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1999 American superhero comedy film

Mystery Men is a 1999 American superherocomedy 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 and grossed $33 million worldwide against a $68 million budget.

Plot

In Champion City, the amateur superhero team of Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja attempt to make a name for themselves, but their inexperience, infighting, and dubious abilities generally result in defeat and frustration. While trying to stop a robbery in progress, they are upstaged by the city's powerful and arrogant superhero, Captain Amazing.

However, Amazing's crime fighting prowess has practically made his job obsolete. Without any worthy adversaries (most are either dead, in exile, or in jail), his corporate sponsors are beginning to withdraw support. To create a need for his services, Amazing uses his alter ego, billionaire lawyer Lance Hunt, to argue for the release of his nemesis, supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, from an insane asylum. However, the plan backfires; once released and reunited with his henchman Tony P and his Disco Boys, Casanova Frankenstein blows up the asylum, easily outwits and captures Amazing, and prepares to unleash the "Psycho-frakulator", which lethally bends reality, on the city.

On a stakeout of Casanova Frankenstein's mansion, Mr. Furious observes Amazing's capture and informs his team. After an unsuccessful rescue attempt, the th

1985 film by Tim Burton

Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventurecomedy film directed by Tim Burton in his feature-film directing debut. The film stars Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, along with E.G. Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger and Judd Omen. The screenplay, written by Reubens with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol, tells the story of Pee-wee's search for his stolen bicycle and has been compared to the 1948 Italian film Bicycle Thieves.

Following the success of The Pee-wee Herman Show in 1981, Reubens was hired by the Warner Bros. film studio and began writing the script for Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Impressed with Burton's work on the short films Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984), the producers and Reubens hired him to direct. Filming took place in California and Texas. The film was scored by Danny Elfman, marking his first among many collaborations with Burton.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure was released on August 9, 1985, grossing over $40 million in North America. It became a cult film and continued to accumulate positive feedback. It was nominated for a Young Artist Award and was followed by two standalone sequels, Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016). Its financial success, followed by Burton's equally successful Beetlejuice in 1988, prompted Warner Bros. to hire Burton to direct the 1989 film Batman.

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Pee-wee Herman, a childlike man in a grey suit with a red bow-tie, has a dream where he wins the Tour De France. He wakes up and makes breakfast with an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine, but has Mr. T cereal instead. Pee-Wee goes outside and enters a secret code to access a garage containing his heavily accessorized bicycle that he cherishes. His neighbor and enemy, Francis Buxton, wants the bicycle and offers to buy it. Pee-wee refuses; as he rides off, Francis warns him he'll be sorry for turning down his offer.

Pee-Wee goes to Chuck's Bike Shop. Dottie is an

There’s a moment in the newest Thor: Ragnarok trailer that suggests something fascinating about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As Hela gleefully chokes the life out Thor, she takes a moment to remind him just who and what she is. She is not a queen. She is not a monster. She is the goddess of death.

As dastardly villain quips go, Hela’s assertion of her godliness gets full marks simply for sounding incredibly badass. More than that, though, the line is an explicit declaration of an idea that much of Ragnarok’s imagery overtly nods to: the Asgardians of the MCU aren’t just technologically advanced, they’re gods in the most literal sense of the word.

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Like many pieces of science fiction, the first Thor film dusts off Arthur C. Clarke’s axiom about advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic in order to make the events of the movie fit into the established logic of the MCU. Bear in mind that when Thor was released back in 2011, the MCU was a much, much smaller place, composed of the Hulk’s solo film and two Iron Man features.

Up until that point, the world that Marvel had invited audiences into was wholly defined by science and technology. The decision to weave those same themes into Thor made sense if only for the fact that getting people into the idea of a strapping, Norse thunder god running around in a “realistic” universe of comic book characters is easier if you downplay the whole magic thing and repackage it as super-science. But in the time since Thor, the MCU has expanded to include many new worlds and dimensions, and the presence of other distinctly mystic elements.

Compared to when the Asgardians were first introduced, the idea that they’re merely a far-flung race of aliens now feels like a rather stale and ham-fisted way of ignoring what Thor told us about himself from the jump:

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NBC's sophomore drama The Blacklist will be coming back with a few guest stars already lined up for the new season that include Mary-Louise Parker, Lee Tergesen, Krysten Ritter and Peter Stormare (Berlin). Now we can add one more name to that list… Paul Rubens.

According to EW: the actor best known for his persona as Pee-Wee Herman has been cast as Mr. Vargas, a dapper and finicky 'muscle' that handles delicate situations in the criminal underworld.

"We're forgoing the bow tie and the bicycle, and it's going to be something totally different, and it's gonna be awesome," executive producer Jon Bokenkamp says. "It can't get strange enough for me. One of the most fun things is being able to write for actors who I've admired and think are interesting and try to play against expectations. I think this will be a fun one. I'd say he's gonna shake things up a bit when he enters Red's orbit."

Rubens started work on the series on Friday and is scheduled to appear in at least two episodes starting with the third episode of the second season.

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