El Perro Spike you know what else would make Jim Henson roll in his grave, if they made a teen titans go style reboot of fraggle rock called Fraggle Rock Go!
And it taught how important it is to make an engaging story, especially if you are making a mystery. Cliches are like sugar, a little bit of them are okay, but use too much and it all goes to Diva’s infernal court.
George Robertson Sorry dude, but “police academy meets the muppets”, either as a crossover between the two I.P.s or a brief description of the HTM, will only indicate that a much funnier movie could of been made instead. 😕
The film that basically made Brian Henson look like a traitor, he hates his dad's legacy and never wanted to be a puppeteer. Shame on him, he should have been out of the Jim Henson company!!! Not Steve, but now we can't have nice things in this world can't we!!! 😤😤😤
I’m not fond of watching R-rated films anyway, but I would rather watch the Muppets that appeal to the whole family. More of a G-rating quality, if you will.
Out of all the movies getting remakes, I feel like this should get a reboot. Also Melissa McCarthy won a Razzie redeemer award alongside the Worst Actress award.
Just watch The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It has the Jim Henson feel and does a much better job handling a dark atmosphere without feeling needlessly bleak.
@@alienboy1322 Your welcome, it is by the people who did South Park and had a REALLY BAD production but in the end, it turned out to be a funny film. Unfortunately the nightmare production caused Parker and Stone to never do another film again
3:57 I personally thought Kermit’s Swamp Years wasn’t too bad, it was the first time a cartoon voice actress (Cree Summer) was in a Jim Henson/Muppets project
Aside from the script, I think the other problem was it trying to build itself up to be *the* crude and crazy puppet film. But Peter Jackson did it 100X better with Meet The Feebles, especially since he didn't hinder on referencing real drugs, bloody/gory violence, several curse words and other offensive dialogue, and LOTS of puppet sex including the infamous hippo titties. SIDE NOTE: Mark Hadlow, who voiced Robert in Meet The Feebles, would later play one of the dwarves, Dori, in The Hobbit trilogy.
"Yes, there’s alot of great acting, great directing, and great puppetry but in filmmaking, they can only be as good as thier screenplay" Several Years Later: DreamWorks Bad Guys has a bad script but who cares it has pretty animation and good voice acting so its a good movie no questions asked!!! Waldorf: Hey look mom, no brains!!!! Statler and Waldorf: DOHOHOHO!!!!
He should've done his own BETTER version of the movie. I know I would probably do the same thing if I ever get a chance to watch the movie. Just saying, Tommy Devito.
Having seen this on Patreon,this was an awesome take on the film noir genre! I agree; this film needed a better script. I just wanted to say thanks for this awesome review!
The movie is like hiding the body, you could cover it up with some good soil and Flowers....but without a good foundation to hide it in, it will all crumble away.....
It's a shame really. This film looked really promising too! It could've at least gotten some Oscar nod if they tried to leave the original script as is. Your reviews never cease to amaze me Mat. And BTW, I've heard that Phoenix Fan Fusion was cancelled this year. But I do hope you'll attend next year. It would be an honor to meet you.
The problem is Disney owns The Muppets (as in Kermit and the gang), while Sesame Workshop owns the Sesame Street characters (Big Bird, Elmo, etc. and they don't do crossovers anymore like in the old days) and The Jim Henson (or what's left of it) owns everything else such as Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, archive stuff
I gotta say, I'm impressed by the film noir setup for this review. Granted, this is coming from someone from Chicago, one of the ideal film noir locations, and is used to this sort of thing looking back onto the Windy City's checkered past with John Dilinger and Al Capone. Also, very good use of Garfield. Again, this is coming from a Hoosier much like the strip's creator Jim Davis.
I can think of examples of movies that had promising qualities, but have bad screenplays... - A star studded Award winning cast ("Arctic Dogs") - Revolutionary animation and visual effects ("The Good Dinosaur") - An inspiring music score ("Thomas and the Magic Railroad") - Beautiful cinematography and genius editing ("Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat") Just to name a few.
Here are mine with good qualities but with weak stories: An star studded cast (Delgo) Revolutionary animation/visual effects (Toy Story 4) Inspiring musical score (Song of the Sea) Beautiful Cinematography/Editing (10, 000 B.C.)
@@tylerfish2701 It's a shame you put "Toy Story 4" and "Song of the Sea," because I see them as solid flicks. In spite of this, I respect your opinion.
