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Austin Powers in Goldmember
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
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Directed By: Jay Roach
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Theatrical Release: July 26, 2002
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Michael York, Robert Wagner
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped austin powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly-named villain goldmember - who is working with dr. Evil. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 12/09/2008 Starring: Mike Myers Seth Green Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg13
User Submitted Austin Powers in Goldmember Reviews
August 6, 2008
Funny
If you liked Austin Powers, then you will like this movie. But, it has some bad parts.
August 1, 2008
Very Funny !
This is one of my favorite comedy movies ! All the trillogy are so good!
July 21, 2008
Gilding the silly: Austin Powers in Goldmember
Say anything three times and it's funny, according to the secret rules of sure-fire comedy (the same rules that say the word "chicken" is unfailingly a rib-tickler). Austin Powers in Goldmember, Mike Myers's third incarnation of his gormless but irrepressible swinging sixties British spy, really is pretty funny.
After three movies and six years of the shagadelic, flouncy-shirted, buck-toothed homunculus and his ever-expanding cartoon world, it's become easier to surrender than resist. Place it against Men in Black or Mr. Deeds or any of a host of other barren summer comedies and the difference is obvious: Myers's sheer fertility of invention is of a different order, and even if he misses as often as he hits, he's definitely a swinger.
Even if the gag-to-wince ratio isn't high, there are enough punchlines thrown here to make a sphinx smirk. Father, forgive me, I must confess: I sprayed my popcorn.
Powers, the self-adoring spy whom Myers says he invented one day while riding back from hockey practice and listening to Dusty Springfield sing The Look of Love on the radio, is not so much a spy spoof (the sixties were already crawling with spy spoofs) as nostalgic sixties anglophilia: Think of it as James Bond crossed with the Carry-On Gang, or maybe Jerry Lewis imagining he's Cary Grant. The character(s) -- Myers plays four parts here, three of them villains -- finds that tightrope between enviable childish narcissism and obnoxiousness where much comedy struts.
The successor to the massive success of the $200-million second instalment of the series, The Spy Who Shagged Me, starts off with a large bang, and not, this time, of the sexual nature. Instead, it's a series of scenes from a film within the film, featuring a cast of stars way too famous to be named and an action stunt that should make the James Bond franchise pack up its product placements and go home.
Dr. Evil, Myers's best character, with his pinky-chewing and air quote signs and poor ability at higher numbers, takes centre stage early. Having found a way of taking his unscrupulous behaviour into legitimate business by taking over a Hollywood agency business (he charges just 9 per cent instead of the usual 10), he's stationed himself in a lair above the Hollywood sign and is concocting one of his usual plans to blackmail the world's leaders for a largish amount of money.
The entire evil cast (with the exception of the bald cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, who seems to have dropped out between trailer and movie) is back -- Dr. Evil's annoying son, Scott (Seth Green); Dr. Evil's silent clone, Mini-Me (Verne Troyer), who proves he has a mind of his own, and the rest of the Evil cast, including Number Two (Robert Wagner) and Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling). Myers hides himself under a couple of tonnes of makeup as an obese Scotsman, Fat Bastard, who is in love with his own body effluents.
Myers also plays a new Dutch villain called Johann Van Der Smut, a middle-aged seventies playboy nicknamed Goldmember (regrettable smelting accident), who enjoys roller-skating, disco dancing and eating strips of his overtanned skin.
The best piece of casting falls on the side of good, with Michael Caine as Nigel, Austin's swinging, and insufficiently paternal, spy dad. Caine (who himself played a bespectacled spy in The Ipcress File) looks the part, and turns on some real actor intensity, especially in his raging declaration that he hates intolerance and Dutch people.
Austin, for some reason, has to travel back to swinging Manhattan to "Studio 69," to rescue his dad, who has been captured by the evil Van Der Smut. There, he teams up with Pam Grier-inspired Foxxy Cleopatra, played by pop diva Beyoncé Knowles of Destiny's Child, who has great abs and a way of looking at Austin as if she just scraped him off the bottom of her platform shoes.
There's no doubt that Goldmember has its long flaccid stretches, and a good deal of repetition of familiar gags: shadow play, inadvertently obscene subtitles and an assortment of euphemisms for genitalia. At times, Myers's toilet-bowl humour overfloweth.
