MYSTERY TEAM

Rated R; 94min; Director:Dan Eckman  

Location: Alamo Downtown

Feature Film debut from Derrick Comedy!

"MYSTERY TEAM is incredibly well written... It's funnier and more original than 99% of the comedies Hollywood releases now-a-days. At very least, the film will develop a cult following. But I have a feeling that Derrick Comedy is on the edge of becoming huge."
- Peter Sciretta, Slashfilm.com

"I thought that the Derrick Comedy team's short film background would lead to a movie that was lacking cohesion and just a series of sketches, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. Watching this movie I couldn't help but think that I was seeing the future of film comedy stretching its legs and warming up."
- Devin Faraci, CHUD.com

"...with MYSTERY TEAM, these boys hit one way out of the ballpark, producing not only the funniest comedy I've seen at (Sundance) so far, but one that definitely has the potential to stand toe-to-toe with the finer comedies of 2008 and the most hyped of 2009."
- Erik Davis, Cinematical.com

"If Encyclopedia Brown, the kids from AMERICAN PIE, and Nancy Drew all had sex, their baby would probably look something like MYSTERY TEAM." That's the description being used as the Mystery Team's official plot synopsis, and I can't think of anything more perfectly appropriate for one of the funniest surprises at Sundance this year and a sure thing to become the next big cult hit, should someone have the good sense to pick it up and put it in theaters. Mystery Team go!

It's the story of three kids who spent their childhood solving mysteries. They set up a stand in their front yard, with a roughly scribbled sign proclaiming they'll solve anything for ten cents. Jason is the Master of Disguise (Donald Glover), Charlie is the Strongest Kid in Town (Dominic Dierkes), and Duncan is the Boy Genius (D.C. Pierson). When they were seven it was cute, only now they're 18 and still running around trying to find out who stuck his finger in Mrs. Minke's pie. Jason is now some idiot with a bunch of fake mustaches, Charlie is a dim bulb who stalk's the school's real jocks, and Duncan is just some guy who once memorized a book of fun facts. The people around them see them for what they are, but they don't. Jason, Charlie, and Duncan live in a fantasy world where there are glorious mysteries to be solved. What would happen if Encyclopedia Brown got older, but forgot to grow up? He'd be these guys, three social pariahs spectacularly ill-equipped to deal with adulthood and the real world.

The film then takes these already hilarious characters and thrusts them straight into the middle of their first big time, serious case. This time instead of lost bikes, a little girl hires them to discover the identity of her parents' murderer. The Mystery Team has its first real mystery, and our naïve characters are thrust into a host of frighteningly adult, and ridiculously hilarious situations. Imagine Encyclopedia brown confronted with a real dead body, or forced to sneak into a strip club. Three incredibly innocent, confused characters are thrust into a raunchy, violent world of drugs, sex, and murder and the results are insanely hilarious.

It's more than just funny though. There's actually a good mystery too. In a sense, MYSTERY TEAM is a comedy built on the bones of a sharp, well-made, classic mystery movie. It's the type of great detective story that's long gone missing from movies and television, it's Columbo but done up with hilarious characters and raunchy, snarky wit.

MYSTERY TEAM needs to be seen. It's fresh, it's unique, and funnier than hell.
(Josh Tyler, CinemaBlend.com)

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