Mystery Team

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Mystery Team

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2009

1h 37m

Comedy

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Ever since childhood, best friends Jason (Donald Glover), Duncan (D.C. Pierson) and Charlie (Dominic Dierkes) have been solving neighborhood crimes. The three young men get the chance of a lifetime when a local woman hires them to find her father's killer. All eyes are watching as the guys use every item in their inept bag of tricks to crack the case.

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

Mar 12, 2010

3.5/5

A pleasant, charming knockabout with a playfully imaginative sense of wit and a pleasingly assured visual style.

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Jan 28, 2010

2.5/4

Smutty, silly, groan-worthy in many places, inexplicably hilarious in others, Mystery Team is a guilty pleasure -- a deeply dumb movie made by pretty smart people.

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Daniel M. Gold

New York Times

Dec 4, 2009

2.5/5

Not surprisingly, especially for a movie heavy on college humor, the results are hit-and-miss. Some bits fall thuddingly flat, and the characters are rarely more than stick figures.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Nov 29, 2020

7/10

Although it's incredibly silly, the humor is undeniable.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

Nov 27, 2018

3/5

Happily, even when the shock wears off... remains funny, thanks to the decision to make its three hapless, stuck-in-adolescence detectives totally naïve and untouched by all the depravity.

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Peter Sciretta

Slashfilm

Nov 27, 2018

8/10

Mystery Team has the potential to be huge. It's funnier and more original than 99% of the comedies Hollywood releases now-a-days.

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angela g

@Sunflower378 Feb 2, 2026

It was funny but I wish there was a sequel. The cast was good the story was good. The jokes were funny but some of them were very raunchy. Donold Glover and Aubrey plaza were both great in this movie. The twist and turns were really cool. And the one flaw was they left it on a cliffhanger ending. But the movie it self was funny watch it.

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Rowan S

@RT31896972 Jan 12, 2026

The jokes in this movie is good, plus, I like how they all suck at there job and that is what makes it funny.

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Ry N.

@RyGuy Sep 16, 2025

A man-child mystery trio gets challenged with a murder investigation. The comedy is similar to Community but the jokes are a lot more raunchy and maybe a little less well received to sensitive audiences.

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Jace T

@CineChamber Aug 17, 2025

The derrickcomedy boys from YouTube have bust out of their shorts and into a full blown movie. This film is a ton of fun, and absolutely hilarious. In this movie they are basically full grown adults, who act like children, and are out to solve a full grown adult mystery. Donald Glover is an absolute legend, and went from a YouTuber, to a huge Hollywood star before that was a common occurrence. He even became a rapper as Childish Gambino. He has always made fine work, and this film is no different.

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Yuri B

@RyuBlack Mar 22, 2025

OMG, where to begin... I had been wanting to see this film for some time now. And now that I have, I can honestly say that it was... Something else, definitely not for everyone. And the characters were so damn ridiculous that they actually made my head hurt... But it did have it's moments.

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Ben H

@RT69741741 Nov 18, 2023

I think they had a fun time making this movie and it shows. Its so silly, plenty of adult humor while also maintaining its whimsy. I really loved it, it was a fun ride full of laughter. Been a while since a movie made me laugh out loud that much. Phooey to the lack of a star studded cast, a lot of these new faces did a great job of keeping the movie alive and Donald Glover proved why Troy is such a memorable character in Community. Just discovered this movie and I want to tell all my friends. It was fucking hilarious

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Synopsis

Ever since childhood, best friends Jason (Donald Glover), Duncan (D.C. Pierson) and Charlie (Dominic Dierkes) have been solving neighborhood crimes. The three young men get the chance of a lifetime when a local woman hires them to find her father's killer. All eyes are watching as the guys use every item in their inept bag of tricks to crack the case.

Director: Dan Eckman
Producer: Meggie McFadden
Screenwriter: Dominic Dierkes, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson
Distributor: Roadside Attractions
Production Co: Derrick Comedy
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Crude Sexual Content|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $84.8K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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