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Mystery Men (1999)

Name: Mystery Men (1999)
Director: Kinka Usher
Genre: action, adventure, fantasy
Released: 1999-07-19
Duration: 1 hr 38 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Ben Stiller, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo

1997 1 hr 38 min 15 Dark Horse Comics

6/10 CMDB Rating

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Mystery Men (1999) Storyline

Mystery Men follows a team of gloriously underpowered wannabe superheroes who must save Champion City when its real hero, Captain Amazing, is captured by supervillain Casanova Frankenstein. Armed with questionable powers and even worse confidence, they try to become the heroes nobody expected. Based on Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot Comics, it became one of the strangest cult superhero comedies ever made.

Mystery Men (1999) Director Kinka Usher

Mystery Men (1999) Release date June 8, 1999

Genres

action adventure fantasy

Mystery Men (1999) Content rating 15

Mystery Men (1999) Duration 1 hr 38 min

Last Updated 27/04/2026

Cast

Ben Stiller Geoffrey Rush Greg Kinnear Hank Azaria Janeane Garofalo William H. Macy

Cast of Mystery Men (1999)

Ben Stiller

Geoffrey Rush

Greg Kinnear

Hank Azaria

Janeane Garofalo

William H. Macy

Mystery Men (1999) Review - 6/10 Rating

Mystery Men arrived years before superhero satire became normal and audiences probably had no idea what to do with it. Today it feels brilliantly ahead of its time. The cast is stacked, the jokes still work and Geoffrey Rush goes magnificently overboard as Casanova Frankenstein. It is weird, clever and endlessly quotable. A proper cult favourite that deserves way more love in comic-book movie conversations.