REVIEW: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Starring Melissa McCarthy
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2018
- Christy, Alonso, and Matt have some... thoughts about the upcoming buddy cop film co-starring a puppet.
Let us know what you thought of the film and if you’ll be heading to theaters soon in the comments below!
‘The Happytime Murders’ starring Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Joel McHale, directed by Brian Henson and and reviewed by What the Flick?! This clip is brought to you in partnership with atomtickets.com. Use code WTF5 for $5 off your first purchase!
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“No Sesame. All Street. THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is a filthy comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives with a shared secret, one human (Melissa McCarthy) and one puppet, are forced to work together again to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.” - Zábava
Oh my god!. The evolution of Christy's water glasses is the funniest thing on the internet. HILARIOUS! 😂 🍸
Christy is the most self aware person on the youtubes.
Christy trolling us with the martini glass 😂😂
Shout out to Christy's water
I sometimes can turn off my brain and enjoy stupid shit with my friends while smoking a joint, this seems to be a perfect movie for that purpose :p
Christy's martini glass is badass.
Christy, the Hulk called. He wants his martini glass back.
Ok but is Christy alright because that is a pretty big Goblet(?) of water(?)
TheMistMan it’s a running joke on WhatTheFlick
@@mattjazzfan2288 I haven't watched it in awhile so thanks for the heads up.
This is just not my humor. I do not think puppets doing bad things is worth an entire movie. Maybe a 10 minute skit.
Is that the size of the drinks Matt usually has when he enjoys a bad screening?! WOW! Love it, Christy!
"Trying Way Too Hard with Puppets: The Movie"
This is exactly how I felt about ‘TED’. A one joke movie that really wasn’t all that good. Just a cliche buddy bro movie... but with a teddy bear!!? Nope.
Not surprised honestly. I remember Jim Gaffigan talking about the whole "clean versus dirty" comedy and basically said that what matters is that you make something funny. If you're setting out to make raunchy or clean comedy, you've probably already failed. Something needs to be funny, and then whether or not it's clean or dirty is an afterthought. If your whole bit is just "hey we're really innapropriate and R rated", there's nothing funny or clever about that. And this is coming from someone who makes a lot of really stupid joke videos lmao.
Yeah, it has to be funny to begin with. Just being raunchy isn't funny.
Worst thing about this movie was that it wasn’t written, filmed, edited, or acted like an actual detective crime film. If they had played it straight for the most part, it would have actually been a lot funnier without even trying
This movie would have been way more interesting if it dropped the whole shock factor shtick and was instead a genuinely gritty neo noir with much better attention to cinematography, pacing, and editing
Thanks for all the reviews lately
Holy cocktail glass Batman!!! 🍸🍸🍸
Christy's drinking glass? It's growing!!!
I compare this movie to Sausage Party except Sausage Party was actually funny.
Christy, Alonso, and Matt. I will miss you,
They are on here in Breakfast All Day. So go to that.
Gonna miss you guys.
What's going on? This cancelled? Why?
Go to Breakfast All Day. They are there now.
Christy is awesome. That is all.
Want good versions of this movie? Watch Meet the Feebles and Gremlins 2, as well as Team America.
It took me four tries to watch "Meet the Feebles" because I kept falling asleep while watching it. It would've been a great short but there just wasn't enough there for a full-length feature. This sounds like the same thing. "Team America" works because there's more going on than just puppets humping and saying curse words.
The off-Broadway show, Stuffed and Unstrung, which I saw about eight years ago, was an R-rated evening of improv with the Sesame Street Muppeteers (including Brian Henson), and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. I literally fell on the floor laughing. I just can't see that working as a movie. And, evidently, it doesn't.
I saw the trailer where there was white silly string being used for body fluids that was sprayed over the inside of an office. Is that supposed to be funny because I just went an awful shade of green.
Team America did the adult puppet thing first and better, yes it was all puppets but the jokes were better.
Was excited to finally see this in my recommendations so I could see whattheflick rip this crap apart 😅
Bring back What The Flick
It is now Breakfast All Day. Look at them there. Only problem is no clips.
I predict "The Happytime Murders" will be a serious Oscar contender and is already one of the best films of the year. Its overall milieu and mass son scene were very reminiscent of "The Bicycle Thief", "Rashomon" and "Battleship Potemkin". Also heavily influenced by John Ford especially in its similarity to his "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". A gem!
RIP What the flick. Im devastated man.
why?
Uncle fuckers decided to cancel it. There is a podcast though.
If Jim Henson was alive today he would be deeply embarrassed
I am not sure please check out the article "The R rated Ambition of Jim Henson" where his ambition was to use his puppets to tell adult stories.
