Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery Reviews

Its time to swing, baby.

Mike Myers shines as the secret agent desperately needing dental work in this light-hearted spoof of things shagadelic. Austin, a swinging international spy for British intelligence in the 1960’s, is.cryogenically frozen along with his archenemy, Dr. Evil (also Myers). After 30 years, Powers is thawed, and he's in for a few '90s surprises. Stewardesses are now flight attendants. Carnaby Street is no longer the centre of the world. Dancing has gone way beyond the Frug, the Jerk and the Monkey. Crushed velvet is a fashion 'don't,' and free love costs a fortune.

A somewhat shell-shocked Austin quickly teams up with Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley), the daughter of his former Mrs. Peel-like sidekick, Mrs. Kensington. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil is having problems at home. He has a test-tube slacker son, Scott Evil, who can't relate to Daddy's desire for world domination. Myers is a total delight no matter which part he's tour-de-forcing. Hurley appears game, but doesn't seem to possess a natural flair for comedy. Robert Wagner, Carrie Fisher, Mimi Rogers and Burt Bacharach make cameos.

Groovy, Baby

Good comedy that has three thing's going for it. One, the appearance of Elizabeth Hurley who gives a performance that is both sensual and intelligent. Two, Mike Myers performance as Dr. Evil, which outweighs his performance as Austin Powers in terms of sheer comic delights. Three, its spoofing of James Bond films, which in some bizarre form manages to be more interesting than the some of the films from the series it seems to be parodying. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery(1997) is not a classic comedy, but is fun to due to a couple of memorable scenes. Probably the best performance, Liz Hurley has given in her film career. The moments where the film becomes annoying are during the moments of the sex jokes by Austin Powers and other cast of characters. Also, the film at times becomes too stupid for its own good. Robert Wagner shows a comic side that is full of subtle humour in his role of Dr. Evil's right hand man, Number Two.

Great for a laugh

Ausitn always good for laugh, he's the international man of mystery. a 1960's love idol. A good funny movie.

Makes one laugh

Spoof comedy of 007/secret service type agent. What makes this film funny is the silly humour which Mike Myers plays and does an excellent job.

The funny parts are good and this film has the capacity to be watched a few times until the jokes are worn thin, but after a couple of years, and re-visited, the jokes once again work. The Spy Who Shagged Me is an excellent follow-up, but the last one - Gold Member is dull, as all the originality of the first two are repeated and does not have the same effect.

HILARIOUS!!

By far the best (and funniest) of the 007 spoofs to date, this hilarious, ‘shagadelic’ barrel of laughs delivers 100%, with Myers’ double performance, the purposefully cheesy ‘60s atmosphere and the endless onslaught of gags guaranteeing total satisfaction.

This was the start of one of the best comedy trilogys of all time and this is the greatest of the three. It is the beginning of an era and a new dawn for spy comedy with Dr.Evil being frozen and a groovy spy by the mane of Austin Powers freezing himself to fight Dr.Evil when he comes back and he comes back in 1997 when Austin still thinks times havent changed. The story is about a man trying to find times and after an evil villian.

absoulute classic from Mike Myers

Oh, behave........

This not only is a parody of James Bond, but of Man from U.N.C.L.E., the Saint and a few more whose names I can't remember at the moment. And I have to agree, in many ways, it's far better than the originals. It's hysterical (very non-PC...thank goodness), and it brings some honesty to the genre, I mean, haven't we all secretly wondered why the bad guys always put the hero in a situation, explain their evil plans in depth and then leave the room, giving the hero ample opportunity to escape?? I loved it....

I think this must be the best of the three outings for Austin Powers. It is clearly what it sets out to be - namely a pastiche of the 60s spy film, but there is enough 1990s humour in it to make it funny beyond just taking the 'mickey' out of James Bond Movies. The commentary with the director and Mike Myers is worth listening to as well.

Mike Myers a very underestimated comic genius, see this film and you will know what i mean.

Not nearly as good as it could have been...

Possibly one of the most overrated movies of the 90's, the second film was really funny, the third film was hilarious, but really it's pretty ironic that the film to start of these two brilliant classic comedies is a poorly written comedy which evokes none of the scale of the band franchise, but rather this is just a series of possibly decent scenes for an either decent or hilarious film, what i thought i saw on screen was dissapointing, far too much emphasis on the crude side of Austin for my personal tastes, didn't even watch the whole film, it's that dull, saw it back in the 90's, didn't like it then, saw it again now thinking my tastebuds my have evolved, nope, worse than i used to think it was, shame.