Mystery Men

[EightMilesHigh]

Ok, I might be going out on a limb here a bit, but does anyone remember this movie?

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/153/846204~Mystery-Men-Video-Release-Posters.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmHBFgIoX0

It came out in 1999, and I remember my parents taking me to go see this in the theater, and apparently they bought it for me because I found the VHS in my rec room a while ago and I re-watched it, and it's actually really funny, and I barely hear people talk about it nowadays.

It's based on a comic book, and what it is, is it takes place in a fictional city called Champion City (which is actually Vancouver) where there's a superhero named Captain Amazing, (Greg Kinnear) who gets kidnapped by a villain named Casanova Frankenstein, (Geoffrey Rush) and the only people who can save him are these comically inept superheroes played by Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofolo, Paul Reubens, and a bunch of other people.

I decided it deserved a thread. Anyone seen it?

[jrowa001]

ive seen that movie many times. i love it

[asdf]

Only in the last week or so have I been hearing this mentioned again, strangely enough. Two of my friends on two separate occassions recently mentioned it to say that Tom Waits is in it. I guess I must've known that, but I forgot, as it's been about 10 years since I've seen or thought about this movie.

Now I kind of want to see it again.

[Heidi]

Junk it!

[niobium]

and a bunch of other people.Kel
Mitchell

[thedeadwalk!]

The movie's very creative and I love the Invisible Boy's moment of truth. Great characters, a little lackluster on the whole, but good none-the-less.

[Luc214]

yeah it was cute

great on first viewing, doesn't really stand up to multiple though

"lets triangulate"

"equilateral or isosceles?"

[Pop music sucks]

Very entertaining movie. I wouldn't watch it on a regular basis, but if it's on TV or on some random cable movie network, I'll dig it.

[SgtPrimus]

I only have seen the scene Tom Waits is in on Youtube

[Luc214]

he's in more than one.......

[EightMilesHigh]

Only in the last week or so have I been hearing this mentioned again, strangely enough. Two of my friends on two separate occassions recently mentioned it to say that Tom Waits is in it. I guess I must've known that, but I forgot, as it's been about 10 years since I've seen or thought about this movie.

Now I kind of want to see it again.

Tom Waits plays a scientist who lives in an abandoned amusement park who specializes in non-lethal weapons.

[OzzyTornado]

the bowling girl is hot

[-Listy-]

would i find this funny? im 20 and have never seen it..Hank Azaria is great and the superpowers they have sound like they will provide some lols

[Pop music sucks]

It's entertaining, to say the least. It is definately worth at least one watch.

[EightMilesHigh]

would i find this funny? im 20 and have never seen it..Hank Azaria is great and the superpowers they have sound like they will provide some lols

Yeah, Hank Azaria plays a character named the Blue Rajah (sp) who throws forks at people, and William H. Macy plays "the shoveler" who just hits people with a shovel.

[Meatplow]

just watched the trailer. i'd probably get a laugh out of it, might hire it if it catches my eye at the rental store on a lazy sunday

[SgtPrimus]

he's in more than one.......

Well, exccuuuuuse me.

I was referring to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8X_RjblHg8

[Meatplow]

that was hilarious

on a side note, never saw this before - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-u2X5EaGY&NR=1

amazing

[SgtPrimus]

I had never seen that before either, it was tight. I don't want to turn this into a thread about TW, but have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqK2Lt0uvY Some guy playing guitar and banjo over it but I can't find the original.

[EightMilesHigh]

Also, for people who have seen it, the scene where they're holding superhero tryouts, the Waffler is played by a young Dane Cook.

[jrowa001]

yeah i remember noticing that was Dane Cook around a year ago when i watched this last. hes in another movie with Denis Rodman haha. it was bad.

the tryouts in Mystery Men were hilarious

[Meatplow]

I had never seen that before either, it was tight. I don't want to turn this into a thread about TW, but have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqK2Lt0uvY Some guy playing guitar and banjo over it but I can't find the original.

thats awesome :p one of my favourite, underrated waits tunes as well

[cobert]

Pretty funny. I guess it's one of those movies where somebody would mention and everyone would groan, acting as if they're too god for it, but inside they all know they laughed at it, and rightfully so.