I wonder if even more because who directed this? His son!!!!!!!
I don't think he meant this.
Peter Jackson's Meet The Feebles did raunchy puppets better.
Just saw this. It’s very creative and funny. Some jokes fell a little flat, but those were the ones in the trailer. I give it a 7/10- good for the dollar theater or matinee.
Excellent review.
I watch this channel for Christy. She is so very lovely.
And... The series Greg the Bunny. There was also a Canadian series called Puppets Who Kill.
was it difficult to procure that 80 oz. martini glass 😏
Greg the Bunny.
Haven't seen the movie yet but the stuff you mention about the bathtub and the organs are the type of shit that (IMO) should be a priority in this type of movies. Not because it'll make the movie more grounded, but rather because there are a lot of jokes there.
I mean... a serious moment with a puppet on a bathtub, he/she comes out and we see that from weist down is bloded and wet and terrible, and then has to squeeze him/herself to get dry. That's what "Having fun with an idea" actually is.
I also feel like the raunchiness and the shock value they were going for here only would have worked if we the audience knew who this puppets are. If this was a movie called "Sesame Street" and the two main characters were Melissa McCarthy and Bert, and Bert (and the rest of the cast from Sesame Street and The Muppet Show) were the ones doing drugs and fucking, then it may have been relevant.
Team America is a masterpiece
Sure we have seen this before in Team America so on...so what.
Most movies we have seen almost everything in a lot of other movies.
It depends on if they try to do something fresh with it.
Starring Melissa McCarthy! Stop right there. I'm definitely not seeing it now.
Christyyyyy!!! That fucking ginormous martini glass!!! Bahahahahahaha. You smacked the melanin and adobo out of my P.R. complexion with that hilarity. I'm offisch albino! P. to the s. Great to peep you again, Alonza!
I like the shirt she’s wearing actually.
at first I was like PR, public relations? then I thought San Juan
Who is laughing in the background at the beginning?
Wonder what you guys think of Paradise PD on Netflix. Most people really pan it but nothing phases me and i think it's hilarious.
Do a review of the movie on Christy's shirt. Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill or The Harder They Come! That movie is a B-movie classic. If you don't have a Midnight movie theater where you live you are missing out!
not quite the goldfish bowl i expect Christie to drink from but close
I loved it...
Artic Vixen i liked it too. i don't understand the turned down noses. were they expecting ingmar bergman via puppets? they're sitting here seriously asking why do the puppets have livers and organs and why they have sexual proclivities, and i'm like "it's fucking puppets - just let them be and enjoy!"
I wanna see the Statler and Waldorf review for this movie
I think they are the ones doing the murders, actually.
HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS REVIEW IS GOLD
lmfao
Humor is subjective!!!
Is it just me or was the ending identical to 21 Jump Street.
Sounds like something you and your buddies would come up with while you're faded af. "What if like the muppets had like sex? lol"
Pictured Garth saying that to Wayne as i read that.
This makes me think of Puppet Rapist. I saw it years ago on CZcams.
This makes me think they stole the premise from countless other movies and are unoriginal twats.
Best thing about this review is Christy's boisterously voluptuous martini-water chalice.
Makes me sad, cuz I so wanted this movie to be good...pooh.
what is it about the trailer that triggers you so hard?
@@cjwright79 I didn't know I had been triggered about anything. I like her martini glass. What's triggered You? Geez...
i watch these three all the time so i can stay grateful for Chris stuckman or red letter media or screen junkies .
I think I know who is doing the killings-Statler and Waldorf.
3:58 That was a LIE! No humans were allowed in there, remember?
In where? Did you write the wrong time code?
There's a great short series on youtube called "The Puppet Rapist", it is actually good. Check it out.
Constantine would love this film.
I got tix for this movie for free and i had a good time but its not innovative it kinda a one not joke but the story was kinda interesting i would say rent it later on 4/10 but it was a little enjoyable
I love Matt, but he always looks so scared and confused at the start of every video. Like, when a toddler shits his pants or the way the dog looks at you when he knows you know he chewed up the sofa.
Other films that use child dominated mediums to create adult material have easily outclassed The Happytime Murders, including Ted, Team America World Police, South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut and Sausage Party.
What a pity. I thought it would have been funny. So many people i like in the movie.
Watch Greg the Bunny instead
Just watch Ted again instead, that was aiight
Ted was bad and never got fixed.
This is way better than TED. TED is the ultimate one bit movie. Which is why TED 2 was a flop.
