Mystery Men is Better Than You Remember

I've never understood why Mystery Men flopped. Maybe it was the middling reviews. Maybe it was the timing (it came out after Batman & Robin flopped and almost took the genre down with it, but before X-Men and Spider-man jumpstarted the modern superhero boom).

Regardless, it's an eerily prescient satire about the future state of superhero media, and the sole directing credit of Kinka Usher - a filmmaker so obscure that people are to this day convinced that he's just a pseudonym for Tim Burton, even though he's directed some of the most iconic commercials of all time.

On this episode of Too Many Tapes: Better Than You Remember, let's take a look at this somewhat overlooked Ben Stiller comedy and see into its deeper heart.

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