We wouldn't get this fantastic cast then. Also I'm very glad I got to see this movie as a kid, my friends all showed me it at a party we had - they had great taste. It was essential to my childhood lol. We had all the shitty batman movies made at this point already, that's a lot of what they were making fun of imo. This was way before Dark Knight. And way before all the terrible modern Hollywood movies, so you have a point. I would definitely watch a sequel, rip Paul Reubens, though. Such a classic.
I say without a single atom of irony that the Shoveler taking on the Disco boys is one of the best fight scenes to be put on film. Hilarious, visually engaging, rhythmic, colorful and tells a tiny story of it's own. Kinka Usher only directed one movie because he didn't need to make another.
No everybody HATED his film so he went back to commercials. I don’t say that to put the guy down. I think he was/is the BEST director of superhero films. There are so many little things in this movie that hit the nail right on the head. ( And many big things too.) It looks like they are showing this a little more often now and maybe people will see it and see what I and a few others have seen since it hit the theaters. I wish we could get Mr. Usher back but I hope he is happy where he is.
Gotta hand it to the Shoveler, he took on 5 disco boys single handedly and won. Especially considering the three of them got their asses kicked by them earlier on in the movie. The Shoveler is such an underrated character.
This was and still is one of the best superhero movies. Shout-out to everyone involved in making this movie for creating a team of superheroes who weren't overpowered and that consisted of working class citizens.
“Maybe you should put some shorts on or something if you wanna keep fighting evil today 🤷♀️” I love that line so much! Janeane Garofalo is a national treasure.
This film had so much done right that I find it hard to believe that it didn’t do better. Casting- From an Academy Award winning villain to a group of comedians, a perfect group. And the one masterful bit, William H. Macy as the Shoveler. Did you know that part was supposed to be played by Ving Rhames? Macy stepped in and the director wisely kept the wife, so we had an interracial thing. Oh and the criminals, another masterful group. The Not So Goodie Mob - Played by the rap group The Goodie Mob. The Frat Boys - Their president was Michael Bay. Captain Amazing’s publicist was Magician Ricky Jay. The writing was just so killer. The Shoveler falling down an elevator shaft, onto some bullets… All of the Sphinx’s “sayings.” I could go on forever but the one thing I loved was how they played with time, I can’t even explain it but if you are reading this you surely get it. Just a fine film that nobody ever saw. I’m serious! I would put this film up against Deadpool or Guardians Of The Galaxy for sheer funny. Edit: And the song that was in so many movies “All Star” by Smash Mouth was used in Mystery Men FIRST, not Shrek. It beat Shrek by two years.
What if I told you that the Mystery Men movie is an allegorical masterpiece? Captain Amazing represents America. The Red-Eyes represent Communism. Casanova-Frankenstein represents the Vatican. Tony C and Tony P represent Catholics & Protestants. Disco represents religion. The Shoveler represents the Working Class. The Bowlers Daughter represents Feminism...(which has issues with the patriarchy). Mr. Furious represents angry youth. Casanovas gangs represent the seven deadly sins. The Blue Rajah represents the third world...and he's the one who accidentally kills Captain Amazing by pulling the TWIN TOGGLES which represent the twin towers. The time on the Big clock in the Disco Room is set to 1:19...which is 9-11 backwards. There's even more...but watch the movie again and look for the hidden symbology. It's a greater movie than anyone really knows.
@@perunplague9794 Captain America saved Shoveler in _"Cellular"_ (2004) during its Final Fight !!! ua-cam.com/video/ECcAlDWij8M/v-deo.htmlsi=6nFFy_IR8s0x1fMt
Shoveler would have straightened out all those prima donnas with an egg salad sandwich, and then he would have gone for the head. Forget Mjolnir, Thor would not be able to lift this man's shovel.
Should have been at least a cult classic - but it was mis-marketed by the studio. It got lousy audience exit ratings. But not from me! I loved it and still do!
I was in 4th year film school and this film RUINED ME. I saw it in the theatre seven times and it suddenly occurred to me that movies could be just GOOD FUN.
