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My fav Austin Powers joke "RUUUUN! IT'S GODZILLA!" "It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it's not." "STILL WE SHOULD RUN LIKE IT IS GODZILLA!" "Though it isn't."
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And then when he time travels back to the 60's, and asks for 100 billion dollars, they laugh at him again because that amounted hadn't been established yet. The head officer mocks Dr. Evil and says "...oh I want a Gigillion dollars..."
Fun fact: I saw these movies before the Harry Potter movies. When I read the book, the way Voldemort was described was terrifying, like a skeletal demon murderer. When the films came out and he was revealed in The Goblet of Fire, I laughed my socks off because I thought he looked just like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, he even spoke a little like him. Nothing like the books.
funny now everybody mocks voldermot for beeing a lazy villain design like with gorr in love and thunder or snoke in the sequel trilogy. Maaaaybe they wanted to do something like the emperor in star wars but that worked because he was fully hooded and at the time nobody knew if it was a human or an alien. These (with the exception of snoke) are suppoust to be humans and they all look boring to look at. Okey maybe not gorr since christian bale was chewing scenery like in american psycho and his backstory was interesting.
I follow a Russian site similar to Reddit that has quite a few Harry Potter fans, and there was a post showing one of the completed back-of-the-head prosthetics that was supposed to be under Quirrel’s turban. The thing was legitimately terrifying - reptilian eyes, elongated snout, and a maw full of sharp conical teeth. Apparently it was ultimately axed because, holy shit, it was supposed to be a kids movie.
What are you talking about? They sound nothing alike. They don't even look alike unless you have a mental disorder where you can't register if someone has a giant nose or not.
I also think Hollywood underestimates that a lot of us at the millennial age watched these Austin Powers movies as kids even though if felt like we shouldn’t have. Outside of just the spy parody stuff the movies where goofy enough and juvenile enough to make us laugh. We treated it like any of the other cartoons we would watch growing up. Except Austin Powers had that more adult and sexualized edge that the kid shows we watched didn’t which only made us want to watch it even more and was the perfect sleep over comedy. Lol
I actually went to see the first one with my dad when I was 11, and we both laughed our asses off the whole way through. The writing was clever, crude and silly, all at the same time. I sort of felt like I'd made it into the 'adult comedy' club at a young age. Now as an adult, I understand why my dad liked it as much as me. Though we age, there's a part of you that's still a kid, movies like Austin Powers tap into that.
When I was between the ages of 11 and 13, the first two Austin Powers movies were on TV practically every other week, to the point where I almost had them memorized. When you're at that age, these are the perfect comedies - knowingly stupid, unashamedly juvenile, and never slowing down for a second. It was all I wanted 😆
I still remember seeing all the movies before the age of 10 lol I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but I knew they were supposed to be funny. Going back to them as I got older was a great experience.
Mike Myers has said in interviews, that when he was writing the first Austin Powers, he wrote it mainly for himself and in memory of his father, who introduced him to British cinema. And in his words, “I wrote about the wrong things. Britain in the 60’s instead of Woodstock.” Things like that. The way he talked about writing the script, many years later shows, to me anyway, that Austin Powers will always hold a special place in his heart.
My whole family LOVED these. My mom always said that Goldmember was the best one because it "didn't miss a single joke" for the Era. I cannot express to you how many times my brothers screamed "MOLEYMOLEYMOLEYMOLE" I still yell "HOW BOUT NOOO" at my brothers sometimes.
@toijg avnnr The Goodman Saga Prequel Trilogy: Episode I - The Nazi Menace Episode II - Attack of the Inglorious Basterds Original Trilogy: Episode III - A Man of Mystery Episode IV - Dr. Evil Strikes Back Episode V - Revenge of Dr. Evil Sequel Trilogy: Episode VI - The Attorney Awakens Episode VII - The Last Meth Episode VIII - The Rise of Goodman
@@ulises4241 not a parody, he was a marvel version of deathstroke, pretty straight, not goofy. But eventually they turned him into what he is now, but originally he was basically just deathstroke.
"Only sailors use condoms, baby." "Not in the 90s, Austin." "Well they should, those filthy buggars; they go from port to port." Always loved that line.
@@spycheck Well, Austin was part of the "hippie" era where they just had anonymous sex with other people, and only "sailors used condoms." Vanessa's trying to say that times have changed and everyone is more focused on safe sex and using condoms, while Austin takes it as "now not even sailors use condoms." And since sailors travel a lot they're more apt to pick up a strange disease from sex than an average person.
I love that the M. Bison "OF COURSE!" is still getting some mileage after all this time. That one's an all-time classic and helps keep Raul Julia's memory alive.
I wouldn't say people forgot about Goldmember, it still has some hysterical scenes that people seem to come back to a lot. Like Austin beating the shit out of Mini Me, the Mole with the mole on his face, and the Tokyo scenes with the subtitles and Austin peeing behind the statue. It's not really fair to say it's forgotten.
The problem is that he never quite made it outside of comedies (at least from what I’ve seen). When Robin Williams comedic films cooled down he had great dramas to fall back on and Vice versa. But despite being incredibly talented, Mike never seemed as versatile that way. It probably also didn’t help that he had (has?) a reputation of being difficult to work with.
@@ninjanibba4259 No cat in the hat was awful, Shrek 3 was a disappointment and The Love Guru not only happened, but was god awful in every way and, cost New Line a crap load of money
I personally always thought Goldmember was the funniest of the 3. My family is Dutch, and we say stuff like "Shmoke and a pancake" & "I am from Holland, isn't dat weird?" almost on a daily basis.
I'm dutch and I can tell you. No dutch person has ever said those lines ever. Neither do we say "from holland". Holland is a province, the country is called the Netherlands. Only foreigners say "holland".
@@Scorpy666As English is obviously your second language allow me to help. Those are quoted from Goldmember who is a stereotype based "dutch" villain. P.S. People from Holland say they're from Holland because they're from the place with more people than windmills.
@@ravenwing199 As English does not appear to be your native language* Who plays the role of a stereotypical Dutchman, that is also a villain* People that come from Holland, claim to come from Holland, because they're from a place with a higher amount of people compared to the amount of windmills they have.*
I haven’t watched these films in a long time but they still hold a special albeit weird place in my heart that I can never put into words, I think it’s because there’s something so naturally charming yet still insanely chaotic about Myers during this era of his career
I thought the way they got rid of Elisabeth Hurley in the 2nd film was hilarious. "unfortunately, we knew all along that she was Fembot." It made such little sense that it was the funniest thing in the movie to me.
It’s a reference to On Her Majesty's Secret Service and you only live twice where bond marries Tracy bond, who is then murdered by blowfeld, while hunting him he marries kissy susuky who has a kid with him and is then murdered by blowfeld’s sidekick
NC is wrong in that if they would have repeated that joke in Goldmember, it wouldn't have been as funny. It's weird that he's complaining about the sequels repeating jokes, yet considers it a problem that they never bring up the missing Bond girl joke again.
Dr. Evil: " my new plan is to send videos on the 'internet' that critique people's favorite movies and TV shows. I will do it for one million dollars." Number 2: "That's already happened." Dr. Evil: "But, I'll have a necktie, hat, and a cat."
