Review of The Happytime Murders (2018) by Jdx_Awesome — 25 Aug 2018

I knew that this movie wasn’t going to be a masterpiece or anything, but I thought it would be at least interesting, and it was. I thought that all the puppets looked really good, the puppetry was great as well.

The performances (including voices for the puppets) were fine, they were passable. The murder mystery has actually interesting and had a cleverly and satisfying ending. There were even a good action scene or two.

I also like the world this movie builds. The puppet ‘racism’ is a surprisingly effective social commentary. Now here’s when it gets bad. Nearly every joke in this movie falls totally flat. There were a few visual gags that made me smile, there a few decent one liners that helped to build the world a bit, but all the crude jokes were just awful.

I think if they played this off more seriously, this could’ve been actually good. Or maybe if they wrote a murder mystery comedy with a social commentary on race and it just happens to be in a world with puppets.

Who knows? I think the world is interesting and they could definitely make a movie that takes place there, but a different tone, plot, and even genre. So, overall, not great, but still enjoyable, in my opinion.