The Happytime Murders l STX l August 24, 2018 l Melissa McCarthy l Human/Puppet Hybrid l "May be the worst movie of the year"

[Barnack]

2 hours ago, LOGAN'sLuckyRun said:

Apparently the prod. budget on this thing is 40m. LOL! What the hell?! A movie like this should be been made for much less. Did McCarthy get half of that?

Maybe outside lot of other non-CA qualified cost, below the line cost in California were around 18.5m gross 16m net:

 

http://film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2.0-Website-Approved-Projects-List-Online-07.23.2018.pdf

 

Happytime Murders Puppet Murders, LLC Feature Film Indie 44 1147 216 136 $ 18,507,000 $ 2,500,000

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308728/locations

Filming Locations

Los Angeles, California, USA

Santa Clarita, California, USA

[TombRaider]

melissa's unfunny ass is over

 

cant believe she broke out after bridesmaids and not rose byrne or kristen wiig, sad.

[AJG]

2 hours ago, TombRaider said:

melissa's unfunny ass is over

 

cant believe she broke out after bridesmaids and not rose byrne or kristen wiig, sad.

 

LOOOOOOOOOL

 

Melissa McCarthy can win an Oscar anytime she wants. Over? 

[filmlover]

Melissa is doing zero promo for this so at least she was smart in taking the paycheck and running. This movie's existence will be pretty much forgotten by the time Can You Ever Forgive Me? opens anyway.

Edited August 23, 2018 by filmlover

[Ezen Baklattan]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Melissa is doing zero promo for this so at least she was smart in taking the paycheck and running. This movie's existence will be pretty much forgotten by the time Can You Ever Forgive Me? opens anyway.

In a strange twist, Can You Ever Forgive Me? is actually about Melissa McCarthy dealing with reviews for this.

[Eric Prime]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

Melissa is doing zero promo for this so at least she was smart in taking the paycheck and running. This movie's existence will be pretty much forgotten by the time Can You Ever Forgive Me? opens anyway.

This movie's gonna be Melissa's All About Steve to CYEFM's Blind Side. Guess Life of the Party is her Proposal, except it didn't make any money.

[DAR]

Which means she has a Gravity coming?

[Nova]

This movie cost $40M?! 

[TombRaider]

2 hours ago, AJG said:

 

 

 

Melissa McCarthy can win an Oscar anytime she wants

Not with the crap movies she makes. I know she has that drama coming up but still, oscars dont really reward talent anymore, i mean jennifer hudson, penelope cruz and sandra bullock have oscars LOL

[dxmatrixdt]

🦋

Edited August 25, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[OdinSon2k14]

Odd...knowing his father's legacy, the son makes an R-rated, raunchy...maybe theres some ulterior motive (money) I'm not aware of, who knows. 

 

If my father was Jim Henson, would I have risked that legacy, with something like this? No. The farthest I would have gone is PG-13. 

Edited August 24, 2018 by OdinSon2k14

[Webslinger]

Damn, those reviews suuuuuccckkk. I had been holding out hope that it would at least be a guilty pleasure, but those reviews make it sound awful.

[Maxmoser3]

RIIP Mccarthy’s Career

[TombRaider]

MM is completely ignoring the movie on instagram, she knows its bad

[Yandereprime101189]

The Hensons have never been able to really crack making their work for adults. They've tried for years. Only their titles for families seem to work, or in the case of Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, become cult hits.

 

This might be a sign. 

Edited August 25, 2018 by Yandereprime101189

[Webslinger]

I mean, the concept itself always sounded like twisted fun. The popularity of Avenue Q - which is in a different medium, yeah, but still - suggests that an audience for raunchy puppets exists. I guess the execution just isn't there at all in this case.

 

I'll still see it, but I'm going in with reeeeaallllyyyy low expectations.

[Napoleon]

Melissa McCarthy is a gift to mankind and she will never go away

[DAJK]

Yea this really did sorta suck. Maybe it's cause it looked like there could be so much potential, but a lot of the movie just fell flat. Some funny parts, but not enough. And it definitely wasn't as raunchy as the previews made it out to be.

 

I was shocked when this got rated only 14A in BC, which is the same rating as something like Meg or World War Z. And obviously other than the silly string stuff from the trailer, and references to pornography, there's no reason why it would have deserved an 18A anyways. Way more tame than Sausage Party. 

[baumer]

It did kind of suck, but worst of the year?  That's a little harsh imo.

[TheManFromBeyond]

I thought it was.....not terrible.