The guys at Movieline tapped into our brains for this post. We were just having a conversation about this yesterday and their post reads exactly like our thoughts.
The trailer for Sundance “sleeper-hit” “Mystery Team” has been released and lord it looks terrible. Like excruciatingly unfunny with plenty of amateur “comedy style” mugging (the music is dreadful too). Just check the first “joke” in the trailer about a magnifying glass. Is this hammy, cornball stuff supposed to be funny? Jesus. Movieline sarcastically calls it a “comedy sensation” and with good reason, it looks laughable. As in, laughing at you, not with you. But if you heard it from the geek sites, who have all glommed on to this, second-rate looking “Napoleon Dynamite” piffle you’re witnessing a new era in comedy (not that the wretched ‘Dynamite’ was even remotely good, but it looks worse, if you can imagine).
Slashfilm may never live down calling it, “funnier and more original than 99% of the comedies Hollywood releases now-a-days.” (Cinematical and Cinemablend have also evidently given it the thumbs up). It’s essentially about a gang of neighborhood crime-solving boys who refuse to grow up and as Movieline aptly puts it, the picture, “looks less like a feature film, more like a mid-budget webisode of something on FunnyOrDie.”
Hard to believe people are not only endorsing this, but actively campaigning for it. Yikes. “You smell like urine!” one of the characters whines like a five-year-old. “Dog urine,” the other corrects him. Don’t make eye contact and walk away quickly. Aubrey Plaza is going to pretend she never appeared in this thing; watch her be completely absent from press. [Movieline]