Review: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Prestonagé
schemes to gain money in a highly evil fashion. This time he plans to
pull a meteor into the earth with a now working tractor beam, hit the
ice caps, and thereby cause a worldwide flood, unless... he gets a
bunch of money.
Austin Powers in Goldmember is a mediocre comedy containing
all reused jokes from it's predecessors.
Yes, Powers does get a few laughs out of you with his sexual
puns and much innuendo. But, wasn't all that in the first two? Yeah.
Myers's river has started to run noticeably dry, but there's still a
little dripping. He's going to have to rethink it all if he wants to
make a fourth. Depending on your age and how much you like fart, pee,
poop, and stupid sex jokes plays a major role in how much you'll like
or dislike this movie. The writing is messy and needed many, many
revisions. The writing is vital to the Powers series because beyond
Myers's charm, acting is not too important in this, and neither are
production values. All that matters is whether they can produce a
solid script without senseless jokes to fill the time.
A pretty bad movie is saved by Mike Myers's performance this
time, but not the next. Most of the jokes that did land couldn't of
without him and his perfect suitability to that role. This humor he
has, it's different than most every type you see, yet it feels so
generic. This is the Mike Myers humor. You know the Ben Stiller humor
(I do like that one), well this one with more stupid yet creative
jokes than you could count. Steady yet not bold enough direction is
what takes this series into a slump. Maybe they'll recover, maybe they
won't. It's up to them.
Rating: 5.2/10