Abe Applebaum (Adam Brody) is a detective in a small town. When he was 13, he solved mysteries like the Scooby Doo crew. He was a precocious kid who solved TV mysteries as soon as the eventual villain was introduced. His office wall is covered with newspaper clippings of his great achievements. His career nosedived when his secretary and secret crush, Gracie, vanished. He never solved the case. Nonetheless, he is still a detective. Now 32, he is a bit of an embarrassment. He still has the same office and solves cases like finding a lost cat. However, a teenaged girl, Caroline (Sophie Nelisse), arrives in his office and hires him to solve a murder. Her boyfriend was stabbed to death and the police have made no progress. Abe jumps at the opportunity. As Abe doesn't have a car, Caroline chauffeurs him around town in her car.
The comedy elements are rarely laugh out loud funny. The humor derives from the ridiculousness of the situation and the seriousness of the characters involved. Also, he is generally incompetent as an adult detective. His clever tricks repeatedly bite him and he is shown to have implicated the wrong person in one of his famous cases.
Mediocre and slow, best avoided.
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