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Post by ck100 on Jun 11, 2024 17:07:13 GMT
Probably my favorite of the three "Austin Powers" movies. Not a great or perfect comedy, but there are some inspired laughs when it hits. I remember when the movie first came out how the trailer encouraged people to go see "The Phantom Menace" first since the filmmakers and Mike Myers knew it was going the big movie of the summer. It's been many years since I last watched it, but I remember various things like "Mini-Me", Rob Lowe's dead-on Robert Wagner impression, Jerry Springer's cameo, "Just the Two of Us" music scene, introducing "mojo" in pop culture vocabulary, the phallic spaceship causing characters to have different names for it as we cut to each character, etc. Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - 2.5 out of 4 stars "More swingin' '60s lunacy as Dr. Evil returns to Earth with a time-travel machine and goes back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo. More laughs than the original--and more than enough gross-out gags--although it's still spotty. Several star cameos, though Troyer, as Mini-Me, steals the film. Myers cowrote and coproduced. Followed by AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER. Super 35."
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Post by James on Jun 12, 2024 0:26:16 GMT
I loved it as a kid, may be my favourite of the series. Not all of the humour works but there are some classic gags and fan favourite characters introduced.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 12, 2024 1:00:47 GMT
Not as sharp as the first, yet arguably the funniest of the trilogy.
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Post by movielover on Jun 12, 2024 1:29:39 GMT
Saw it in the theater when it first came out and had a blast. My favorite of the series.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 12, 2024 1:50:29 GMT
You didn't mention Fat Bastard. "First things first, where's your shitter? I got a turtle head poking out!"
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jun 12, 2024 18:11:12 GMT
Very amusing follow-up to International Man of Mystery, you can also see that they had more of a budget to work from this time around. My one issue is that the humor is often over-done, the original movie had at least a bit of breathing room.
Heather Graham I do not think has ever looked better on screen, every scene she is in, she is a stunner.
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Post by 博:Dr.BLΔD€:锯 on Jun 12, 2024 19:52:14 GMT
Heather Graham I do not think has ever looked better on screen, every scene she is in, she is a stunner. I'm with that. If any red-blooded person , male and/or female is not appreciative of her allure....I would say they they had to be deaf,dumb or dead. |
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 12, 2024 20:36:22 GMT
Not as fresh as International Man of Mystery obviously, but Rob Lowe was definitely great. Still pretty decent, and miles better than Goldmember...that thing was wretched.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jun 13, 2024 4:38:45 GMT
Heather Graham I do not think has ever looked better on screen, every scene she is in, she is a stunner. I'm with that. If any red-blooded person , male and/or female is not appreciative of her allure....I would say they they had to be deaf,dumb or dead. She was 28 when she filmed the movie, and is in her early 50's now, and she honestly has not aged much in 25 years. Her self-care routine is definitely working in her favor. |
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jun 13, 2024 4:47:37 GMT
Not as fresh as International Man of Mystery obviously, but Rob Lowe was definitely great. Still pretty decent, and miles better than Goldmember...that thing was wretched. Rob Lowe also acted for the first but his scene got cut, it was pretty funny but understandably it slowed the movie down. Goldmember has a couple of jokes that work, but otherwise it is pretty disposable. It generally forgets it is supposed to spoof spy pictures, the make-up quality is not up to par with the other two entries (you can clearly see Myers is wearing a cap as Dr. Evil, and as Fat Bastard you can tell he is wearing a suit because even in the slightest move you notice air tubes) and Beyonce Knowles, in addition to not having the acting skills at the time to keep up with Myers and everyone else, has really nothing to do, there is nothing for her to play off of with Myers like Hurley and Graham had. Speaking of which, why hasn't Graham's deleted scene made it online already? |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 14, 2024 1:32:54 GMT
