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Summary: Hilarious third installment.
Review: The wait is finally over, Austin Powers is back. The third film in the series is full of jokes, jokes and even more jokes. Unlike the previous two films, Mike Myers didn't bother focusing on the story. Which unfortunately hurts the movie in some areas. I did laugh, but I felt the end was just an easy way out for such a great comic mind. Still, I highly recommend Goldmember if you just want to laugh...for 90 minutes.
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Summary: frickin' idiotic
Review: It's hard to figure out where exactly the ball was dropped in the Austin Powers franchise, but it is now at the point where going to see the latest installment of Mike Meyer's trilogy means you will be seeing Fat Bastard on a toilet at some point. _Goldmember_ manages to be the weakest of the three films by far. The charm of the first film has been lost somehow to inane fart jokes and other gross-out humor. The success of the first film and films like _American Pie_ are that they don't resort to the crudeness of the joke alone to make the laugh, but weave this display into the story and the characterization. For example in the _American Pie_ franchise we can laugh at Stifler chugging a brutal concoction because he isn't the nicest guy, and he was in a situation (seducing a hapless young girl for his own purposes) that merits some sort of joke at his expense-- still an immature display nonetheless, but still packing a humorous punch.In _Goldmember_, however, the gross-out humor takes center stage, and is not linked to the plot in a seminal way. The result is grotesquerie for its own sake. The image of a villain speaking with a Dutch accent and eating pieces of his own flesh is not funny at all, just disturbing. The feeling produced is something you'd expect of a horror or experimental film, not a big budget comedy. The zany warmth of the original film, its inventiveness, its bright satire of the James Bond genre and its English flavour are all dulled by the time we get to the third feature with its grossness and sophomoricness. The film's beginning, as with all of the openings of Austin Powers films, is priceless, and has several great cameos, including an utterly show-stopping one by Danny DeVito. Yet the film quickly dovetails into endless retreads of jokes from the first two installments. Myers tries to ape himself by parodying this very fact, but if he thinks that is clever he is underestimating his audience-- even if they are mostly teens. While the banter between Dr. Evil and his cohorts is entertaining and the film spoofs several other blockbusters, it still doesn't contain enough of a balance between the sick humor and the satire. In sum, the Austin flicks are completely out of gas, out of jokes and out of ideas. Myers has said he had so much fun doing _Goldmember_ he wants to do a fourth one. Hopefully he will try to come up with something different and more successful next time, and not just subject the audience to the most disgusting sight gag his mind can come up with.
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Summary: Better Than the Second One
Review: Movies from the Austin Powers series are the kind that you would watch in a packed cinema on a weekend night, maybe with a couple of beers in you, and after leaving the venue, you'd have forgotten all about the film. That is exactly what I did, and it definitely was good entertainment. The latest instalment was rich in prominent cameos and self-ridicule, while some of the regular characters (such as Fat Bastard) were maybe a little forced and didn't quite fit in. Definitely enjoyable is the continued defiance of political correctness (but that is becoming a cliché in today's humour). Still, the twist of the plot at the end makes you wonder where the next sequel will take off and lead us. Then again, I do not intend to sit and wait impatientlyfor it to come out-for it is after all just a one-night, one-off thing. Watching Goldmember again would spoil all the fun.
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Summary: The worst film of the Austin Powers series.
Review: As a big fan of austin powers I was looking forward to seeing goldmember. But when I saw it I was really dissapionted. First of all it was no where near as funny as the first two films were.
The characters are getting worn out and the new character goldmember is a horribe and dissgusting adition to the group.Plus whoever thought of putting beyonce Knowles in the picture must have not been feeling well that day. She is a terrible actress, is not funny and is nowhere near as good looking as Elizebeth Hurley or Heather Graham. All in all it was a dissapiontment and the worst of the series.
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Summary: This movie is very "toyt," as they say in Holland!
Review: Mike Myers should stop right now. Despite my appetite for more Austin Powers adventures, there is a lot of appeal in quitting while he's ahead. Goldmember is by far the best of the three Austin Powers movies. The jokes are better, the timing is better, the performances are more on target. This movie does everything right. This is Austin Powers on magic mushrooms, a freeflowing trip with no holds barred. The fact that everyone was having a great time making this movie is apparent from the very beginning. Rather than dissect the movie and tell you about what works (most of it) and what doesn't (very little), just see it. Of course, if double entendres offend you, or if you can't take bathroom humor, stay home. Myers can't resist a little gutter humor, but it works here. It's much more fun than an unfortunate smelting accident involving your genetalia!
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Summary: At times very funny but not as good as A. Powers 2
Review: First of all let me give the parents out there a warning. AP in Goldmember is a PG 13, but probally should be a mild R. This would be for the langage used.
That Being said this is a very funny movie at times, though not as funny as number 2. The problem with this movie is that the first two were spoofs on the 60s spy movies, this does not happen in this movie at all. AP has become a name brand in and of itself. There are twists and turns in this movie that are good but I think the series is showing its age. Or perhaps I am showing mine.
