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

L.A. Muppet Performers: David Barclay, Bill Barretta, Julianne Buescher, Kevin Clash, Alice Dinnean, Tim Lagasse, Bruce Lanoil, Karen Prell, Mike Quinn, John Tartaglia

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

N.Y. Muppet Performers: Pam Arciero, Heather Asch, Tau Bennett, Ronald Binion, Rickey Boyd, Lisa Buckley, Tyler Bunch, R. Bruce Connelly, Austin Michael Costello, Melissa Creighton, Jamie Donmoyer, 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, James Kroupa, Michael Latini, Spencer Lott, Lara MacLean, Noel MacNeal, Ed May, Paul McGinnis, Tracie Mick, Anney Fresh Ozar, Marc Petrosino, 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, 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, James Wojtal, Lucky 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