Boring scenes and world building logic flaws does not equal an entertaining movie. The movie just looks so random, I am tempted to pay theater (albeit at matinee) price.
You mean it's like "Smile Time" from season five of "Angel" but far, far worse? Gee, no thanks.
Too bad they didn't hire Joss Whedon or James Gunn to scriptwrite or direct this. They would've worked cheap and it would've been box-office gold for at least a few extra weeks. Perhaps JW or JG will be available for the inevitable sequel.
Unless this movie has David Fury with a puppet's hand sticking out of his back I simply have no interest.
Spike: "You're a wee little puppet man!"
Melissa McCarthy was funny for a few minutes in her entire career.
I like her in this scene, from Bridemaids:
czcams.com/video/s9prJba2vkw/video.html
Well, another candidate for Worst of 2018. And I wonder how Jim would've felt about his son directing this?
This was better than Sausage Party.
I am so glad this flopped.
I never laughed once. The script just doesn't work. She pulled off the steering wheel...fuuck
Nobody is going to at least mention Meet the Feebles???? By PETER JACKSON???
Bradley J. Ikr like wtf wtf
They did
They literally said it in the beginning
Did people really expect a movie about naugty puppets to be oscar worthy? I loved this movie, i went in this movie thinking ok this a movie about puppets... Come on people no one expected this movie to be ground breaking.
Marlon Barberena go watch Avenue Q, filthy adult humor with puppets and beat Wicked for Best Musical at the Tonys, they should have just adapted that
It was bad. Just bad
Melissa did get an Oscar nod for another film this year. As for this, she got a Razzie nod.
What did you love about it?
I feel like people just can't bring themselves to enjoy a simple comedy anymore. This was a comedy that was what it was and it never really pretended to be anything else. I understand that modern movies have spoiled most people by feeling the need to give us all manner of unnecessary plot twists and give EVERYONE some ridiculously convoluted back story. But sometimes it's ok for simple fun to just be simple fun. And I think that Happytime struck a pretty good balance there. I keep hearing reviewers say that they were board with it about 30 minutes in, but neither myself nor my wife got that at all. With a 5.1 on IMDb and a 22% (critic score) on Rotten Tomatoes, The Happytime Murders is getting a LOT of undue flack from critics. Not only was this film funny (assuming you're into raunchy laughs in the first place), but it was more serious than you would expect and it was better than it had any right to be. The writers actually took just the right amount of time to create fleshed-out (no pun intended) characters here and give them just enough motive and complexity, whereas they could have EASILY just...not. Which a lot of modern comedies of this nature don't bother doing. And Melissia McCarthy surprised me quite a bit playing against type as the "straight-man" in this comedy-noir...for the most part. I don't know what people expected going in as the trailers didn't lie to the audience, but even if they had the lowest of expectations, this movie should have pleasantly surprised most people and it feels as if they didn't want to like it or it was never up their alley in the first place; which shouldn't be the movie's fault. Hell, just seeing the magic of the world famous Jim Henson puppetry was almost worth the price of admission alone for me. And it WAS really good puppet work. Well...despite all of the hate that this movie is receiving, I haven't enjoyed myself this much or laughed this hard since the South Park movie in 1999 and, if nothing else, at least this means I'll have a shorter time to wait until I can get my copy on Blu-Ray...
Edwards was the straight man? I had the opposite impression.
True...her puppet partner was more straight than she was, but she wasn't exactly a comic foil either; save for when she sniffed the candy and when she tried to kick down the secret door. And when compared to McCarthy's other films where she for the most part always plays out-and-out prat fall laden comedic roles, this was VERY straight for her.
It time for Melissa to go back to television. Because, her film career is D.O.A just like this movie.
one trick pony ah
Trailer of that movie gave me diarrhea with blood.
juan gomez see a doctor
I used this movie as my MoviePass swan song. This thing was garbage Roger Rabbit with out of place social commentary from Bright (and even less supported) and was screaming for attention through shock humor like Sausage Party. It was honestly boring. The detective story of it was boring!
what else is boring? having only one opinion must get that way from time to time.
What else is boring? Historical drama shows have never interested me, a solid 70% of Geostorm where they're just talking to large screens, on a controversial note Bladerunner (though I admit the artistry of it. 2049 on the other hand I find enthralling.)
Look if you want to watch a send up of noir using a form of entertainment normally associated with children then watch Roger Rabbit. If you need it to have more edge watch Cool World, which isn't all that great but is better than this. If you need it to be puppets that are being edgy then switch over to Team America World Police. If they have to be felt, I don't know, dig up some episodes of Crank Yankers or something? Now if you just wanted to see Melissa McCarthy insult people along with some action scenes then watch Spy where she's oh so much better and the movie is hilarious.
