I liked Hugo a great deal. However, the fact that the narrative was woven around what was sort of a true story made the enterprise feel more forced than imaginative.
Also, it was never clear to me
As for The Muppets, it was okay, but, as a loyal viewer of the show when it was on, seeing them have to scrape for a guest star and pander to the youth market rubbed me the wrong way. A quick check reveals that, if you ignore Brooke Shields, the youngest hosts of the original show were in their late 20s, and there weren't too many of them. Most of them were these older, big, if slightly past it, stars. Perhaps many of them, like Selena Gomez, were just sent their by their agents, but that generally was not the thrust of the show.