 Oh, sorry about your dead human friend, Phillip. Oh, hey, it's good shit. Well, fuck me. Maybe. Ha ha ha ha. So I'm pretty sure that you tuned into this video because you wanted my opinion of the movie and I'm more than happy to give it to you as long as you don't ask me to pull out my. Weena. My name is Brandon Keith Avery. And this is just my opinion. Boom. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for the happy time murders. I really do appreciate him. Now, I remember this film not being on my radar at all, but the trailer came out and I reacted to it and I thought it was freaking hilarious. I thought this was possibly going to be one of the funniest movies of the year. Possibly could be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. And you probably like, whoa, are you talking about some puppets and this real crude and raunchy and things like that? I mean, that's just the type of person that I am. And that's just my personality. I like silly things. I like spoofs. I like over the top crazy over exaggerated entertainment. I mean, that's just like what I'm into. And when I'm talking about this review right here for this film, I'm going to bring up some other films that I do find fascinating. I'm not pretty sure if they still hold up today because I saw a number of them 10 years ago and 20 years ago, but we're going to have a discussion about that. Now, if it wasn't obvious to you already, this film kind of tailors around the Muppets and Sesame Street from back in the 60s and 70s and things like that. The director of the film is actually Brian Henson. He is the son of Jim Henson. If you know Jim Henson, he is behind the Muppet show and Sesame Street and all that good stuff. And just actually just a little tidbit behind the scenes. The film, the production company for this film was actually sued by the Muppet company because they didn't like the tagline like no Sesame, no Street. They thought that that was like putting a shadow over the brand and just making them look bad. But you know, it got dismissed. They didn't win, but I just kind of thought that was interest and didn't really see that it was necessary. But as far as this film, The Habit Time Murders, you know, I was, you know, I don't want to just say I was just super duper excited about it. I was when the trailer first came out, but you know, when it was coming up to go see the film, you know, I was trying to keep my expectations in check. I didn't check out any reviews. I just wanted to go on with an open mind and you know, an open heart. And I just really did want to enjoy it. And you know, for the most part, I did. I mean, they're, I mean, this is a comedy to me. And I was laughing throughout a majority of this movie, especially at the very beginning. You know, there were a lot of laugh out loud moments and then just other moments throughout the film sprickled in and there that I just kind of just chuckled here and there and just didn't think it was funny as the rest, but still got some type of entertainment. This is kind of a mix between puppets and live action characters, mainly between Melissa McCarthy. I am a big fan of hers. I have not seen all of her films, but for the most part, she is very funny to me if she is attached to a film that is one of the reasons why I would go see it. But I cannot say that to, you know, for this particular film here. How she did in this film is she's not as funny as she was in all of her other films. Some films that, you know, I can get a little sick of it. You know, she is a larger woman and a lot of her films, as of late, I've noticed that she kind of makes fun of herself about being large and she's always, you know, falling down or getting beat up or just bumbling over herself, fumbling over herself. And that can be funny, you know, that can only be funny for so long before it gets exhausting and tired. It's like, okay, please bring me some more material, some more type of entertainment. But I'm proud to say that I'm glad to say that that's not really the case here. You know, Melissa McCarthy's performance and her personality in this film was toned back a whole ton from what I've seen with her in the past. Now, I'm not saying that she stood out great in this film and, you know, you need to go see this film because of her. So while I did enjoy Melissa McCarthy's performance, not saying that it's great, you know, at the same time, it wasn't the selling point of this film. Now, this next character I'm gonna talk about isn't the selling point either, but in my opinion, he is the character that saves the film. And that is Bill Beretta. I am not too familiar with him, but he is the voice actor that voiced the puppet in this film by the name of Phil, who is an ex-cop and now a detective. For this movie, this movie is over the top, it's extremely raunchy and silly. It is not anything to take seriously, but this is the only character in this film that I actually did take seriously. And if it wasn't for this actual puppet's involvement, this film would have been like an epic failure to me. He is the only person that I actually really cared about and I really didn't care how about him much. He just, I really liked him the most out of everybody. He was very serious, you know, down on his look, you know, just kind of really counting the days that, you know, until he died or he got blown away or something like that. But, you know, he saved the film for me. I mean, you know, everybody else I couldn't take seriously. I know I just talked about Melissa McCarthy. There's another gentleman in this film as well by the name of, he was a black dude, Leslie David Baker. He