The crowd-funded Veronica Mars has pulled in $2 million at the box office but the critics don't seem to be very impressed.

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For a film funded mostly by fans, it fared well in theaters, and the critics are left with the feeling that the movie was tailor-made for fans. Here's a bunch of reviews Enstars put together to highlight what worked and what didn't:

"I never really bought the plot of the Veronica Mars movie. Her investigation into a murder that has grabbed global headlines hinges on all these people she knows? And even intersects with her 10th high school reunion? There's something impossibly small-screen quaint about it all. Yet as directed by series creator Rob Thomas, the movie, like the show, is entertainingly fast-talking in a tidy, faux-serious way." -- Entertainment Weekly

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"Veronica Mars: The Movie plays like a long episode of Veronica Mars: The TV Show, with all the relationships and in-jokes intact. There are movie references galore, a subtle nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Piz admits that Neptune really does seem to be built on "a Hellmouth"), and all the sarcasm you can squeeze into 100 minutes. Logan gets plenty of screen time. There's an impressively tense action sequence, and of course Veronica has to use her brilliant quick wit and trusty taser to escape the clutches of a murderer." -- Vulture

"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." -- Guardian

"The acting, the writing and camerawork is all up to snuff - solid TV fare. Not CW TV but actually more like AMC or FX. I can't compare it to the original series, but if it's anything like this I'm definitely going to check it out on Amazon Prime." -- ComicBook

Watch the opening scene of Veronica Mars here:

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