Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 12 segments
Stew and Smith are back with another episode of the It Doesn’t Hold Up podcast discussing Mystery Men from 1999 But does it hold up? Email – itdoesntholduppodcast@gmail.com Instagram…
Stuart ShepardHostMichael SmithHost
So this is the tale of a group of misfit wannabe superheroes who take it upon themselves to go rescue Casanova.
Now, we've done 1999 a bunch of times, so for our scene setting, what are we doing, Smith?
Well, we can have a look at superhero films that are lesser well-known, or at least superhero films that we enjoy pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe.
look at the landscape of cinema today, and superhero films are pretty ubiquitous.
We're getting to the point now where people have got superhero fatigue, where there are so many of these films, and they're so dominating the box office.
um which i sort of get and i think that the quality has dipped certainly i think yep however you know you have to look at spider-man brand new day which is now one of the highest grossing films of all time and has made tom holland the highest grossing actor of all time is that right yeah between that and the odyssey um yeah he had two films out in the same month that both have grossed over a billion so yeah i mean he's doing pretty well for himself um he's married to zendaya um oh yeah all right mate um anyway um if you think back to a time when we were younger superhero films were few and far between yeah you had stuff like this you had stuff like the mask which we've also covered we have other ones so i'm thinking of films like the rocketeer for example or films like the phantom with billy zane have you seen either of those films too
So this is the tale of a group of misfit wannabe superheroes who take it upon themselves to go rescue Casanova.
Now, we've done 1999 a bunch of times, so for our scene setting, what are we doing, Smith?
Well, we can have a look at superhero films that are lesser well-known, or at least superhero films that we enjoy pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe.
look at the landscape of cinema today, and superhero films are pretty ubiquitous.
We're getting to the point now where people have got superhero fatigue, where there are so many of these films, and they're so dominating the box office.
um which i sort of get and i think that the quality has dipped certainly i think yep however you know you have to look at spider-man brand new day which is now one of the highest grossing films of all time and has made tom holland the highest grossing actor of all time is that right yeah between that and the odyssey um yeah he had two films out in the same month that both have grossed over a billion so yeah i mean he's doing pretty well for himself um he's married to zendaya um oh yeah all right mate um anyway um if you think back to a time when we were younger superhero films were few and far between yeah you had stuff like this you had stuff like the mask which we've also covered we have other ones so i'm thinking of films like the rocketeer for example or films like the phantom with billy zane have you seen either of those films too
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