Oh brother, here we go again with the puppets fucking. The Happytime Murders, the new film from Brian Henson—who is Jim Henson’s kid but also just about as established in the realm of puppetry as one can be—is pretty much a Meet the Feebles sequel that no one asked for. And, at least at the screening I attended, audiences are are uh... polarized? Quite a few people stood up and clapped at the end of The Happytime Murders. A seemingly equal amount expressed complaints about wasting an hour and a half of their precious lives watching a ridiculous, derivative puppet buddy cop movie that was only interesting because it contained puppets. I am in the latter camp, with some Melissa McCarthy allowances. by Suzette Smith