I know you’re not big on horror, but another interesting take on “Muppets for Adults” (that isn’t Avenue Q or Meet the Feebles) is a short VR game called Hello Puppets, which came out earlier this year.
Bottom line: You want a better murder mystery that uses unlikely elements, go watch Garfield's Babes and Bullets. It takes what really shouldn't work and finds a way to make it work. Plus, it has a way better script.
You want a crude, raunchy story with the use of puppets??? People... WE HAVE AVENUE Q!!! It did have an R rating tone to it but it had an engaging story, likable characters and great and funny songs!!
It's MUCH harsher now knowing that Brian Henson not only did nothing to stop it, he's actually PART of the problem himself. The Muppet production system is sort of a union between Disney, Sesame Workshop, and The Jim Henson Company. Brian, by now, has lost his spark and become more of an executive than a creator, and thus managed to break and bend to the desires of the filmmakers to make it a clone of Sausage Party. What was shocking the first go-around is just dull now.
Well, it didn't make that much money. And it's not a bankable IP. ...honestly, they should have stuck with the original concept of a parody played straight rather than raunch for its own sake.
You don't actually exist you're a cartoon character being watched by people you may think you have free will but in reality you don't money is of no use to you....Eugene.
Wow! It's awesome to find out why this interesting story and take on Muppet-like characters didn't take the clever and unique storylines and jokes that they could've focused on. Stay safe and keep it up!
Funny enough, the only movie with gorgeous animation and not much of a script I can think of that's REALLY good is Fantasia. It's a movie with very little dialogue and story. It's like the animation and the music themselves are the script. Those two elements alone speak to the audience.
I literally watched a video this week from a channel named NitPix named Why The Happytime Murders was the WORST movie of 2018. Then I come across this.
I won't lie, I was 16 when I watched this, 3 years ago, before COVID-19, damn... Long time... But anyway, I liked The Happy Time Murders, it's a little Nostalgic, coming back to this !!
Just to say, never watched or plan to see the movie, but loved the review! I honestly loved how this works like a film noir. I never seen too many but I have a thing for film noirs. I always love how they're always satire in a lot of television works especially when the best one is obviously Who Framed Roger Rabbit being a whole movie of it.
The moment you realize that this movie is distributed by STX Flims, who also distributed uglydolls and Playmobil: the movie (the later in the United States of America at least)!
This is just sad; I really enjoyed the puppetry and action scenes here, but I can see how the plot didn't work. Unlike, "Scooby-Doo" and "Law and Order", it doesn't get the "murder mystery" trope right because there's no lead suspects or clues or an explanation of how the culprit did it. Why, they even could've made a Jeff Dunham cameo where Phil and Connie interrogate Achmed Phil: Do you know any of these guys? (Shows Achmed photos of the Happytime Gang) Achmed: I've already told YOU! I only kill Infidels! And DEEZ are NOT INFIDELS!
Happytime Murders is one of those movies that you see once and have laughs with it, but the movie ends up being forgettable 'cause the script is too blunt and cliched and even the people who claimed that they loved the movie have already forgotten about it. It's just a one-time fun trip and then you forget about it in the future. When I watched the movie, they were some moments that were pretty funny, but I was mostly disappointed and I believe it could have been 10 times better than it is now.
The film tried to be the South Park or Grand Theft Auto with muppets and it failed. It's a pity though because it had a lot of potential to be a good adult muppet film but the awful execution and horrendous jokes MURDERED it.
I remember seeing this movie with a group of friends and after it, only one of the group was like “it was so funny” And the rest of us were like: 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned *The Fuzz* (2014). Puppet/Human world, buddy cop flick. When I first saw the listing for it, I assumed it was a Happytime clone, but then spotted the release date, preceding HM by 5 years. Haven't watched it yet (backlog), but it sure looks like virtually the same thing.
For anyone who's asking which music piece is called when Animat talks about the importance of the script, it's the track New Beginnings from L.A. Noire, but it was sound edited to the one you hear in the video.
They lost any chance of my respect or attention before the movie came out, with ads declaring themselves 'Better than the Muppets' Lies of that level warrant a special place in hell.
Team America was a very raunchy movie with puppets. And lots of vomit... And it was actually funny. Which is sad in a way coz Happy Times Murder should have been on a similar level and failed. Still like the idea a lot!