Need I go on? If you found something worthwhile in this movie good on you. I mean your standards are bargain basement low, but good on you. But hey, this is just one opinion.
The muppets is more adult but to go to far is just creepy. I can tell from the trailers this movie is shit. Its like making a Mr Rogers spin WHY? One of the few decent things doesn't need made fun of it needs celebrated
Yep, it’s horrible. I should have listened
Well, do that next time.
I know you guys _think_ that no one will watch this movie, but seriously, stop spoiling things! I'm looking at you, Alonso!
It's not really a spoiler if it's shown in the trailer(s)
Gavin James, The trailer shows Melissa McCarthy's character having a puppet liver?
It shows her snorting purple sugar stuff, and then coming back to the surprise of the puppets. Which is a scene right after it is explained that she has a puppet liver. The trailer (especially the red-band) put all but one or two of the shock jokes in, there wasn't much left.
One Opinion sure, but snorting purple sugar stuff isn't necessarily a given correlation to having puppet liver. Just watching her snort that doesn't automatically make me think "oh, she must have a puppet organ somewhere". It just makes me assume that she likes to snort weird shit. Therefore, Alonso revealing that tidbit about her liver is still a spoiler.
@@aswaney7449 I'll concede that point. I will say though the movies not good enough to worry about spoilers and also that storyline is barely touched upon and when it is doesn't feel earned now that this movie can really learn anything. long story short seriously if I hadn't paid for with MoviePass it would have been worth seeing in the first place wait for it to show up on Redbox or Netflix or something.
I really hated this movie!
1st
Dave Chappelle did it better.
translation: you're too uptight for this film which you knew by the trailer so............why watch
Or they just expect more than a comedy that panders to the lowest common denominator
Hey jeremu jahns enjoyed it so i'm going with that. Besides I enjoyed ave. Q twice but every did not get to see ave Q. You guys are so... you fill in the blanks. Get the stick out of your ...🙀
"Hey jeremu jahns enjoyed it so i'm going with that. "
Going with what? Someone else's opinion?
"Besides I enjoyed ave. Q twice but every did not get to see ave Q"
You enjoyed Avenue Q twice but didn't see it? What is that supposed to mean? How the fuck did you enjoy a show, not just once, but twice, that you never saw?
I'm sorry buy y'all wanted a deep movie about puppets. It was what it was. Some jokes didnt land, but some jokes did. So conditioned in the "critic industry" that we can't just enjoy a movie for what it is. You said it, "its late August" so expectations were already low. Every type of concept has been done before, we live in a fish bowl.
"I'm sorry buy y'all wanted a deep movie about puppets." What, wait? Where did you get that from?
It was NOT boring.
This was fine. It was exactly what it said on the box. We don’t need to analyze everything to death.
I'm getting tired of melissa mccarthy
did you guys not have fun with it though. this is one of the type of movies that you can't over analyse
if you laugh once at a comedy, yeah you can.
A review that includes a paid promo?
This was definitely a funny movie I think you guys where looking for to much out of A MUPPET MOVIE
Lol like Team America which is a masterpiece.
Why? There are good movies with muppets
You guys took it way too seriously. This film wasn’t that bad it’s exactly what you’d expect from the trailer. Yes it’s dumb and could’ve been funnier, but I enjoyed it for what it was. It was definitely better than Deadpool 2 which is by far the worst movie I’ve seen so far this year
to each his/her own...I laughed my ass of at DP 2, but I am a fan of Mso I will give this movie a shot...I love silly stuff like this.
Worst movie ever......
You expected an Oscar worthy performance about puppet sex and murder? What a bright panel.
Oh spare me your supercilious wit
Spare me your narcissistic pretentious smelly shit.
i like turtles
They did not expect Oscar worthy; they expected funny, and apparently the movie was not funny.
They have no sense of humor, because they are PC liberal asshats.
Agreed. It was awful. I almost walked out. Boring, not offensive enough. This premise should have been a laugh riot.
You guys are actually trying to analyse this?! It's basically a parody of other movies. Would you criticize the writing on something like _"Scary Movie"?_
No. Because there's no point.
Mayhemm007 it’s their job.... There’s also nothing wrong with describing Scary Movie as a one joke movie that is done again and again and sucks.
You can analyze parodies. Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Princess Bride, Team America World Police, South Park, Rick and Morty, and many others are all examples of shows or movies which rely heavily on parody which stand up to criticism and analysis. Because they are actually good.