As someone that grew up in the 90s, seeing all the 60s nostalgia on popular media, I think is crazy to think that Austin Powers traveled back in time 30 years to an exotic nostalgic time that was the 60s. And now the 90s were 30 years ago and they are the new 60s on this perspective. I realized this while rewatching Austin Powers some months ago. It surprised me as much as realizing that the 80s are the new 50s when watching the movie 'It'. I'm sure they'll come up with a new Austin Powers sequel when he goes to the 90s, so it can go full circle.
Myers was not in that movie. Dana Carvey was and that movie pretty much destroyed his career too. And that was 2002. Six years before Myers and Love Guru.
@@eddieolshefski6467 ------ Dana.... Carvey...... You mean..... The Master Of Disguise???? Am I not TURTLE-EY enough for the TURTLE club??? Turtle-Turtle!!!
What’s amazing about these films is that they’re parodies of James Bond movies and the Daniel Craig Bond films borrowed one thing from these films. So the Parody referenced the original only to have the original reference the parody.
Austin Powers came out when I was in High School, and I have such a fond memory of it...not because the movie was GOOD, but because it made one particular joke fucking hilarious between me and my friends. We had a Japanese foreign exchange student in our class one year and he integrated into our group. We saw this movie and proceeded to run around the school yelling JUDO CHOP at each other...and he got so friggin' angry. "THERE NO CHOP IN JUDO" He would shout at us constantly...until we took him to see it. Then he got in on the humor. Smash cut to all of us running around Judo Chopping until one of us would stop and yell, "THERE NO CHOP IN JUDO." Good times. I miss that kid.
While I didn't care for Heather Graham over Elizabeth Hurley, I have always enjoyed the 2nd film over the first one. I think it has the biggest laughs and best jokes in the series. The first one was just fresh and had more jokes that landed but I remember having so many more big laughs from the 2nd film.
I'm a 90's kid, and even though I don't watch these movies that often anymore, my friends and I saw them enough growing up that we _still_ quote them at least once a week. "How 'bout nooo!" "Rrriiiggghhhttt..." "Who throws his shoe? Honestly?!" All get frequent airtime in conversations.
I'm one of the fans who loved The Spy Who Shagged Me more than the first film. Yeah, Fat Bastard is annoying and gross but holy shit, it has some of the funniest moments in the entire franchise. Every single Dr Evil scene is hysterical, Mini Me is awesome, and that scene with Robin Swallows had me on the floor.
While I disagree with most of your comment, I will agree that I think TSWSM has perhaps the funniest scene in all the movies. That went scene where Dr. Evil’s minions are seeing the shadows had me rolling in laughter.
OMG! The shadows scene!😆😂 Ah dude…! 😂Awww dude!🥲 Man, Prince was right about 1999! It was a bomb-ass year; I was in the 82nd at the time, and going to see this movie was one of the highlights of that awesome year!
For me the Austin Power's series is like the Immature humor you know your supposed to be over to laugh at but some part of you still laughs at it because it still gets your dumb side. Mike Myer's said that the Austin Powers series was for the memory of his father because his dad enjoyed all sorts of spy movies and it was something they shared. I remember these movies because they were some of the only good memories i have sharing with my sisters.... when they weren't being lil bitches to me. The series doesn't look down on it's audience but says "You know we're stupid, we know we're stupid, so lets just have some fun!" And we did, we had fun with it.
For me, the Austin Powers movies are the shinning example of what the 90s were: a brief moment of optimism, between the dark, urban decay of the 80s that ended with the fall of Communism and the strict and grim realism of the 00s, that started after 911. The movies of that decade were often light-hearted, bright and colorful, in sharp comparison to the movies made before (think TMNT) and the movies made after.
A lot of more serious movies that stood the test of time too, not just lighthearted optimistic comedies. I remember the 90's mostly as a golden age for cinema, where we finally moved beyond the "lone tough guy" action movies of the 80's, and started making movies that had both a deeper message/meaning, while still being accessible enough so you didn't have to be a movie snob to enjoy them. Think Eternal Sunshine, Boys n' The Hood, GATTACA, The Matrix, Malcolm X, Goodfellas, The Truman Show, Edward Scissorhands, The Silence of the Lambs, The Usual Suspects, ... And while more serious stuff came out before then too, somehow the genre was perfected in the 90's. Now, great movies are still being made to this day, but back then you got a couple of great movies a year straight out of Hollywood, starring A-list actors. While nowadays you need to search the independent scene if you want to see something with a certain gravitas, that you could still watch in 10 or 20 years and not feel like you only like it out of nostalgia.
It’s sad that the 1990s are seen as a bright,optimistic period when you had political and governmental developments like the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),the omnibus crime bill that wound up getting large numbers of Black and Brown men incarcerated and the welfare “reform” bill that saw large numbers of women and children thrown off public assistance.The fact that neoliberals and right wingers and neoconservatives (like Newt Gingrich)conspired to undermine whatever possibilities for grassroots democracy,economic security and new political thinking is truly sad and lamentable.
I used to always do Mike Myers impressions in high school with all my friends. Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, Goldmember, we did them all bc we thought the movies were so funny. Thanks for bringing back great memories NC!
"The Spy Who Shagged Me"? New Line marketed the HELL outta this movie! I have fond memories of that time, still got the MacFarlane Felicity and Vanessa up on my shelf. But once they mass produced that crushed blue velvet suit AND Felicity's hot pants suit, my girlfriend at the time and I won three separate halloween contests! Alas, she and I are no more...but I still have that blue suit.
Fun fact: I've met the man Austin Powers was physically inspired by! Peter Asher, of 60s folk rock duo Peter & Gordon. Their first hit was written by Paul McCartney, and when I met Mr. Asher at a bookstore event (literally the week before everything shut down in March 2020), he was telling stories about them using his likeness for Austin Powers.
I remember first watching these films as a kid - my dad left the TV on, one of the movies was playing (2nd one I think) and I was just fixated with the action on-screen, all the naughty jokes going straight over my 4 year old head but I was entertained regardless. My mom, concerned about my innocence possibly being corrupted, told at him to change the channel but he was like "Hang on, my love - he's being still and quiet. Let's leave him." And that's how I became an Austin Powers fan when everyone else was still watching Barney and Teletubbies.
That was great. It's also aged amazingly well thanks to all the rockets billionaires have been making that look exactly like the Austin Powers 2 rocket ship.
I was in high school when these movies were popular. I swear everybody was always quoting Dr. Evil in class, and somehow, someone convinced one of the teachers to play the movie on a free day
Franchise Killer: A rare example where it was this for another franchise - Daniel Craig said on the Nerdist Podcast that this series (which he had nothing but praise for) made it impossible to take the campier James Bond films like Die Another Day seriously anymore, necessitating his reboot of the series.
Daniel Craig saying that is really hilarious after the movie Spectre unironically had its big twist be that Bond and Blofeld are actually brothers... the exact same twist that Austin Powers Goldmember did as a joke.
Fun fact: in 1991 when Wayne's world started filming Mike Myers wanted to film the scene of him driving down the street with his friends while listening to bohemian rhapsody as fast as possible. So they could send it to Freddie mercury for approval. He ended up loving the scene but a couple weeks later he died of aids.
