Groff) telling them to "come quick". It turns out that a long string of murders has taken place throughout the city, and the department's most skilled officers are either dead or missing in action. The Muppet duo teams up with street-smart detective Melissa Stokes, AKA Mel (Swinton), in a quest to find the killer, with the full knowledge that they may never leave L.A. alive...

Produced by Sesame Workshop, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Jim Henson Company, the film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on January 14, 2022. Like its two predecessors, the film received positive critical reviews, but was a box office bomb, earning $26 million against a $45 million budget. The film is dedicated to Caroll Spinney, the longtime puppeteer and voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, who passed away in December 2019.

Cast
Tilda Swinton as Mel

James Marsters as Sid Ponzi

Jonathan Groff as The Chief

Peter Linz as Ernie, Herry Monster

Eric Jacobson as Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Two-Headed Monster

Ryan Dillon as Elmo, Trevor Monster

Matt Vogel as Big Bird, The Count, Murray Monster

David Rudman as Cookie Monster, Baby Bear, Two-Headed Monster

Martin P. Robinson as Telly, Mr. Snuffleupagus

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as Abby

Jennifer Barnhart as Zoe

Carmen Osbahr as Rosita

Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Prairie Dawn

Warrick Brownlow-Pike as Gonger

Frankie Cordero as Rudy

Stacey Gordon as Julia

Chris Knowings as Chris

Suki Lopez as Nina

Alan Muraoka as Alan

Violet Tinnirello as Charlie

LA Muppet Performers: Bill Barretta, Kevin Clash, Louise Gold, Brian Henson, Karen Prell

Additional LA Muppet Performers: Brad Abrell, Greg Ballora, David Barclay, Tim Blaney, Julianne Buescher, Kevin Carlson, Nathan Danforth, Alice Dinnean, Artie Esposito, BJ Guyer, Terri Hardin, Patrick Johnson, Sean Johnson, Donna Kimball, Tim Lagasse, Bruce Lanoil, Amanda Maddock, Drew Massey, Alison Mork, James Murray, Michael Oosterom, Mike Quinn, Michelan Sisti, John Tartaglia, Allan Trautman, Robin Walsh, Victor Yerrid, Grant Baciocco, Nate Begle, Carol Binion, Kristin Charney, Brian Clark, Dorien Davies, Peggy Etra, Genevieve Flati, Thom Fountain, Rachel Herrick, Brian Michael Jones, Len Levitt, Jayden Libran, Jess McKay, Ted Michaels, Brett O'Quinn, Christine Papalexis, Carla Rudy, Paul Rugg, Nicolette Santino, Benjamin Siemon, Colleen Smith, Russ Walko (Uncredited: Catherine Adell, Rachel Appelbaum, Dan Garza, Alex U. Griffin, Sam Koji Hale, Gwen Hollander, John Jennings, Scott Johnson, Erik Kuska, Scott Land, Frank Langley, Greg Manion, Danny Montooth, Russell Nauman, Sarah Oh, Janine Pibal, Felix Pire, Amber Reeder, Rob Saunders, Joe Selph, David Skelly, Kenny Stevenson, Norman Tempia, Cheri Lynne VandenHeuvel, Art Vega, Jack Venturo, Alex Villa, Chase Woolner)

NY Muppet Performers: Pam Arciero, Heather Asch, Connor Asher, Tau Bennett, Ronald Binion, Rickey Boyd, Lindsey "Z" Briggs, Lisa Buckley, Tyler Bunch, R. Bruce Connelly, Austin Michael Costello, Melissa Creighton, Mark Gale, Cameron Garrity, James Godwin, Chris Thomas Hayes, Andy Hayward, Patrick Daniel Holmes, Haley Jenkins, Avery Lee Jones, James Kemp, Vicki Kenderes-Eibner, John Kennedy, Kathleen Kim, Adam Kreutinger, Jim Kroupa, Michael Latini, Spencer Lott, Lara MacLean, Noel MacNeal, Ed May, Paul McGinnis, Tracie Mick, Anney Fresh Ozar, Marc Petrosino, David Quesal, Joey Rudman, Andy Stone, Gabriel Velez, Jack Vogel, Eric Wright, Bryant Young (Uncredited: Billy Barkhurst, Jake Bazel, Matthew Brooks, Raymond Carr, Brian Carson, Ceili Clemens, Carole Simms D'Agostino, Jamie Donmoyer, Ben Durocher, Jodi Eichelberger, Rob Gardner, Elizabeth Hara, Weston Chandler Long, Marta Mozelle MacRostie, Andrew Moriarty, Bakari Prigg, Joe Sabatino, Michael Schupbach, Lisa Aimee Sturz, Chad Williams, James Wojtal, Lucky Matt Yates)

Crew
Directed by Matt Vogel

Screenplay by Rob Letterman

Story by Christine Ferraro and Ken Scarborough

Produced by Andrew Scheinmann, Steve Oedekerk, Benjamin Lehmann, Mitchell Kriegman, Alex Rockwell

Executive Producers: Rob Reiner, Brian Henson, Lisa Henson, Joe Dante, Kirk R. Thatcher, Martin G. Baker

Director of Photography: Alan Caso, ASC

Production Designer: Bill Brzeski

Edited by Alan E. Baumgarten, ACE

Music by John Debney

Additional Music by Harry Gregson-Williams and Rupert Gregson-Williams

Music Supervisors: Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer