Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
director: jay roach
cast: mike myers, elizabeth hurley, michael york, mimi rogers, robert wagner, seth green, fabiana udenio, charles napier
Mike
Myers is great as the yellow-toothed refugee from London's swinging sixties.
The movie is on target as a send up of the "Bond" and "In Like
Flint" films of the same era. It also works as a fish-out-of-water story
as the upbeat, sexually liberated Austin is let loose in the downbeat, uptight
nineties. Myers is even better as Austin's nemesis, Dr. Evil. The interactions
between Dr. Evil and his disaffected teenage son (Seth Green) are classic. When
Dr. Evil has Austin Powers at his mercy, sonny-boy is eager to get a pistol
and do the honors, but in the grand Bond tradition Dr. Evil puts Powers and
cohort Hurley in a tub of sharks. He chides his eager-to-cap-'em son for "just
not getting it". -- Tom Graney
$7.50
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