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After three seasons, Veronica Mars, the mostly excellent TV show about a much hipper Nancy Drew (Kristen Bell) in fictional Neptune, Calif. (but filmed in Oceanside), was cancelled. Creator Rob Thomas wanted Warner Bros. to make a movie, but they declined. Several years later, Thomas and Bell used Kickstarter to raise nearly $6 million to fund a film, which Warner decided to distribute. I wasn’t a fan of very rich people using donations from fans to fund a film, but I did love Veronica Mars and I enjoyed the movie. Nine years after the events in the last season, Veronica returns to Neptune to help her ex-boyfriend Logan (Jason Dohring) choose a lawyer to defend against murder charges. This brings her back in contact with her old gang, Wallace (Percy Daggs III) and Mac (Tina Majorino), and her private eye dad (Enrico Colantoni). The familiarly witty dialogue and easy, fun noir is nicely nostalgic, but the film doesn’t take anyone to a new place, except, barely, adulthood.