Came here because I needed to hear that Fifth of Beethoven remix and in just four minutes we got the atrocious penmanship line, kel getting invisible and my pants are shrinking. How classic is that? Also, if you doubt your power you give power to your doubts? That’s just great advice in general
the real life Avengers they are! Thanos was definitely lucky that he didnt face this Mystery Men at first place otherwise he wouldnt get chances to met Avengers later.
The strike to the face with the shovel is price less. The way the shovel handle was place on the curtain hook over the door way and then having the shovel strike the man in the face with its momentum with the man full body weight behind it.
The funny thing is using shovels in combat *is* something that actual soldiers are trained to do. It's why one side of the military-issued shovel is serrated. Even a regular shovel can outright *decapitate* someone with enough strength and precise aim.
Ben Stiller, Wiliam H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Reubens, Kel Mitchell, Wes Studi, & Tom Watts? The amount of talented actors, not to mention the others, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, etc......GOODIE MOB like damn this movie is awesome
If you're watching this box office bomb, you were probably like me and saw it for the masterpiece that it is. I played it over and over on DVD. I quote this movie often and still love it so much. Rotten Tomatoes can go fu--- themselves.
This really was one of the finest movies made, it's got basically everything you want in a movie. We still say junk it as a joke to pay homage to this masterpiece.
Some of the settings, like the area around the diner, are worthy of Blade Runner. Not including the interior design imitating the Gaudi house in Barcelona...
@@BloodyBay Kind a big difference between sneaking in and forcing your way in. I mean, they’re both pretty cool, but they are very different things. Definitions matter you know!
The Mystery Men enacted the perfect plan: 1. Depower the doomsday device. 2. Eliminate the false hero. 3. Defeat every regional evil gang 4. Defeat the main supervillain 5. Become recognized heroes.
there must have been so much taken out of this final fight scene because we don't see what happens to Big Tobacco and his group and we don't see anything of Cassanova's shrink after Amazing buys the farm
This gem was made 20 years too soon. With the oversaturation of superhero movies, Mystery Men is the perfect satire of the genre that we need today.
Very good point
@@TheACcam I don't think superheroes are very hard to understand
Excellent point.
☮
This is why have The Boys
We wouldn't get this fantastic cast then. Also I'm very glad I got to see this movie as a kid, my friends all showed me it at a party we had - they had great taste. It was essential to my childhood lol. We had all the shitty batman movies made at this point already, that's a lot of what they were making fun of imo. This was way before Dark Knight. And way before all the terrible modern Hollywood movies, so you have a point. I would definitely watch a sequel, rip Paul Reubens, though. Such a classic.
The Shoveler put in work. He took on the Disco Brothers by himself.
honestly, he really took the advice he got to heart
The fictional characters in the movie got concussions by being struck in their heads with a shovel by the hero.
The Shoveler was always my favorite one as a kid, lol.
@@DeathBringer769 He was the only one with a melee weapon.
Disco boys you mean?
“EVERYONE! INTO ZE DISCO ROOM!” *disco point*
The mastery of Geoffrey Rush
If this was made nowadays T'challa would say "Get this man a shovel".
A vibranium shovel would be 🔥. Just imagine the Shoveler bouncing his umbrella across the room like Captain America's shield. 😂
@@dstreet4599 ikr This gem really deserves a sequel a at least a remake. Personally, I think it's even far better than Suicide squad.
I say without a single atom of irony that the Shoveler taking on the Disco boys is one of the best fight scenes to be put on film. Hilarious, visually engaging, rhythmic, colorful and tells a tiny story of it's own. Kinka Usher only directed one movie because he didn't need to make another.
No everybody HATED his film so he went back to commercials.
I don’t say that to put the guy down. I think he was/is the BEST director of superhero films. There are so many little things in this movie that hit the nail right on the head. ( And many big things too.)
It looks like they are showing this a little more often now and maybe people will see it and see what I and a few others have seen since it hit the theaters.
