AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY 1997
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon
2 :-) :-) for the absurd and the ridiculous
Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Robert Wagner. Screenplay: Mike Myers. Producers: Suzanne Todd, Demi Moore, Jennifer Todd, Mike Myers. Director: Jay Roach.
Shag, baby, shag.
In the 1960's Austin Powers (Mike Myers) International man of mystery is as groovy as gravy, baby. Accompanied by Mrs Kensington (Mimi Rogers ex-Cruise babe), one intense Bimbette who drapes leather well and knows a judo chop or two (reminiscent of Ms Emma Peel of ‘The Avengers'). This Shagadellic pair chase the evil villain Dr Evil (Myers again), who has done 6 years of medical school and is a personification of all Bond baddies. Before Powers and Kensington can bag the evil Dr, he escapes into the future with his furry feline in a cryogenic time capsule of a ‘Big Boy'.
Shake, baby, shake.
In the 1990's Dr Evil re-emerges from his ‘Big Boy' and so does ‘Danger is my middle name' Powers, whose personal effects include the handy penis enlarger (an exotic weapon). Mrs Kensington now retired, is succeeded by daughter Miss Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), who like her mother knows a judo chop or two. They now battle Evil's new evils - the pyschedellic Fembotic babes with bullet, booby-trapped breasts (out of Dr Strangelove's books); Miss Alotta Fagina (who gives Pussy Galore a run for her money), Number 2 (Robert ‘business man' Wagner), and Evil's very own IVF test tube son, with whom he shares a ‘love me, hate you' relationship.
Swing, baby, swing.
So swing, shake and shag the years away - from sixties to nineties in this absurd facade of the ridiculous. Myers is our for simple laughs and sight gags. Of note is the ‘fruit-covering-bodily-sexual-organ' scenes which is quite cleverly done. So if you don't mind putting your brain in your back pocket for let's say 87 minutes, you will probably enjoy this brainless excursion into the mysterious world of Austin Powers, and his international group of clowns.
Yeah, baby, yeah.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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