@@cyberhexxcin Aw, that's actually really heartwarming. I did always wonder why Mike Myers was cast in it when I found out it was him, bc it seemed so out of left field at the time
😂 The Dr. Evil and Scott scenes are my favorite moments. I wanted more of them. In Goldmember, you gotta admit the actors they got to play young Austin, Dr. Evil, Number 2, and Basil were brilliant casted.
Oddly enough I would LOVE to see a new Austin Powers movie. Hey Mike Myers has slowly came back, which is SO good to see him in a movie, would love to have a good comedy. If they do, hopefully the comedy is changed up a little bit, but still has some of it's old comedy notes too. A great a idea of doing it, bring back Elizabeth Hurley as her character, and have no reason to bring her back, like nothing ever happened, or at least question it but brushing it off. Basically parody how movie series like to retcon stuff.
I used to always get confused when they talk about Michael Myers I didn't realize there was an actual actor named that until later in life I always thought everybody was talking about the horror movie character 😂😱😂
Yeah, I am surprised they never did a crossover with him and the movie character that happens to share his name. It would be awesome if you went to see the horror movie but instead had Mike Myers going around killing everyone while wearing a mask
I was going to go to a Halloween party as Michael Myers but with a Mike Myers mask on instead. Sadly, I wasn't the only one with that idea and the costume shop was sold out.
Reminds me of that scene in Baby Driver where the thugs are all wearing Mike Myers masks, but the other guy WAS talking about the horror movie character!
Fun fact: Meyers got the idea for Austin Powers through his band Ming Tea. Each member had a 60s alter ego. It's the band playing in Gold member and Fat Bastard was based on a Scottish stereotype that the Scots ate babies.
I had such a weird relationship with the latter two films. My dad was unable to contain himself from showing it to me when I was 8. When Goldmember came out, I jokingly asked my grandmother for it for Christmas, who was a conservative Christian that I lived with who didn't know what these films were even about, never thinking she'd actually buy it. She did... and then figured out what they were about & for the rest of her life very narrowly contained herself from flying into a rage at the mention of the charaters' name ever again. And my schizophrenic mother actively sought out & got me the other two when I didn't even know the first one existed. I hae them on DVD in my collection today, but God knows the last time I actually bothered to sit down & watch the damned things. Lol
I would say it was three really good comedies that are still very quotable to this day (I mean the 'How about no' gif has gotta be in a top 100 list for most used gifs surely). It was just... a rare example of a studio knowing exactly when to stop. It was three movies and that was exactly the right number. I doubt a fourth movie would have done well.
ruclips.net/video/ZrQbYqjaCuc/видео.html i like the Olsen gang crime films from 70s/80s , theyre campy fun.....the bad guys led by Egon Olsen are clever while the police led by Hermansen are more bufoons. Shame NC havent seen them , theyre underrated , like Police Academys its very formula type films and they always got bad reviews yet very popular with audiences
To be honest I think it was still one movie to far the second was the best one though the third was not bad it was just clear that they were running out of jokes
“Beautiful Stranger” was such a big song in the summer of 99 that whenever there’s the smell of chlorine on a hot summer day that and the rest of the soundtrack gets lodged in my head.
The Austin Powers films have always held a special place in my heart and honestly, "The Spy Who Shagged Me" was legit the very first movie I ever watched in my life. It's strangely what got me into comedy movies as well as other things. Granted it's not exactly a movie a kid should start out with, but hey it was funny and enjoyable despite it's adult humor and it makes it all the more better that I can still enjoy the films and it's humor as an adult many years later. Wherever Mike Myers is these days, I hope he knows how much a comedic masterpiece these films he starred in were during his prime.
He might be a genius but not the best entertainer. To me, the Austin Powers movies were retarded. I’ll watch the first one, but the sequels were over the top stupid. Especially the 3rd one.
@@titusmccarthy What do you call the skin box? Because I didn't find that part of Goldmember funny when I was a kid. I found the running gags funny. Now I watch and laugh at stuff like "hurry! Save me from myself!" or Kevin Spacey as Dr Evil. Might not be genius but making me laugh for almost 30 years is close
Wow. Now that you mentioned it, the “Despicable Me” films are a lot like the “Austin Powers” films - only toned down for a more family audience. It’s no wonder why I found them somewhat entertaining despite all the backlash against the hype.
"John Smith won't be coming..." remains one of my favourite movie scenes to this day. Even the thought of Rob Lowe's deadpan delivery cracks me up every time XD
19:17 Goldmember is the most talked about Austin Powers, at least from my generation. I’m more of a fan of the second one because mini me. But when you ask most people they usually bring up Goldmember & not the first, they don’t talk about the second one because they didn’t even realize it existed.
Even though it's a parody it's still got more character development than most actual Bond movies which i think is one of the reasons people liked it,. Austin is still his own character.
@@nsasupporter7557 Probably the crappier Roger Moore ones: A View to a Kill, Octopussy, The Man with the Golden Gun. Regardless, I love James Bond movies. Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Skyfall! Let's go! 🤘
@@zacharycollins9485 Roger Moore was a good Bond but he played him Too Long 😳 He was too old to be Bond anymore when he did Octopussy and A View to a Kill. He should’ve stopped after For Your Eyes Only.
@@nsasupporter7557 Well I like bond but his charm is he never changes he's put into different places. But Austin as a character needs to adopt to a new generation in the first movie, learn to live with out his mojo in the second and fix his relationship with his dad in the third. Outside on her majesty's secret service and licence to kill Bond never develops in most movies in some he's even more shallow than Austin.
I still quote Goldmember till this day. So many great parts in that film. Definitely the best one of the Trilogy, especially if you can find the DVD with the InfiniFilm version.
@@OGR-4394 Interactive version of the movie with all kinds of extras enabled during viewing of the movie. Kinda wish New Line releases still did the format. Unfortunately it didn’t last more than a couple years I believe. Luckily the DVD cases are marked with a special label to tell which New Line movies have it as an option.
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something I’m sure Mustafa should think about is “With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.”
Good overview. The only one of the series I really like is the first one-in part because the jokes are the series’s best (and most quotable) but also, probably more significantly, the main characters are actual characters rather than one-note jokes. As Doug said, how Myers et al. get rid of Elizabeth Hurley’s character in the second one is insulting, especially after all the work they did to establish characterizations. Note also that even Austin himself seems like a real person in the first one-a silly real person, but he can have feelings and get hurt. Movies with characters are always funnier to me than movies with walking jokes.
Michael Caine maybe didn't do much, but he got some awesome lines. My favorite from all of Austin Powers is of course: "There are only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch."
Austin Powers trilogy is like comfort food. Certain parts of it might be dated but the fact that it’s making fun of other time periods Makes it acceptable. It still holds up and while a lot of it can be considered an even over the three movies most of the jokes do land.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? I will say this, mike has his serious break. All he has learned and all he's done in snl and holly wood. Watch his Netflix show, and tell me you cant see his ingenuous creativity at work without interference. That one part in his show is not only austin powers, but beyond bby! Censorships can fuck itself at that point. But yes these films are still so relevant. i love my BD collection.