I wish we could get Mr. Usher back but I hope he is happy where he is.
The mini shovel block...
Fucking hilarious.
Still one of the greatest films ever made
its all esoteric metaphor, none of you have a clue as to the real meanings
Easily one of the best and most underrated superhero movies ever
Gotta hand it to the Shoveler, he took on 5 disco boys single handedly and won. Especially considering the three of them got their asses kicked by them earlier on in the movie. The Shoveler is such an underrated character.
He's my favorite character in the movie.
He's definitely this world's Captain America.
God gave him a gift. He shovels well. He shovels very well.
He got a zenkai boost from the last fight and speech
@@AnimeProfilePicture LMFAO fucking yes! best comment ever bahahahah
"Your penmanship is atrocious".
Such an underappreciated movie.
“You dress in the manner of a male prostitute.”
“You dress in the manner of a male prostitute” the Sphinx, 1999
“You dress in the manner of a male prostitute!”
"Do not go there my son! when you doubt your powers, you give power to your doubts." - Sphinx
Until you learn to master your rage.....
@@DarthW44RTH Your rage will become your master?
That's what you were gonna say, wasn't it?
@@jackthenarrator4735 Not necessary.
@@lunarisyoutubeOk, you know what? That’s it. I’m outta here.
This was and still is one of the best superhero movies. Shout-out to everyone involved in making this movie for creating a team of superheroes who weren't overpowered and that consisted of working class citizens.
Yes! More of this and less of Marvel.
“Maybe you should put some shorts on or something if you wanna keep fighting evil today 🤷♀️”
I love that line so much! Janeane Garofalo is a national treasure.
Nicolas Cage has entered the chat
Lol the “Two hands there son” just before as well
I loved that movie as a kid! Watched it like 20 times! As and adult... I still loving it!
R.I.P. Paul Reubens
To this day I enjoy saying, "Into ze disco room" while holding a Travolta pose. Nobody ever gets it.
Everyone gets it.
@@lynnhathaway3755 Sorry. Most don’t because this movie was an absolute bomb. But you and I get it and that’s all that matters.
Because disco isn't dead. Disco is LIFE! >:[
That would make me mad if someone didn't get my movie references
"We've got a blind date with destiny...and it looks Iike she just ordered the lobster."
😏😆👉👌😂😂😂😂😂😂
This movie deserves a sequel
YES!!
This film had so much done right that I find it hard to believe that it didn’t do better.
Casting- From an Academy Award winning villain to a group of comedians, a perfect group. And the one masterful bit, William H. Macy as the Shoveler. Did you know that part was supposed to be played by Ving Rhames? Macy stepped in and the director wisely kept the wife, so we had an interracial thing.
Oh and the criminals, another masterful group.
The Not So Goodie Mob - Played by the rap group The Goodie Mob.
The Frat Boys - Their president was Michael Bay.
Captain Amazing’s publicist was Magician Ricky Jay.
The writing was just so killer. The Shoveler falling down an elevator shaft, onto some bullets…
All of the Sphinx’s “sayings.”
I could go on forever but the one thing I loved was how they played with time, I can’t even explain it but if you are reading this you surely get it.
Just a fine film that nobody ever saw. I’m serious! I would put this film up against Deadpool or Guardians Of The Galaxy for sheer funny.
Edit: And the song that was in so many movies “All Star” by Smash Mouth was used in Mystery Men FIRST, not Shrek. It beat Shrek by two years.
Amen, good sir.
and for some reason Ben Stiller hated it.
@@jinjo3100 I can understand why, The box office failure made the movie a stain on his career and the character took him outside of his comfort zone.
What if I told you that the Mystery Men movie is an allegorical masterpiece?
Captain Amazing represents America.
The Red-Eyes represent Communism.
Casanova-Frankenstein represents the Vatican.
Tony C and Tony P represent Catholics & Protestants.
Disco represents religion.
The Shoveler represents the Working Class.
The Bowlers Daughter represents Feminism...(which has issues with the patriarchy).
