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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert
Wagner, Rob Lowe, and a bunch of cameos. |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
New Line
Cinema |
| Web Site: |
www.austinpowers.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Nope. |
| Date Movie: |
Sure. She might
laugh. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Lots of jokes. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Not really. |
| Action: |
Not really. |
| Laughs: |
Lots of them. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
The scenes with
the "penis" rocket. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Too many to mention. |
| Directed By: |
Jay Roach |
| Produced By: |
Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, Demi Moore, Eric
McLeod, John Lyons, Mike Myers |
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
A Movie Review |
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"Mommy, can you explain what was so
funny about that spaceship?" That might be one of the many
questions your six or seven year old may be asking you if
you bring them to see "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged
Me," and from the audience in the theater when I went, a lot
of parents brought the little ones. This movie is rated
PG-13 for a reason, and I would say that maybe it's because
a lot of the humor is sexual, although not blatantly, and
that would leave a lot of explainin' to do for your
youngin'. Me, I'm over 13 and, well, easily amused, so I
didn't really need that explainin', I just laughed a lot.
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" seemed to have
nearly as much hype as
"The Phantom Menace," at times it
seemed even more, and even though no Star Wars, the movie
has it's own merits on an adult level.
The movie opens with Austin Powers recently married to
Vanessa, and well, shagging her in a hotel room. But Austin
notices something is wrong as he's using the remote control:
He presses "rewind" and Vanessa goes in reverse, he presses
"forward" and Vanessa goes forward, he presses "mute" and
Vanessa's mouth moves but nothing comes out (The Dude on the
Left seemed to find this a great feature as he chuckled and
said "Cool."), but then problems arise and the previously
banished Dr. Evil returns to get back at Powers.
The plot revolves around time travel, but don't try to
get to technical about it, where Dr. Evil goes back to the
time when Austin was frozen and steals his mojo (his love
power), and Austin is a man who now loves women, but can't
love women. Evil also has new plans to dominate the world,
revolving around, as he calls it, the Alan Parsons Project
(yes, that being the same name as the group put together by
Alan Parsons, and Evil's son, Scott, brings that up but Dr.
Evil is oblivious to it), and the Austin who travels back in
time to retrieve his mojo now has to save the world.
Yes, there's a new babe this time around, this time in
the likes of Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), and she
helps Austin save the world, and find his mojo. All is well
with the world again, and we are safe again until Dr. Evil
returns again, with Mini-Me (his miniature clone), to once
again try to kill Austin and dominate the world.
The movie is a goof, and I mean that in the best sense,
with scenes poking fun at the nineties culture as Scott Evil
and Dad Evil square up on an episode of Jerry Springer,
poking fun at sixties culture with the, well, the entire
movie, and making a lot of jokes about sex and bodily
functions (two scenes come to mind - one where Austin and
Felicity are in a tent, backlit, and from the outside it
looks like Felicity is grabbing stuff out of Austin's butt,
and the other is the sequence of people looking up at Dr.
Evil's penis looking spaceship, shifting from one group of
people to the next, with the transition word being something
slang for penis). And like I said, I'm easily amused, and
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" amused me.
If you liked the first Austin Powers, I'm thinking you'll
like this installment just the same. Scott Evil is once
again great at trying to explain to dear old dad how stupid
he is, Mini-Me is a hilarious addition, and Mike Myers
ability to play the endearing Austin Powers, the bumbling
Dr. Evil, and this time adding in the totally gross Fat
Bastard (I swear I almost had to throw up watching Fat
Bastard and Felicity in bed together) is just about amazing.
It's 4 stars out of 5 for "Austin Powers: The Spy Who
Shagged Me." I laughed, I cried, I almost vomited. What more
can you ask from a movie?
That's it for this one! I'm The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
