So... is it just me, or does the new Detective Pikachu trailer look like the type of film Happy Time Murders should have been?
The movie is taking Pokemon, a childhood property, and making a realistic "gritty" buddy cop movie. They make jokes about the Pokemon like interrogating a Mr. Mime, saying they will make him talk. The movie looks like it plays on your expectations of what a Pokemon movie is. It seems like this is what a PG Happy Time Murders would have looked like and it seems to be widely loved by the internet.
Perhaps Brian Henson was wrong to go the hard R route and should have gone PG or even PG-13.