The Happytime Murders (possible contender for worst movie of 2018?)

[St_Eddie]

I haven't watched the trailer, but if St.Eddie says it's shit, it's probably quite good.

Get out of town!  I've got impeccable taste in film, mate.  Impeccable, I tells ya.

[C_Larence]

I think it would have been funny if after Melissa McCarthy's character snorted the drugs all the puppet characters were replaced with humans.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Get out of town!  I've got impeccable taste in film, mate.  Impeccable, I tells ya.

Unless you can back that claim up with a five hour documentary per film, tell your story walking.

[St_Eddie]

I think it would have been funny if after Melissa McCarthy's character snorted the drugs all the puppet characters were replaced with humans.

You're now officially a better writer than the people who wrote this movie.  Congratulations.

Unless you can back that claim up with a five hour documentary per film, tell your story walking.

*boots up editing software*

[DukeDeMondo]

...tell your story walking.

I've never heard that phrase before, I don't think. It's really good. Excellent stuff. These Happytime Murders have brought something worthwhile to the table after all, in a roundabout sort of a way.

Tell your story walking. Marvellous.

[Steven]

Tell your story walking. Marvellous.

Disablist.

[phantom_power]

I've never heard that phrase before, I don't think. It's really good. Excellent stuff. These Happytime Murders have brought something worthwhile to the table after all, in a roundabout sort of a way.

Tell your story walking. Marvellous.

It's a quote from Cool World

[Steven]

It's a quote from Cool World

The feature that mixes actors and animated characters in an 'adult' settings? Hardly appropriate for this thread.

[phantom_power]

Du-doy

[Schnapple]

Add me to the list of subversives who laughed at that cumming puppet.

[Twed]

Mongrels is funnier and has better puppets than this big budget Hollywood feature.

[idunnosomename]

Mongrels is funnier and has better puppets than this big budget Hollywood feature.

Thing about Mongrels though is that the one thing it never did (the writers banned it) was any meta-references to the characters being puppets. Which is basicaly the whole reason for this.

It was mostly very good though, I miss it

[QDRPHNC]

Looks like Roger Rabbit with swears instead of wit and craft.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

If you are after something like a profane version of Roger Rabbit, I can recommend watching the telly series Happy!. It's on the Netflix.

[Phil_A]

Mongrels is funnier and has better puppets than this big budget Hollywood feature.

There was also Pets on Channel 4, which I wasn't especially fond of, but it had an appeallingly kind of grungy lo fi look to jt that you don't see much on TV now.

[DukeDeMondo]

They're being sued over the head of the tagline, apparently. The Sesame Street folks aren't at all pleased. So they say. I dunno. Probably it's all just a load of old promotional hooplah.

The producers seem not at all bothered, in any case. "We are confident in our legal position. Sesame Street can tell its story walking."

[Steven]

Tell your story walking. Marvellous.

https://youtu.be/kWp6hZ-5ndc?t=48s

[garbed_attic]

Been hearing about this script for years, sounded really interesting. Then I saw it was being directed by Brian Henson and my heart sank. It looks shit, dunnit?

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a near-masterpiece!

This looks bleak however.

[garbed_attic]

Funny puppet sex already reached its pinnacle in Team America. There's no use trying to top that.

The sex scene in Faust has more existential weight though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5jNB-x5eM&t=2m0s

[popcorn]

They're being sued over the head of the tagline, apparently. The Sesame Street folks aren't at all pleased. So they say. I dunno. Probably it's all just a load of old promotional hooplah.

I think they've got a point, frankly. I've watched the trailer and read that Guardian article and I'm still confused about how the film is connected to the "real" muppets/Sesame Street/etc.

[Icehaven]

I think they've got a point, frankly. I've watched the trailer and read that Guardian article and I'm still confused about how the film is connected to the "real" muppets/Sesame Street/etc.

And it's directed by Brian Henson, son of Jim and chairman of the Jim Henson company...which makes The Muppets, of Sesame Stret fame. So who exactly is taking legal action against who?

Edit: Sesame Street is actually made by a different company it seems, but it's still a bit infighty isn't it.

[Steven]

Edit: Sesame Street is actually made by a different company it seems, but it's still a bit infighty isn't it.

I dunno. Probably it's all just a load of old promotional hooplah.

[garbed_attic]

I really like art that takes childlike things and mines them for corruption but *only when* they locate the source of the rot within the childhood imaginary itself!

So, Al Columbia; Švankmajer's Alice and Little Otik; Kerascoët & Vehlmann's Beautiful Darkness; Ann Turner's Celia; Wonder Showzen when it's not focused on satire; even South Park sometimes = great bunch of lads.

American McGee's Alice; Meet the Feebles; Drawn Together; Escape From Tomorrow; Happytime Murders = great bunch of wank.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

i liked the jizzing muppet

[popcorn]

I always hated that Family Guy thing of showing Sesame Street muppets as crack addicts dying of aids or whatever. It's a beloved kids' thing. Fuck off. Horrid.

edit: to clarify, this isn't the same thing, because it's not explicitly like "what if Elmo was an alcoholic, ho ho". It's still uninteresting to me for other reasons.

[Avril Lavigne]

American McGee's Alice; Meet the Feebles; Drawn Together; Escape From Tomorrow; Happytime Murders = great bunch of wank.

Escape From Tomorrow is mindblowingly bad. It's like the whole thing was written & cast an hour before filming commenced and the writer had no actual ideas or story to tell.

[Phil_A]

Just remembered there was yet another "Puppets do rude things" series which remember being shown around Christmas on BBC2 years back.

Found it. Fur TV. Fucking hell, it's grim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57pSalz7-Fs

Aha, one of the puppets is really stupid and likes to wank a lot, haha, imagine puppets wanking.

[Steven]

Or there's Marquis, where he talks to his own anthropomorphised cock.

[bgmnts]

I wish I named my penis Colin.

[St_Eddie]

The reviews are in and it's currently sitting at 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.