Mystery Team Reviews

Enjoyably crude and occasionally sharply observed dork comedy by Derrick Comedy, a troupe of young unknowns who have gained a YouTube following.

Full Review | Original Score: 82/100

Derrick Comedy would rather be gross and infantile, staging a routine of crass and witless sequences that reduce the film to tiresome cult comedy mechanics, clumsily scripted by the three stars.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

A pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit and a pleasingly assured visual style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Just because you're a hit on YouTube doesn't mean you should be making movies.

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Spectacularly funny and refreshingly free of irony ... Way funnier than The Hangover, more clever than Sherlock Holmes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Smutty, silly, groan-worthy in many places, inexplicably hilarious in others, Mystery Team is a guilty pleasure -- a deeply dumb movie made by pretty smart people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This ensemble-written movie is a weak effort, despite its appealing premise.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

A promising premise ... stricken lame by a complete lack of pacing. But then, every once in a while, a discussion about proper hobo bean-slicing etiquette, or a stripper's hilariously blasé scar story comes through and just kills.

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The intersection of child-detective literature and a harsh grown-up world is an irresistible concept

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An outrageous, offbeat comedy that's often preposterous and silly, but nonetheless quite funny and delightfully bizarre.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.25/10

If this is the future of comedy in Hollywood, then there's little to fear -- as long as everyone remembers that brevity is the soul of wit.

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Not surprisingly, especially for a movie heavy on college humor, the results are hit-and-miss. Some bits fall thuddingly flat, and the characters are rarely more than stick figures.

| Original Score: 2.5/5

Does the thought of watching grown men act like socially awkward boy wonders, while everyone tries not to look confused at their golly-gee shenanigans, crack you up?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The twentysomething talents behind Mystery Team are still in the comedy minors, but this nerdy, nutty, perfectly pitched first swing suggests there are major things to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Genuinely funny but amateurishly constructed.

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Full Review | Original Score: B-

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4