Continuity mistake: When Phil and Sandra are having sex in his office he starts to shoot his... "silly string" at the door. It cuts to a reaction shot of the cops in the next room then back to him again. Suddenly the string is gone from the door, only for him to be shooting it again and in a different pattern. (00:36:50)
The Happytime Murders (2018)
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Directed by: Brian Henson
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale
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The Happytime Murders stars Melissa McCarthy as Det. Connie Edwards, a crude and rough burned out member of the LAPD who has to team up with her old partner and now private eye Phil Philips, who happens to be a puppet-formerly the only puppet ever to be a policeman. Someone is wiping out of the cast of a once-popular puppet show called Happytime, and the pair must try to stop the murders. It's a weird crime thriller meets comedy with human and puppet characters-think Lethal Weapon, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles tossed into a blender and made into a milkshake. It's strange, occasionally funny, perverse and satirical send up of cop buddy films, crime dramas and any number of puppet productions, but especially the one starting with the letter "M." If your cup of tea does not include gratuitous profanity, puppet sex, puppet carnage and mayhem, then this might not be the show for you. If you like any or all of those and are a fan of Melissa McCarthy as an action and comedic star, you may want to give this oddball film a shot.
Despite some good performances, The Happytime Murders was extremely disappointing. The concepts that should be creative are completely undermined by its approach to the raunchy humour, the methods of trying to further the story made little sense, it felt really long despite being 90 minutes and has probably one of the most anticlimactic third acts in movie history.
Side note: At the screening I watched this in, a couple left 40 minutes into the movie and never came back.
More mistakes in The Happytime Murders
Phil Philips: I never knocked a guy out with his own balls before. (00:26:05)
Trivia: The Jim Henson Company created a new studio specifically for this film - "Henson Alternative." This was to help clarify that the film was aimed an an adult audience, and to distance it from the Jim Henson Company's more family-friendly material.
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