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Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film directed by Kinka Usher and starring William H. Macy, Ben Stiller, and Hank Azaria as a trio of wannabe superheroes with pretty useless superpowers. Macy plays The Shoveller, whose 'power' is hitting people over the head with a shovel. Stiller plays Mr. Furious, who gets really, really angry (but doesn't gain superhuman strength when he does). Azaria plays The Blue Raja, a self-described "effete British superhero" who wears a turban and has uncanny accuracy with thrown silverware (including forks and spoons but not, as a point of honor, knives).
When Captain Amazing (played by Greg Kinnear), Champion City's real superhero, is captured by Casanova Frankenstein, a supervillain played by Geoffrey Rush, it's up to these three (and a few more equally silly colleagues) to save the day.
Also appearing are Janeane Garofalo as The Bowler (who carries the skull of her murdered father in a bowling ball), Paul Reubens as The Spleen (who uses his flatulence as a weapon), Wes Studi as The Sphinx (who acts as mentor to the misfit superheroes, uttering cryptic but ultimately meaningless aphorisms), Kel Mitchell as the Invisible Boy (who can only become invisible when no-one is looking at him), and Tom Waits as eccentric scientist Dr. Heller, who only invents "non-lethal" weaponry. When the superheroes are about to confront their foe, The Shoveller utters the immortal words, "We've got a blind date with Destiny, and it looks like she's ordered the lobster."
The movie is based on characters from the independent comic book Flaming Carrot, by Bob Burden.
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