tonally uneven film doesn't nail the landing; "The Kid Detective" doesn't take proud ownership of its R-rating, though, nor does it sparkle with its juvenile glee. What results is a disappointingly half-baked pie that splatters on the floor
like all detective stories, the movie hums along nicely so long as the detective is digging deeper and deeper into the mystery. The superfluous sections of the movie are nice, but they don't really pay off to any significance
it's a good role for Adam Brody by simultaneously feeding on the typecast nature of him being neurotic Seth Cohen from "The OC" and rejecting it by toning down the sarcasm and replacing it with fatigue
by Paul Carlson [Escape Into Film ]