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Summary: please... this was awful
Review: This movie was nothing but joke after joke. The first to Austin Powers movies were funny, but they also had decent story line. Austin 3 has a weak story line and the bathroom jokes were utterly wrong. The only thing I got a kick out of was seeing the big name stars in their cameo roles that was funny, but the rest of the movie bit dirt. Don't waste your time with this one.
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Summary: Definitely the Best in the Series!
Review: I was so siked about seeing this movie, I saw it the day it came out. I thought this movie had the best plot because the plot helped fuel the gags. Of course there's some bathroom humor but this time he constructs it so that it's actually funny. The opening scene has so many cameos like Tom Cruise, Steven Speilberg, Britney Spears,Keven Spacey, Danny Devito, Quincy Jones, Gwenyth Paltroy and so many more cameos during the movie like John Travolta.
In this movie Dr.Evil plan to go back to 1975 to get Goldmember ( Played of course by Mike Myers) but Austin Arrests him. Then Austin Learns that his father is kidnapped and heads to 1975 where he meets Foxy Cleopatra ( Beyounce Knowles). Meanwhile Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison, meet up with Goldmember in a plan to take over the world.
All the cast from Austin Powers 2 are back except Heather Graham. (Yes Fat Bastard is back but he provides the best scenes.)This is by far the best Austin Powers movie, but don't expect another sequel.
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Summary: Good but a little cluttered
Review: Let's be honest, the stars of any Austin Powers movie is Dr. Evil & Mini Me. There is just something about Dr. Evil's nerdy ways and affection for Mini Me that makes every moment they're onscreen great! Unfortunately, Mike Myers has created so MANY characters for this series that most of them are now basically in walk-on roles! Goldmember was an unnecessary character to create since he has maybe 15 minutes of honest-to-goodness screen time in the film - the rest of the time he's just an extra. And he didn't do anything Dr. Evil couldn't have been written to do. Robert Wagner and Frau whatever have a couple of lines each, but this show mostly belongs to Austin and Foxxy (whatever happened to Felicity Shagwell? She doesn't even have a cameo in this one). I read that they had 3 1/2 hours of material to sift through to make this movie, let's hope when the DVD comes out they give us most of that material as extras, because it just seems like there's so much we're missing here. There are a couple of dead-on actors as the teen Austin and Dr. Evil that make me wish for more time in flashback here (those guys are GOOD!). This is almost a remake of the last one: Austin goes back in time to fight a villian, Austin finds a sexy new partner and brings her back with him to the present, Dr. Evil and Mini Me do a musical number, there's the adult humor about various body parts throughout, Austin and Mini Me have a battle (though this one is 100 times funnier than the one in the last film), etc. And with the way this one ends, it's obvious that Mike will have to create another new villian for the next one if the series is to progress (though it makes a fitting end as a trilogy) because the villian we're left with at the end just wouldn't be enough to carry a whole film (though it's a great idea). And with the movie making so much money already, it's obvious there WILL be another installment at some point in the future. Let's hope Dr. Evil and Mini Me return because the series won't be the same without them. Oh, and as an added bonus to the series, in this movie we finally learn what Dr. Evil's first name is!
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Summary: I wish I had passed - but if you're a fan, you'll love it
Review: I was going to rag in this review, but then I paused and realized I had to be honest: I was the wrong person to take to this film. Not because I'm dour, but bathroom-level humor just doesn't appeal to me much. I wasn't trying not to laugh, honest - I found it just wasn't coming. Some rare moments of chuckles, but on the whole, eh - I could've passed those two hours better. What, you ask, is this idiot babbling about this for? Well, I'm building up an explanation of my high rating. On the whole, the movie -should- have been very funny to me (it just wasn't), but if you're a fan of the other two films, or films of this style, I'm pretty sure you'll love it. Some clever devices did exist (though only warranted a chuckle or two) and the story quickly spirals into a bizarre attempt to make coherency out of total silliness. The series started with cardboard characters that were designed to completely mock the spy/action movie genre; by this point, though, those characters have lost their greatest humor asset since three films, by necessity, makes them complex (so the universal "Dr. Evil," a humorous take on every villain ever included in a spy film, has developed into a -unique- entity by now... which kind of defeats the point). Not that any of that matters if you're just in it for the endless series of one-liners and gimmicky jokes. So, when you're deciding whether to buy a ticket, just understand this: the jokes are lewder and grosser than ever before, the slapstick is at an all-time high, and the pop-culture satire is on overkill. If that - or the other two films - sounds like the right formula, go for it, I bet you'll be very pleased. If, on the other hand, that makes you a little wary, then you'd be probably be better off saving the cash. And in the end, there's always the offering that this is infinitely funnier than Men in Black II (but so are autopsy photos, to be quite honest).
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