  mystery men is a 1999 american superhero comedy film directed by kinka usher and written by neil cuthbert and bob burden, loosely based on burden's flaming carrot comics, and starring hank azaria, claire forlani, janeane garofalo, eddie izzard, greg kinnear, william h. macy, kel mitchell, lena olin, paul reubens, geoffrey rush, ben stiller, wes studi, and tom waits. the film details the story of a trio of lesser superheroes with unimpressive powers who are required to save the day. despite its list of stars and mixed to positive reviews, mystery men made a little over $33 million worldwide against a $68 million budget. ==plot== in the metropolis of champion city, the would-be superhero team of mr. furious, the shoveler, and the blue raja attempt to make a name for themselves, but their suspect skills make them ineffective, and they find themselves upstaged by the city's most successful superhero, captain amazing. however, amazing is finding that his effectiveness at fighting crime has practically made his job obsolete, and without any worthy adversaries remaining (some of them are either dead, in exile, or still in jail), his corporate sponsors are beginning to pull their funding. to create a need for himself, amazing uses his alter ego, billionaire lawyer lance hunt, to argue for the release of insane supervillain casanova frankenstein. the plan backfires; once reunited with tony p and his disco boys, casanov
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