chrisburcin This film is stupid. Exactly the right kind of entertaining, light-hearted stupid. If you remember that it came out around the same time as "Batman & Robin" (the low point of the original DC cinematic foray) it is a brilliant little piece of satire with a great cast and fun music. As superhero fatigue sets in, this is the perfect film to make sense of it all. Still funny after all these years.

SnoopyStyle Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) and the Shoveler (William H. Macy) are rather incompetent superheroes of Champion City. They are rescued by the endorsement-obsessed Captain Amazing/tycoon Lance Hunt (Greg Kinnear). All the big villains are gone. When he loses an endorsement, Captain Amazing helps Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) get parole from the asylum in hopes of fighting him for the popularity. Tony P (Eddie Izzard) and the disco boys join Casanova and his psychiatrist Dr. Anabel Leek (Lena Olin) to reign terror in the city. Captain Amazing is captured by Casanova and Furious leads the group to try to rescue him. However the disco boys are too competent and the gang needs to recruit new superheroes. Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) can only be invisible when nobody is watching him. The Spleen (Paul Reubens) can fart at will rendering the target unconscious. The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) has a bowling ball with her heroic father's possessed skull. The gang is rescued by the Spinx (Wes Studi) who can mentally cut guns in half. Doc Heller (Tom Waits) makes non-lethal weapons.There are two characters that are actually funny. The rest are deliberately quirky without being funny. Spleen is funny. Fart jokes will always work and Reubens is great at it. Garofalo is kinda funny at times. Her big contribution is that she makes others funnier especially Stiller. Furious is silly but not that funny until he starts arguing with Garofalo. The movie is too overloaded with characters. The concept is fun. When it hits, it's hilarious. Even when it misses, it's still kinda cute.

bloodybjorn I just finished watching mystery men, and must say i liked it very much. Don't expect 'kick-ass' action but its more light and funny. I know the movie is out since 1999 but i never saw it when it came out, strange really but found the movie here on IMDb and read some good reviews about it so it made me curious. i know this is not really a review but just have to write 10 lines to get this online. so don't expect any blood or a lot of special effects just a refreshing new kind of simple but still funny 'super'hero movie it just different then the other stuff we are use too! the acting was real good but don't expect some super twist or stuff like that. So go and rent the movie or see it online you may like it if your in to something new.7/10 good

George Roots (GeorgeRoots) "Mystery Men" (1999) came out when I was 7 years of age. It was one of those rare instances I had no idea what we were going to see, and I remember falling in love on the car ride home with it's absurdity ever since.Taking the street level hero to new depths of low. Three "heroes" Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), The Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) & The Shoveler (William H. Macy) decide to recruit more people to their cause, amongst the growing epidemic of disco street thugs. All of which are being organised by recently released criminal mastermind, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush).From that description alone, you can tell this movie is like Marmite. You either love it or hate it. The villains Geoffrey Rush & Eddie Izzard's chemistry together is so hilarious, I would love to see more movies with them together. The rest of the cast are made up of too many talented comedians, who all get an equal amount of time to shine. The plot is thin, yet the laughs are heavy. As I get older I do re-watch it from time to time, just to see if it continues to hold up and it pleasantly does.Final Verdict: I loved it the first time I saw it, and I continue to love it all the more now. The only thing that holds it back over the years is that the budget was pretty large. 7.5/10.