Man, this film feels like kind of a let down... The only reason I would want to see the movie is because Bill Barretta is in it, and my mom actually went to the same high school as him. I swear on Jim Henson’s beard I’m not making this up.
Animat, I challenge you to not only review The Dark Crystal, another Jim Henson property, but the Prequel series Age of Resistance! Why? Because both products blow this movie out of the water by a country mile!
I guess his point with that is, despite it having revolutionary and Beautiful animation and visuals, it was a bad film because it didn’t have a good script. Like he said, the script is the heart and soul of the movie, and if that falls, then everything else goes down with it.
@@jacindaellison3363 I haven’t seen that one, but I heard it wasn’t that good. The idea of A Midsummer Night’s Dream being adapted by the creator of Star Wars sounds interesting, but from what I have seen and heard, that potential was squandered.
What I love about this review, is you prove the point through your own script. You could have just come out from the gate and said "..its predictable and boring" and dance around that for 10 minutes and call it a review and skip for lunch. But you wove a tale and took me through a journey, knocking out the plausible causes one by one, and didn't even give away the revelation at first, but yet for simpletons like me still broke it down in a clear way that made sense. It was likely way more entertaining than the film itself. Also I have to give all the "props" for the rotary phone handle to USB-C/Lightning work 👌
I remember going to see the movie with some work friends and it was a letdown. I doubt I would have seen it if it weren't for my manager saying he wanted to see it (and didn't end up going with us)
I have another mystery. Who killed Nickelodeon’s Winx Club Suspects: - Iginio Straffi - Viacom(Paramount Global) - Nickelodeon Executives - [ ] - Rainbow S.p.A - American Writers - [ ] Janice Burgess - [ ] Sascha Paladino - [ ] Adam Peltzman - [ ] Carin Greenburg - Fans of the show - Streaming Cartoons for ages 6 and under - [ ] Cocomelon Clues - Straffi requested minor changes to the script to make the dialogue more suitable for younger audiences. - Nickelodeon moves some cartoons to NickToons, which requires extra payment for some cable providers, Dish Network requiring the highest priced package, affecting the shows ratings. Ex: Harvey Beaks, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Welcome to the Wayne - Straffi set the age demographic to ages 4-8 because “the animation audience has skewed younger” - Straffi can’t monitor Nickelodeon 24/7, and Nickelodeon used the soft reboot for lazy plot development, profit from a successful franchise, and demoted Stella into nothing but a fashion freak. - Some shows aiming at the under 7 age demographic on streaming services such as RUclips get more views and make more money than those of teens or adults. -
I really like that AniMat is going with different styles for his live-action reviews to fit with the topic or genre of the film he's reviewing. It makes each review more interesting and unique from his regular or classic reviews of animated films where he's just playing clips from the animated film with just his voiceover relaying his thoughts on the film. And I don't mind that he's reviewing something outside of his niche medium. I'm actually really happy to see him reviewing live-action films. It's actually a great opportunity for AniMat to step out of his comfort zone of just reviewing animated films and being able to be more flexible. Being flexible and reviewing different film mediums that you're usually not known for reviewing is a great way to grow as a critic and a filmmaker. And I really like what he did with this video, so I look forward to seeing him get more requests on Patreon to review live-action films and experimenting with different styles for his reviews.
Damn! I am impressed. Like, SERIOUSLY impressed. A level that I never expected from you (no offense). This is really one of your best videos! The mystery parody aspect was a good idea, but you compined it so well with the review that it blows my mind. It's also good to see that you've reviewed another movie that was very unrecognized. If I had to give this video a rating, then I'd go with a guaranteed 10/10
I enjoy the story in this review. He was able to address the problems he has regarding some audience members without being condescending or manipulative. I wish other and bigger shows could manage that issue like Matt.
Wait this wasn't someone trying their own puppet thing but raunchy, this was ACTUAL Muppets? My word, that's like finding out Sausage Party was technically a DreamWorks film. And thank goodness its not
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This is basically if Ralph Bakshi tried to direct his own version of the muppets. Keyword being TRIED.
Ralph Bakshi would've done a much better job
No Bakshi would be more professional
A Family Picture!
True
@@tomhulce852 True
I really love how your non-animated reviews take different styles.
Keep up the variety within those reviews.
The HappyTime Murders.
