10 Most Underrated Comedy Films Of The 90s

Culled from one very simply, yet unforgivably overlooked question - What happens to all of the superheroes who aren't quite super enough to hang with the likes of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent - Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, and William H. Macy lead the charge as a trio of B-list guardians of justice.

The premise merges classic comic book storylines with every story about a ragtag group of misfits you've ever seen: Champion City is on the verge of destruction thanks to a recently un-jailed super-villain (the perfectly-named Casanova Frankenstein) and his doomsday device, and the only man who can stop it has been captured. Can this random bunch of not-so-superheroes find a way to save the day?

Although the overarching plot adds some genuine stakes to this otherwise lightweight comedy, Mystery Men is at its funniest when the director takes time away from the bigger picture to focus in on the heroes' daily lives and their delightfully fractious relationships.

Conversations about how "the steak-eater picks the pocket of the salad man" when the restaurant check is split evenly and arguments over what constitutes an actual superpower are ultimately more interesting than whether the bad guys gets his comeuppance.

The primary threesome of Stiller, Azaria, and Macy are the engine of this thing, but everyone from Greg Kinnear - as the smarmy Superman archetype - and a surprisingly game and goofy Janeane Garofalo provide laughs in bunches.