The Mystery Team was a trio of childhood friends who biked around their neighbourhood to find mysteries to solve – a missing diary, a marble down a drain, a windowsill pie tampering. They communicated via walkie talkie and charged their clients just a dime. The Mystery Team is in fact still the same trio, only now they’re high school seniors and if they have no idea how creepy and childish and inappropriate their behaviour has become, everyone else certainly does.
They manage to still get clients though, usually referred by Jamie (Ellie Kemper) but a new family on the block leads to their first ‘adult’ case – a double homicide with a side of stolen jewels. Again, everyone else knows that Jason (Donald Glover) aka The Master of Disguise, Duncan (D.C. Pierson) aka The Boy Genius, and Charlie (Dominic Dierkes) aka The Strongest Kid in the Neighbourhood are in way over their heads, but they’re gung-ho – especially Jason, who might feel his first ‘adult’ stirrings for the new girl next door (Aubrey Plaza).
Is this a good movie? Bottom line: no. There’s definitely humour in just how pathetic these guys are, how clueless, and in some ways, how sweet. But it’s really the only fish in the barrel, so they stretch it out of necessity, and it inevitably wears quite thin. They bumble around foolishly, stumbling upon clues apparently faster than the cops due. Suspicious? About as suspicious as a stripper’s cesarean scar, and yes, that will come up.
I suppose if you have some sort of Scooby Doo fetish, this might be up your alley (sorry, no dog). I enjoy Donald Glover (no relation to Danny) so I tolerated this. I’m not sure that everyone will be able to say the same, and I wouldn’t blame them for a second if they couldn’t.
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I’m a Scooby Doo h8tr (I know, I know…) but I really like Donald Glover and Ellie Kemper.
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What!? Mike! How can you hate Scooby Doo!?! This is impossible!
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On the ‘never to be seen’ list 🙂
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Drat. At the beginning, I was thinking this sounded like the Three Investigators book series that I loved when I was a kid, but I think I’m going to steer clear of this.😕
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I tried to watch this movie but stopped it after about 10 minutes, because it was ridiculous. And I love Scooby Doo!!!! Maybe because I live with Great Danes.
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“I suppose if you have some sort of Scooby Doo fetish, this might be up your alley.” Ha ha. That clinched it for me. Heading to the “no” pile. 😀
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I was really hoping this was a documentary… 😕
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Nope!
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It sounds like an interesting concept for a Saturday Night Live sketch, but an entire movie? Eh.
Though even as a sketch, they’d have to be careful not to drag it out for too long.
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Do they still just charge a dime? You’d think if they’ve been “solving crimes” for this long, they’d have gotten better at it. Just through sheer repetition.
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They do still charge a dime – neither the crimes nor their solutions have really progressed at all, until this murder.
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Never heard of it but I kind of like cheesy movies!
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