Or “How to make Jim Henson Roll in his grave for an Hour and a Half”
El Perro Spike you know what else would make Jim Henson roll in his grave, if they made a teen titans go style reboot of fraggle rock called Fraggle Rock Go!
@@georgerobertson7010 Don't give them any ideas!!!
@@katiebutler9927 Don't Worry, The Jim Henson Company has at least Dignity.
@@monstercombo007 Yeah... That's a relief. It couldn't possibly get any worse.
I don't know. I think he would of at least appreciated the risk the movie took.
Wow, Animat told a better mystery than the movie did!
Garfield did too
And it taught how important it is to make an engaging story, especially if you are making a mystery. Cliches are like sugar, a little bit of them are okay, but use too much and it all goes to Diva’s infernal court.
And the award for best film noir parody goes to... AniMat! For his review of the Happytime murders!
My friend once said this movie is “police academy meets the muppets”
And a bad one
Accurate
But Police Academy is good.
That's an insult to muppets and police academy.
George Robertson
Sorry dude, but “police academy meets the muppets”, either as a crossover between the two I.P.s or a brief description of the HTM, will only indicate that a much funnier movie could of been made instead. 😕
The film that basically made Brian Henson look like a traitor, he hates his dad's legacy and never wanted to be a puppeteer. Shame on him, he should have been out of the Jim Henson company!!! Not Steve, but now we can't have nice things in this world can't we!!! 😤😤😤
If Jim Henson was still alive, he would have hated this movie.
Yeah he wasn't even fond of his work in the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie due to all of the violence that movie involved.
I’m not fond of watching R-rated films anyway, but I would rather watch the Muppets that appeal to the whole family. More of a G-rating quality, if you will.
Even moreso now, that we know Brian Henson is part of the problem.
@@brandonlyon730 and yet he made the Wilkins coffee commercials
@@erichfiedler1481 those were different
Out of all the movies getting remakes, I feel like this should get a reboot. Also Melissa McCarthy won a Razzie redeemer award alongside the Worst Actress award.
Really?
I didn't know that.
Its a little sad to know that Mat is more well known as "The Sony Hater" rather than "The Muppet Guy"
I just knew him as the guy with the orange fedora and funny voice
I think it's mainly due to how Sony has made terrible film after terrible film. And keep in mind this was before Into The Spiderverse was made.
Lol true 😂😆🤣
Screw you!!!
This could've been a really funny r rated muppet movie, but the execution is so bad.
Just watch The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It has the Jim Henson feel and does a much better job handling a dark atmosphere without feeling needlessly bleak.
If you want a good R rated puppet film, just watch Team America World Police
@@dong.corleone
Thank you.
@@alienboy1322 Your welcome, it is by the people who did South Park and had a REALLY BAD production but in the end, it turned out to be a funny film. Unfortunately the nightmare production caused Parker and Stone to never do another film again
Gorilla G Rockson or even Meet the Feebles. It does a better job at the idea of the puppet life being more bleak when the cameras are off
3:57 I personally thought Kermit’s Swamp Years wasn’t too bad, it was the first time a cartoon voice actress (Cree Summer) was in a Jim Henson/Muppets project
I enjoyed Kermit’s swamp years as well
Kermit’s swamp years was great imo
@@tylerhackner9731 I agree.
And I never even reconize Cree Summer's voice in the film at all.
Yeah... It was okay.
I knew she was in that movie. I was right.
Aside from the script, I think the other problem was it trying to build itself up to be *the* crude and crazy puppet film. But Peter Jackson did it 100X better with Meet The Feebles, especially since he didn't hinder on referencing real drugs, bloody/gory violence, several curse words and other offensive dialogue, and LOTS of puppet sex including the infamous hippo titties.
SIDE NOTE: Mark Hadlow, who voiced Robert in Meet The Feebles, would later play one of the dwarves, Dori, in The Hobbit trilogy.
What should have been an enjoyable muppet movie for us adults turned into wasted potential.
"Yes, there’s alot of great acting, great directing, and great puppetry but in filmmaking, they can only be as good as thier screenplay"
Several Years Later:
DreamWorks Bad Guys has a bad script but who cares it has pretty animation and good voice acting so its a good movie no questions asked!!!
Waldorf: Hey look mom, no brains!!!!
Statler and Waldorf: DOHOHOHO!!!!