The first two Austin Powers movies were amazing, it’s what the satire and spoof movies used to be! Even my high school teacher was Austin Powers as Halloween!
@Fletch you can still like that movie, lot of people don’t like, I just don’t like Goldmember, it was a disappointment for me, and it’s what killed the franchise.
@Fletch enough, it’s still different from the first two. The third movie was more about blaxploitation in contrast to the first two movies that were campy spy films.
Once they mass produced Austin's blue crushed velvet suit and Felicity's hot pants suit, my girlfriend at the time and I won 3 different Halloween costume contests! I miss her like crazy...but I still have that blue suit full of memories.
Mike Myers was really great in his earlier roles. Imagine the hours spent on set (make-up, on set) for those movies. Incredible. I always loved the first movies. Guilty pleasure.
Doug brought up a good point. Elizabeth Hurley actually brought charisma to the movie unlike Heather Graham did in the sequel. Which had alot to do why the first one was better
That may be true to some, but Felicity was Austin's CIA counterpart..right down to the casual shagging to get info. And yes, the MacFarlane Felicity and Vanessa figures still adorn my shelves.
True, but I also think the particular characters was also a reason: Hurley was playing a serious 90s spy having to get Austin to realize that times have changed; her serious role naturally stands out in contrast to the silliness. Graham's character was a 60s fangirl of Austin to the point of emulating him by becoming a spy, so, rather than stand out from the silliness, she's part of the silliness. That would be fine if she had some other aspect of her character to help her stand out, like Mini-Me and Fat Bastard, but she doesn't; her character can largely be summed up as "elevated fangirl" and "American woman".
I remember not being allowed to see the Austin Powers movies when they came out, and older family members were talking about how awesome they were but I couldn't see them, which was frustrating. Later, when I grew up and could watch whichever movies I wanted to, I saw them and thought they were okay but didn't really get them.
I remember when this series aired often on movie channels in the 00s era. I was a kid back then, and watching it as a teen made it better. Spy Who Shagged Me rarely airs compared to the first and Goldmember for some reason, though. Heck, Goldmember aired the most often.
I've always felt a kinship with characters out of phase with time. Mostly because I myself have always felt out of step with world around me. So characters like Austin Powers and Philip J. Fry (from Futurama) which are not only fish out water but fish out of time are more relatable to me than most. Knowing I'm not the only one brings some small comfort in an otherwise miserable existence.
Austin Powers 2 was HUGE. The hype leading up to the release was massive. I remember being kinda disappointed by it but it had some good moments. And wow, I forgot how bad Graham was…she makes Hurley look like Meryl Streep.
Honestly loved these films as a child, they may not have aged brilliantly but there is a genuine charm towards them, so glad your finally covering them critic!
Some aspects of them have aged brilliantly. For instance, the twist in film 3 that Austin and Dr. Evil are actually brothers now retroactively feels like it's mocking the Bond movie Spectre, which unironically did that exact same twist with Bond and Blofeld.
Austin Powers 2 was made for a packed theater. I remember being in that theater with my friend in the Summer of 99 and when the Dr Evil Just The Two Of Us"song wrapped up with the up until that point mute Mini-Me singing "You and I" in a deep voice, the place just exploded and didnt die down for minutes afterwards.
When you mentioned Dr Evil taking over the world I turned around in my chair and said "Of course!" expecting Raul Julia to do the same. So, yeah, I think some of us do remember it.
This is my favorite guilty pleasure series. The humor is mostly juvenile and often makes me feel dumb after watching. Yet I cannot deny there is a certain charm to it. My favorite parts are the parodies of spy and other beloved Hollywood films (Silence of the Lambs for example) and I love how the series manages to do this while also maintaining its own (albeit paper-thin) plot. I would say the Austin Power series are among the best spoof movies of all time - not that this sets the bar very high but still.
0:57 *There was a time when Austin Powers kind of ruled the world* (Instantly thinks of the Cat in the Hat review where basically the exact same thing was said)
Uuh Why?? Don't get me wrong I like that whole Austin Pussy joke at the beginning of the third movie but if we were to get a 4th movie it would probably be Tom Cruise taking Mike Myers place as Austin throughout the entire movie and Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil and Danny Devito as Mini Me and it would suck. An Austin Powers movie will never be the same without Myers in the roles of Austin and Dr. Evil.
I remember sitting in the cinema as a kid waiting for The Phantom Menace to start. When the trailer for Austin Powers came on before I thought Star Wars had started.
I always think it's funny that Goldmember is considered the forgettable one, because that's the one I grew up watching, and the one I remember the most vividly. I suppose the tradition of these movies doing well on video continued all the way through the series.
Oddly, I think I liked the 3rd one the most. From the opener (Kevin Spacey aside), to capturing Dr. Evil in the 1st act, to bringing in Michael Caine to sorta reprise his role as Harry Palmer, to some of the stronger jokes (like the Austin/Mini Me baby legs routine). And I don't care what Critic says, the musical number featuring the Jay-Z cover of Hard Knock Life is pretty funny, especially since it's what all these hardened criminals needed to hear to help him escape.
I first watched Austin Powers when I was 8 & have alot of good memories joking about it with my friends. I didn't understand the groovy sexual humor in it but I treated the rest of the humor like it was from one of my cartoons
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My fav Austin Powers joke
"RUUUUN! IT'S GODZILLA!"
"It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it's not."
"STILL WE SHOULD RUN LIKE IT IS GODZILLA!"
"Though it isn't."
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And then right afterward, Pikachu and Charmander are running around in front of it, adding yet another layer.
I’m glad you wrote that! I NEVER could understand what they were saying! Lol
Dr Evil asking for 1 million dollars and everybody laughing at him was one of the best jokes.
😄😃😂🤣 I am still laughing 😃🤣😂😂
Holding the world in the palm of his hands and dr evil only asked for one million dollars is the equivalent of just asking for pocket change lol.
Time Marches on. 100 billion dollars isn't even a lot on the global scale anymore.
And then when he time travels back to the 60's, and asks for 100 billion dollars, they laugh at him again because that amounted hadn't been established yet. The head officer mocks Dr. Evil and says "...oh I want a Gigillion dollars..."
Inflation is real guys and this joke hits harder today than it did when the movie came out
Fun fact: I saw these movies before the Harry Potter movies. When I read the book, the way Voldemort was described was terrifying, like a skeletal demon murderer. When the films came out and he was revealed in The Goblet of Fire, I laughed my socks off because I thought he looked just like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, he even spoke a little like him. Nothing like the books.
funny now everybody mocks voldermot for beeing a lazy villain design like with gorr in love and thunder or snoke in the sequel trilogy. Maaaaybe they wanted to do something like the emperor in star wars but that worked because he was fully hooded and at the time nobody knew if it was a human or an alien. These (with the exception of snoke) are suppoust to be humans and they all look boring to look at. Okey maybe not gorr since christian bale was chewing scenery like in american psycho and his backstory was interesting.
I follow a Russian site similar to Reddit that has quite a few Harry Potter fans, and there was a post showing one of the completed back-of-the-head prosthetics that was supposed to be under Quirrel’s turban. The thing was legitimately terrifying - reptilian eyes, elongated snout, and a maw full of sharp conical teeth. Apparently it was ultimately axed because, holy shit, it was supposed to be a kids movie.
