It's Muppet's Jim, but not as we know it.
Firstly, Yes, it's a creation by the Henson family but it's Henson Alternative for the adult market. This is not a young child friendly movie. You have been warned.
The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale, Elizabeth Banks, and Bill Barretta as Phil Phillips. The plot follows a world where puppets and humans co-exist, and a joint police force must solve a recent murder spree of retired sitcom stars.
Melissa McCarthy is absolutely fantastic and back to her funny antics. Reminiscent of The Heat where herself and Sandra Bullock share the screen as cops that go about their job a little differently, McCarthy reprised her role as a foul mouthed, tough cop who takes no prisoners.
This is one of the funniest movies I've seen in ages, unlike the style of comedy we get from Shrek (and previous generations got from the Carry-On movies - Go Sid James!) there is not a second level of comedy aimed at adults. The comedy is out-and-out dirty. There is a shop very early in the movie (and I need to be careful with the words I use on my blog in case I get pinged for having adult content) that the puppets use to buy any of their adult based enter tainment items. (You get what I mean) but what unfolds in this part of the movie is laugh out loud, rib hurting stuff. If you have seen the movie you will know what I'm talking about particularly with the fireman.
Whilst it's dirty, it's still only a 15's cert movie because, I suppose it's only a puppet!. Several of the puppet's are killed and the crime scene's are just hilarious. Seeing stuffing and fur flying all over the place is just surreal.
McCarthy is one of the funniest comedians at the moment and whilst viewers are not giving the movie a good rating I do not agree with them. In this crazy World where all sorts of horrible (9 year old takes own life) and mad things are happening (mass shootings in US for example) to be able to go the cinema and have a genuine laugh out loud experience where not only you but the rest of the viewers are screaming with laughter and escape for 90 minutes is lovely.
From the out-takes at the end (And listen here movie producers, please start showing out-takes more often) you can clearly see how much fun the cast and puppeteers had whilst making the movie. You actually forget during it that the characters are puppets rather than the normal CGI that we have become accustomed to and guess what - in this incarnation the puppets are better because the cast get to interact with the puppets and puppeteers rather than looking at a dot on a green screen, maybe this is harder to do, but once you see the movie you will see what I mean. The use of canned string cheese is simply brilliant and you will not forget it anytime soon.
When I saw the out-takes it reminded me of a recent HBO documentary I watched about Robin Williams called Come inside My Mind where the crew and cameramen never knew what Willams was going to say or do. So much of what William's did was improvisation (and Williams had a filthy sense of humour also), they even had to bring an extra cameraman on set for Mork and Mindy because they were missing so much of what Williams was doing.
The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale, Elizabeth Banks, and Bill Barretta as Phil Phillips. The plot follows a world where puppets and humans co-exist, and a joint police force must solve a recent murder spree of retired sitcom stars.
Melissa McCarthy is absolutely fantastic and back to her funny antics. Reminiscent of The Heat where herself and Sandra Bullock share the screen as cops that go about their job a little differently, McCarthy reprised her role as a foul mouthed, tough cop who takes no prisoners.
This is one of the funniest movies I've seen in ages, unlike the style of comedy we get from Shrek (and previous generations got from the Carry-On movies - Go Sid James!) there is not a second level of comedy aimed at adults. The comedy is out-and-out dirty. There is a shop very early in the movie (and I need to be careful with the words I use on my blog in case I get pinged for having adult content) that the puppets use to buy any of their adult based enter tainment items. (You get what I mean) but what unfolds in this part of the movie is laugh out loud, rib hurting stuff. If you have seen the movie you will know what I'm talking about particularly with the fireman.
Whilst it's dirty, it's still only a 15's cert movie because, I suppose it's only a puppet!. Several of the puppet's are killed and the crime scene's are just hilarious. Seeing stuffing and fur flying all over the place is just surreal.
McCarthy is one of the funniest comedians at the moment and whilst viewers are not giving the movie a good rating I do not agree with them. In this crazy World where all sorts of horrible (9 year old takes own life) and mad things are happening (mass shootings in US for example) to be able to go the cinema and have a genuine laugh out loud experience where not only you but the rest of the viewers are screaming with laughter and escape for 90 minutes is lovely.
From the out-takes at the end (And listen here movie producers, please start showing out-takes more often) you can clearly see how much fun the cast and puppeteers had whilst making the movie. You actually forget during it that the characters are puppets rather than the normal CGI that we have become accustomed to and guess what - in this incarnation the puppets are better because the cast get to interact with the puppets and puppeteers rather than looking at a dot on a green screen, maybe this is harder to do, but once you see the movie you will see what I mean. The use of canned string cheese is simply brilliant and you will not forget it anytime soon.
When I saw the out-takes it reminded me of a recent HBO documentary I watched about Robin Williams called Come inside My Mind where the crew and cameramen never knew what Willams was going to say or do. So much of what William's did was improvisation (and Williams had a filthy sense of humour also), they even had to bring an extra cameraman on set for Mork and Mindy because they were missing so much of what Williams was doing.
If you like Melissa McCarthy, if you like a good laugh, if you like the Muppet's and will not be shocked by the dirty (but harmless) comedy give The Happytime Murders a spin. Honestly, you will not regret it. I give the movie a 9 out of 10 planets (drops a planet as it is a little bit predictive) just don't bring your mother to see it with you.
John The Captain Ryan
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