God, imagine being the Henson relatives who had to work on this movie instead of Age of Resistance.
Animat's sketch was better than the movie.
He should've done his own BETTER version of the movie.
I know I would probably do the same thing if I ever get a chance to watch the movie.
Just saying, Tommy Devito.
True 😂😂😂😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
Having seen this on Patreon,this was an awesome take on the film noir genre! I agree; this film needed a better script. I just wanted to say thanks for this awesome review!
Private Eye Animat, reporting for duty!
The movie is like hiding the body, you could cover it up with some good soil and Flowers....but without a good foundation to hide it in, it will all crumble away.....
I always say, better you have a good story with bad animation than a bad story with good animation!
Screw Brian Henson 😡😡😡
Okay, since this post, I've actually seen the movie. And I actually kind of like it!
It's a shame really. This film looked really promising too! It could've at least gotten some Oscar nod if they tried to leave the original script as is. Your reviews never cease to amaze me Mat.
And BTW, I've heard that Phoenix Fan Fusion was cancelled this year. But I do hope you'll attend next year. It would be an honor to meet you.
This would be the perfect film for Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.
Just saying.
The problem is Disney owns The Muppets (as in Kermit and the gang), while Sesame Workshop owns the Sesame Street characters (Big Bird, Elmo, etc. and they don't do crossovers anymore like in the old days) and The Jim Henson (or what's left of it) owns everything else such as Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, archive stuff
Who Killed it? Every party involved was guilty.
Spoilers for Murder on the Orient Express (Both the book and the movie).
I love film noir sketches like yours, Mat. They're funny and you did a good job critiquing this film.
How we think it went down
Story: 1/10
Puppetry: 9/10
Characters: 3/10
Overall: 4/10
Shouldn’t be “Puppetry” instead of “Animation”?
@Alec Thaggard I didn't know you were one of the people who watched AniMat's review of this movie! Nice to see you here.
SuperFilipino64
My pachirish: we fixed it
@Alec Thaggard No problem
Now we've entered a detective story at the beginning of the video.
Also known as "That time some puppets tried and failed to outdo Roger Rabbit"
maybe Brian Henson just isn't good at writing Adult Films
I wonder if Jim was looking down at Brian from heaven in disapproval when he made this movie.
Not his fault.
I would have trouble writing an adult movie, too, animated or live action!
Including TV shows.
Just using those as examples!
I don't think he wrote it. He just directed it
I feel like Adult should be put in quotes
@@matthewhunter1193 Still not his fault!
“The script killed the movie!”
Dun Dun Dun!!!
ZOINKS!
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 it would’ve be gotten way with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
@@jackiegonzalez6814 Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 *laugh track*
@@jackiegonzalez6814(Fades to black....)
I gotta say, I'm impressed by the film noir setup for this review. Granted, this is coming from someone from Chicago, one of the ideal film noir locations, and is used to this sort of thing looking back onto the Windy City's checkered past with John Dilinger and Al Capone.
Also, very good use of Garfield. Again, this is coming from a Hoosier much like the strip's creator Jim Davis.
I can think of examples of movies that had promising qualities, but have bad screenplays...
- A star studded Award winning cast ("Arctic Dogs")
- Revolutionary animation and visual effects ("The Good Dinosaur")
- An inspiring music score ("Thomas and the Magic Railroad")
- Beautiful cinematography and genius editing ("Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat")
Just to name a few.
Here are mine with good qualities but with weak stories:
An star studded cast (Delgo)
Revolutionary animation/visual effects (Toy Story 4)
Inspiring musical score (Song of the Sea)
Beautiful Cinematography/Editing (10, 000 B.C.)
@@tylerfish2701 It's a shame you put "Toy Story 4" and "Song of the Sea," because I see them as solid flicks. In spite of this, I respect your opinion.
@@tylerfish2701 I don't think Toy Story 4 and Song of the Sea are bad movies. Just saying.
@@KSCGGuy14 I'm not saying they were bad, they just aren't my favorites. But more power to you if you like them.
Solid points man, solid points
I know you’re not big on horror, but another interesting take on “Muppets for Adults” (that isn’t Avenue Q or Meet the Feebles) is a short VR game called Hello Puppets, which came out earlier this year.
Bottom line: You want a better murder mystery that uses unlikely elements, go watch Garfield's Babes and Bullets. It takes what really shouldn't work and finds a way to make it work. Plus, it has a way better script.
