DVD Review: Austin Powers In Goldmember (D)

Austin Powers In Goldmember (2002)
Directed by Jay Roach
Starring Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles, Seth Green and Michael York
MPAA: PG-13
Grade: D

Review by Bobby Nashville

Yawn. It's kind of a shame what's become of this once promising series. The spy film genre has always been a great one to parody (my personal favorite is the Matt Helm series with Dean Martin). The first Austin Powers film was pretty clever, lighthearted and downright funny.

However, with The Spy Who Shagged Me, the bathroom jokes started taking over. With Goldmember, Mike Myers has once again taken the low road with non-stop jokes about gross behavior. Now don't get me wrong folks. I am not a prude, I can handle low grade humor as well as the next guy but let's get right to it: after a point it really stops being funny and just makes you scratch your head.

Sure, they added the cute Foxxy Cleopatra role (played well by Beyonce Knowles) but other than that, its a Mini-me, Fat Bastard stupidity fest without alot of innovation. I guess when you get to the third installment of a film series, it's tough to add anything original to the storyline, but this is pretty lame. They added the Dutch roller boogie villian Goldmember, but he's just another gross-out character without the punch of the clever Dr. Evil.

There are tons of movie review sites out there that are willing to waste their time discussing this piece of crap. We're not one of them. I guess if you are under ten or like comedy aimed at the under ten year old set, this might be a really cool "film". As for me I kept hoping that a huge two headed slime monster would enter the screen and devour everyone. Now THAT would have been cool.

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