Review of Mystery Team (2009) by Brett A — 16 Jul 2010

I was up to my eyeballs in Encyclopedia Brown and the Hardy Boys in my formative years. This comedy apes that genre, transporting those same kind of know-it-all boy detectives to the present day, like people lost in time.

The Mystery Team is 3 boy-men who refuse to grow-up: Jason, the master of disguise...whose disguises are dated and lame; Duncan, boy genius...who really just memorized a bunch of trivia; and Charlie, the "strongest kid in town".

..who is skinny as a rake and dumber than box of rocks. In their younger days, they were local heroes. Except now they are all 18-year-olds carrying on like they are twelve, trying to sleuth out various injustices in the neighborhood while riding around on their bicycles, as society has sadly passed them by and gotten a whole lot more cynical.

They find themselves investigating a real crime - a double murder, and are soon way out of their very naïve depths. I laughed out loud A LOT at this. Frank and Joe Hardy are rolling over in their graves.

Or they would be, if they were real. Woodchuck sez, "Check it out.".