The Happytime Murders

Release Date: 2018-08-22

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.797 / 10

Cast

Melissa McCarthy

as Detective Connie Edwards

Bill Barretta

as Phil Philips / Junkyard / Boar

Leslie David Baker

as Lt. Banning

Elizabeth Banks

as Jenny

Joel McHale

as Agent Campbell

Crew

Heidi Pascoe - Stunt Double
Jeanne McCarthy - Casting
Vincent J. Raisa - Co-Producer
Wang Zhongjun - Executive Producer
Wang Zhonglei - Executive Producer

Reviews

Gimly:

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 ...

jw:

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. Th...