played a character by the name of Lieutenant Banny. And he was just a joke to me. As soon as he came on screen for the first time, his acting was just trash. He's been on a lot of TV. I hate to say that, you know, about a brother especially, but I just didn't enjoy it. I mean, I'm just like, you know, man, you know, where did the money go when they, well, they, no, apparently they didn't have any. The budget was $10 million and they didn't go to the cast, you know, casting great actors. It went to another part of the film, which I'm going to talk about later. But, you know, Melissa McCarthy, she was okay. This gentleman here, Leslie David Baker, I was not a fan of his at all. And then the puppet played by Bill Beretta. You know, that's the thing that saved me from the film. Now, what this film is about is that you have this happy time gang of puppets that were really popular back in the day in the 80s, but someone now is going around executing all the puppets, just killing them one by one by one. And Melissa McCarthy and Bill Beretta or the character Phil, they're trying to investigate and get to the bottom of this mystery and seeing who is going around and murdering everybody. So you have a buddy cop movie, a live action person with Melissa McCarthy and then you also have the puppet. But just speaking more about the puppets, that is something that I really did like about the film. I'm kind of going back and forth with my likes and dislikes. You know, they wasn't just really stagnant. I mean, they had a nice flow of motion to them. I haven't seen every puppet movie that has came out in film history, but you will notice that most of the time you can only see half of their body because they're not a real person. There's a puppet and they have a hand up their body with someone moving around. But when this film here, you actually get four body shots of puppets moving around and walking and jumping up and down and stomping and kicking their feet. And it's just something that I've never seen before. It stood out to me and when I saw it, it was a highlight. I was like, okay, I like how they did that. I have no idea how they did it, but I like it and it's something that I've never seen before. If you do decide to see the film, make sure you stay for the outtakes because that is pretty much the funniest part of the film to me. And then they also do kind of showcase and illustrate to you how they were able to do all the behind the scenes mechanics with showing the puppets moving around with CGI elements here and there. And it was quite fascinating to me and I kind of understand that's where a majority of the budget went. Me as a black man, you know, growing up in America, of course we know that we deal with racism and discrimination all the time. We deal with it today. We've dealt with it since the very beginning of this country or whatever. And in this film, the puppets are second class citizens and they do deal with, you know, racism, well, not racism, it's not, I mean, you get what I'm trying to say, they're discriminated against. You know, there is a strong prejudice in this movie. And especially in the very beginning of the film, I'm like, wow, is this really, you know, what the whole film is going to be about? And they kind of tailor it out later. But that's just kind of something that I kind of noticed. And I like how they infused that in, you know, with the real world of how, you know, real life people, how they treat puppets and things like that, you know, that's something else to the light. But the two things that are, I guess they're just my biggest compliances. I am not a sensitive person when it comes to crude jokes and things like that, sexual material, wire material and things like that. But in this film here, it was just a little bit too much for me to where I was just like, okay, this is just freaking ridiculous. You know, they went overboard. I mean, they actually have a scene in this movie and they may even be in the trailers. I didn't watch all the trailers. Well, they have an octopus having sex with a cow. And they mean that's crazy. I mean, you know, just think about that image just for a second and octopus having sex with a cow. And it's possibly one of the most disgusting six scenes that I've ever seen in my entire life. And I'll go ahead and be honest with you, you know, 20 to 25 years ago, whatever, when I was going through puberty and trying to find out this and that, you know, I used to pull up some porn videos here and there and I was curious, like, you know, hey, where does this go and where does this go and different combinations and things like that. You know, I even saw a few videos of, you know, a woman having sex with a horse just because I was curious. I mean, you know, at that age where, you know, you and Junior High going to high school or I don't know, whenever you peaked and stuff like that, you know, you, I don't know about your curiosity. But I was curious. I mean, you seeing, you hearing and you seeing stuff and people talking about the school. Hey man, you see the girl, you know, smashed the horse and that's just crazy. Like what, before you see it for the first time, okay, a woman did not actually eff a horse. That's crazy. But some of you are after, y'all know what I'm talking about. Don't act like you better than me. Y'all seen a number of those videos of Beastie Addie. And it's like, wow. You're probably never watched it again, but you at least watched it at one point in time, you know, because you was curious, you know what I'm saying? I mean, and it's just disgusting. This in this movie was even more disgusting than that. And it was puppets. I mean, like, and it wasn't just like a little two or three second shot or whatever. They like over four widescreen. Yeah, get it all just, ah, you know, just everywhere. I'm going like this. I only have two arms. So imagine the octopus with a arm. Just, I was just like, whoa. And this was just like at the very beginning of the film when they were just like a little too much for me. Now there is another scene that's in the trailers to where one of the field, the main puppet here, he's having sex with somebody in his office. And, you know, I mean, if you don't know what I'm talking about, here you go, right here. Here I go, here I go, here I go, here I go, here I go. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm right here, I'm right here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And when I reacted to it in the trailer, I was laughing in the trailer as I'm laughing now. And the only reason I'm laughing now is because I'm just really thinking about it. But when I reacted to it in the trailer, it was funny, but when I saw it in the theater, I was like, there is just absolutely no context to this at all. There is no reason at all in the story or has to do with Phil, the puppet's character, to why he would need to ejaculate that much. And I just really didn't laugh at that point in the film. I was kind of like, okay, this is just kind of dumb. You know, but I don't know, I mean, because I don't know if just because I'm more mature now or because they just did a bad job of executing in the film because one of the funniest movies to me, guys, is a Team America World Police. Got that right there on DVD. I think this film came out in, I think in like 2004. Oh, Dirkadirkadurka. If you've seen the film, you know what I'm talking about. I haven't watched that film in at least five or six years, I wonder if it'll still hold up. But I just remember at times where I was just like laughing my butt off. Or I remember when I was in high school, 14 or 15 years old, scary movie came out. I think it was like 98, 99. And you know the scene to where they're having sex at the end and the guy ejaculates his girlfriend into the, ejaculates Cindy into the ceiling. Who's it, Bobby? Who's is it? I know, you may find it disgusting, but when I saw that in the theaters, when I was in high school, I laughed my ass off. That is literally in the top five best film experiences I've had in my entire life. I was literally on the floor in the theater laughing so hard like at that scene that I just showed you. Now, I mean, that's just how I am. I find things like that funny. Now, I don't know if I would still find that funny today or if I just found it funny 20 years ago because I was a teenager and I'm more mature now, but you know, I think it's really has to do with execution because I'm pretty confident that that material in scary movie or Team America, World Police is still funny to me, but in this film here, it did, there was just no context for the most part too. This is the ridiculous over the top crude sex jokes and things like that. I mean, it just, I kind of feel like as it was right in the script, okay, we just want to be nasty to be nasty. And we're just going to put the nasty scenes in here for no matter what. And it did not work for me in this film. And one of the reasons why that was funny and scary movie is he had, even though it was a spoof comedy, in that film he had a reason to why he ejaculated so much. It was over exaggerated, but it was part of his character. It was part of the story. She wasn't giving him sex the whole movie. He was pretty much a virgin. So he had a lot built up. So that was a plot point that actually made sense for him to ejaculate her into the ceiling. There was no plot or anything or character development or anything for him to just to spray down his old office. So that's just why I didn't enjoy it so much. And it's funny because of all the crew things, this film was in development for like over 10 years, and it just wouldn't get approved, but they finally got the financing. So, and really, when they're trying to find out the mystery of who murdered all the puppets and things like that, I was fascinated with the effects of puppets dying and their heads getting blown off and puppet cotton is flying everywhere. I thought that was cool too, especially with the mechanics of them moving the puppets around. But in the end, about 45 minutes into this movie, I just did not care about the story. There was just really no characters that I cared about, that I wanted to see succeed. I didn't care if the mystery was solved or not. And it is solved and that's fine there, but the film is only about an hour and 25 minutes long and I was ready to go. I was just really ready to leave about an hour into it. I'm not saying that the film is horrible. I mean, I did enjoy it, but it's not anything that I can recommend to say that you have to just go wash out and see, but this is something that easily that you can rent or if this was on Netflix or something like that, that would be perfectly fine. If I had to rate the happy time murders out of a one out of 10, I would give it a 6.5 out of 10. Yes, a 6.5 out of 10. I bet you were just still positive. I bet you thought I was gonna crap on it. You know, I mean, they have funny parts, but it was still over the top and I just did not care about the characters or stories and just pretty much wanted it to be over. But guys, that is just my opinion. Have you seen the happy time murders or do you wanna see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. 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