Thanks to a hugely successful kickstarter campaign, Veronica Mars gets back to her investigating ways, only this time on the big screen. Review after the jump.
Making millions in a kickstarter campaign, Rob Thomas brings his beloved television character to the big screen, ten years after the show first aired.
Now looking to work at a law firm in New York, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) is dragged back to her hometown of Neptune, California following the death of a former schoolfriend/famous popstar. Her ex-boyfriend Logan is the main suspect and he needs her help to clear his name. Also, her ten-year reunion is taking place at the same time, which borrows ( a little too much) from the far superior Grosse Point Blank starring John Cusack an Minnie Driver. 
Now, although I sat through this movie, I can hold my hands up to never having seen one episode of the television show. I had never even heard of it until they began their kickstarter campaign to make a movie. Because of this, I felt no emotional attachment to the characters whatsoever.
Although they tried to give a little flashback regarding the show and who’s who in the first few minutes, it wasn’t enough for me and I had no idea who was who. The film also had little nods here and there to please the fans, but they obviously didn’t mean a thing to me.
The movie is more like an extended episode. It didn’t feel like I was watching a film at all. It felt like I had started to watch a television series midway through a fifth season. I was lost.
Don’t get me wrong, I know there are many Veronica Mars fans around the world and they will surely be over the moon with this movie but, unfortunately, it wasn’t for me.
Overall Thoughts:
Fans will love it, everyone else not so much. Veronica Mars plays out like an extra-long television episode instead of a cinema released movie.
