My Issues With Muppets Most Wanted

Note: What I'm going to say next does not count as a movie review.
At the end of my review of 2011's The Muppets, I stated that I wasn't too fond of the sequel, Muppets Most Wanted, stating it was disrespectful to the Muppets. I have seven personal reasons why.
1. Amy Adams and Jason Segall did not return.
One of the reasons 2011's The Muppets was enjoyable was because of the contribution of Jason Segall. He's a Muppet fan himself, and practically co-wrote the script. He also, according to the Blu-Ray feature 'Scratching the Surface', served as executive producer, chair setter-upper, chef, floor sweeper, and coffee maker for Walter. Without Amy or Jason, this movie feels like a rehash of The Great Muppet Caper.

2. The plot is too dark for the Muppets.
When Kermit tries to escape the Gulag, someone tries to shoot him. With a gun. That doesn't belong in a Muppets film. Sure, there was shooting in The Muppet Movie, but no one ever gets hurt. In fact, the only targets that get hit are tires on a car. Another scene that bothers me is the opening, in which Constantine escapes from prison and blows it up. That doesn't belong in a Muppets film either.

3. The movie trolls us by saying the Muppets aren't popular in-universe AND real-life.
At the beginning of Muppets Most Wanted, shooting for The Muppets 2011 finished, and the fans at the end of the movie were just extras. To make matters worse, the Muppets World Tour was just a scam. The audience was paid to see the tours and to give them good reviews. To me, that's a big slap in the face.

Also, there are points in the movie in which I feel like they're disrespecting Jim's work. When Constantine says 'the lovers, the dreamers, and cheese', it sounds like he's intentionally trying to mock 'Rainbow Connection', which is practically the Henson equivalent of 'When You Wish Upon a Star'. And when Robin the Frog and Rizzo the Rat hear from Constantine that Walter 'quit' the Muppets, they decided to quit, too. That sounds like something Jim Henson nor Jerry Juhl would never write.
At least Bill Prady's The Muppets TV series redeemed Kermit and the gang, though I personally wish it could've done better. I just hope they release the show on DVD soon.
4. The celebrity cameos are more for adults than for kids.
Almost all the celebrity cameos in Muppets Most Wanted are from R-rated movies. In the previous Muppet movie, however, there were celebrity cameos that both kids and adults will recognize. Kids will definitely recognize Jack Black, Selena Gomez, and Rico Rodriguez, while adults will recognize Mickey Rooney, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jim Parsons.

How many kids will know who Tom Hiddleston is?
5. The Muppets jinxed Toy Story 4.
During the song 'We're Doing a Sequel', Gonzo jokingly says "Until they wait for Tom Hanks to make Toy Story 4!" Shortly after that, an official Toy Story 4 was announced. Remember what happened when the fourth and final Shrek movie premiered? Or when Ice Age 4: Continental Drift premiered? They not only got bad reviews, but they also ignored their own logic from previous movies! In Shrek Forever After, the antagonist Rumpelstiltskin was depicted as a troll, yet in Shrek the Third, he was depicted as an early draft of Stoick the Vast, Hiccup's father in How To Train Your Dragon. In the first Ice Age, there were humans, yet in the sequels, there are none. Also, when Scrat reaches the Earth's core in Ice Age 4, he doesn't get burnt to a crisp.

6. Sam the Eagle saying 'I hate Europe.'
In Muppets Most Wanted, Sam the Eagle states that he hates Europe. However, in The Great Muppet Caper, which takes place in England, a part of Europe, he took a vacation at the Happiness Hotel.
In this film, Sam takes a vacation in Europe...

Yet in Muppets Most Wanted, he states he hates Europe. This is a plot hole that needs to be fixed.

7. The Muppets could escape from prison easily.
Even if the Muppets did get arrested, they have an arsenal of Muppets that would be useful for escaping. Lew Zealand could pull out a whale shark, which is the biggest fish in the world, Crazy Harry could blow up the prison-cell, Thog, Sweetums, or Doglion could bust through the door by ramming into it, because of their large sizes, and Gonzo would most likely do something crazy, like digging a tunnel with a spoon, as seen in the Cloris Leachman episode of The Muppet Show, or fire a dozen cannons at once to the tune of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, as seen in the Paula Abdul episode of Muppets Tonight.

If you like Muppets Most Wanted, that's fine. It's just not my cup of tea.