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Mystery Men
1999
When Captain Amazing, chief superhero of Champion City, is kidnapped by insane supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, who will save the city and ensure that justice is served? Read more
| Starring | Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard |
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| Director | Kinka Usher |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Mystery Men
When Captain Amazing, chief superhero of Champion City, is kidnapped by insane supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, who will save the city and ensure that justice is served?
| Starring | Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard, Greg Kinnear |
|---|---|
| Director | Kinka Usher |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Feb 2009 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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An eclectic cast and impressive production design add a quality sheen to this mildly diverting superhero spoof, based on the Dark Horse comic. The joke is that these saviours of Champion City possess abilities that are of no use whatsoever — fork-throwing expertise, shovel-wielding skills, noxious bodily odours and so on. At a shade over two hours, Kinka Usher's film is much too long to sustain the script's slender humour quotient. However, with actors of the calibre of William H Macy, Greg Kinnear, Ben Stiller, Wes Studi and Geoffrey Rush, it's never short of quirky appeal.
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"...MYSTERY MEN succeeds where others have failed thanks to inventive ideas and a quality, rib-stroking cast. Stiller, Macy and Garofalo all turn in pitch-perfect performances..."
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32 out of 38 people found this review helpful
It's not a sooper hero film!
It's a parody. Get it? I couldn't agree more with the person who expected the British to understand the idea behind this film, but who is flabbergasted to see so many people missed the joke. This is the first film I've ever rated 5* and have done so to make up for all those people who think it's 'poo' because they were expecting a super hero comedy. They're not super heros, that's the point. It's got Eddie Izzard in, for God's sake!! I think the cast understood and played their parts up brilliantly on this basis. Don't watch this film if you like to have everything given to you on a plate; watch it if you can use your spare brain capacity whilst watching to actually work out the humour. If you can't do that, rent Dude, Where's My Car or Stuck on You and Laugh 'til you wet yourself! Rant over.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Its a mystery, Y this film was ever made
Where do I start? The plot is weak, the middle bit poor and the least said about the ending the better. I truly believe that money was certainly the issue here, for the main character of course...sign here please and get £15 million, oh and by the way, you don't have to be very good, just be in it. What a load of old poo. The best thing about it and the reason I am giving it only 2 stars is because of the non-superhero who farts alot, great power, but it sums up the total film, *BIG RASPBERY SOUND*
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