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 – must put aside their huge differences to stop the killings and catch the culprit, all the while trying to resist the temptation to murder each other.

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.
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