Mr. Furious represents angry youth.
Casanovas gangs represent the seven deadly sins.
The Blue Rajah represents the third world...and he's the one who accidentally kills Captain Amazing by pulling the TWIN TOGGLES which represent the twin towers.
The time on the Big clock in the Disco Room is set to 1:19...which is 9-11 backwards.
There's even more...but watch the movie again and look for the hidden symbology. It's a greater movie than anyone really knows.
@@garyedwards3269Well done sir!
I love the thing.
I live for that power walk they do after suiting up.
Badass.❤❤❤❤
Especially when Roy turns around and they have to grab him. XD
The score for that part is perfect!
This film was way ahead of its time 😮
The fact this movie is unironically good now compared to more recent superheroes movies is fucking hilarious.
Now? This movie was always amazing!!
This movie aged very well considering not even the og spiderman trilogy was released yet when this came out
The shoveler walked so Captain America could run
Well said
@@perunplague9794
Captain America saved Shoveler in _"Cellular"_ (2004) Final Fight !!!
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@@perunplague9794
Captain America saved Shoveler in _"Cellular"_ (2004) during its Final Fight !!!
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If only the Mystery Men could've been there during Infinity War.
They could've made a huge difference in the struggle against Thanos.
Shoveler would have straightened out all those prima donnas with an egg salad sandwich, and then he would have gone for the head. Forget Mjolnir, Thor would not be able to lift this man's shovel.
One of my favourite comedies from 1999.
Should have been at least a cult classic - but it was mis-marketed by the studio. It got lousy audience exit ratings. But not from me! I loved it and still do!
He's gone. The Spleen has passed.
The moment where they’re just trying to piss off Ben Stiller’s character is the best 😂😂
CRIMINALLY underrated
The Shoveler is great because William Macy does it seriously
Yeah he plays it totally straight and it works
"I am the only serious character in this movie. That is the joke."
I was in 4th year film school and this film RUINED ME. I saw it in the theatre seven times and it suddenly occurred to me that movies could be just GOOD FUN.
Dig this Shovel Man! I always loved that line 😂😂😂
The real movie that started the superhero movie trend.
Came here because I needed to hear that Fifth of Beethoven remix and in just four minutes we got the atrocious penmanship line, kel getting invisible and my pants are shrinking. How classic is that? Also, if you doubt your power you give power to your doubts? That’s just great advice in general
I can’t believe that you actually remember this movie!
Why wouldn't I? It's the best superhero movie ever!
Yeah
Mr. Furious’s about-face never gets old 😂
the real life Avengers they are!
Thanos was definitely lucky that he didnt face this Mystery Men at first place otherwise he wouldnt get chances to met Avengers later.
The strike to the face with the shovel is price less. The way the shovel handle was place on the curtain hook over the door way and then having the shovel strike the man in the face with its momentum with the man full body weight behind it.
"You're penmanship is atrocious." Always made my dad laugh.
“You dress in the manner of a male prostitute!”
I love this movie, but the scene that always lingers in my mind is The Shoveler fighting the Disco Boys in that hallway
The Disco Boys was indeed very dangerous enemy almost kill our Hero more that one time.
Some of the FX effects are still holding up today! One of the best super heroes movies ! And it came out in the same time as the Matrix!
When he literally shovels the guy out the window I was dying haha
The funny thing is using shovels in combat *is* something that actual soldiers are trained to do. It's why one side of the military-issued shovel is serrated. Even a regular shovel can outright *decapitate* someone with enough strength and precise aim.
Forget the Avengers these are the real Heroes
this was my superhero movie growing up
The vehicle is a beast.
It's a Herkimer Battle Jitney! The Finest Non-lethal Armored Vehicle ever made!
The OG Shovel knight.
Shovel knight 🎶
Damn, he shovels very well!
he shovles better than any man i've ever known...
