Taglines: No Sesame. All Street.
In a world where puppets coexist with humans but are treated as second-class citizens, Phil Phillips was the first puppet cop on the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) before being fired. Now a private detective with a human secretary Bubbles, he is hired by puppet client Sandra to find out who has been blackmailing her.
Phil investigates a lead at a puppet-owned porn shop and while he goes in the back to check their records an attacker kills everyone present, including Bumblypants, a cast member of “The Happytime Gang”, a puppet sitcom that was due to go into syndication. The LAPD arrive and Phil meets up with his former partner, Detective Connie Edwards. Twelve years prior, Edwards was being held at gunpoint by a puppet criminal.
Phil tried to shoot him but missed and hit an innocent puppet, killing him in front of the puppet’s young daughter. Edwards and the thug exchanged fire; Edwards was wounded but the thug was killed. Edwards received a puppet liver transplant which left her with an addiction to sugar which is like heroin to puppets. Edwards testified against Phil and a law was enacted preventing puppets from being cops.
Back in the present, Edwards believes it was a robbery gone wrong but Phil believes it was murder. That night Phil’s brother Larry “Shenanigans” Phillips, former Happytime cast-member, is torn apart when someone lets dogs into his house. Phil reluctantly teams up with Edwards to find the killer.
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Directed by: Brian Henson
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Cynthy Wu, Michael McDonald, Mitch Silpa, Hemky Madera, Benjamin Cole Royer, Brian Palermo
Screenplay by: Todd Berger
Production Design by: Chris L. Spellman
Cinematography by: Mitchell Amundsen
Film Editing by: Brian Scott Olds
Costume Design by: Arjun Bhasin
Set Decoration by: Kelly Berryertz
Music by: Christopher Lennertz
MPAA Rating: R for strong crude and sexual content and language throughout, and some drug material.
Distributed by: STX Entertainment
Release Date: August 24, 2018
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