The Happytime Murders
Rated R for Raunchy, Racy, and Really Funny
Ever since Off-Broadway’s Award-winning musical Avenue Q shocked the theater world, profane puppetry has gotten much more mainstream. Who will ever forget Tove Lo‘s music video for Disco Tits, where she behaves really inappropriately with a hand-held muppet? Now we have The Happytime Murders, an R-rated comedy starring Melissa McCarthy as a police officer investigating the murders of the puppet cast of an 80s children’s TV show, AKA Sesame Street.
Directed by Brian Henson, the son of late Muppet creator Jim Henson, this outrageous, NSFKTG (not safe for kids, thank God) movie is already causing a stir. Despite the Henson connection, Sesame Workshop is not, we repeat, NOT pleased with the movie’s tagline: No Sesame, All Street, and are suing STX Entertainment, the studio behind the film, to stop referencing the beloved children’s show.
Truth be told, it is rather disturbing to see a muppet fucking a hot puppet and then massively ejaculating—twice—on screen, but what do you expect from an R-rated movie focusing on the behind-the-scenes behavior of sex-crazed dolls? Forget about pushing the envelope, The Jim Henson Company is shoving that envelope right in our faces. It’s up to you whether this is your kind of fun.
Also starring Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks, Joel McHale, and Muppet-alum voice actor, Bill Barretta as Melissa’s disgraced partner. As you can see from the trailer, we’re not in Sesame Street anymore, Toto.
The Happytime Murders opens on August 17th.
