Culture Film Veronica Mars Veronica Mars review – fan-powered high-school noir The TV series brought to the big screen by funding from Kickstarter is encumbered by a labyrinthine plot, but there are hints of the original's appeal 2 out of 5 Share Email mark kermode Mark Kermode, Observer film critic The Observer, Sunday 16 March 2014 Jump to comments (0) Kristen Bell in her big-screen outing as Veronica Mars. Back in the picture: Kristen Bell in her big-screen outing as Veronica Mars. Photograph: Robert Voets When Joss Whedon's cult sci-fi series Firefly was cancelled by the TV station, it was the fans who willed the feature film Serenity into existence. Here, such enthusiasm goes a step further with a big-screen adaptation of a fallen-by-the-wayside small-screen series owing its existence to crowd-funded support. Veronica Mars Production year: 2014 Country: USA Runtime: 107 mins Directors: Rob Thomas Cast: Jason Dohring, Kristen Bell, Krysten Ritter More on this film Envisaged as an edgy "high school noir" with a broad church agenda, Veronica Mars was cancelled with loose ends hanging and then reborn via Kickstarter, with record-breaking fan pledges totalling $5.7m, more than enough to get their movie off the ground. And "their" movie it is – the non "Marshmallows" will be baffled by the back story-heavy set-up, which finds the now adult Veronica returning to Neptune California to become "our very own Angela Lansbury" when murder coincides with a high school reunion. The plot is labyrinthine, the direction televisual and the explanatory voiceover incessant, but a smattering of sharp one-liners hint at the series's enduring appeal.
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