Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into
a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.
The liberally - sprinkled Mark Twain quotes and references make this witty yarn a treat for the literary - minded, and better yet, the
twisty plot will satisfy the pickiest
mystery fiend.