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franklindoodle225 · 2 months

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HI FRIENDS!!!!!

I’m SOOO sorry for not postin’ in a WHILE AHH

I’ve been catchin’ up with assignments and stuffz so I don’t have much time BUT it’s good to post again!! :D

#backyard baseball #backyard sports #kiesha phillips #kimmy eckman #annie frazier #battle for bfdi #bfb match #bfb pencil #bfb flower #back in my osc phase 💔 /hj

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hi-im-greenjunipertree · 7 months

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The chaotic mess that is Backyard Go-Karts (a fan-made BYS game idea)

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jameslil0 · 2 years

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Hello tumblr, long time no see

I'm here w/ new hyperfixation

#backyard sports #backyard baseball #pablo sanchez #randy johnson #angela delvecchio #kenny kawaguchi #gretchen hasselhoff #tony delvecchio #kimmy eckman #reese worthington

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whoisfrosty · 1 year

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i know that kimmy is not a very good kid, she's mean and all, and i expected her to be a bully, but being best friends with jocinda? oh wow

#backyard sports #kimmy eckman #as i remember jocinda doesnt like bullies

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beanziesdad39 · 1 year

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Achmed and Amir

Sally,dmitri and Ronny

Annie,kimmy, and Gretchen

Backyard sports 10 years later

#backyard baseball #backyard sports #dmitri petrovich #kimmy eckman #Annie frailer #Gretchen hasselhoff #achmed khan #Amir khan #sally dobbs #Ronny dobbs

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docemmettbrown99 · 7 years

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365 Movies in 365 Days - #4 Mystery Team

Coming up next:

Okay, I watched this on a complete whim. I was scrolling through Netflix, looking for a movie to watch and this popped up. I saw it had Donald Glover and Aubrey Plaza and I loved Donald Glover in Community and Aubry Plaza in Parks and Recreation. So, how bad could it be? Well, . . .

First off, the cast:

We have Donald Glover as Jason:

Jason is our lead in the movie, he is the center of the Mystery Team, a trio of boys dedicated to solving the mystery’s of the neighborhood. Glover does a decent job here, playing a version of his character Troy from Community. He’s got great comedic timing, I just wish the material would rise to his comedic ability.

There is D. C. Pierson as Duncan

He plays the smart one of the group because he read a fact book once. And that’s not me being flip, that’s how it gets explained in the movie. Once again, does a okay job but the material is weak. Pierson has been around for a while, playing lots of one time characters in a bunch of TV shows and background characters in movies, this seems like his first time out being the center of a movie.

Then we have Dominic Dierkes as Charlie:

Charlie is the muscle of the group, even though he ends up just hurting himself 98% of the time instead of helping out. Dierkes plays the dumb here okay but leans too heavily into most of the time. Just like Pierson, he’s been around for a while playing either bit roles on TV shows and as background characters in a couple of movies. He does a lot of writing as well, usually for one or two episodes of a TV show. Not the strongest writer as is seen in this movie.

Next we have Aubry Plaza as Kelly:

Plaza plays Kelly here pretty close to similiar characters she has played before. Think April from Parks & Rec. but slightly more upbeat. She does a good job with the role, but the same compliant, the writing just isn’t there to match what she is doing.

As for our main cast, that is it, but there are a ton of cameos. Such as:

Bobby Moynihan (from SNL) as Jordy:

He plays the local store clerk that the team will visit when they need information. And Jordy desperately wants to be a part of the group.

Ellie Kemper (from The Office & Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) as Jamie:

She plays one of the local kids that live in the neighborhood that will bring cases to the Mystery Team every so often.

Matt Walsh (from Upright Citizens Brigade fame & a slew of bit parts in other movies & TV shows) as Jim & John Lutz (from 30 Rock & a writer for SNL & Late Night with Seth Meyers) as Frank:

They both play characters that work at this company that the kids have to sneak into and they are having a costume party.

