starring: Mike Myers, Michael Caine, Beyoncé Knowles
rated: R
plot: In this third installment, Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) and Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) escape from prison with plans for world domination. The duo teams up with a new villain, Goldmember (also Myers), with a plan to kidnap Austin's father, Nigel Powers (Michael Caine). To defeat Evil, Austin travels to 1975 and teams up with CIA agent Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé Knowles).
official website: http://www.austinpowers.com/ review: Sat in the 7:40pm showing Saturday night in a packed theater. Cute girl on left, Drew on the right - the makings of a good movie
Like MIB II, the movie had its great and not-so-great moments. Mike Meyers turns in an excellent performance as 4 of the characters in the movie (AP, Dr. E, Fat Bas^%#d, and a new guy, the evil Goldmember).
As the first 2, he is in his prime, doing an excellent job. Even as FB, it's pretty good, I really don't find his part very amusing tho. Goldmember has a couple of funny lines, but really didn't work. Most people west of Norway will not get most of the jokes I imagine, as they're almost totally based in the broken-english/strong-dutch accent of the character. Moviegoers don't understand what he just said, how can they think it's funny?
Mini-me gets a bigger part this time around and delivers a good performance. Michael Caine seemed a bit lost in his performance as AP's dad, Nigel Powers. Beyoncé's performance as Foxy Cleopatra is a fresh change from the sex-starved acting done by Austin's last sidekick Heather Graham. All the old main characters (Basel, Scott, #2, Frau) returned as well, rounding out a pretty good movie.
Rated "R", I can't recommend it for anyone under 17. The humor can be pretty crude most of the times. It seemed to focus more on toilet humor this time rather than sexual innuendo.
rating: 
(out of 5)
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