Movie Review

Austin Powers Goldmember

In this movie, it takes place in 2002. The character Dr. Evil has a hideout behind the famous Hollywood sign. He and his 'minions' will go back to 1975 to retrieve John Van der Smut, aka Goldmember, who has a way of making a tractor beam from cold fusion. Shortly after this, Austin Powers and British Intelligence arrest him. Austin is knighted for his effort and notices his father isn't there, the famous Nigel Powers, played by veteran English actor Michael Caine. So when he finds that his father has been kidnapped, he travels to 1975 for clues and is led to a roller disco club called Studio 69 where he finds Foxxy Cleopatra, played by R&B musician Beyonce. Her character is an FBI agent undercover in the club. This movie is pretty funny too, mainly because it takes place in 1975, which is different than the 1969 Swinging London scene from the 1st 2 movies, and you get to see Michael Caine be funny, hard to picture this one!!

Movie Review

Austin Powers and the Spy Who Shagged Me

Basically the title comes from a play off the title of one of the other James Bond movies, the Spy Who Loved Me, and contains parts of Diamonds Are Forever(laser gun plot and cloning), Moonraker(outer space trips), You Only Live Twice(secret volcano base), the Man with the Golden Gun(Mini Me based on the character of Nick Nack), On Her Majesty's Secret Service(opening sequence when Vanessa dies)

Basically what this movie is about is while he is in cryogenic freezing, someone breaks in and steals Austin Powers'  "mojo", the force that makes women just crawl all over him. Mike Myers plays multiple roles, as Dr. Evil and as another character called Fat Bastard. And in this movie, the character Dr. Evil has a clone of himself that is 1/8 the size of him called Mini Me, played by Verne Troyer. Dr. Evil has designed a time machine that he uses so he can go back to 1969 and steal Powers' mojo.

But meanwhile the real Austin is in 1999 enjoying his honeymoon with Vanessa Kensington. And when Austin Powers has to go back to 1969, he gets his own time travel machine, in the form of a Volkwagen Beetle, that has been totally 60s-ified, with 1960s psychadelic colors. If you see this movie and see the car, I will get a VW Bug and design it like that, lol!! That would be my car!!!! When he arrives back in London 1969, he arrives at a party at his apartment with a CIA agent named Felicity Shagwell(Heather Graham). When Austin is told there is an assassination attempt on him, both the spy and the agent escape and chase after a character called Mustafa(Will Ferrell) and he tells them that Dr. Evil has set up an island volcano hideout. 

Basically the movie ends with Dr. Evil escaping, and Austin and Felicity going thru the time machine back to 1999. This movie is pretty funny. All 3 of these movies basically poke fun at the James Bond movies, but never offensively. I love them, they're hilarious!!!!

Movie Review

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

For those who may not have ever seen this or ever heard of it, this movie is about a British ladies man named Austin Powers, who also is a spy, a sort of James Bond-like figure. It's funny and supposed to be poking fun at the James Bond movies in a funny way. He is a British spy who lives in the Swinging 60s of London.

His enemy in the movie is named Dr. Evil, and the same actor plays both Austin and Dr. Evil, Mike Myers. This movie is basically a way of lightly poking fun at the James Bond movies, and I love these movies, they are really funny!! The movie begins in 1969, when he is trying to stop Dr. Evil and is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 30 years later in 1997. He works with Vanessa Kensington, played by beautiful English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Basically the movie is about him trying to stop Dr. Evil, and trying to charm ladies along the way with his charms. Sorry if that doesn't seem like the best description, sorry. But it's really funny, and will make u laugh!! And in the movie he drives a Corvette convertible with the Union Jack, aka British flag design on it. And I would give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating for funny movie!! And plus, some of the music used is actually from that decade, they don't use any Stones or Beatles music, but they do use music from the Who, the song My Generation.