Austin Powers in Goldmember
July. 26,2002 PG-13The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.
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I love this movie so much
Sadly Over-hyped
Admirable film.
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7/10 Acting -This movie is supposed to see like a really good genre of comedy. Which the acting fits perfect into. The actors make the comedy so fun, and extremely golden! Also amazing that Mike Myers plays 3 roles in this movie!6/10 Plot - The plot is a bit weird, childish plot. Dr.Evil wants to destroy the world. But that also what makes this movie funny. Can't tell the plot without a spoil for the other movies. But it's a hell of a good one.9/10 Characters - The characters in this movie is so amazing, we have so many different characters with a whole different personality. Accents for different characters, and a funny way to show off each character. All Mike Myers characters is really different, so really well made!5/10 Effects - Remember! It's an old movie. But it is good effects for such an old movie. Some of the effects is also used for a funny side of angle. Which makes this movie perfect!
Mike Myers is literally everywhere in his third romp as the super suave (and super dated) gentleman spy, playing four significant parts under hefty amounts of makeup and gear. He's still surprisingly funny, as is the film itself, although the screen often feels terribly crowded and the constant diversions and subplots get carried away. Much more than the two preceding films, Goldmember is a Python-esque collage, a string of skits and strung-out gags with a loose connecting narrative wound in-between. It's joyfully energetic, like a toddler, with an attention span to match. The goofs and send-ups themselves range from hilarious to beaten-to-death (particularly the dumb obsession with one character's absurdly huge mole, which is trotted out in at least three different scenes) and occasionally lean on a weirdly hyper-focused topical humor that's showing its age now. Many of the old bits from preceding films are rolled back out for an encore, but they're matched at least shot-for-shot with new segments that, surprisingly, hold their own. It's particularly important that the jokes land, because the plot is mostly scraps and stabs. Michael Caine is an inspired choice as Austin's long-lost father, but the two don't get much screen time together and it feels like a wasted opportunity. Beyoncé's take on the classic blaxploitation-era heroine type is spirited, if light and inessential. Despite the shortcomings, it's still good for a few big laughs and my wife and I reference it somewhat regularly. I prefer it to The Spy Who Shagged Me, though it can't hope to match the heart, balance or ingenuity of the original.
Having recently revisited the Austin Powers franchise, it was abundantly clear within 10 minutes that this 3rd offering was not up to par. In fact, I would go as far as to say this instalment was a mistake by all involved.Here are some reasons that stand out: 1) Poorly recycled jokes from the previous films at nearly every opportunity. I get they were trying to tie them together in an attempt to make it funny, but it just highlighted how they had run out of good ideas.2) The Fat Bastard cameos were neither welcome nor warranted. The character was best left as he was and the attempts to 'humanise' him fell flat. The film did not need him.3) Goldmember was not a good new character.Poorly thought out.4) The 'mole' incident was excruciating and went on too long, and shouldn't have happened multiple times! 5) Mini Me changing sides, and dressing up as Austin was rather annoying.6) They ran out of ideas for Scott Evil and so by making him evil ruined his character. The lasting image of him doing 'the laugh' sums this up.7) The 70'sish scenes were too over the top, even for a film like this, and didn't feel as believable or as fun as the 60's from the first films.8) I know that these films were never meant to be plot driven, but the previous two flowed better and were not just about the gags. This 1 felt like it ditched the story somewhat to focus on an all out assault.9) The 'Just the Two of Us' scene from 'The Spy Who Shagged Me' was fun and surprising, and felt natural. The follow up here of 'Hard Knock Life' was exactly the opposite, considering they were in a prison. It felt forced and was overly annoying.10) Beyonce's character added little to the film beyond adding clichéd 70'sness.11) Michael Caine?! Michael Caine as Austin's dad was pointless and didn't need to be there. His character was completely unnecessary.12) The cameos were far too excessive and only to show off who they could fit into the film. They didn't fit nicely with the film.13) The 'Silence of The Lambs' parody was AWFUL! Rant over! At least I had more fun writing that than I did watching this film.I heard there was talks of a 4th film but this may or may not ever happen. If it did I still have enough respect for the franchise to check it out. However, this was a complete mess, and if it was anything like this then it will be ruined forever.
Granted the opening is the best of the trilogy, but then it doesn't hold up to the first two. I never found the character of Goldmember funny. He's just a weird guy who makes a movie or disco reference and then says the name of what he is referencing. And this is also the decade where penis jokes were wearing thin. It was funny in the 70's and 80's, the 90's they got tiresome, in the 2000's it's like "Okay, enough." The joke where Fat Bastard talks about his terrible problem with obesity, sad music plays and then he farts worked in the second film, but in this movie, we saw it coming. Then he describes what the fart smells like. That's not funny.Yeah, there's many moments where it just Mike ad-libbing and it gets put in the movie. The filmmakers may have found it funny, but the audience doesn't. It's times where it's like the filmmakers only care about what they want, instead of the audience. Which what you're supposed to be doing if you're a filmmaker.The object in space that looks like a private part was funny in the second film but here, not so much. And the joke about the mole is just not funny.However, the movie is fun and fast paced, the score was great and it was just epic. I like it when silly comedies get epic. The joke about the subtitles was hysterical, the scene where Austin and Mini-me are behind the screen was hysterical, Beyonce was really good as Foxxy and yes I was surprised at the twist at the end. I went to see this film twice. The second time, I saw it with my friend and his jaw dropped opened at that scene.Is it the best of the three? No, I think the second film is the funniest. It is hugely enjoyable, but far from Groovy.