(CNN) Jim Henson was best known for the Muppets, but he wasn't above bringing more adult flavor to his string-and-yarn creations. His son, Brian Henson, takes the idea to R-rated extremes with "The Happytime Murders," a movie that quickly unravels -- agonizingly stretches about five minutes worth of gleefully crude fun over a pretty excruciating 90 minutes. For whatever reason, "Sesame Street" decided to do all it could to help promote Henson's directing effort by suing , unsuccessfully, over the movie's tag line "No Sesame. Other that, "Happytime Murders" can't tickle the funny bone enough to get more than a few laughs even from Elmo. "It's their world, and we just live in it," Phil says grimly near the outset.

Source: CNN August 22, 2018 21:11 UTC