Veronica Mars (2014)

"When the class war starts, it will start here in Neptune"??? Really? I see Veronica Mars is still the same liberal moronic drivel that it always was. Rich/white men are basically scumbags and cops are corrupt, racist idiots. You know how the rest goes. Get a job Kirsten Bell, a real one that you actually have talent for. That goes for the rest of the cast as well.

I really don't understand why this movie has such a high rating. I watched the series, and hoped it would build and evolve on the qualities that made the first two seasons of the TV show (I pretend that season 3 doesn't exist). Unfortunately it wasn't to be. It's like watching mid-thirty year olds pretending they're still in high school. They don't even update their joke lines. What could have been great, turned out to be nothing but one of those 10 year reunions you attend, and during which you realise the world's moved on. It would have been better if this was never made. A mediocre end to the Veronica storyline.(Ps: It's been suggested the high ratings is because of hard-core fans who funded it via Kickstarter have flooded the ratings. Personally, if I had been one of those, I would have been even more disappointed at this product).

I must confess that I've seen only a few episodes of "Veronica Mars," the cult series that ran on cable TV from 2004 to 2007. I make that declaration right up front merely to emphasize that I come to the movie version largely unencumbered by any pre-conceived notions of what it ought to be.The movie picks up nine years after the close of the series. Veronica Mars, the famous teen private eye who worked out of her dad's PI office through most of high school, has long ago put away her amateur sleuthing in favor of law school, with the hope of securing a promising job with a prestigious law firm in New York City. However, when her ex- boyfriend (Jason Dohring) is charged with killing his celebrity girlfriend, Veronica returns to her hometown of Neptune, California, to help clear his name and find the actual culprit.For fans of the show, the movie version of "Veronica Mars" is clearly the equivalent of old home week, giving devotees a chance to catch up with old friends, seeing how much they've changed and finding out what they've all been up to since last they checked in on them. Indeed, it is nearly impossible to overstate the emotional pull and feeling of connection that often come with serialized television shows. For non- fans, however, the movie can't possibly generate nearly as much interest or affection, and the call-backs and in-jokes are lost on that particular segment of the audience. Moreover, the murder mystery plot that director Rob Thomas and his co- writer Diane Ruggiero have come up with is serviceable at best and boring at worst. Kristen Bell is captivating and winning as the clever and feisty Veronica, and she is aided by a bevy of subsidiary performers who have clearly grown quite comfortable in the roles they're playing. However, fun as it obviously was for the actors to re-unite on this project, that sense of fun doesn't always translate to the screen. Indeed, there's a decided lack of urgency and passion in the production, one that makes us wonder if it might not have been better to have simply let "Veronica Mars" rest in peace.

She left town to pursue a law degree and is on the verge of taking the bar exam and landing a position at prestigious firm but our heroine goes back to California to investigate when her ex- boyfriend is accused of murder.All of a sudden, we have to reevaluate a suicide that occurred 9 years before. Her father had been town sheriff and was forced out of his position. The story might have been a lot better had it concentrated on the corruption of the guy who followed him into office. Instead, this is only glossed over.A fight breaks out at a high school class reunion. Even a teacher who was a student then gets into the action. Ridiculous. How our young investigator comes up with the solution to all this including the supposed suicide is amazing. Too amazing.