Happy Times

Very entertaining, with insult-laden dialogue and plenty of creative violence and tension.

A wonderfully enjoyable blend of telenova, humour, and eye-watering violence, Happy Times is brilliantly entertaining.

The characters are self-involved, status-seeking and aggressive to the point of viciousness and it is perfectly in character for them to start offing each other for no good reason, which is clearly the point. But that point does not make it funny.

There is plenty of dark humor to be found in this Israeli-American hybrid from Haifa-born and Los Angeles-based director Michael Mayer...[a] horror excursion into impolite Los Angeles manners....

The fact things take the sinister, gory turn is just the perfect coffee and dessert the evening needed.

A competently made, bloody, sadistic thriller, but only competent -- never really exciting, nothing really fresh about it and practically absent of any real satire (Blu-ray Review).

Those with an odd and twisted sense of humor will enjoy watching these more or less successful people lose the veneer of civilization as the evening wears on.

Happy Times is uneven, but it hits its stride once the bodies start piling up.

Happy Times is bonkers wild but this film is the right type of bonkers even if no respectable Jewish dinner party features this type of awful behavior.

Luckily, the cast is strong and the direction kinetic, meaning that as frustrating as the movie gets, it is ultimately very worth it.