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- 1999
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
- 1999
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
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]
Directed By: Kinka Usher
Written By: Neil Cuthbert, Bob Burden
- 1999
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
- 1999
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
Mystery Men
66
5.9
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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]
Directed By: Kinka Usher
Written By: Neil Cuthbert, Bob Burden
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
38% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Maybe it's no mystery how they did it, considering the aggregate comic talent, but this bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness.
Gleefully, goofily over-the-top.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 109 User Ratings
5.9
51% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
20% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
28% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 109 User Ratings
5.9
51% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
20% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
28% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
Absolutely hysterical and exceptionally well cast, this parody of superhero movies delivers more than just laughs, it provides striking special effects and characters that can only be described as lovable when it's all said and done.
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This movie although being very clumsy at times mixes two of my favourite genres (superheroes and comedy) and for once can do it in a good, creative and funny way.
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Mystery Men is wryly sentimental stuff, but it's also pretty sharp.
Sharply written, with a lavish look and top-drawer effects adding to the appeal of its large and talented cast, pic achieves a nice balance of fondness and satiric snap, character laughs and goofy action.
A live-action cartoon without dramatic focus, a solid structure or discernible theme.
Mystery Men must have seemed magically goofy on storyboards, but has somehow turned into unappealing mush by the time it made it to the screen.
Mystery men explores a twist on the superhero movie genre where we instead follow a group of underdogs with a range of sub tier skills and powers (most of which don't surface until the end of the movie). Sadly the weight of the bad pacing is overwhelming . The 'action scenes' lack the punch of any good superhero movie and the comedy is mostly a miss due to the nature of difficulty in selling the audience on canned jokes in an effects driven movie like this.
We suffer at the whim of a mixture of distracting close ups and an editing style that is typical of the edgier late 90s movie industry for anything targeting a younger audience. Nonetheless the film has heart and despite a screenplay that has clearly had too many writers revision it still serves to entertain through the great casting. A fascinating mess of a big budget film.
If you liked this though see the tick animation and for something modern try peacemaker or Deadpool.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This movie great if your high and you've sold your soul to the devil to act for just the sake of art that has no redeeming qualities, save a great stoner film. There is something seriously wrong with this film, it make me want to cry when I think of 68 million dollar budget. It sickens me and it should sicken all civilized people of the world. It is NOT surprising it made nothing at the box office. Darkness is here and those in the light aren't buying. Give me my medical marijuana.
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Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Golar Productions,
Dark Horse Entertainment,
Image Comics,
Polyphony Digital,
Troma Entertainment
Release Date Aug 6, 1999
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline This summer expect the unexpected
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
American Comedy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Teen Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
