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The Happytime Murders

Cast

Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker View All


Crew

Brian Henson (Director), Todd Berger (Screenplay), Todd Berger (Story), Dee Robertson (Story) View All

Release: Aug. 22nd, 2018
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
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.
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TheUsualSuspect
More focus on the discrimination between human and puppet could have opened the film to more opportunities, but the people behind this one are more concerned with weird sex tapes of a cow being milked.
Jon Turner
The idea behind the picture is sound: a world where puppets are treated as second-class citizens (think Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with puppets instead of cartoons and you get the idea), and a murder mystery which involves puppets getting bumped off by a mysterious assassin.
Gideon58
When the cast members of an old puppet television show called "The Happytime Gang" begin getting bumped off one by one, a former cop who is now a private eye (and a puppet) named Phil Phillips (voiced by Bill Barretta) stumbles onto the murder scene and finds his former human partner, Det....


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