Fresh
A pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit and a pleasingly assured visual style.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Mystery Team
No case too hard. No case too tough.
2009 · 1h 38m · R
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Dan Eckman
Overview
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Just because you're a hit on YouTube doesn't mean you should be making movies.
Brian Miller, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
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.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten
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.
Daniel M. Gold, New York Times
Rotten
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?
David Fear, Time Out New York
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