Death Note vs The Happytime Murders

Death Note has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 5.8/10 for The Happytime Murders). The Happytime Murders is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 6m. Death Note is the older of the two (2006 against 2018). Both are fantasy, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Death Note posterDeath Note2006 VS The Happytime Murders posterThe Happytime Murders2018
Death NoteThe Happytime Murders
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 5.8/10
Year20062018
Length2h 6m1h 30m
GenresFantasy, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
CountryJapan–
DirectorShusuke KanekoBrian Henson
Main castTatsuya Fujiwara, Erika Toda, Shido Nakamura, Sota Aoyama, Kenichi MatsuyamaCynthy Wu, Joel McHale, Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy

Synopsis

Death Note

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

The Happytime Murders

In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.

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