He he he
I have to assume that’s also why Blofeld in the Daniel Craig Bond films looked nothing like the original. Austin Power owns that visual now.
What are you talking about? They sound nothing alike. They don't even look alike unless you have a mental disorder where you can't register if someone has a giant nose or not.
I also think Hollywood underestimates that a lot of us at the millennial age watched these Austin Powers movies as kids even though if felt like we shouldn’t have.
Outside of just the spy parody stuff the movies where goofy enough and juvenile enough to make us laugh. We treated it like any of the other cartoons we would watch growing up.
Except Austin Powers had that more adult and sexualized edge that the kid shows we watched didn’t which only made us want to watch it even more and was the perfect sleep over comedy. Lol
I actually went to see the first one with my dad when I was 11, and we both laughed our asses off the whole way through. The writing was clever, crude and silly, all at the same time. I sort of felt like I'd made it into the 'adult comedy' club at a young age. Now as an adult, I understand why my dad liked it as much as me. Though we age, there's a part of you that's still a kid, movies like Austin Powers tap into that.
Back then I was the one who rented it regularly. I think it was in VHS.
Yes!! It was the perfect sleepover comedy
When I was between the ages of 11 and 13, the first two Austin Powers movies were on TV practically every other week, to the point where I almost had them memorized. When you're at that age, these are the perfect comedies - knowingly stupid, unashamedly juvenile, and never slowing down for a second. It was all I wanted 😆
I still remember seeing all the movies before the age of 10 lol I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but I knew they were supposed to be funny. Going back to them as I got older was a great experience.
Mike Myers has said in interviews, that when he was writing the first Austin Powers, he wrote it mainly for himself and in memory of his father, who introduced him to British cinema.
And in his words, “I wrote about the wrong things. Britain in the 60’s instead of Woodstock.” Things like that.
The way he talked about writing the script, many years later shows, to me anyway, that Austin Powers will always hold a special place in his heart.
My whole family LOVED these. My mom always said that Goldmember was the best one because it "didn't miss a single joke" for the Era. I cannot express to you how many times my brothers screamed "MOLEYMOLEYMOLEYMOLE" I still yell "HOW BOUT NOOO" at my brothers sometimes.
@toijg avnnr
The Goodman Saga
Prequel Trilogy:
Episode I - The Nazi Menace
Episode II - Attack of the Inglorious Basterds
Original Trilogy:
Episode III - A Man of Mystery
Episode IV - Dr. Evil Strikes Back
Episode V - Revenge of Dr. Evil
Sequel Trilogy:
Episode VI - The Attorney Awakens
Episode VII - The Last Meth
Episode VIII - The Rise of Goodman
I thought the character goldmember was unfunny but your mom was right they didn't miss a joke.
@@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher Better Call Saul!
Very nice! I've used "How Bout Nooo!" on my little brother for the past 20 years.
Simple taste's eh?
Dr Evil is a fascinating example of a parody character completely overshadowing the original character.
Deadpool is also an example of that
he is a parody of Deathstroke
And he gained 1 million dollars ;)
@@ulises4241 not a parody, he was a marvel version of deathstroke, pretty straight, not goofy. But eventually they turned him into what he is now, but originally he was basically just deathstroke.
I only liked and mostly watched Goldmember as a kid
Same with the characters in Alan Moore’s Watchmen
"Only sailors use condoms, baby."
"Not in the 90s, Austin."
"Well they should, those filthy buggars; they go from port to port."
Always loved that line.
I thought he said Gundhams lol
I don't get it
@@spycheck Well, Austin was part of the "hippie" era where they just had anonymous sex with other people, and only "sailors used condoms."
Vanessa's trying to say that times have changed and everyone is more focused on safe sex and using condoms, while Austin takes it as "now not even sailors use condoms." And since sailors travel a lot they're more apt to pick up a strange disease from sex than an average person.
@@kyuubinaruto17 I thought it was a stab at sailors being gay (with the AIDS scares in the 60s)
@@jazzabighits4473 well isn't that WHY they should use condoms and Austin should be angry at the thought of him not wearing them?
I love that the M. Bison "OF COURSE!" is still getting some mileage after all this time. That one's an all-time classic and helps keep Raul Julia's memory alive.
Not enough Gomez Addams memes out there... (:c
I still love his tuesday speech
OLD SKOOL TGWTG CREW REPRESENT, MISS THE SPOONYONE DAYS
@@clawofthefallen *Gomez.
@@TheIllustriouBlueJay fixed
I wouldn't say people forgot about Goldmember, it still has some hysterical scenes that people seem to come back to a lot. Like Austin beating the shit out of Mini Me, the Mole with the mole on his face, and the Tokyo scenes with the subtitles and Austin peeing behind the statue. It's not really fair to say it's forgotten.
I actually remember that one the most 🤣
I still quote the shmoke and a pancake scene and the Godzilla scene today. 😂
I didn’t remember any of those things until you mentioned them.
I remember the Tom cruise parody
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 Very Shagadelic Baby!
It’s still a shame people don’t talk about Mike Myers as much as they should cause man when he was on a roll he was unbelievable
Yeah cuz Cat in the Hat is such a good time, and people have the nerve to look down at Shrek 3...
The problem is that he never quite made it outside of comedies (at least from what I’ve seen). When Robin Williams comedic films cooled down he had great dramas to fall back on and Vice versa. But despite being incredibly talented, Mike never seemed as versatile that way. It probably also didn’t help that he had (has?) a reputation of being difficult to work with.
@@andrewhudson7108 Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are the only comedians (pretty much) that can do drama.
@@ninjanibba4259 No cat in the hat was awful, Shrek 3 was a disappointment and The Love Guru not only happened, but was god awful in every way and, cost New Line a crap load of money
@@andrewhudson7108 mike myers had the talent but he was difficult to work with and wanted to be more of a family man
I personally always thought Goldmember was the funniest of the 3. My family is Dutch, and we say stuff like "Shmoke and a pancake" & "I am from Holland, isn't dat weird?" almost on a daily basis.
I'm dutch and I can tell you not a single dutch person has said such a thing, ever.
I'm dutch and I can tell you.
No dutch person has ever said those lines ever.
Neither do we say "from holland".
Holland is a province, the country is called the Netherlands.
Only foreigners say "holland".
@@Scorpy666As English is obviously your second language allow me to help. Those are quoted from Goldmember who is a stereotype based "dutch" villain.
P.S. People from Holland say they're from Holland because they're from the place with more people than windmills.
@@ravenwing199 As English does not appear to be your native language*
Who plays the role of a stereotypical Dutchman, that is also a villain*
People that come from Holland, claim to come from Holland, because they're from a place with a higher amount of people compared to the amount of windmills they have.*
I haven’t watched these films in a long time but they still hold a special albeit weird place in my heart that I can never put into words, I think it’s because there’s something so naturally charming yet still insanely chaotic about Myers during this era of his career
Same here
The first one was the only decent one. Those sequels were retarded, especially the 3rd one
Same, International Man of Mystery and the spy who shagged me were great, Goldfinger was good, but they all are an awesome nostalgia hit.
