I mean, he'll flog jokes that are absolutely primordial, straight off the pages of Playboy's Party Humor ("Do you smoke after sex?"). But Graham gets lost in the shuffle whenever Myers gets into his interminable gag spinning. She even has the soft physique of the '60s woman unlike a lot of the modern beauties, she doesn't look like she could turn a bullet with the muscles of her midriff. Graham seems to have the best qualities of Ann-Margret and Goldie Hawn as the young women they once were. A parody of the chess game in the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair is an instant classic, and there's a delightful cameo by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach performing "What Do You Get When You Fall in Love?" A car ride through "rural England" (Mulholland Drive) spurs Austin's suave, out-of-nowhere comment "One thing about England-it doesn't look like Southern California." The sight of a London phone booth, perched shamefacedly by the cliffside next to the chaparral and eucalpytuses, was the funniest gag in the whole movie.īut you'd probably have to be as self-obsessed as Myers to overlook the sensational Heather Graham (as Felicity Shagwell), who embodies an entire decade's worth of the fresh, adorable young starlets who invigorated the delirious swinging-'60s movies Myers is honoring. As a hopeless James Bond fan, I noted all the loving references to the series, including steals from the pre-title sequence of Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice. There's enough irresistible, grimy vaudevillian comedy here to recommend the film. Razzing him is his studiously gen-X son, Scott (Seth Green, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, probably my favorite male actor under 25). Aiding Evil are his henchmen: Fat Bastard (again Myers, in a gross joke that won't die) and his diminutive clone, Mini-Me (Verne Troyer). With his nemesis incapacitated, Evil schemes to built the dreaded Alan Parsons Project-a jumbo laser designed by scientist Parsons-on the moon to extort a huge sum of money from the president (Tim Robbins). Evil (also Myers) with the help of a time machine. He heads back to the 1960s to rescue his "mojo," his manly essence, drawn out by Dr. In this opus, Austin, secret agent for M.O.D., is newly widowed. HELPLESS LAUGHTER or helpless repugnance-apparently, it's all the same to Mike Myers, whose second Austin Powers film, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, demonstrates a frantic entertainer's desire both to please and to slay the audience. Metroactive Movies | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged MeĬut a Shag Rug: Mike Myers and Heather Graham dance to a '60s beat in 'The Spy Who Shagged Me.'
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