Mystery Team and the case of the Slammin' Salmon

Silly titles. I live for 'em.

Broken Lizard returned last year with The Slammin' Salmon, a strikingly unfunny film about the craaaazzzy going-ons of an upscale seafood restaurant in Miami. It's owned by a maniacal and mentally challenged boxing champion (Michael Clarke Duncan), with the Broken Lizard guys working as servers along with How I Met Your Mother's resident Canadien, Cobie Smulders. That's about it. Don't bother. The only film from the group I've enjoyed without any reservation was Beerfest, but Club Dread and Super Troopers have revealed more value in repeat viewings. I can't see that being the case here. The others at least had some funny elements the first time.

Hopefully Broken Lizard can find some of the stupid genius once again and deliver something as flat out hilarious as Beerfest. 3/10

Mystery Team is another stupid comedy, but works rather magnificently. I understand that it's based on series of web videos from the sketch group Derrik Comedy. I know nothing of those sketches or the group,but I can say that based on the film it's all really the Donald Glover show. The Community co-star is all over the place with funny in this film. Not all of the gags from his co-stars work, but their obvious devotion to their characters save them from harming the film. I don't know. Maybe Mystery Team isn't very good. There are more spotty performances than good, and the narrative is pretty thin. But it was incredibly funny and a joy to sit through.
7.8/10