A while back I watched the Austin Powers trilogy for the first time in years and I still have a lot of nostalgia for watching these films growing up.
they're still worth a watch, unlike a lot of comedies as they age, these actually hold up incredibly well.
I thought the way they got rid of Elisabeth Hurley in the 2nd film was hilarious. "unfortunately, we knew all along that she was Fembot." It made such little sense that it was the funniest thing in the movie to me.
It’s a reference to On Her Majesty's Secret Service and you only live twice where bond marries Tracy bond, who is then murdered by blowfeld, while hunting him he marries kissy susuky who has a kid with him and is then murdered by blowfeld’s sidekick
NC is wrong in that if they would have repeated that joke in Goldmember, it wouldn't have been as funny. It's weird that he's complaining about the sequels repeating jokes, yet considers it a problem that they never bring up the missing Bond girl joke again.
Dr. Evil: " my new plan is to send videos on the 'internet' that critique people's favorite movies and TV shows. I will do it for one million dollars."
Number 2: "That's already happened."
Dr. Evil: "But, I'll have a necktie, hat, and a cat."
Scott: *sneezes* "Rip off!"
Dr. Evil: "... bless you."
Mr. Chaplinworth: "I'm merchandisable!"
@@balrighty3523 Buster: "I'm Buster! Yay!"
I’m the boss need the info…
Oh yeah!
As someone that grew up in the 90s, seeing all the 60s nostalgia on popular media, I think is crazy to think that Austin Powers traveled back in time 30 years to an exotic nostalgic time that was the 60s. And now the 90s were 30 years ago and they are the new 60s on this perspective. I realized this while rewatching Austin Powers some months ago. It surprised me as much as realizing that the 80s are the new 50s when watching the movie 'It'. I'm sure they'll come up with a new Austin Powers sequel when he goes to the 90s, so it can go full circle.
Oh god you're right
I think this just shows if you leave Mike Myers alone and don’t aggravate him into changing his vision you will get comedy freaking gold
The Pentaverate and the Love Guru would like a word with you
so The Love Guru wasnt his vision?
Myers was not in that movie. Dana Carvey was and that movie pretty much destroyed his career too. And that was 2002. Six years before Myers and Love Guru.
@@eddieolshefski6467 oh wow. I swear I thought it was his movie.
@@eddieolshefski6467 ------ Dana.... Carvey...... You mean..... The Master Of Disguise???? Am I not TURTLE-EY enough for the TURTLE club??? Turtle-Turtle!!!
What’s amazing about these films is that they’re parodies of James Bond movies and the Daniel Craig Bond films borrowed one thing from these films. So the Parody referenced the original only to have the original reference the parody.
Austin Powers came out when I was in High School, and I have such a fond memory of it...not because the movie was GOOD, but because it made one particular joke fucking hilarious between me and my friends. We had a Japanese foreign exchange student in our class one year and he integrated into our group. We saw this movie and proceeded to run around the school yelling JUDO CHOP at each other...and he got so friggin' angry.
"THERE NO CHOP IN JUDO" He would shout at us constantly...until we took him to see it. Then he got in on the humor. Smash cut to all of us running around Judo Chopping until one of us would stop and yell, "THERE NO CHOP IN JUDO."
Good times. I miss that kid.
damn thats wholesome
That’s a wonderful memory.
While I didn't care for Heather Graham over Elizabeth Hurley, I have always enjoyed the 2nd film over the first one. I think it has the biggest laughs and best jokes in the series. The first one was just fresh and had more jokes that landed but I remember having so many more big laughs from the 2nd film.
I was patiently waiting for Nostalgia Critic to review an Austin Powers movie. The saying is true: good things come to those who wait.
Hope you enjoy the reviews!
@@ChannelAwesome I always do
@@ChannelAwesome Can I join you in future reviews?
@@ChannelAwesome yes I did, could you please review “Titanic” (1997)? It’s very overdue for a “Nostalgia Critic” review!
I'm a 90's kid, and even though I don't watch these movies that often anymore, my friends and I saw them enough growing up that we _still_ quote them at least once a week.
"How 'bout nooo!"
"Rrriiiggghhhttt..."
"Who throws his shoe? Honestly?!"
All get frequent airtime in conversations.
I still think this is one of the most quotable comedy film franchises out their!
"awe yeah this one's( Awestin Powers franchise) a keeper."
shark with laser beams
@@freydawg56 Hes not going to eat that, theres no wa-aaanndd he did.
there
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I'm one of the fans who loved The Spy Who Shagged Me more than the first film. Yeah, Fat Bastard is annoying and gross but holy shit, it has some of the funniest moments in the entire franchise. Every single Dr Evil scene is hysterical, Mini Me is awesome, and that scene with Robin Swallows had me on the floor.
While I disagree with most of your comment, I will agree that I think TSWSM has perhaps the funniest scene in all the movies. That went scene where Dr. Evil’s minions are seeing the shadows had me rolling in laughter.
Same here! Also the beginning cuts straight to the chase. AND it has the best dick running joke in movie history.
OMG! The shadows scene!😆😂
Ah dude…! 😂Awww dude!🥲 Man, Prince was right about 1999! It was a bomb-ass year; I was in the 82nd at the time, and going to see this movie was one of the highlights of that awesome year!
For me the Austin Power's series is like the Immature humor you know your supposed to be over to laugh at but some part of you still laughs at it because it still gets your dumb side. Mike Myer's said that the Austin Powers series was for the memory of his father because his dad enjoyed all sorts of spy movies and it was something they shared. I remember these movies because they were some of the only good memories i have sharing with my sisters.... when they weren't being lil bitches to me. The series doesn't look down on it's audience but says "You know we're stupid, we know we're stupid, so lets just have some fun!" And we did, we had fun with it.
My grandparents laughed at the boobies gun scene when I was watching it once. Sure it's dumb, but they laughed at the absurdity. It's just fun.
Lil bitches made me crack up idk why 😂
For me, the Austin Powers movies are the shinning example of what the 90s were: a brief moment of optimism, between the dark, urban decay of the 80s that ended with the fall of Communism and the strict and grim realism of the 00s, that started after 911.
The movies of that decade were often light-hearted, bright and colorful, in sharp comparison to the movies made before (think TMNT) and the movies made after.
Out of all movies you say TMNT 1990 lmao
A lot of more serious movies that stood the test of time too, not just lighthearted optimistic comedies. I remember the 90's mostly as a golden age for cinema, where we finally moved beyond the "lone tough guy" action movies of the 80's, and started making movies that had both a deeper message/meaning, while still being accessible enough so you didn't have to be a movie snob to enjoy them. Think Eternal Sunshine, Boys n' The Hood, GATTACA, The Matrix, Malcolm X, Goodfellas, The Truman Show, Edward Scissorhands, The Silence of the Lambs, The Usual Suspects, ...
And while more serious stuff came out before then too, somehow the genre was perfected in the 90's. Now, great movies are still being made to this day, but back then you got a couple of great movies a year straight out of Hollywood, starring A-list actors. While nowadays you need to search the independent scene if you want to see something with a certain gravitas, that you could still watch in 10 or 20 years and not feel like you only like it out of nostalgia.
