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Summary: funny
Review: This movie is hilarious. It's full of dry, sarcastic humour. It's not for everybody, but my friends and I love it. I've watched it about 10 times and I still laugh. Watch this movie.
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Summary: Smartly hilarious, well-written sleeper.
Review: Yes, I said "smartly". The storyline is intentionally idiotic, and many of the jokes are profoundly cornball. What makes it work is that it's corny on purpose. It's over-the-top in that way that some may find it easy to misinterpret.It is truly a treasure trove of hilarious dialogue, too. My favorite has to be William H. Macy's line to a TV reporter. She had just asked him about the oddball superheroes victory over the terrible villain, and he replied "We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork, and the hammer of not bickering." That kind of humor makes me absolutely bust a gut. I think if you like Spinal Tap, or Waiting for Guffman, this might be a movie to appeal to you. I highly recommend it, with this caveat: the story itself is not great, and the humor is not in-your-face. Just be prepared for a different type of humor, that has more to do with verbal silliness than anything else.
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Summary: Blind date with destiny.
Review: Mystery Men is a movie that doesn't take it self seriously and for a comedy that's a good thing. The film is about a trio of not so super heroes: The shoveler (William H. Macy), The Blue Rajah (Hank Azaria) & Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) and their desire to coexist with Champion Cities dynamic crime fighting machine Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear). Captain Amazing has it all super powers, cool gadgets, a publicist and product endorsements. He is so amazing that he's discovering at the movies start that he is working himself out of a job. Enter the evil Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) an utterly brilliant, extremely ruthless, and pretty darn near totally insane arch villain. Captain Amazing disappears (could foul play be afoot?!?) and it is up to our trio of tryers to take on the evil Casanova and his teams of henchmen. The great thing about this movie is it's a standard comic book action hero save the world epic played entirely for laughs. Hilarious scenes and situations abound. There's Captain Amazing and Casanova Frankenstein arguing over the correct pluralization of nemesis. An open superhero tryout/barbecue with a montage of no talent heroes. Then there's the Spleen (Paul Reubens) who fights crime with flatulence. Speaking of Reubens this movie is reminiscent in many ways of Pee Wee Herman's Adventure. A movie that shows the world in a warped yet whimsical way. Mystery men looks and feels like a comic book. The dialogue and the character interaction are tremendous. Janeane Garofalo is a hilarious as the Bowler's daughter. She makes each scene she is in funnier simply by her presence. Azaria, Stiller and Macy are all tremendous actors who shine in their campy roles. This movie is also a quoters paradise. The title of my review is the first part of the movie's funniest line but there are dozens of hilarious lines from "I shovel well" to "How many toggles en toto?" Mystery Men's message about the importance of the little guy gets its point across effortlessly. While it lacks the grandeur of Superman, the pathos of Batman, and the teen angst of Spiderman, Mystery Men put's the funny back in the funny pages.
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Summary: Underdogs Rule!
Review: I liked this movie a whole lot. Each person has their own super powers but, these aren't common everyday super powers. You will just have to watch the movie and see.
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Summary: Nostalgic Fun
Review: For those of us who grew up collecting comic books and dreamed of being a super-hero, this movie is cheesy, guilty fun. Macy, Azaria, Kinnear, Garofalo etc who are usually supporting actors get a chance to star in this comedy about junior-grade superheroes. They have the dreams, they have the desires, they just fall a little short in the execution. You have to be a real fan of classic comics to appreciate the world presented in this film, otherwise you'll be frustrated trying to understand why everyone else around you is laughing.
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Summary: All time worst list
Review: This movie would have to be in the lead for the worst movie we have ever seen.
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Summary: Worst movie ever
Review: Not only is the plot boring and predictable, it's not even funny. Unless of course you enjoy people farting, making obscene gestures without any context or just like bad movies, you shouldn't consider this. There are much better movies playing along the same line (Austin Powers!) with much more brainwork involved.
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Summary: one of the worst
Review: this is the worst most cheesy movie ever. dumb
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Summary: Not perfect, but funny
Review: As other reviewers have mentioned, this is a love-it-or-hate-it film. It is NOT a superhero film, it is a SPOOF of superhero films... so reviewer complaints about things like plot holes and unbelievable characters are completely missing the point. The script definitely could have been stronger, and there are quite a few dry spots, but they're made up for by very strong performances from the main actors -- Hank Azaria could get laughs if he were reading from a phone book (he voiced the little bat sidekick in 'Anastasia', certainly one of the funniest animated characters ever). If you enjoy the Ben Stiller/Janeane Garofalo cynical-outsider comedy style, you will not be wasting your time on this movie, I promise. If the writers had concentrated on that angle and left out the sophomoric slapstick and bodily-emission humor, the result would have been much funnier, but you can't have everything.
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Summary: Needs wider acknowledgement as a damn funny film
Review: You can read what the film's about elsewhere on this page. It's a shame it hasn't received wider recognition, probably because the story is one hellva lot to take in. Perhaps the 'general public' haven't been open minded enough. But this is damn funny stuff & it really lifts the spirits. There's a subtext about the ordinary working Jo making a difference, but the subjokes are better - like Geoffrey Rush striking a Saturday Night Fever pose when they have to run to the Disco Room. And as for the big jokes they just keep on coming. Decent special effects too - why the hell was this film passed over? Didn't the film studio know what to do with it?
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