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'Mystery Team' Hits New York on Friday - Watch Their New Short!
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While it's sadly not going to take home any Oscars and probably won't nudge its way onto too many best-of-the-decade lists, one of my favorite comedies of 2009 has been slowly making its way across the country and is finally set to debut in New York this Friday, December 4th. I first saw Mystery Team (starring the crazy cats of DERRICK Comedy) at a packed midnight screening during the Sundance Film Festival (where I described it as " Encyclopedia Brown meets Napoleon Dynamite with a pinch of Ace Ventura"), and the place was just rolling. Ever since then it's been one of the films I've been championing throughout the year, if only because I know there are people out there (and fans of comedy in general) who would totally love every second of this thing.
This Thursday I'm going to be hosting a pretty cool DERRICK Comedy event at the New York Film Academy, and I look forward to sharing DERRICK's story with a couple hundred students (I also hope to share video of the event with you once it's over). Then, on Friday, Mystery Team opens in NY at the Quad Cinemas downtown and the dudes from DERRICK Comedy will be appearing live at every evening performance for intros and post-screening Q&As. Additionally, if you show up twice and bring your ticket stub, you earn a chance to have your name on the Mystery Team DVD.
Finally, while their film has been spreading like a virus across the States, DERRICK has kept busy filming more comedy sketches. They're definitely NSFW (not safe for work), feature foul language and sexual innuendos. I've posted their latest -- hot off the presses -- after the jump. Check it out.
Watch This: Mystery Team Adventures: The Case of the Haunted Hotel
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One of the small, lovable festival films I've been championing all year, Mystery Team first debuted back at Sundance (where I watched it with a midnight crowd that loved every minute) and it has since gone on to build lots of positive buzz ahead of its fall theatrical release. A smart move for the boys (and girl!) from Derrick Comedy was to bring the movie to Comic-Con, where not only did they screen it, host a panel and set up a booth on the Con floor, but they also created a short film specifically for the convention. That short film, titled Mystery Team Adventures: The Case of the Haunted Hotel, has just arrived online along with the film's opening release dates and cities.
Those of you lucky ducks in Austin, Texas will be able to enjoy the film's premiere at the Alamo on August 27 and 28, before it heads on to places like Georgia, Florida, Iowa and Kansas. Fear not, the rest of you will be able to catch a screening when Mystery Team opens nationwide in October. In the meantime, check out their pretty hilarious Comic-Con short film after the jump.
For more on the film, as well as where and when it's hitting a theater in your neck of the woods, hit up their official website over here.
'Mystery Team' to Hit Theaters This Fall!
Filed under: Comedy », Deals », Fandom », Distribution »
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Hey, we have good news for those people who like to laugh when they go to the movies. One of my absolute favorite films from this past Sundance Film Festival has finally nabbed some well-deserved distribution thanks to the fine folks over at Roadside Attractions. Yup, Mystery Team -- brought to you by those freaky deaky cats from Derrick Comedy -- will arrive in theaters this fall following a national tour of colleges in the late summer. It's a smart move, too; the film, while it doesn't feature top-notch, familiar talent, is still original and hysterical and an absolute ball to watch in a packed theater.
From my Sundance review: "It's Encyclopedia Brown meets Napoleon Dynamite with a pinch of Ace Ventura ... and it's hilarious ... Similar to The Brady Bunch Movie, Mystery Team relies on the audience member buying into their fish-out-of-water shtick. If you don't dig the concept -- think its humor is too Napoleon Dynamite-esque and not original enough -- then you won't have a fun time. Clearly this is Derrick Comedy's Super Troopers -- it's a silly, stupid, ridiculous comedy that when it works, it really works, and when it doesn't, there's still a laugh or two to be found."
So, yeah, check out the NSFW trailer after the jump, head over to the Derrick Comedy website for more info and look for Mystery Team when it hits a town near you in just a couple months from now.
Sundance Review: Mystery Team
Filed under: Comedy », Sundance », Theatrical Reviews », Sundance Reviews 2009 »
It's Encyclopedia Brown meets Napoleon Dynamite with a pinch of Ace Ventura ... and it's hilarious.
The Derrick Comedy troupe arrived at Sundance with a snot full of sketch videos and a massive internet fanbase. Sure, these were a group of kids from NYU who struck a cord with the YouTube audience and never looked back -- but a series of short online comedy bits and random late night improv are one thing; opening a feature film at the Sundance Film Festival is a completely different ballgame. Thankfully, with Mystery Team, these boys hit one way out of the ballpark, producing not only the funniest comedy I've seen at the fest 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.
Inspired by Encyclopedia Brown, the Mystery Team are comprised of three kid detectives who run around with big magnifying glasses and several cheap, cliched disguises solving neighborhood whodunits, like who stuck their fingers in Mrs. What's-Her-Name's freshly-baked pie. Only problem is they're 18-year-old high school virgins who should've grown out of this detective phase back when they were seven. The entire community laughs at them, except for Jordy, the half-brain-dead doofus (aka the Mystery Team's "inside informant") who works at the 24-hour hole in the wall. However, when a tiny neighborhood girl asks the Mystery Team to find out who killed her parents, the guys that spend their days solving lame schoolyard pranks are forced to take their game up one giant, life-threatening notch.
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