It’s sad that the 1990s are seen as a bright,optimistic period when you had political and governmental developments like the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),the omnibus crime bill that wound up getting large numbers of Black and Brown men incarcerated and the welfare “reform” bill that saw large numbers of women and children thrown off public assistance.The fact that neoliberals and right wingers and neoconservatives (like Newt Gingrich)conspired to undermine whatever possibilities for grassroots democracy,economic security and new political thinking is truly sad and lamentable.
@@BarryHart-xo1oyit’s sad we saw the 90s as optimistic… proceeds to name all the bad things in the 90s super Debbie downer moment dude
I used to always do Mike Myers impressions in high school with all my friends. Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, Goldmember, we did them all bc we thought the movies were so funny. Thanks for bringing back great memories NC!
The first one was the only decent one, the Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember were retarded. Especially Goldmember
Same.
"The Spy Who Shagged Me"? New Line marketed the HELL outta this movie!
I have fond memories of that time, still got the MacFarlane Felicity and Vanessa up on my shelf. But once they mass produced that crushed blue velvet suit AND Felicity's hot pants suit, my girlfriend at the time and I won three separate halloween contests! Alas, she and I are no more...but I still have that blue suit.
The laugh is pretty iconic : D
Fun fact: I've met the man Austin Powers was physically inspired by! Peter Asher, of 60s folk rock duo Peter & Gordon. Their first hit was written by Paul McCartney, and when I met Mr. Asher at a bookstore event (literally the week before everything shut down in March 2020), he was telling stories about them using his likeness for Austin Powers.
I remember first watching these films as a kid - my dad left the TV on, one of the movies was playing (2nd one I think) and I was just fixated with the action on-screen, all the naughty jokes going straight over my 4 year old head but I was entertained regardless. My mom, concerned about my innocence possibly being corrupted, told at him to change the channel but he was like "Hang on, my love - he's being still and quiet. Let's leave him."
And that's how I became an Austin Powers fan when everyone else was still watching Barney and Teletubbies.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was doing all three
I love your story
The best Austin Powers Joke was
The rocket ship jokes from AP2
That was great. It's also aged amazingly well thanks to all the rockets billionaires have been making that look exactly like the Austin Powers 2 rocket ship.
Oh the one that looks like a-
Critic: punchline :D
Ever since I heard Dr. Evil say “right” I’ve said exactly how he said it. I can no longer say it like how I did before.
I'm dying 🤣
Or “One MILLION dollars!”
@@claymccoy 😂🤣
Dont forget when you need to reject a proposal with "how bout NO?"
@@DrTimeSCPPsych yeah 😂
I was in high school when these movies were popular. I swear everybody was always quoting Dr. Evil in class, and somehow, someone convinced one of the teachers to play the movie on a free day
Franchise Killer: A rare example where it was this for another franchise - Daniel Craig said on the Nerdist Podcast that this series (which he had nothing but praise for) made it impossible to take the campier James Bond films like Die Another Day seriously anymore, necessitating his reboot of the series.
It was hard to take them seriously before Austin powers lol
Doesn’t help that there was a Bond film released every year there was a Powers film released making the comparison stronger
Daniel Craig saying that is really hilarious after the movie Spectre unironically had its big twist be that Bond and Blofeld are actually brothers... the exact same twist that Austin Powers Goldmember did as a joke.
I actually laughed at Nathan Lane's cameo in Goldmember. His lip syncing was hilarious
Fun fact: in 1991 when Wayne's world started filming Mike Myers wanted to film the scene of him driving down the street with his friends while listening to bohemian rhapsody as fast as possible. So they could send it to Freddie mercury for approval. He ended up loving the scene but a couple weeks later he died of aids.
Waynes World also helped bring Bohemian Rhapsody back to the charts.
@@SensingClowns and is the reason why he's in the biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody
(Even if the role was semi based in reality, but still fictional)
@@cyberhexxcin Aw, that's actually really heartwarming. I did always wonder why Mike Myers was cast in it when I found out it was him, bc it seemed so out of left field at the time
Even to this day when my wife and I listen to Bohemian Rhapsody we headbang at the crescendo. Great song and great movie.
In 1991, not 1990.
😂 The Dr. Evil and Scott scenes are my favorite moments. I wanted more of them.
In Goldmember, you gotta admit the actors they got to play young Austin, Dr. Evil, Number 2, and Basil were brilliant casted.
Doctor Evil running into the time machine falling down still makes me laugh
Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you adue lmao
Oddly enough I would LOVE to see a new Austin Powers movie. Hey Mike Myers has slowly came back, which is SO good to see him in a movie, would love to have a good comedy. If they do, hopefully the comedy is changed up a little bit, but still has some of it's old comedy notes too.
A great a idea of doing it, bring back Elizabeth Hurley as her character, and have no reason to bring her back, like nothing ever happened, or at least question it but brushing it off. Basically parody how movie series like to retcon stuff.
I used to always get confused when they talk about Michael Myers I didn't realize there was an actual actor named that until later in life I always thought everybody was talking about the horror movie character 😂😱😂
I can relate
Yeah, I am surprised they never did a crossover with him and the movie character that happens to share his name. It would be awesome if you went to see the horror movie but instead had Mike Myers going around killing everyone while wearing a mask
I was going to go to a Halloween party as Michael Myers but with a Mike Myers mask on instead.
Sadly, I wasn't the only one with that idea and the costume shop was sold out.
Reminds me of that scene in Baby Driver where the thugs are all wearing Mike Myers masks, but the other guy WAS talking about the horror movie character!
@@videohistory722 lol that’s amazing! 🤣
I loved Austin Powers as a kid. As an adult I understand the 60’s spy satire and I love the movies even more. Timeless stuff.
Fun fact: Meyers got the idea for Austin Powers through his band Ming Tea. Each member had a 60s alter ego. It's the band playing in Gold member and Fat Bastard was based on a Scottish stereotype that the Scots ate babies.
Rest in Power Verve Troyer aka Mini-Me🙏🏿
How Mike Myers sold in mostly two of his Austin Powers films is beyond me, then Goldmember struck my mind…
"Goldmember" was one of the very first DVDs my family ever owned. My brother got it for Christmas along with "Bubble Boy"
Jake Gyllenhaal thanks you for owning that DVD 😂
I own the 4 disc set that includes all three Austin Powers movies and the classic Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd movie Spies like Us.
Bubble Boy is another classic!
that's groovy baabyy!
I had such a weird relationship with the latter two films. My dad was unable to contain himself from showing it to me when I was 8. When Goldmember came out, I jokingly asked my grandmother for it for Christmas, who was a conservative Christian that I lived with who didn't know what these films were even about, never thinking she'd actually buy it. She did... and then figured out what they were about & for the rest of her life very narrowly contained herself from flying into a rage at the mention of the charaters' name ever again. And my schizophrenic mother actively sought out & got me the other two when I didn't even know the first one existed. I hae them on DVD in my collection today, but God knows the last time I actually bothered to sit down & watch the damned things. Lol
I would say it was three really good comedies that are still very quotable to this day (I mean the 'How about no' gif has gotta be in a top 100 list for most used gifs surely). It was just... a rare example of a studio knowing exactly when to stop. It was three movies and that was exactly the right number. I doubt a fourth movie would have done well.
ruclips.net/video/ZrQbYqjaCuc/видео.html i like the Olsen gang crime films from 70s/80s , theyre campy fun.....the bad guys led by Egon Olsen are clever while the police led by Hermansen are more bufoons. Shame NC havent seen them , theyre underrated , like Police Academys its very formula type films and they always got bad reviews yet very popular with audiences
To be honest I think it was still one movie to far the second was the best one though the third was not bad it was just clear that they were running out of jokes
“Beautiful Stranger” was such a big song in the summer of 99 that whenever there’s the smell of chlorine on a hot summer day that and the rest of the soundtrack gets lodged in my head.
