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Austin Powers:
The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 4/03, 7/18

7/18: If I thought Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was gross, the sequel is even more so.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Gagged Me presents an endless series of penis, fart, and body jokes. Nothing has been humorous, and the movie seems to be meant for man-children with the mentality of a five-year-old kid.

Three ugliest characters in the history of motion pictures appear: Austin Powers, Mini-Me, and *drum roll* Fat Bastard. Putting up with Mike Myers' tobacco-stained teeth has been too much for me to bear, but his decision to add the other two into the mix is now going overboard.

How Mini-Me is treated and caricatured sets the little people community back by decades. Because of this film, there are people associating them with Mini-Me and treating them as portable objects by picking up and throwing them around. Consequently, I hope Verne Troyer is proud of himself.

The big concept is time travel à la Back to the Future. I only have one question: why not go back to when Dr. Evil was in the womb and simply abort him? Speaking of 1969, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, and Burt Bacharach were old-looking during the 60's? If Austin Powers has lost his mojo, shouldn't he be tired and thus be in dire need of constant naps?

All in all, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Killed Me is god-awful.

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