Best movie ever!

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999): Dir: Jay Roach / Cast: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Verne Troyer, Rob Lowe, Seth Green: Sequel is more of the same yet with some added vulgar bits. Its slang title is based on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and was controversial in some countries. It has a hilarious opening where Dr. Evil is a guest on The Jerry Springer Show. After an unsuccessful honeymoon Austin's mojo is stolen by Dr. Evil. With a suddenly available time machine Powers ventures back to 1969 to stop him. Director Jay Roach is skilled at comedy but the idea that Powers never needed his mojo makes the plot totally useless. Mike Myers effectively plays three roles. Asides from Powers and Dr. Evil he also plays evil agent Fat Bastard. Heather Graham plays Miss Shagwell whose name sums up her nature. She seems to have better chemistry with Myers than Elizabeth Hurley, whose role was too much of a romantic cliché. Rob Lowe is hilarious as agent #2 despite the fact that the role is somewhat reduced. Verne Troyer steals scenes as Mini-Mi who is a clone of Dr. Evil. He conducts whatever orders given until he is "flushed" into space. Seth Green also returns as Scott Evil whose status as Dr. Evil's son is pushed aside by Mini-Mi. Great colourful production and makeup effects highlight this sequel with a screenplay that was totally shagged. Score: 4 / 10

This sequel is absolutely no more than a tenth as amusing as the original. The lighthearted charm of spoofing the early Bond movies is not nearly as evident here. Instead, it is full of disgusting body 'humor', made up of showing and implying the ugliness of obesity and all matters concerning what goes in or may come out of the anus. Short visuals that might generate a laugh are on screen way too long. Even the 'mini-Me', a cute concept, just becomes a dreary, hyperactive ass joke at one point. All of which makes me wonder, who is the audience for this? The humor is slanted toward maybe 12 yr old boys, who would be way too young to care about the concept of a Bond James spoof in the first place. And imho, it's way too filthy and sexually oriented for them.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is an excellent movie with a well developed plot and an outstanding comedic cast. It is everything a sequel should be, a film that both continues and expands on the previous movie. Here, we have a bigger and better adventure for the title character, putting him up against Dr. Evil once again, and including the addition of some great new characters, including Austin's love interest Felicity, who have a great back and forth with one another, as well as Evil's little clone Mini-Me, who steals every scene he is in. I did think it went out of the way to be overly complicated. The plot was far more convoluted and a lot less straight forward in comparison to the first Austin Powers. It's just that, at times, it felt like it was trying too hard to be bigger than its predecessor rather than being its own movie. The cast is stellar, with each member, old and new, fitting in effortlessly to this absurd, wacky universe. Mike Myers steals the show, of course, playing three characters this time around, with the likes of Heather Graham, Seth Green, Michael York and Verne Troyer shining in their respective roles. Ridiculous fun from beginning to end. Zany hilarity, I would certainly recommend Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me to anyone looking for a good comedy adventure. Austin Powers must put a stop to Dr. Evil's next big plan while also gaining his manhood back. Best Performance: Mike Myers

Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Rob Lowe, Robert Wagner, Mindy Sterling, Seth Green and Verne Troyer star in this 1999 comedy sequel. This installment begins with spy, Austin Powers (Myers) on his honeymoon with Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley) and it turns out that she's a robot assassin working for Dr. Evil (Myers). After she fails to extinguish him, he learns of Dr. Evil's volcano hideout by Basil (York). Dr. Evil decides to travel back in time to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo and plans on destroying Washington, D.C. Austin learns of Dr. Evil's plan and also travels to 1969 where he meets agent, Felicity Shagwell (Graham) who helps him and they begin falling for each other. Wagner is back as Number 2 with Lowe playing his younger self in 1969, Sterling returns as Frau, Green returns as Scott and Troyer plays Dr. Evil's pint size clone, Mini-Me. This is a good sequel and Myers is great as usual. I recommend this.