Melissa McCarthy
Detective Connie Edwards
In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.
Homepage | http://www.thehappytimemurders.movie/ |
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Release Date | 2018-08-22 |
Runtime | 1h 31m |
Directors | Brian Henson, Mitchell Amundsen, Daniel Silverberg, Lisa Bloch-Tobey, Jeffrey M. Hayes |
Producers | Melissa McCarthy, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Ben Falcone, Brian Henson, John W. Hyde, Robert Simonds, Adam Fogelson, Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Felice Bee, Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Stillman, Michael Heimler, Lisa Henson, Dee Robertson, Donald Tang, Vincent J. Raisa, Basil Grillo, Divya D'Souza, Melissa Brockman, Alex Rockwell, Bryan Binder, Jess Brown, Tyler Foell, Tony Pirzadeh |
Writers | Todd Berger, Todd Berger, Dee Robertson |
I honestly don't think I've ever loved a Melissa McCarthy led comedy, but I did dare to dream when it came to an R-rated Muppets movie. But when The Happytime Murders came to tread on my dreams, it did not tread softly.
Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.
— Gimly
Puppet stories. Why do they have to be over the top? But I get it, it's not the puppets, it's the humans.
Pretty much standard plots, standard characters combined; but that's kind of the point. The same thing, but more gross - and more honest. About "more funny", it wasn't my taste. But hey, different tastes. Some will have laugh themselves silly.
I haven't heard of Melissa McCarthy before; but it appears this kind of humour is right up her, err, alley; and if you share it, then up yours, too.
(yes, that type of humour.)
— jw