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Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story is a 2020 documentary directed by Ron Cicero and Kimo Easterwood, based on the 1991-1996 Nickelodeon animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Plot
The documentary explores the rise and fall of both The Ren & Stimpy Show and its controversial creator, John Kricfalusi.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It tries to tell the story of Ren & Stimpy, but is poorly executed, like they don't cover much of the Games Animation era, instead it covers mainly the Spümcø era and the treatment of John Kricfalusi of his employees, since originally the documentary was going to only tell the story and celebrate the series before the allegations against John Kricfalusi came out in March 29, 2018, days after the original version of the documentary was finished, resulted the documentary being massively remade. Adding the show's creator that was accused of pedophilia, that gives too much focus on him in this documentary and one of his victims that was proven to be a SJW, who wants to cancel the show's reboot on Comedy Central on the same day as this documentary was released on VOD, they were not the best choices that the directors had when they were redoing the documentary.
 * 2) It barely talks about Ralph Bakshi's relationship with John K. and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, since it was left out in the documentary, save for a brief mention for the show in the documentary.
 * 3) The directors cut some interviews from the documentary, like the ones with "Weird Al" Yankovic and mainly with Anthony Raspanti.
 * 4) Jim Smith, Scott Wills and Eddie Fitzgerald barely appears in the film.
 * 5) The directors used a fanart thumbnail from a Fairly OddParents YouTube video and a SpongeBob fanart in the collage of cartoons were influenced by Ren & Stimpy, without permission or credit from the original artists. Some, like The Fairly OddParents, Panty & Stocking and Ed, Edd n Eddy, were not influenced by Ren & Stimpy.
 * 6) *They also used without permission, a Ren and Stimpy video from the NickRewind YouTube channel in the documentary.
 * 7) The ending is absolutely tragic and terrible, showing John K. saying he's not perfect like anyone else and sketches the infamous scene of Adult Party Cartoon episode, "Ren Seeks Help" in which Stimpy says to Ren, "You monster!". According to co-director Ron Cicero in the documentary's Q&A at Sundance, the final scene suggests indirectly saying John is a monster, despite he was remorseful what he did and wanted to be a better person in the documentary, showing hypocrisy right here.
 * 8) The entering of the story of the infamous relationship between John Kricfalusi and Robyn Byrd is very creepy and uncomfortable to watch.
 * 9) The directors can't handle negative criticism against the documentary, as shown when they discovered Cartoon Brew gave a negative review to the documentary and called it "a confused portrait to the show and their creator". Also they block anyone else who negatively criticize the documentary on their social media.
 * 10) * Despite caring about the crowdfunding's backers, they selfishly said: "let alone get rich". Proving they want care about the money and want to be rich with their documentary.
 * 11) The documentary's current cover, which uses a Ren and Stimpy pose from a production cel from the episode Black Hole from Season 1, was not edited completely to remove the pink background, since there's a small part of the pink bottom of the episode's production cel in the middle of the center of Ren and Stimpy's faces that hasn't been erased.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Many of the interviews are pretty good.
 * 2) In the John Kricfalusi's interview to this documentary, saying that he was remorseful for the bad things he did, accepted the blame and wished he was a better person is the one of the only good things coming from this documentary, despite what happened after that as mentioned in WIS #6.

Reception
Despite having positive reception from critics, fans and having a 7.0/10 on IMDb and a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it was also criticized by some fans for having been massively remade due to Kricfalusi's sexual assault allegations on March 29, 2018, and the controversy surrounding the directors using fanarts of The Fairly OddParents and SpongeBob SquarePants in the documentary without permission or credit from the original artists, also for using without permission some YouTube videos. Thad Komorowski, despite gaving a positive review to the documentary, criticized the lack of credits for either Bob Camp or Billy West in the main cast of the documentary.

Trivia

 * The documentary was originally crowdfunded on Kickstarter in July 2017, however it failed to meet its goal and moved to Indiegogo in October 2017, when finally met its goal of $100,000.
 * Ren & Stimpy producer, Bob Camp, made art to the documentary's crowdfunding backers on Indiegogo.
 * Submarine was going originally to distribute the film.
 * John Kricfalusi refused to participate in the documentary before the allegations against him came out in 2018, he only agreed to participate in the documentary after the allegations against him dropped.
 * The documentary on VOD services was released on the same day as the release of mh:greatestmovies:The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run in Canadian theaters.
 * This documentary was dedicated to Chris Reccardi and Peter Wade, both who unfortunately tragically died in 2019.

Trailers
kqT77bdfEaA G_CT2O_5vgY Left: New official trailer released on July 28, 2020, featuring the remade version made after the sexual assault allegations against John Kricfalusi were released Right: Old trailer released on July 13, 2017, featuring the original version before being remade a year later, due of the sexual assault allegations against John Kricfalusi