#Mystery Men

[pricelesscinemas]

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[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

I watched Mystery Men (the 1999 superhero comedy movie starring Ben Stiller) tonight because of the All Star MV and Steve Harwell's passing and it's embarrassing how much this forgotten low budget 90s Schumacher Batman parody where Pee Wee Herman plays a guy with weaponized farts blows every capeshit movie made in the last ten years out of the water in terms of production design, costuming, practical effects, color grading, cinematography, characterization, humor, and generally not sucking ass

#janeane garofalo has more chemistry and meaningful character interactions with a bowling ball than any of the avengers had w/ each other #mystery men

[spockvarietyhour]

Mystery Men's Champion City (1999)

#Mystery Men #1999 #Champion City #scifi #futuristic #retrofuturistic #GIF #my gifs #filmedit #movieedit #Mystery Men Rewatch #Hide and Queue

[prodigaldaughteralice]

sometimes it actually makes me so sad that people seem to have forgotten Mystery Men

Apparently it only has like a sixty-something on rotten tomatoes?? HOW? That flick is goddamn hilarious 

Also all the costumes and sets are incredible, which I didn’t even realize when watching it as a kid bc our DVD wasn’t very high def but now that we have a better quality copy hot damn

Fuckin. Janeane Garofalo. Eddie Izzard. William H Macy, Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, Tom Waits, Paul Reubens, Kel Mitchell, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear?  All in top form???

Superhero decon/reconstruction, before that was a Big Thing, with a bunch of wannabe heroes who are shitty at it and a popular and successful hero who wears the patches of his various corporate sponsors on his super-suit and intentionally lets a super-villain out of the asylum so he has someone to fight to keep his deals? 

the guy whose superpower is that he gets really mad, but it doesn’t give him super strength or anything, he just gets really mad?

I love this goddamn movie you guys

#pd alice talks #mystery men

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

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[astralbondpro]

Mystery Men (1999) // Dir. Kinka Usher

#Mystery Men #Casanova Frankenstein #Geoffrey Rush #Captain Amazing #Greg Kinnear #Kinka Usher #Comedy #Mystery Men Gifs #Gifs #Movie #Movie Gifs #AVMovie #AVMovieGifs #AVGifs #AVMysteryMen #AVMysteryMenGifs #AVComedy

[90ssuperheroes]

PAUL REUBENS

(1952 - 2023)

This one hurts. As an 80s child, he was a part of my weekly routine. every Saturday morning, I watched Playhouse with my Dad. Now, both of them are gone. He and I loved his movies, his work with the Groundings, everything. Here's to the memories.

#rip #rip paul reubens #paul reubens #pee wee herman #the spleen #mystery men #batman returns #dc comics #tucker cobblepot #buffy the vampire slayer #howie hamburger dude #amilyn

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Carol/The Bowler from Mystery Men would qualify via the Gender Clause, but her weapon of choice is a bowling ball that contains the skull of her late father. Despite being, y’know, DEAD, he can communicate with Carol and, when she throws him, he possesses complete directional control of himself. Could Carol kill Macbeth using her father’s skull?

I talked to my dad about this one and here's what we landed on:

Could Carol kill someone by bludgeoning them with a regular bowling ball? Yes. It's a murder weapon.

Could Carol kill someone by throwing a regular bowling ball at them? Yes. It's a murder weapon.

Could Carol kill someone by bludgeoning them with her father's skull/bowling ball? Yes. He's a murder weapon.

Could Carol kill someone by throwing her father's skull/bowling ball at them? If he doesn't course-correct, yes, he's still the murder weapon. Where it gets murky is when she throws him and he uses his power to course-correct.

See, Carmine (Carol's father) is able to levitate his skull independently, but in order to get revenge on the person who murdered him, he went to his daughter to get her to help him. She got him put into a bowling ball at a pro shop. At this point, Carmine could probably have gone off and killed his murderer on his own now that he had enough weight to him to be lethal, but he doesn't; he goes along with Carol and is kept in her bag, not using his levitation until she decides to throw him. To me, this implies that, for whatever reason, he wouldn't be able to kill someone without her help.

Now, this unfortunately still doesn't disambiguate this, because now the question is: Is Carmine the murder weapon or is Carol the accomplice?

...And there isn't exactly a clear answer to that. Personally, I'd like to believe that Carmine would see it as passing his power down to Carol and essentially being Carol's power, which would qualify her, but that is a subjective point of view. I would still like to post a picture of her here though.

Thank you for your submission! ((And for reminding me about this movie I feel like I just got sent back in time by like a decade))

#asks #gender clause #debatable character #mystery men #the bowler mystery men #mystery men the bowler

[gaykarstaagforever]

The 1999 Mystery Men movie is now free on YouTube, I guess because Universal finally realized that if no one paid to see it when it came out and so no one remembers it, no one is going to pay $3 to rent it.

Which is a shame (for the people who made the movie, who gives a shit about Universal), because it's good. Based loosely on the Flaming Carrot / Mysterymen indie comics of the 1980s (I'm only familiar Cerberus the Aardvark, which the same company published around the same time), it is meta superhero parody in the style of Gunn's Suicide Squad / Peacemaker, just 20 years before any mainstream American audience would give a crap.

This is a universe where there is one real superhero, who is so effective that crime is basically non-existent, so that the sole superhero himself is getting bored. When he comes up with a scheme to give himself something to do, it goes badly, unleashing a notorious supervillain on Champion City. When the Mystery Men, obnoxious wannabe heroes with virtually no powers, try to help, they typically fail, but so badly this time that now they are the city's only hope. Will they put petty grievances aside and learn to work together before Cassanova Frankenstein destroys the entire city?

