Mystery Men
Mystery Men
1999
A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillain threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.
(Source: IMDB)
"We are number one. All others are number two, or lower."
The Mystery Men
Cassanova Frankenstein
Team
- Blue Raja
- Bowler
- Shoveler
- Invisible Boy
- Spleen
- Furious
Villain's plot:
Captain Amazing realizes he’s nothing without a villain, so he releases Cassanova from prison. Cassanova plans to destroy the city with a ray of some sort.
Rankings:
Typical hero team walks through smoke in slow motion… but long before it was a trope everyone did.
I wasn’t familiar, so I can’t say they brought much in the way of casting. Big names though.
Honestly, the ones they started out with were far better than the flash they ended up with.
Notes
I can’t remember the critical reaction at the time, but I remember liking it a lot. Rewatching it, it’s funnier than I remember, and nailed a lot of the comic book movie tropes before their time.