Mystery Men

Mystery Men
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kinka Usher
Written by	Neil Cuthbert
Based on	Flaming Carrot Comics by Bob Burden
Produced by	Lawrence Gordon Lloyd Levin Mike Richardson
Starring	Hank Azaria Claire Forlani Janeane Garofalo Eddie Izzard Greg Kinnear William H. Macy Kel Mitchell Lena Olin Paul Reubens Geoffrey Rush Ben Stiller Wes Studi Tom Waits
Cinematography	Stephen H. Burum
Edited by	Conrad Buff
Music by	Stephen Warbeck
Production companies	Golar Productions Dark Horse Entertainment
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	July 22, 1999 (1999-07-22) (Premiere) August 6, 1999 (1999-08-06)
Running time	120 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$68 million[2][3]
Box office	$33.5 million[2]

Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by Kinka Usher (in his feature-length directorial debut), written by Neil Cuthbert, loosely based on Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, starring Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Claire Forlani, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Janeane Garofalo, Wes Studi, Geoffrey Rush, Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, and Tom Waits. The film details the story of a team of lesser superheroes with unimpressive powers who are required to save the day from a criminal genius when Champion City's resident superhero gets captured.

Mystery Men received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box-office bomb, only making a little over $33 million worldwide against a $68 million budget.^[2]