Well, of course they will. It's a superhero movie. The point is watching fun wacky characters bounce off each-other for 2 hours, and this certainly delivers on that. The cast is a who's-who of 1999 charisma, with notable turns by Geoffrey Rush as the scene-chewing, disco-themed Frankenstein, Wes Studi doing Batman if Batman was doing Yoda, and Tom Waits as a benevolent mad scientist with a grandma fetish. Paul Reubens doing a lisp and Kel Mitchell in blonde Sisqo hair are especially fun as a team within a team, farting and getting naked on their path to victory.

Ben Stiller is the lead, playing a typical Ben Stiller-is-the-lead character, the kind of well-intentioned but self-absorbed incompetent that is charming when Ben Stiller plays him in movies, but everyone would despise in real life. And if you are a person who also isn't a fan of him doing this in movies, you'll also not like it, here. I like Ben Stiller doing this, but Roy here really is a useless pain in the ass until the very end.

There are lots of Gunn-type sitcom jokes about superhero tropes and general goofiness, and similar tonal shifts between slapstick comedy and people being slowly melted. Fans of The Boys will enjoy Greg Kinnear as a G-rated Homelander, complete with product placement on his costume.

It is about 20 minutes too long at 2 hours, and has way too many annoying closeup 90s fight scenes with mediocre choreography. More scenes of just the cast improving should have replaced a lot of this, because this is what the movie is really about. And there is some amazing 1998 CG that is used well, but man. It looks like what it is, certainly.

Props on someone greenlighting a superhero parody movie in a world where the only things to make fun of were the Schumacher Batman movies (Blade, the first "real" Marvel movie, came out the same year as Mystery Men). But it is obvious that only hardcore comic book nerds were going to connect with this, and there were not enough of them, outside of the big mainline "event" comic speculator market of the 90s, to make up for a $68 million budget.

This was made specifically for a movie-going public that has fallen in love with good superhero movies, then gotten sick of them, and appreciates someone making fun of them in a smart way. That is a thing we barely have now, in 2024. Mystery Men the big budget movie really is a thing that was just 20+ years ahead of its time. Watching it feels like watching an episode of Peacemaker that is intentionally aping the style and production design of Batman Forever. I suppose it is worth seeing, just for that.

Also the 90s Hollywood cameos. Dane Cook shows up, unfortunately. No, he isn't funny. He is a "superhero" who burns people with a waffle iron. I realize that may sound funny, but believe me, it isn't when Dane Cook does it.

See for yourself. That scene is in the original Smashmouth video for "All Star". Because that song being from the Mystery Men soundtrack before Shrek is literally all most people know about this movie.

And that's not fair to it. Go watch it.

#mystery men #1999 #smash mouth #all star #superhero movies #movie review #youtube #ben stiller #free on youtube

[demon4dilfs]

truly one of the best character names I’ve ever seen

#geoffrey rush #mystery men

[bizarroedits]

#Watchmen #Mystery Men

[the-swift-tricker]

i wish more people enjoyed and respected vic sage - and by extension renee montoya - if only because of their role as the last true enduring representations of the classic mystery man archetype that was such an important fixture of early comic lore

#vic sage #renee montoya #the question dc #dc comics #mystery men #swift-tricker's posts

[pdalicedraws]

you ever make yourself laugh with something niche as fuck

Also how the hell do some people draw real actors all the time; resemblance is So Fucking Difficult

#dndhat #dnd movie #mystery men #dungeons and dragons: honor among thieves #honor among thieves #d&d movie #d&d: hat #simon aumar #edgin darvis #holga kilgore #mr furious #the sphinx

[spockvarietyhour]

#Mystery Men #Casanova Frankenstein #Geoffrey Rush #Mystery Men Rewatch

[demifiendrsa]

American actor and comedian Paul Reubens has passed away at age 70 due to cancer.

Reubens is best known for his Pee-Wee Herman character. He created the character when he joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy team the Groundlings in 1977. The Pee-Wee Herman character made his first TV debut on The Dating Game with three episodes and film debut with Cheech and Chong's Next Movie in a cameo role. In 1980, He created the stage show focused on his character called The Pee-wee Herman Show, which played for five sellout months and led to HBO tapping one of the shows and airing it as a special in 1981. The success of The Pee-wee Herman Show prompted several movies and TV shows on the character such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-wee's Playhouse. Reubens also committed to the character in his interviews, talk show bookings, and public appearances.

Some of Paul Reubens other live-action film roles include Mystery Men and Blow. Some of his voice roles include Lock in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pavel in Tron: Uprising, Bat-Mite in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Reuben in Chowder, and RX-24 (Rex) in Disneyland's Star Tours attraction.

#Paul Reubens #Pee wee Herman #The Pee wee Herman Show #Pee wee's Big Adventure #Pee wee's Playhouse #Big Top Pee wee #Cheech and Chong's Next Movie #Mystery Men #Blow #The Nightmare Before Christmas #Tron Uprising #Star Tours #film #live action #television #live action film #live action television #cartoon #animated series #obituary #R.I.P.

[mad-scientist-council]

I think inside we are all tom waits living in a funhouse in an abandoned amusement park in the middle of a desert making specifically only non lethal weapons surrounded by chickens and possibly high. Like in our souls.

#text post #mad science #madsciencecore #evil ponderings #humor #madscience #mystery men