The Happy Time Murders (2018)

First and foremost, this is not a good movie, and while there are tons of puppets, which requires a level of technical skill to pull off, it is definitely not a movie for children.  Language so foul.
The movie isn’t so much interested in immersing you in a comedic world so much as it is in having its puppets do the most outrageous things you’ve never seen or heard puppets do in a movie. The plot is athat empty. Puppet P.I. Phil gets thrown a case by femme fatale Sandra and soon, wherever he goes, another cast member of a once-famous puppet TV show gets the stuffing blown out of him/her. Turns out Phil was once a cop and the new string of murders puts him back together with his human partner, Connie (Melissa McCarthy).  One doesn’t need to concern oneself too much with plot, what with all the puppet antics. They begin with the foul language, but in due time, we see puppets whose forms are pretty familiar—fluffy bunnies, frisky doggies, a porn shop proprietor doing generally unexpected things, like flashing pubic hair and ejaculating. Is this funny? Absolutely not.