Mystery Men (1999)
Mystery Men is one of our favorite movies on this list. Based on the Flaming Carrot Comics, which parodied the seriousness of certain comic book characters, the Mystery Men are unimpressive superheroes (one of them farts with precision, for example) with even more unimpressive backstories. But still, superheroes they are!
The Flaming Carrot doesn’t appear in the film, but Mr. Furious, the Shoveler, and Blue Raja more than make up for his absence. The stellar cast includes Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, Paul Reubens, Janeane Garofalo, and Geoffrey Rush (as a very delightful villain).
Even with all of that going for it, the movie, like so many others on this list, bombed and received mixed reviews. That may have happened because of the era during which it was released. But check this movie out if you want to forget about the seriousness of today’s Marvel and DC movies, and have a blast doing it!