Not as fresh as International Man of Mystery obviously, but Rob Lowe was definitely great. Still pretty decent, and miles better than Goldmember...that thing was wretched. Rob Lowe also acted for the first but his scene got cut, it was pretty funny but understandably it slowed the movie down. Goldmember has a couple of jokes that work, but otherwise it is pretty disposable. It generally forgets it is supposed to spoof spy pictures, the make-up quality is not up to par with the other two entries (you can clearly see Myers is wearing a cap as Dr. Evil, and as Fat Bastard you can tell he is wearing a suit because even in the slightest move you notice air tubes) and Beyonce Knowles, in addition to not having the acting skills at the time to keep up with Myers and everyone else, has really nothing to do, there is nothing for her to play off of with Myers like Hurley and Graham had. Speaking of which, why hasn't Graham's deleted scene made it online already? That's an interesting criticism. Goldmember is a pretty pointed parody of Goldfinger, and Caine's casting is an homage to Harry Palmer. Foxy Cleopratra is an obvious reference to blaxploitation, but I thought those were more detective movies than spy-oriented, but I admittedly am not an expert there. Otherwise, I suppose it does kind of drop that angle. What was the Heather Graham scene supposed to be like? |
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jun 14, 2024 17:47:26 GMT
Rob Lowe also acted for the first but his scene got cut, it was pretty funny but understandably it slowed the movie down. Goldmember has a couple of jokes that work, but otherwise it is pretty disposable. It generally forgets it is supposed to spoof spy pictures, the make-up quality is not up to par with the other two entries (you can clearly see Myers is wearing a cap as Dr. Evil, and as Fat Bastard you can tell he is wearing a suit because even in the slightest move you notice air tubes) and Beyonce Knowles, in addition to not having the acting skills at the time to keep up with Myers and everyone else, has really nothing to do, there is nothing for her to play off of with Myers like Hurley and Graham had. Speaking of which, why hasn't Graham's deleted scene made it online already? That's an interesting criticism. Goldmember is a pretty pointed parody of Goldfinger, and Caine's casting is an homage to Harry Palmer. Foxy Cleopratra is an obvious reference to blaxploitation, but I thought those were more detective movies than spy-oriented, but I admittedly am not an expert there. Otherwise, I suppose it does kind of drop that angle. What was the Heather Graham scene supposed to be like? On the surface they're present, but I cannot recall them really taking much advantage of what the influences were other than Sir Michael Caine telling a henchman to not bother trying to apprehend him because he's taken down many like him. There are some conflicting stories regarding Graham's deleted scene, one claim it was with her character breaking up with Powers because he still had feelings for Elizabeth Hurley's Vanessa Kensington, another claim is she hooked up with somebody else, and from what I recall reading about there was one claim that she either became very early 00's feminist, or decided to go back in time because the 00's were square. I am pretty sure the intention was to make reference to the fact that because it was a new movie they needed a new female lead. I think everyone except the first sounds plausible, because in the opening of the second film Powers gets over the loss of his wife fairly quickly. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 14, 2024 18:05:10 GMT
That's an interesting criticism. Goldmember is a pretty pointed parody of Goldfinger, and Caine's casting is an homage to Harry Palmer. Foxy Cleopratra is an obvious reference to blaxploitation, but I thought those were more detective movies than spy-oriented, but I admittedly am not an expert there. Otherwise, I suppose it does kind of drop that angle. What was the Heather Graham scene supposed to be like? On the surface they're present, but I cannot recall them really taking much advantage of what the influences were other than Sir Michael Caine telling a henchman to not bother trying to apprehend him because he's taken down many like him. There are some conflicting stories regarding Graham's deleted scene, one claim it was with her character breaking up with Powers because he still had feelings for Elizabeth Hurley's Vanessa Kensington, another claim is she hooked up with somebody else, and from what I recall reading about there was one claim that she either became very early 00's feminist, or decided to go back in time because the 00's were square. I am pretty sure the intention was to make reference to the fact that because it was a new movie they needed a new female lead. I think everyone except the first sounds plausible, because ning of the second film Powers gets over the loss of his wife fairly quickly. Yeah, Austin's "Wait a tick, that means I'm single again!" might even be my favorite joke from this movie so that'd be lame. Felicity going modern feminist also sounds strange because that's basically what Hurley's character was. |
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