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Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 8/18

Goldmem
6/18: This is thankfully the last of it.

I don't know why I bothered watching the entire trilogy of Austin Powers films. Perhaps it's just for review purpose: digest something unpleasantable, recall the experience, and be done with it once and for all.

Like the last two, I couldn't watch the film for more than thirty minutes a day. I felt relieved when it was over, having endured an endless litany of gross penis, sex, toilet, and body humor.

Seeing the title first, I immediately knew what the reference would be given Mike Myers' fucked-up mind. What a shock it is to see Steven Spielberg, Michael Caine, Danny DeVito, Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, and John Travolta in this unfathomable piece of shit. Okay...maybe not the last three, but I expected more from them.

I mentioned in my review of the previous sequel that it set the little people community back by decades and that there was a history of dwarf-tossing. Well, Mike Myers did it again. I wonder how Verne Troyer, who committed suicide in April 2018, lived with himself after making a living by perpetuating the stereotype of little people as mutant-looking hypersexual objects.

Meanwhile, it's interesting to see Austin Powers making a mountain out of Fred Savage's mole when he should be looking at himself, especially his fugly teeth. Austin Powers claims to be all for the people regardless of their differences, yet in the film, he mocks anyone who doesn't fit the mold and only prefers pretty people. Seeing how painfully white the last two films had been, I won't be surprised to learn Mike Myers was ordered to increase the diversity of the cast, hence the inclusion of the failed actress Beyoncé Knowles who looks utterly stupid in her two-piece outfits.

All in all, Mike Myers is the worst, and I'm glad his career died for good.