Mystery Team

Impressions before seeing it
I think the poster sold me, and reading a quick little review of it that my buddy wrote. Thanks, Corey!

How was it?
Mystery Team is dumb and silly, but the good kind of dumb and silly because you know it's intentional and because it's funny. The main characters are basically three young adult losers who refuse to grow up, solving trivial childish mysteries for kids half their age (they've been doing it since they were kids themselves) and being belittled by everyone they know. That is, until the trio gets involved in a mystery that is very much for adults.

It plays a little like an episode of South Park at times - one of those episodes where the kids are playing some game, playing in adult roles in adult situations without realizing how serious it is - or like Step Brothers, only instead of middle-aged men acting like little boys, it's young men acting like little boys. And since I like Step Brothers and South Park (those episodes I described are some of my favourites), that's fine with me. I am also becoming a fan of Donald Glover (who stars in Community and co-wrote this movie) and Aubrey Plaza (of Parks and Recreation), and it's great to see people from two different NBC comedies starring together. It did get somewhat serious at the end, which contradicted the silliness of the rest of the movie, but I just attribute that to character development and a lead-in to the ending, so I'm not complaining.

Recommendation
Basically just a good, entertaining laugh. Check it out if you like some of the similar titles I mentioned above.