Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 101
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 40
Absurd characters and quirky gags are brought to life by a talented cast, providing this superhero spoof with lots of laughs.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 11
Absurd characters and quirky gags are brought to life by a talented cast, providing this superhero spoof with lots of laughs.
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Can seven not-so-superheroes save a city of the future? Based on the comic book series created by Bob Burden, Mystery Men is set in the teeming metropolis of Champion City, where noble superhero Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) keeps the peace and sees that justice is done. When Captain Amazing mysteriously disappears, his archenemy Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) sees his opportunity to seize power and bend the city to his evil will, with his associate Dr. Annabel Leek (Lena Olin) at his
Jul 22, 1999 Wide
Jan 11, 2000
Universal Pictures
All Critics (101) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (40) | DVD (22)
The characters have been designed to make fun of themselves, disguising the craft of writer Neil Cuthbert and director Kinka Usher in getting us to laugh at them.
Mystery Men is like its hapless heroes. It's a wannabe that has the best intentions -- including a pronounced anti-gun stance -- but none of the knack it takes to save the day, or itself.
This bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness.
Surprisingly, this spoof's heart is genuinely warm.
A snarky, wise-cracking spoof!
A long, shapeless, undisciplined mess!
Decent depiction of post-modern comic-book story.
Hugely entertaining -- especially for those with a thing for superheroes.
Fails to come up with worthy gags and one-liners for the able cast.
An instant cult comedy that doesn't walk or talk like anything else out there.
How many laughs can you get out of a handful of one-joke characters? Well, if your ensemble contains the talents of Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria and Ben Stiller, the answer is: a lot.
The Just-Us League of America
Usher's amiable spoof of superhero movies takes a brave stab at rewriting the mythology from the inside out, with lots of witty, mildly subversive stuff.
So much time is spent in getting to know everyone, the jokes are few and far between when they should be fast and furious.
Special features start with a full-length audio commentary by director Kinka Usher. It's straightforward and reasonably interesting.
If as a kid you ever put on a costume and imagined you were a superhero, you should have a perfectly good time with this movie.
Director Usher should have spent a little more time in the editing room.
...better than sitting at home on a hot summer night watching the sitcoms. Or maybe it's exactly like sitting at home on a hot summer night watching the sitcoms
Stiller, Macy, and Garofalo are a joy to watch.
A desperately hit-and-miss affair.
As hip as this dud thinks it is, it's not fooling me.
The movie is so slow and so obsessed with its own jokes that it is ultimately disappointing.
Absolutely hilarious! I love this movie. It features a large cast of great comic actors playing washed up and ridiculous superheros trying to defeat an over the top super villain played by the brilliant villain actor Geoffrey Rush. If just reading the names of the actors and characters doesn't convince you to see
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
A very happy and funny (not as much as it should be) film with a good cast. All the main cast had good chemistry and worked well together. It could have been much funnier. It was just a bit loose. Spleen was probably funniest with his weird facial expressions and Rush was brilliant as Casanova Frankenstein - the show
June 19, 2011Super Reviewer
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