Notebook Reviews: MYSTERY MEN

Kinka Usher – 1999.

Mystery Men is a solid and good-looking superhero comedy. It has all the right elements, but somehow they fail to come together in a truly satisfying way.

This features a great cast – Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Claire Forlani and a raft of others – and they all do good work, although you can’t help feel that some of them are a little wasted. 

It’s all a bit chaotic and ultimately, it probably should have tried to do a little less and delivered a little more.