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Mystery Men
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
1999 · Directed by Kinka Usher · 121 min · Adventure · Fantasy · Action · Comedy · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Not your classic superheroes...they're the other guys.
Plot
In Champion City, the amateur superhero team of Mr. Furious, the Shoveler, and the Blue Raja attempt to make a name for themselves, but their inexperience, infighting, and dubious abilities generally result in frustration while the city's powerful but arrogant superhero, Captain Amazing, consistently upstages them. However, Amazing's prowess has made his job obsolete, and his corporate sponsorships are drying up. To create a need for his services, Amazing uses his alter ego, billionaire lawyer Lance Hunt, to argue for the release of his supervillain nemesis, Casanova Frankenstein, from an insane asylum. But once released and reunited with his henchman Tony P and his Disco Boys, Casanova blows up the asylum, captures Amazing, and prepares to unleash the "Psycho-frakulator" machine to destroy the city.
On a stakeout of Casanova's mansion, Furious witnesses Amazing's capture and informs his team. After a failed rescue attempt, the three realize that they need more allies and recruit Invisible Boy, the Spleen, and the Bowler. Emboldened, they vandalize Casanova's limousine. In retaliation, the Disco Boys nearly kill them, but the Sphinx, an enigmatic superhero, saves them and agrees to train them. Furious grows annoyed by the Sphinx's unconventional team-building exercises and antimetabolic rhetoric and quits, while the others flourish under his tutelage. To improve their chances, they seek non-lethal weaponry invented by Doc Heller. Encouraged by Monica, his new girlfriend, Furious rejoins the team.
The group breaks into Casanova's mansion during a summit of the city's gangs to free Amazing. However, they become confused by his instructions and condescending attitude and inadvertently set off the Psycho-frakulator, killing him. The team despairs until the Shoveler inspires them to continue. Through a combination of surprise, teamwork, maximizing their powers, and Heller's weapons, the team successfully assaults Casanova's mansion and defeats his henchmen. However, Casanova takes Monica hostage and activates the Psycho-frakulator, which begins wreaking havoc on the city. While the team works to disable the machine, Furious unleashes his powers and throws Casanova into the Psycho-frakulator's core, killing him. The others help the Bowler destroy the machine and escape the mansion as it implodes.
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Crew
- Written by: Neil Cuthbert
- Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum
- Edited by: Conrad Buff IV
- Music: Stephen Warbeck
- Production design: Kirk M. Petruccelli
- Produced by: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike Richardson
Cast
- Ben Stiller as Mr. Furious / Roy
- Hank Azaria as Blue Raja / Jeffrey
- William H. Macy as Shoveler / Eddie
- Greg Kinnear as Captain Amazing / Lance
- Kel Mitchell as Invisible Boy
- Paul Reubens as Spleen
- Janeane Garofalo as Bowler / Carol
- Wes Studi as Sphinx
- Claire Forlani as Monica
- Geoffrey Rush as Casanova Frankenstein
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Golar Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment
- Budget: $68,000,000
- Box office: $29,762,011
- Themes: bowling, hostage, superhero, sphinx, training, insane asylum, based on comic, casanova, tools, spoof
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