Rating: 0.5/4 Even from the trailer you know the humor that’ll accompany director Brian Henson’s The Happytime Murders. Henson is the son of Jim Henson,...

A puppet, who is a former cop, joins forces with his old partner when a series of murders gets personal. Melissa McCarthy and Bill Barretta star.

The movie by director Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, takes the puppets to R-rated territory.

“The Happytime Murders” is a one-joke movie, minus one joke. The year may cough up a worse film, but probably not a more joyless, witless one, raunchy or...

★★★☆☆ Marking the film debut of Henson Alternative, a banner of The Jim Henson Company that specialises in adult content, The Happytime Murders is...

Brian Henson's puppet parody is short on laughs and long on tedium.

It’s easy to assume that when the cameras are off,…

Puppets do all sorts of bad things in this naughty, R-rated send-up of detective tales

The noir genre gets a twist in this raunchy puppet comedy. Read the Empire review.

Melissa McCarthy stars in 'The Happytime Murders,' a raunchy, puppet-filled comedy directed by Brian Henson.

However, she is fully culpable for the criminal waste of time and talent that the film becomes

Vulgar muppets can be funny, but this movie is a bad example of that.

Filmmaker Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson, is out to prove that puppets aren't just for kids with his latest R-rated release, The Happytime M...

Review: These 90 minutes are among the longest you’ll endure in the cinema this year

The Happytime Murders is stymied by an obsession with the profane.

As a lifelong Muppet fan, I root for anything the Jim Henson company turns its attention to, with or without the Muppets. Jim’s son Brian Henson directed t...

Some of its parodistic winks and turns are clever, and a few of its jokes are funny in a way that’s embarrassing to admit.

Rescue me, Elmo! That’s what you’ll shout if you’re trapped in a movie theater playing “The Happytime Murders,” the wretched puppets-behaving-badly...

‘The Happytime Murders’ lacks both humor and a point, and in the end, even Melissa McCarthy can’t make the jokes land.

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Don’t bring the kids.

Oh, to be a snickering 13 year-old boy again, sneaking into the multiplex with other snickering 13 year-old boys to catch “The Happytime Murders” when ou...

Travers: Little joy to be found in this senselessly crass and seriously unfunny first film from the Jim Henson Company's adult division.

"The Happytime Murders" had a lot of potential, but the jokes were uninspired and simply not funny

The R-rated Muppet comedy finds puppets having sex, doing drugs, watching porn, and so much more. Too bad none of it’s funny.

The Jim Henson Company mixes it up with Melissa McCarthy.

This poor facsimile of Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles features a murder-mystery plot whose twists are as soft as the felt of its puppets

R-rated Muppets are funny at first — but then there’s the rest of the movie.

Brian Henson's puppets-gone-bad gimmick takes this labored detective spoof only so far before running out of stuffing

It's so, so bad.

Melissa McCarthy stars in Brian Henson’s ’Happytime Murders,’ an R-rated puppet detective story that reinvigorates dumb comedy.

Melissa McCarthy's 'The Happytime Murders' is full of Henson puppet sex and curse words. If only the filthy comedy was as clever as it thinks it is.

A total disaster, with puppets.

Brian Henson's R-rated puppet caper starring Melissa McCarthy is a waste of time and felt.

It’s a strong contender for worst movie of the year.

It’s lucky to have Trump distracting from its awfulness this week.

The Happytime Murders deals exclusively in smut and is infuriating to watch if only because Brian Henson seems to have no problem with that.