'HAPPYTIME MURDERS': Three Stars (Out of Five)
A dark raunchy comedy set in a world where puppets and humans co-exist, a former LAPD puppet, turned private investigator, must team with his former human partner in order to solve a spree of recent puppet murders (the former cast of a popular 80's kids TV show). It was directed by Brian Henson, the son of Jim Henson (and the director of 1992's 'THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL' and 1996's 'MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND'), and it was written by Todd Berger and Dee Austin Robertson. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie David Baker and Joel McHale. It's gotten mostly negative reviews from critics, and mediocre reviews from fans, but it is a modest hit at the Box Office though. I loved the movie's originality, and it's courage to be a really dark and raunchy puppet movie. I also think the cast is all brilliant in it, and Brian Henson is a very talented and inspirational filmmaker (just like his father). Still the movie is only hit-and-miss funny, and some of it is just a little too strange, disgustingly crude and 'not funny'. I give it a lot of points for effort though, even though it fails as much as it succeeds.
A dark raunchy comedy set in a world where puppets and humans co-exist, a former LAPD puppet, turned private investigator, must team with his former human partner in order to solve a spree of recent puppet murders (the former cast of a popular 80's kids TV show). It was directed by Brian Henson, the son of Jim Henson (and the director of 1992's 'THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL' and 1996's 'MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND'), and it was written by Todd Berger and Dee Austin Robertson. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie David Baker and Joel McHale. It's gotten mostly negative reviews from critics, and mediocre reviews from fans, but it is a modest hit at the Box Office though. I loved the movie's originality, and it's courage to be a really dark and raunchy puppet movie. I also think the cast is all brilliant in it, and Brian Henson is a very talented and inspirational filmmaker (just like his father). Still the movie is only hit-and-miss funny, and some of it is just a little too strange, disgustingly crude and 'not funny'. I give it a lot of points for effort though, even though it fails as much as it succeeds.