Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

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   Siskoid

   While the cameo-happy Austin Powers in Goldmember has some laughs. and Beyoncé is pretty cool as a blaxploitation star pulled right out of the mid-70s by Dr. Evil's time machine, its fatal flaw is its villains. Interestingly, they do things here with Dr. Evil that the Bond franchise will do with Blofeld in the Daniel Craig era (which is kind of insane), but generally, his value has been in decline since the second film as he gets dumber and dumber, does rap numbers, etc. He's at least better than Goldmember, an out-of-focus parody of Goldfinger and other 60s Bond villains, with a bit of gross-out humor (speaking of which, thanks for sidelining Fast Bastard in this one, guys) and not many jokes to his name. I just don't think Mike Myers really had a third character in him, here. At least he's not playing his own dad (Michael Caine does a great job as an elder International Man of Mystery). They should have upgraded Scott Evil sooner, probably. And while spoofing more modern films like Mission: Impossible worked for me, overall, the franchise has run out of steam. 1 week 3 days ago
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   demagogo

   Funny movie, just not as good as the former two. 8 years 8 months ago
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   DJPowWow

   The Austin Powers charm was starting to get pretty old at this point. A totally self-indulgent film for Mike Myers... when he played both Powers and Dr. Evil in the first film, it was a funny twist. When he threw in "Fat Bastard" in the second film, it was obvious he just wanted to make use of his Scottish-accent shtick (the same one he uses for the dad in "So I Married an Axe Murderer", and to a lesser extent "Shrek). By the time he introduced the eponymous "Goldmember", he was just throwing another goofy accent on another weird character. It becomes painfully obvious that Myers's main talent is silly accents: the goofy Indian accent he wore in "The Love Guru", the posh English officer in "Inglourious Basterds", and of course all those Scottish characters... 11 years 5 months ago

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