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65 out of 100

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6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

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  • Starring: Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy
  • Summary: By day, they're a bunch of losers, but by night, they're the Mystery Men...a rag team of superhero wannabes who emerge from the darkness to fight the evil madman Cassanova Frankenstein and his disco-dancing henchmen. (Universal Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    100
    Maybe it's no mystery how they did it, considering the aggregate comic talent, but this bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    It's clever, amusing, clever, visually inventive, clever, well-cast .
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    This loving parody is steeped in comic book trivia and lore: The more you know, the more heartfelt your response to the film is likely to be.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 2 out of 6
  1. KarthXLR
    4
    A movie with an interesting premise with a boring result. The jokes can hardly be called "funny" because half the time they're too dumb or light-hearted to make you laugh. The effects are nice, but they're wasted on a movie that simply doesn't deliver in the end.… Expand
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