But that does not make you a super hero
Ben Stiller, Wiliam H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Reubens, Kel Mitchell, Wes Studi, & Tom Watts? The amount of talented actors, not to mention the others, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, etc......GOODIE MOB like damn this movie is awesome
The Shoveler is legendary
Did you guys know that in the comic book the shovel was originally owned by king Arthur himself
If you're watching this box office bomb, you were probably like me and saw it for the masterpiece that it is. I played it over and over on DVD.
I quote this movie often and still love it so much. Rotten Tomatoes can go fu--- themselves.
It was one of my favorite movies when I was 9. Still holds up really well. Geoffrey Rush was an awesome supervillain.
@@Lieutenant_Dude
Hell yes he was.
This really was one of the finest movies made, it's got basically everything you want in a movie. We still say junk it as a joke to pay homage to this masterpiece.
Somebody needs to make a resin kit of that truck.
i think someone already did
"Two hands there son."
Some of the settings, like the area around the diner, are worthy of Blade Runner. Not including the interior design imitating the Gaudi house in Barcelona...
many metaphors, some esoteric, some exoteric
4:31 "into ze Disco Room!"
His Power did actually work pretty well.
it's a work of genius. No more, no less
Does this mean we are getting an origin film reboot for The Spleen?
2:01 The Sphinx was savage.
“Don’t look at him or it won’t work !!!!” His power is being invisible 😂😂😂😂😂
Mr furious is the self appointed leader, but the true leader was the shoveler all along.
Can't forget the all seeing eye that's Hollywood for ya.
"May the Forks be with us😂!" Best line ever!
6:17 Janeane was trying so hard not to laugh 😂
Finally I found this movie that I've watched dubbed on my language on our local channel when I was 9
Infiltration? Mate that’s proverbial guns blazing.
I was thinking the same thing! There's a huge difference between "infiltration" and "intrusion," and I wish everyone knew that.
@@BloodyBay
Kind a big difference between sneaking in and forcing your way in.
I mean, they’re both pretty cool, but they are very different things.
Definitions matter you know!
This is what originality looks like. And it’s beautiful!
I wanna know what kind of damage the Blue Raja would have done with his large pie server.
3:00 Dutch (from Predator): Knock-knock.
"...I knew I should have brought my large pie server."
gonna tell the kids this was the first Avengers movie
“If he got no power, then i got no power” but have Good Burger Ed
0:25
How it feels when you and your squad enter a comic-con in cosplay for the 1st time
"When you doubt your powers. You give powers to your doubts"😂
Fart in peace Spleen...
Love this movie to my core
stuper heroes are awsome.they manage to come through & save the day.way more epic when under dogs finally do awsome.
The Mystery Men enacted the perfect plan:
1. Depower the doomsday device.
2. Eliminate the false hero.
3. Defeat every regional evil gang
4. Defeat the main supervillain
5. Become recognized heroes.
Frank didn't mess around back in the day. Shoveled em
The Herkimer Battle Jitney had been found, not sure if resto done yet ....this classic so underrated!! RIP Spleen
3:50 The Klobb from Goldeneye
Darkwing Duck: *"LET'S GET DANGEROUS !!!"*
6:36 That guy on the right looks like a young Jordan Peele.
Gonna tell my grand kids these were The Boys
"My pants feel like they're shrinking too."
The Shoveler Showing those Disco kids the Knightly art of Shovelry! For Shovelry!
Everybody.. into the dISco room
Such heroism!
I love it!
It's on Prime if you have it
Nineties, baby.
Welcome to good burger! Home of the good burger! Can I take your order?
there must have been so much taken out of this final fight scene because we don't see what happens to Big Tobacco and his group and we don't see anything of Cassanova's shrink after Amazing buys the farm
Batman arkham death screens be like: 7:51
06:58 Out of context, one could mistake this part for a Spice Girls music video
Great great great movie - now on 4K Blu ❤️ What’s not to like !
Anyone know where I can get one of those 'shrinking women's clothing' type guns?... asking for a friend.
Barbosa went from evil villain to saving the seas from the Brits
9:13 is that the 1st time he punched someone
Two hands there son. 😂