“Happy Happy Joy Joy” adds a bitter taste to what was one of my favorite cartoons featuring two of my favorite animated characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2022

Happy Happy Joy Joy is exactly the film this troubling, polarising show deserved.

| Apr 26, 2021

Happy Happy Joy Joy is a dismal coda to a fondly remembered show, with Kricfalusi's collaborators still distressed over what happened.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2021

More than just a nostalgic look back.

| Mar 1, 2021

Fascinating and disturbing... If nothing else, Happy Happy Joy Joy will mean you'll never look at Ren & Stimpy the same way again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Recounts the meteoric rise and fall of the beloved kids' show, which wasn't really for kids, and whose highs and lows were all the byproduct of its creator.

| Feb 2, 2021

Whether you're a fan of Ren and Stimpy or not, this is a truly fascinating watch, and Happy Happy Joy Joy is an offering that has far more gut punches than a casual viewer may be expecting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Ren & Stimpy's gestalt-a kind of tender boldness of form, something "churning like lava inside you," as Kricfalusi puts it-was endearing and magnetic.

| Jan 9, 2021

Despite the lack of tighter focus or perspective, it's a worthwhile tribute especially for fans.

| Dec 15, 2020

"Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story" is a tale of two documentaries. The one focused on just the making of the show is entertaining, thorough, and a real winner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2020

The film is actually perhaps most interesting-and most valuable to the initiated-as a piece of criticism-by-creator.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 24, 2020

The filmmakers didn't do what they should have done, which was to bulldoze their edit and start over - to put the art of "Red & Stimpy" and the abusive treatment of his Spumco staff in context of Kricfalusi's actions as an alleged sexual predator.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2020

The clues, tidily packaged, explain away Kricfalusi's pathology. "Happy Happy Joy Joy" is a cautionary tale not a hagiography

| Aug 13, 2020

Takes an incisive look at the show and proves that the way the sausage was made was often brutal.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2020

Happy Happy Joy Joy really delves into the good, the bad, and the ugly of what it takes to create a show that breaks all the rules.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 11, 2020

...a whiplash of a documentary, celebratory and damning in its fascinating history of an animation you will be amazed ever made it into children's programming.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 5, 2020

Easterwood's documentary is a very entertaining recap that grows more disturbing as it wades into the dysfunctional behavior that doomed the show, and still somewhat taints its legacy.

| Feb 4, 2020

[It's] impressive as an engaging and exhaustive oral history of a groundbreaking show, but more so for being able to hold multiple truths about someone as simultaneously admirable and repulsive as Kricfalusi.

| Jan 30, 2020

A story of immense creativity destroyed by the ego of one man.

| Jan 29, 2020

This documentary takes a dark turn and if you don't know John K's history, it's completely unexpected.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2020