The strategy here is the basic Mel Brooks string o' gags school of comedy. While it's not high wit, it never stops trying and, occasionally, as in the prison-rap number inspired by Hard Knock Life from Annie, the results are inspired.
A flashback to Austin and Dr. Evil's early days at the Intelligence Academy, for example, shows a savvy such scenes rarely manage; the young actors are close enough physically to the adult characters, but what makes it work is Myers's dubbing in their adult voices.
Fourth-time Austin Powers is a spectre that can only arouse apprehension. No one can look forward to a bigger role for Van Der Smut (or bigger rolls for Fat Bastard). Who cares if Mini-Me decides to talk? But taking a page from the International Man of Mystery, let's not worry about the future when the present (and past) are groovy. When it comes to Austin Powers, three's a charm. Conrad Alton, Filmbay Editor.
May 26, 2008
hillarious
This movie was really good and funny. it's not as funny as the first one but still good
March 25, 2008
Mike Meyers does it again, yeah baby
Austin Powers in Goldmember is another great film in the shagadelic series. From the opening spoof AustinPussy one knows it's gonna be a great film. The jokes are on taregt , the script is witty and the cameos are great.Beyonce does a good acting job, despite what the critics said as her performances really just requires her to be eye candy. All in all a fun film.
January 27, 2008
Running on Empty
What a shame,
People embraced this franchise so much that we just had to love it to death. The funniest moments in this movie are the cameo appearances of Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Spielberg and others...after that runs its course, not much is left.
Someone else here says the outtakes are funnier than the movie itself, since they feature Mike Myers improvising. I'm fulloy prepared to believe that. Iron-poor blood otherwise dominates this effort.
August 26, 2007
Not as good as the first two.
I'm a fan of the Austin Powers series. The jokes are over the top, the characters are hilarious, what's not to like? So when Austin Powers in Goldmember came out, I just had to watch it. As you can tell from my 3 star rating, I was not that impressed.
At the time this movie came out, I was a fan of Beyonce's so that added to my excitement. Regardless of how much I liked Beyonce, I just couldn't disregard the fact that her presence in the film almost completely ruined it. The fakeness, the bad acting-it almost made me uncomfortable to watch the scenes that she was in.
Further, the jokes just weren't that great. The humor in the two previous movies had changed dramatically in Goldmember. The jokes in Goldmember are more obvious and silly. I even remember when I first watched this in the theatres, there were hardly any laughs coming from the audience. And the usually funny characters lack their typical "punch". The jokes are similar to the ones in the first two movies and they get old rather quickly. The new character, Goldmember, is nothing special. If I had to come up with an adjective to describe him it would be "gross".
The movie moves along steadily although it seems that the scenes were just thrown together. If you're a fan of the first two films in the Austin Powers series and you feel as though you must watch this one, it's important to know that it's entertaining in its own way but it's simply not good enough.
July 9, 2007
good movie and funny b/c it's Austin Powers, but lacks
i think there will never be an unfunny or boring Austin Powers. the writers are good. but I'm the kind of person that usually only likes the first movie. the first austin powers was the best! liz hurley was beautiful in it, and the fembots. i didn't like the 2nd one b/c Heather Graham did not look attractive, and it seemed the dullest of all 3. i wanted to watch this b/c i'm a fan of Beyonce and think she is beautiful. unfortunately it is she that brings the movie down. austin powers is suppposed to be about 2 elements: Austin and his essential accompanying humor and the hot babe who supports him. i feel that Beyonce was not a good supporting actress. she is not a good actress in this and thus weakens the movie. she seems artificial and overacts. she is not natural; like she knows the camera is on her and this is a movie e.t.c. maybe she needed time to practice more and maybe it wasn't the right movie for her b/c in Dreamgirls she was awesome; her acting was really good and believable in that. i think she needed time b/c i do think they essentially chose her for this movie b/c of her star power and the fanbase she'd bring. but at least she does look hot in it! but i did like the ending of it. i think she wasn't so bad at the end. my verdict is that this is still watchable and shows off hot beyonce. Yeah baby!
February 19, 2007
Received in great condition
Everything worked out great. No problems what so ever, thats why I love purchasing through amazon
January 18, 2007
austin
austin powers is my favorite secret agent... so i ought to have liked it... just that... you've seen one and you've seen them all... the product arrived in great condition... amazon service has been excellent...
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