Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me [DVD] [1999]

Dr Evil travels back in time and steels Austin Powers' "mojo." This leads to a series of events which lead Powers to travel also back in time and try and regain his "mojo" before time runs out. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil is planning to destroy a city every hour of every day from a giant "laser" on the moon, unless he is paid something like a million billion dollars by the US government.

What's Right With It?

The witty and entertaining quotes of Powers never fail to make you laugh, no matter how many times you watch it. The hilarious prose in the movie, with the exceedinly action-loadsmorecomedy atmosphere and storyline make Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me one of the best comedy films of modern day cinema.

What's Wrong With It?

Some of the more, let's say, vulgar scenes (e.g. Fat Bast*rds backside, or Austin Powers drinking Fat Bast*rds faesces) make you press the fast forward button a bit, leading to missing quotes. If you can handle this kind of comedy then you certainly shouldn't find much more wrong with it. However, some of the comedy moments certainly could be expanded to give the film its complete full potential.

Verdict:

No matter about the negatives, it's always the positives that count. It's still brilliant. Myers will never fail to be his best Powers, and nobody can beat that can they? It's funny, it's got a decent storyline, and it's got a groooovy English agent (of course, being Austin Powers) in it aswell! How much better can it get!?

This is a superior follow up to Austin Powers. Bigger budget, better script, more laughs. I wasn't an enormous fan of the first film, I did like it, it had it's moments but I wanted to like it more. I think Mike Myers is the funniest man around at the moment and this movie made me laugh more than any other film since There's Something About Mary. So if you've never seen The Spy Who Shagged Me but have seen Theres Something About Mary, then you'll get the idea of the intellectual level this is pitched at. Don't get me wrong, I'd consider myself to be intelligent but the humour in this movie is often physical but wonderfully infantile, which totally appeals to my childish sense of humour. If you are looking for intellectual comedy you wont find it here. If you don't like toilet humour, you'll hate this movie but for what it's worth I, like millions of others love this movie.

Most people are already familiar with the plot. Dr. Evil returns, travels back in time to get the funny but disgusting Fat Bastard (played by Mike Myers) to steal Austin’s mojo from his cryogenically frozen body; with this new advantage, Dr. Evil really comes into his hilariously evil own, making plans to blow up Washington, D.C. and other major cities with a laser he has placed on the moon. The allusions to the Star Wars movies are as obvious as they are twistedly fun, culminating in Dr. Evil’s Darth Vader impersonation when Austin confronts him. By far the greatest addition to the cast is Verne Troyer as Dr. Evil’s little clone Mini-Me. His aping of Dr. Evil’s quotation mark-noted lines increases the comedy fourfold, and his fight scene with Austin is yet another high point of the film. My favorite scene, though, has to be Dr. Evil’s and Mini-Me’s “Just the Two of Us” song and dance number. Basically, though, all of the characters were in top form in this film: Rob Lowe is the perfect younger version of #2, Mindy Sterling is always amazing as Frau Farbissina, and Seth Greene’s portrayal of Scott Evil makes him the perfect setup man for some of Dr. Evil’s best moments.

Featuring the best, most consistent storyline, showcasing the best performances of all involved, and parodying a number of well-known movies from the past while making fun of itself, this is easily the best of the three Austin Powers movies. Action, adventure, comedy, you name it, this movie has it in spades. This is Austin Powers at his randiest, most clumsily charming, hilarious best, baby, and it goes down in my book as one of the funniest movies ever made, one which, I might add, never goes stale no matter how many times you watch it.