In a
city of comical superheroes, it's most prominent, Captian Amazing,
gets captured by it's most feared villain, Casanova Frankenstein. A
fledgling crew of ineptitude band together to save the city from
Casanova's plans of domination.
The
onscreen fledgling crew of ineptitude is nothing in comparison to
that behind the camera. While sporting an impressive cast of
competent actors and a blank check of a budget to spend on sets and
special effects, first time director Kinka Usher and screenwriter
Neil Cuthbert seem to do everything they can to make MYSTERY MEN the
most painfully unfunny and unoriginal comic book flick done since
BATMAN AND ROBIN. With only the idea that comic book heroes have
home lives and feelings of inadequacy like everyone else, this one
note movie beats that them like a drum with such a lack of wit that
it's astonishing that these credible actors would find the rather
talky (for a comic book) story worthy of their efforts. The film
also suffers from being tediously overlong, clocking in at over two
hours, and considering most people will lose interest after about ten
minutes, it all adds up to the longest two hours imaginable sitting
in a chair. All the cutesy comic characters and directorial
masturbatory tricks in the world can't save this bland half-baked
travesty. The only mystery in this movie is why it was ever made to
begin with.
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