All Star

-All Star (Smash Mouth, 1999) This song fits perfectly in Rat Race (Zucker, 2001), but it's probably the least interesting song on my IPod.



I didn't know this, but the song is obviously made for the movie Mystery Men (Usher, 1999) which I haven't seen. According to IMDB it's about a 'A group of inept amateur superheroes who must try to save the day when a super villain threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.' It's with Ben Stiller, William H. Macy and Hank Azaria, among others. They also star in the fairly simple video clip which wants to show that the mystery men are indeed inept and amateurish. So we see Steve Harwell, the lead singer of Smash Mouth performing super-heroic tasks, like saving a dog from a burning house or a woman from underneath a truck. This while arriving everywhere before the Mystery Men, who therefore don't have much saving to do. Of course Harwell also looks and acts way cooler then the Mystery Men and he is constantly surrounded by sexy women, while nobody really seems to like the Mystery Men. They seem like schmucks, which is of course further emphasized by the fact that William H. Macy is among them, who's made his career playing schmucks. And of course by all this the clip also wants us to show that Smash Mouth is really cool.