You want a crude, raunchy story with the use of puppets???
People... WE HAVE AVENUE Q!!!
It did have an R rating tone to it but it had an engaging story, likable characters and great and funny songs!!
Also Meet The Feebles.
@@alienboy1322 And Team America World Police
@@jonathanwright8025 Different kind of puppets, but still a good example.
AVENUE Q is so much better, because it was made for a smaller audience than a main stream audience!!!
*Plays Muppets Most Wanted's Investigation Song* I stil prefer a Avenue Q adaption over this then this raunchy wannabes!
@Angel Gonzalez Lopez i wanna see that
Yeah Avenue Q is one of my favorite Broadway plays! I laughed until my jaw hurt
@@MangoMagica wow
How would you make an Avenue Q movie?
It's MUCH harsher now knowing that Brian Henson not only did nothing to stop it, he's actually PART of the problem himself. The Muppet production system is sort of a union between Disney, Sesame Workshop, and The Jim Henson Company. Brian, by now, has lost his spark and become more of an executive than a creator, and thus managed to break and bend to the desires of the filmmakers to make it a clone of Sausage Party. What was shocking the first go-around is just dull now.
There's only one reason this movie exists: MONEY (Which is what i like)
Well, it didn't make that much money. And it's not a bankable IP.
...honestly, they should have stuck with the original concept of a parody played straight rather than raunch for its own sake.
You don't actually exist you're a cartoon character being watched by people you may think you have free will but in reality you don't money is of no use to you....Eugene.
@@PeterGriffin11 did you fight your speech impediment?
Me: pikachu use thunderbolt
My Pikachu: * uses thunderbolt on Mr. Krabs *
Well said, Krabs.
Wow! It's awesome to find out why this interesting story and take on Muppet-like characters didn't take the clever and unique storylines and jokes that they could've focused on. Stay safe and keep it up!
I haven’t seen someone with this much hair on their chest since Burt Reynolds and Austin powers!
You want to see a good adult puppet film, watch Avenue Q
And Team Americs
James Georgi true, still worth a watch though
@James Georgi
I haven't seen the play but I would he totally up for a film adaptation.
@@dong.corleone AMERICA! F**K YEAH!! COMIN' AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHERF**KIN' DAY YEAH!
Or if you wanna watch an adult puppet TV series, try Mongrels or FurTV.
Funny enough, the only movie with gorgeous animation and not much of a script I can think of that's REALLY good is Fantasia. It's a movie with very little dialogue and story. It's like the animation and the music themselves are the script. Those two elements alone speak to the audience.
More deserving of your time than this
He actually reviewed Fantasia, go check it out when you can
It’s Not A Movie...
It’s A “EXPERIENCE”
Eva Sakaton experience? I was thinking more along the lines of timeless masterpiece.
Ive been binge watching all your old animation lookback series great vid btw👍
I literally watched a video this week from a channel named NitPix named Why The Happytime Murders was the WORST movie of 2018. Then I come across this.
Jim henson is basically rolling in his grave. I heard my grandma watched half of the movie but stopped because it was boring due to the boring script
Love how you reviewed this, brightened my day up ironically
Personally I liked it aside from that one scene the one with the “ silly string “ that went on so long it got cringy/awkward
Waste of comedy potential right here.
Off, when the greatest musician says that your movie sucks, you know you’ve failed...
I think it was a mistake to make a full on raunchy comedy, if they'd lean more on the crime noir aspect of it, it would've been a lot funnier
Happytime Murders: (breathes)
Meet the Feebles: YOU EAT ALL MY BEANS, BUDDY BOI!?
I won't lie, I was 16 when I watched this, 3 years ago, before COVID-19, damn... Long time...
But anyway, I liked The Happy Time Murders, it's a little Nostalgic, coming back to this !!
Just to say, never watched or plan to see the movie, but loved the review! I honestly loved how this works like a film noir. I never seen too many but I have a thing for film noirs.
I always love how they're always satire in a lot of television works especially when the best one is obviously Who Framed Roger Rabbit being a whole movie of it.
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is the better mystery film than The Happy time Murders
The moment you realize that this movie is distributed by STX Flims, who also distributed uglydolls and Playmobil: the movie (the later in the United States of America at least)!
