Release Date
August 24, 2018
DVD Release Date
December 4, 2018 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Brian Henson
Writer
Todd Berger, Dee Austin Robertson
Cast
Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph
Studio
Running Time
91 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong crude and sexual content and language throughout, and some drug material
The puppet stars of an iconic TV show The Happytime Gang are some of the biggest celebrities around. But off camera, the family-friendly cast leads the kinds of lives that would make a tabloid writer blush. When the stars of The Happytime Gang begin to be mysteriously murdered, two mismatched detectives – one a type-A, take-no-prisoners human with a secret, and the other a crass, hard-drinking puppet with a connection to one of the victims... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
So, The Happytime Murders, an R-rated Muppet—sorry, puppet film by Jim Henson’s son—is a thing. It exists. It’s unfortunately about what you’d expect, a sometimes-funny, mostly one-note comedy that seems to exist simply because Jim Henson’s son wanted to make a movie about muppets jizzing all over. Full movie review »
