Special Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access Feature length commentary Cast & Crew Theatrical trailer Cameos Music Videos Behind The Scenes Deleted Scenes Hidden Menu: What If God Was One Of Us? Just The Two Of Us Classic Evil Schemes Gone Awry Together with fab CIA superchick Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham - `Lost In Space`, `Bowfinger`), Austin faces off against an army of outrageous villians including a heinous henchman of tremendous girth and Mini-Me, Dr Evil`s deranged 1/8-sized clone. Now Austin must return to the Swingin` `60s, recover his mojo, and stop his terminally square arch nemesis from liquidating the world. Evil travels back to 1969 and steals Austin`s `mojo`. Synopsis: First he fought for the Crown, now he`s fighting for the family jewels! Mike Myers (`Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery`) returns as the world`s grooviest superspy in his latest comedy-adventure! Intent on world dominaton, diabolical genius Dr.
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Then it plays itself, again and again, as many a once-promising comedy franchise finds itself doing.The hugely well-endowed sequel! Certificate: 12 Running Time: 91 mins Retail Price: £24.99 Release Date: Content Type: Movie It's light and dumb and at least displays moments of insight, from predicting sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads ( which are now a real thing) to approaching some semblance of awareness around its titular stuck-in-time hero. There's nothing wrong with a good, renewed take on the "blaxploitation" genre, but Mike Myers is not the man to write it, and by the second and then third time Knowles calls out Powers's "jive-ass" for no reason, the question starts to nag: What is the joke Myers is going for here, other than that there is a black woman in this movie? By extension, what is the point of Powers expressing unreserved sexism, racism, selfishness, if it's never once truly positioned as a fault of his?īy its very nature, International Man of Mystery does not hold up, which in and of itself isn't the worst thing. In Goldmember, which is by its own admission one giant dick joke, the inclusion of Beyoncé Knowles as a character named Foxxy Cleopatra is especially rough. Fast-forward to 1997 and, paired with the serious but good-humored Agent Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley in one of the 5,000 films she did between 19), Powers is forced to confront the world moving on from his "free love" era. He's also, in one of many catchphrases that would become Borat-level ubiquitous for a time, extremely "randy." Powers is described as "irresistible to women," and was a celebrity back in his time. And maybe there were still some surprising takeaways from a franchise, now 21 years old, about a dude who loves fucking.įor the blissfully uninitiated, Austin Powers is a film trilogy about a prolific ’60s spy who's unfrozen in the ’90s and thrust into new assignments in a world he no longer understands. Then again, "holding up"-whether you take it to mean "remaining funny" or "displaying a preternatural social consciousness that endures decades later"-is really a preoccupation of the Austin Powers movies themselves. “Of course it doesn't hold up,” I told my editor long before I agreed to rewatch the films.
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This is a film series starring fucking Mike Myers, the Love Guru guy, the man who looked like he actually shit himself that time Kanye West voiced his opinion of George W. This is a franchise that cast Verne Troyer as a character named Mini-Me who speaks mostly in frightened shrieks.
This is a film series infused with the gleeful misogyny of early Bond movies as a selling point (we are introduced, early in the first film, to a female secretary named Alotta Fagina, for example). Does Austin Powers hold up? The question feels idiotic.
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