The Happytime Murders

[Bombur]

[Alistaire]

This was pretty bad. A lot of individual jokes were kinda funny, but all the same kind of "hey isn't it hilarious we made puppets raunchy?!" and it gets old quick, and with no good story to back it up like Sausage Party. It's like Bright with raunchy puppets instead of orcs, and it makes Bright look oscar-worthy.

The acting and writing quality...it's more like a Funny or Die sketch than a movie. And McCarthy's as bad as expected. Would not recommend.

[Rulke]

S'ok. There are a couple hard core Henson experts up in here who knew this would be a success, they'll come around soon enough I'm sure, guns blazing.

[Bombur]

Saw this today, 5/10. I dislike Melissa McCarthy (I liked Spy and Heat but nothing else she has done) but she was ok in this. Her character must have been rewritten or something because it was almost a flat, no-background character that must have been changed so many times they must have cut out or never filmed much of her background scenes.

The first half of the movie is not that bad with some great world building, detective noir setups, and LA-centrism but the second half just wasn't good, and of course the story just completely falls apart not that it was a good story in the first.

I don't really get why this is rated R, there is only two puppet-only weird sex scenes, not much violence, no human nudity or violence at all really, and even the language is mostly fairly tame. I guess the puppet sex stuff. Sausage Party was WAY more gross-out/pervy.

Its a bummer because I like this idea of puppets mixing with the real world ala Roger Rabbit and I think a Netflix/HBO TV show could be amazing but the group behind this just lacked the talent to take it from average to great, and this failure will probably sink any attempts by smarter people to do it on TV.

[Kaslo]

Oh god... there is a shitty B-movie version...

[6souls]

Oh god... there is a shitty B-movie version...

It's available on Amazon prime. It's tough to attempt to sit through.

[Rulke]

Oh god... there is a shitty B-movie version...

It's going up against film that scored a 24% or RT and made just over half its production budget. I'm not sure the word "shitty" can be used solely to describe the knock off...