This is just sad; I really enjoyed the puppetry and action scenes here, but I can see how the plot didn't work. Unlike, "Scooby-Doo" and "Law and Order", it doesn't get the "murder mystery" trope right because there's no lead suspects or clues or an explanation of how the culprit did it. Why, they even could've made a Jeff Dunham cameo where Phil and Connie interrogate Achmed
Phil: Do you know any of these guys?
(Shows Achmed photos of the Happytime Gang)
Achmed: I've already told YOU! I only kill Infidels! And DEEZ are NOT INFIDELS!
...Now I kinda want to see that...
You make awesome content Matt, you can tell you put a lot of effort in all of your projects.
Happytime Murders is one of those movies that you see once and have laughs with it, but the movie ends up being forgettable 'cause the script is too blunt and cliched and even the people who claimed that they loved the movie have already forgotten about it.
It's just a one-time fun trip and then you forget about it in the future. When I watched the movie, they were some moments that were pretty funny, but I was mostly disappointed and I believe it could have been 10 times better than it is now.
The film tried to be the South Park or Grand Theft Auto with muppets and it failed. It's a pity though because it had a lot of potential to be a good adult muppet film but the awful execution and horrendous jokes MURDERED it.
I remember seeing this movie with a group of friends and after it, only one of the group was like “it was so funny”
And the rest of us were like:
😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned *The Fuzz* (2014). Puppet/Human world, buddy cop flick. When I first saw the listing for it, I assumed it was a Happytime clone, but then spotted the release date, preceding HM by 5 years. Haven't watched it yet (backlog), but it sure looks like virtually the same thing.
RW: no script means no movie.
You wanna know a better adult oriented project made by the Jim Henson company? Look no further than the TV series, Dinosaurs (1991-1994).
For anyone who's asking which music piece is called when Animat talks about the importance of the script, it's the track New Beginnings from L.A. Noire, but it was sound edited to the one you hear in the video.
Top 10 best cinematic villain
The happytimemurders script
Never saw this movie, but the noir-styled review was brilliant.
I never saw it either, and I am glad I didn't watch it.
“Reviewing can be a thankless job“ - AniMat, 2020
They lost any chance of my respect or attention before the movie came out, with ads declaring themselves 'Better than the Muppets' Lies of that level warrant a special place in hell.
Team America was a very raunchy movie with puppets. And lots of vomit...
And it was actually funny. Which is sad in a way coz Happy Times Murder should have been on a similar level and failed. Still like the idea a lot!
Man, this film feels like kind of a let down...
The only reason I would want to see the movie is because Bill Barretta is in it, and my mom actually went to the same high school as him.
I swear on Jim Henson’s beard I’m not making this up.
Your mom was lucky!
@@ForrestFox626 boo
@@ForrestFox626 sorry i thought you said a mom joke
Julia Goodwin that’s really interesting that Bill Barretta went to high school with your mom
@@MrKrabs-kf9qg no
“I’ll have your badge for this. I’m in the f...ing FBI.”
“Oh yeah? What’s that stand for? F...ing Big Idiot?”
Animat, I challenge you to not only review The Dark Crystal, another Jim Henson property, but the Prequel series Age of Resistance!
Why? Because both products blow this movie out of the water by a country mile!
He should also review Labyrinth especially since Bowie was in it.
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This is one of the best reviews you've ever put together
Oh, boy. We're in for a treat, kids.
Be Very Afraid
This might be AniMat's best acting moment.
Also, is he implying that Loving Vincent was a bad movie?
How should I know?
I guess his point with that is, despite it having revolutionary and Beautiful animation and visuals, it was a bad film because it didn’t have a good script. Like he said, the script is the heart and soul of the movie, and if that falls, then everything else goes down with it.
@@arbytv5139 Case and point, look at Rio.
@@MovieFan1912 And Strange Magic.
@@jacindaellison3363 I haven’t seen that one, but I heard it wasn’t that good. The idea of A Midsummer Night’s Dream being adapted by the creator of Star Wars sounds interesting, but from what I have seen and heard, that potential was squandered.
What I love about this review, is you prove the point through your own script. You could have just come out from the gate and said "..its predictable and boring" and dance around that for 10 minutes and call it a review and skip for lunch. But you wove a tale and took me through a journey, knocking out the plausible causes one by one, and didn't even give away the revelation at first, but yet for simpletons like me still broke it down in a clear way that made sense. It was likely way more entertaining than the film itself.
