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REVIEW: “PEPPERMINT” & “THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS”

Guess it’s one of those weekends to skip the movies… I’ve got the Jennifer Garner vigilante/revenge thriller, “Peppermint” and the botched puppet comedy, “The Happytime Murders.”

I had pretty low expectations for “Peppermint” and in fairness the film exceeded them, but that’s a pretty low bar. From Pierre Morel, the director of “Taken” this film is filled with somewhat senseless violence. John Gallager Jr, John Ortiz and Method Man also star.

​The same could actually be said of “The Happytime Murders” which I had such high hopes for. From Brian Henson (son of Jim) and starring Melissa McCarthy and a bunch of puppets, I wanted this to be “Avenue Q” levels good. Unfortunately it was nowhere close. McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks, and Joel McHale also star.