Even Ben Schwartz (from Parks & Rec., House of Lies & that he looks like Joe Keery’s character Steve Harrington from Stranger Things that the internet flipped out over this past summer) has a few lines:

The director of this mess is Dan Eckman:

On his IMDB page it says he has 57 directing credits but including this movie, there are only like 3 movies he has directed and a bunch of short comedy pieces. Which this may explain some of the problems I have with the movie.

The writer. Well, that’s tricker to pin down. 3 are credited with writing the screenplay (Pierson, Glover and Dierkes) but 5 others are credited with the story (Eckman, Dierkes, Glover, Pierson & Meggie McFadden). Here’s Meggie:

Meggie has done a little bit of everything, acting and writing some but she is mainly a producer. So, you’ve got 5 people writing the script/coming up with the story, most of these people have their background in short comedy pieces and a director who has never done a feature length film before this, what could go wrong? A lot and it’s a shame too. Read underneath the Spoilers for more.

This movie, it’s just a mess. It had some potential, had solid comedic actors in the leads, a fun idea and a supporting cast of veteran comedic actors. So, what went wrong? The writing and the direction. They couldn’t get out of their own way and let the comedy come naturally from the characters they had created.

The premise is that Glover, Pierson and Dierkes have been working together since childhood to solve mysteries around town. Everyone knows about them and go along with the kids playing like sleuths. But now the 3 of them are seniors in high school and they are behaving the exact same way they did when they were 8, even down to wearing the same type of clothes they did then. This is the first problem I have. They want the 3 of them to stay innocent, naivie about the outside world and growing up, so they make them behave like 8 year olds moving around in 18 year old bodies. I could get behind this idea if it wasn’t taken so literal. For instance, the way the adults of the town and even the kids own parents talk to them is like they are still 8 years old even though they want them to grow up. It’s contradictory. There’s a scene where they are investigating a case and they have to follow their suspect into a strip club. They pretend to have fancy accents and clothes to pull off looking older and the bouncer just lets them in because he knows that these are just kids and what’s the harm. Once inside, the mystery team is asked if they want lap dances, they refuse but a kid from school (his mom is a stripper there and he’s just hanging out, coloring or some shit) sees the mystery team and decides to tell his mom and the other strippers to give them a lap dance. So, the ladies do, for a moment before the team has to move to follow their suspect. When they get up the mystery team have these massive erections, they even talk about it hurting, but none of them know why or what caused it. It’s like the mystery team never progressed past the age of 8, mentally or emotionally. And there other scenes where similar things happen, Duncan and Charlie will talk about how gross girls are and make fun of Jason for liking Kelly. It’s not until almost the end of the movie where Duncan and Jason get into a fight that Duncan says they should just grow up, especially since they are going to college next year. The fight and speech kind of come out of nowhere and it’s done on a really well lit baseball field at like10:00 pm at night with no one around. The whole scene is odd and feels out of place. Meanwhile, I feel like this

The writing and direction is this film is just not good. It’s not awful but there is such a lack of focus or clear line of what they wanted to do. It feels like a bunch of sketch ideas that they were stringing together to make a movie. There are some funny moments in it, don’t get me wrong but it’s not a movie, it feels like a short comedy piece you would see on Funny or Die or College Humor but dragged out to 90+ minutes. And where the story ends, with Duncan & Pierson heading off to college and Glover staying in town to join the police force makes sense and works for an ending and you see them growing up in this moment but it’s too little too late.

I know I didn’t get into the rest of the story but there is no reason to I think. It’s because it’s taking the same themes from above and it just keeps recycling them until we have to have a climax in the movie. It’s a waste of potential, it could of been a comedy about lost of innocenence and youth and having to grow up but just because you have to grow up doesn’t mean you have to stop being yourself. At the end of the movie, we get a little bit of that but it’s very rushed and almost shoehorned in like the writers and director realized they needed to have an actual ending. If they put more time in developing that out instead of watching the mystery team wonder around in a strip club and seeing the freaky things that happen behind close doors and them not understanding it or having to get a ring out of a toilet full of crap that was up a stripper’s vagina, then maybe it would of worked out better. A lot of the time it seemed like they were just going for the gross out joke or the easiest joke. And that’s just being lazy, so lazy, it just makes me