Well, it's no mystery that this movie is great. Funny, hip, and poking fun at every staid superhero convention around. With the disappearance of the only real superhero in town, a pack of wannabes goes on a quest to prove themselves to be real heroes or make the audience die of laughter in the process.

Greg Kineer is the self-centered over-sponsored Captain Amazing, while Jeanne Garafalo almost steals the show at times as The Bowler. To be true though, there isn't a single lead balloon in this cast of high-flying acts, though perhaps the one that particularly struck me was Paul Rubens. From Pee Wee Herman to the chief vampire flunky on the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and now to The Spleen, he has well proven himself able to morph both his appearance and personality to suit the task at hand and leave us wondering if these are all really the same person (will the real Paul Rubens please stand up?).

Mystery Men is the best spoof I've seen in a long while; add in the fact that this one actually has a plot (itself another blatant poke at every superhero genre out there) and you have a movie that will surprise all the critics and theater owners in how many of us twisted people will go to see it. In fact, at the multiplex I went to see it at, while there was another movie in the big theater and Mystery Men was in one of the shoebox ones, guess which one people were crowding in for?

Just call me The Laugher, because I really liked this film.