If a film is sold as an outrageous comedy, that is what the audience expects, and here The Happytime Murders sadly does not deliver, and it is certainly nowhere near as funny or subversive as Meet The Feebles or Team America. Oddly enough, the parts that are played straight in terms of the police procedural and private investigator genres work effectively, with credit to good world-building in which people and puppets co-exist and to the puppeteers and their creations. Plotting is negligible, and the brief flashes of genuine humour are not sustained. The Happytime Murders is not wholly successful as either a serious or comedic film, and it thus falls awkwardly and disappointingly between the two.
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