2009 · comedy · crime · mystery
Mystery Team
Directed by Dan Eckman1h 38m2009
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
Our read: Mystery Team (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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“You want Derrick Comedy's filthy adult mystery with childhood detectives grown up.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if gross-out cringe, cocaine plots, and strip-club jokes kill the mood.
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