Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Well, what can you say? All the promotion and hype for this movie brainwashed me into seeing it. As far as sequels go, this movie is decent. It, however, does not do the first movie justice. There are some wonderful scenes, but those are few and far between. The first movie contained more British humor and throwbacks to James Bond movies. This movie has limited jokes on Bond movies and more jokes on American popular culture. In place of the British style humor, The Spy Who Shagged Me has more American humor, which is to say, it has a lot of toilet humor (which is never funny).

Mike Meyers does an admirable job of bringing back his character Austin Powers. Dr. Evil in this movie is so much better than Dr. Evil in International Man of Mystery. Dr. Evil has a *shudder* soft side. Mike Meyers did a good job on both of his originals, but sadly they added a third character for him to play, Fat Bastard. Fat Bastard was a tragic attempt at_God, what was it an attempt at? `Cause it certainly wasn't humorous. Heather Graham's character was decent. Felicity Shagwell is the female version of Austin Powers, except she's prettier. I loved her costumes and her attitude was, for the most part, cool. She was a much stronger female character than Vanessa from the first movie.

Probably the best thing that they added to the second movie was Mini-me. Most of the people I went to see The Spy Who Shagged Me agree on is the fact that Mini-me made the movie. We all know that Mini-me Vs. Mike Meyers will win Best Fight Sequence at next year's MTV Movie Awards. I mean, come on, a midget beating up on a ugly man in glasses is funny and just the type of thing the mentality of MTV Movie award voters will love. Most of the truly lovable scenes from this movie were with the bad guys_Dr. Evil, Mini-me, Scott Evil and Frow. The model shoot at the beginning with Kristen Johnston and Rebeca Stamos( I believe) was absolutely hilarious. None of the guys in my group got the amusement in the "model shoot". I thought that was brilliant.

The one thing that make me want to run screaming from the movie theater was the blatant product pushing. Especially for Starbucks and Chili's. I'm not a big fan of Starbucks and if I hadn't gone with my friends I might have left out of sheer rage right then, but then I would have missed some good stuff.

I'd recommend seeing or renting the Spy Who Shagged Me if you're truly bored and have nothing better to do. I think that you should really wait until it comes out on Cable. It's really just worth seeing once or stretching it, twice.