Also I have to give all the "props" for the rotary phone handle to USB-C/Lightning work 👌
i would think that maybe STX is the REAL murderer of the concept, because they hate quality.
"Aka the Cool World Copycat Killer"
I remember going to see the movie with some work friends and it was a letdown. I doubt I would have seen it if it weren't for my manager saying he wanted to see it (and didn't end up going with us)
I kinda wanna see Animat review Good Boys (2019)
Personally I think it would've been better if it was more serious with hints of comedy here and there like, Tarantino's accidental comedy
2:51, I don't mind if they tried to do something new!
Its pretty common for most Studios in Hollywood to try that!
I have another mystery.
Who killed Nickelodeon’s Winx Club
Suspects:
- Iginio Straffi
- Viacom(Paramount Global)
- Nickelodeon Executives
- [ ]
- Rainbow S.p.A
- American Writers
- [ ] Janice Burgess
- [ ] Sascha Paladino
- [ ] Adam Peltzman
- [ ] Carin Greenburg
- Fans of the show
- Streaming Cartoons for ages 6 and under
- [ ] Cocomelon
Clues
- Straffi requested minor changes to the script to make the dialogue more suitable for younger audiences.
- Nickelodeon moves some cartoons to NickToons, which requires extra payment for some cable providers, Dish Network requiring the highest priced package, affecting the shows ratings. Ex: Harvey Beaks, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Welcome to the Wayne
- Straffi set the age demographic to ages 4-8 because “the animation audience has skewed younger”
- Straffi can’t monitor Nickelodeon 24/7, and Nickelodeon used the soft reboot for lazy plot development, profit from a successful franchise, and demoted Stella into nothing but a fashion freak.
- Some shows aiming at the under 7 age demographic on streaming services such as RUclips get more views and make more money than those of teens or adults.
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He should do this more often.
I really like that AniMat is going with different styles for his live-action reviews to fit with the topic or genre of the film he's reviewing. It makes each review more interesting and unique from his regular or classic reviews of animated films where he's just playing clips from the animated film with just his voiceover relaying his thoughts on the film. And I don't mind that he's reviewing something outside of his niche medium. I'm actually really happy to see him reviewing live-action films. It's actually a great opportunity for AniMat to step out of his comfort zone of just reviewing animated films and being able to be more flexible. Being flexible and reviewing different film mediums that you're usually not known for reviewing is a great way to grow as a critic and a filmmaker. And I really like what he did with this video, so I look forward to seeing him get more requests on Patreon to review live-action films and experimenting with different styles for his reviews.
I absolutely love the take you took for this video and would love to see more of this style.
The movie that taught us that Puppets should stay in the children's media.
and pretend it never ever ever existed
Avenue Q says different
Animat should do a review on the Live-Action Charlotte’s Web.
Damn! I am impressed. Like, SERIOUSLY impressed. A level that I never expected from you (no offense). This is really one of your best videos! The mystery parody aspect was a good idea, but you compined it so well with the review that it blows my mind. It's also good to see that you've reviewed another movie that was very unrecognized. If I had to give this video a rating, then I'd go with a guaranteed 10/10
I enjoy the story in this review. He was able to address the problems he has regarding some audience members without being condescending or manipulative. I wish other and bigger shows could manage that issue like Matt.
And he did the review as a whole in this film noir style that makes it stand out from the rest.
One of the best movie reviews on RUclips, beautiful exicution with the Noire theme
Better than the actual movie
11:48 You need to show off your DVD collection sometime! :)
Jim Henson films are always fun most times. Nice review, nice to see some Muppet content
Most of the Muppets films from the early to Mid-2000s weren't that bad.
Wasn't this film also rated to be one of the worst films of 2018? So i can't say I'm surprised it's a 4/10 from Animat.
I guess this means we shouldn't expect a positive review of 'Loving Vincent' in the future.
Loved the noir look...but figured it out not long after you ruled out the cast and the puppet work.
Watching this at my sister's house after I got the notification at the zoo in Columbus!
Wait this wasn't someone trying their own puppet thing but raunchy, this was ACTUAL Muppets? My word, that's like finding out Sausage Party was technically a DreamWorks film. And thank goodness its not
Not gonna lie I’ve been like that cause I was mad about a review,I don’t anymore thanks goodness
I so badly wanted to love Happytime Murders.