Yeah. I remember that being played nonstop that summer along with Smashmouth's "All Star" and Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca"
The Austin Powers films have always held a special place in my heart and honestly, "The Spy Who Shagged Me" was legit the very first movie I ever watched in my life.
It's strangely what got me into comedy movies as well as other things.
Granted it's not exactly a movie a kid should start out with, but hey it was funny and enjoyable despite it's adult humor and it makes it all the more better that I can still enjoy the films and it's humor as an adult many years later.
Wherever Mike Myers is these days, I hope he knows how much a comedic masterpiece these films he starred in were during his prime.
These movies just show how much of a comedy genius Mike Myers was
He might be a genius but not the best entertainer. To me, the Austin Powers movies were retarded. I’ll watch the first one, but the sequels were over the top stupid. Especially the 3rd one.
Genius? Really?
@@titusmccarthy What do you call the skin box? Because I didn't find that part of Goldmember funny when I was a kid. I found the running gags funny. Now I watch and laugh at stuff like "hurry! Save me from myself!" or Kevin Spacey as Dr Evil. Might not be genius but making me laugh for almost 30 years is close
WAS
@@kraknjaws3882 Dana Carvey was the genius. Mike Myers was the guy who thought poo jokes were funny.
Wow. Now that you mentioned it, the “Despicable Me” films are a lot like the “Austin Powers” films - only toned down for a more family audience. It’s no wonder why I found them somewhat entertaining despite all the backlash against the hype.
"John Smith won't be coming..." remains one of my favourite movie scenes to this day. Even the thought of Rob Lowe's deadpan delivery cracks me up every time XD
Comedy Central in the UK has shown the films the past 3 Sunday's and I was in tears with those cut away scenes in the second film
19:17 Goldmember is the most talked about Austin Powers, at least from my generation. I’m more of a fan of the second one because mini me. But when you ask most people they usually bring up Goldmember & not the first, they don’t talk about the second one because they didn’t even realize it existed.
"How about no?! You crazy Dutch basterd."
Up there with the great classic movie lines.
What about "You gonna cry, you wanna be Daddy"
The Austin Powers theme song still pops in my head from time to time. It was just so damn catchy to me. Definitely one of my childhood movies.
Goldmember is actually my personal favorite of the trilogy.
Same
Watched that one more than the others. Especially the InfiniFilm version that New Line released on DVD. The best way to watch Goldmember.
Same :)
I was impressed by the opening, where he out-shagged a Britney Spears who was at the peak of her popularity. lol
_Heresy!_
"Why make billions when we can make millions?"-Dr. Evil
Even though it's a parody it's still got more character development than most actual Bond movies which i think is one of the reasons people liked it,. Austin is still his own character.
Care to name which Bond movies those are?
@@nsasupporter7557 Probably the crappier Roger Moore ones: A View to a Kill, Octopussy, The Man with the Golden Gun. Regardless, I love James Bond movies. Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Skyfall! Let's go! 🤘
@@zacharycollins9485 Roger Moore was a good Bond but he played him Too Long 😳
He was too old to be Bond anymore when he did Octopussy and A View to a Kill. He should’ve stopped after For Your Eyes Only.
@@nsasupporter7557 Well I like bond but his charm is he never changes he's put into different places. But Austin as a character needs to adopt to a new generation in the first movie, learn to live with out his mojo in the second and fix his relationship with his dad in the third. Outside on her majesty's secret service and licence to kill Bond never develops in most movies in some he's even more shallow than Austin.
1:12 Oh man. When a Star Wars movie use to be on top charts. Some real nostalgia right there.😌
Honestly with the amount of work Mike Myers had to do to make these movies I’m still surprised he didn’t collapse
He waited until he was in the Cat in the Hat suit to collapse 😂
I still quote Goldmember till this day. So many great parts in that film. Definitely the best one of the Trilogy, especially if you can find the DVD with the InfiniFilm version.
what's up with the infinifilm version?
@@OGR-4394 Interactive version of the movie with all kinds of extras enabled during viewing of the movie. Kinda wish New Line releases still did the format. Unfortunately it didn’t last more than a couple years I believe. Luckily the DVD cases are marked with a special label to tell which New Line movies have it as an option.
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something I’m sure Mustafa should think about is “With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.”
The most quoted movie series that my friends and I still do to this day are Austin Powers, Ace Ventura, and The Naked Gun trilogy.
I got a Star Wars-ish vibe from the last minute reveal. Not only is it “I’m your father “ but “he’s your brother “ with a psycho nephew
Good overview. The only one of the series I really like is the first one-in part because the jokes are the series’s best (and most quotable) but also, probably more significantly, the main characters are actual characters rather than one-note jokes. As Doug said, how Myers et al. get rid of Elizabeth Hurley’s character in the second one is insulting, especially after all the work they did to establish characterizations.
Note also that even Austin himself seems like a real person in the first one-a silly real person, but he can have feelings and get hurt. Movies with characters are always funnier to me than movies with walking jokes.
Michael Caine maybe didn't do much, but he got some awesome lines. My favorite from all of Austin Powers is of course: "There are only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch."
I see that coment a lot on videos of FIFA Dutch matches.
Low key one of the funniest lines of the series
"Its not the size, mate....it's how you use it."
Austin Powers trilogy is like comfort food. Certain parts of it might be dated but the fact that it’s making fun of other time periods Makes it acceptable. It still holds up and while a lot of it can be considered an even over the three movies most of the jokes do land.
Still can’t believe these films came out almost 30 years ago
Goldmember being 20 doesn't seem right...
It's been 25 years since the first one came out (1997). Please don't make me feel older than I already am.
@@jcwahoo85 Thank you, i was about to say.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? I will say this, mike has his serious break. All he has learned and all he's done in snl and holly wood. Watch his Netflix show, and tell me you cant see his ingenuous creativity at work without interference. That one part in his show is not only austin powers, but beyond bby! Censorships can fuck itself at that point.
But yes these films are still so relevant. i love my BD collection.
Goldmember was actually my favorite installment of the series. I never understood why, but it was.
The first two Austin Powers movies were amazing, it’s what the satire and spoof movies used to be! Even my high school teacher was Austin Powers as Halloween!
@Fletch the third movie Goldmember was meh, it’s not terrible, but I didn’t enjoy it as the first two movies.
@Fletch you can still like that movie, lot of people don’t like, I just don’t like Goldmember, it was a disappointment for me, and it’s what killed the franchise.
@Fletch so it’s like the Spider Man 3 of Austin Powers, that movie was a mess but it had some really good jokes and moments.
@Fletch enough, it’s still different from the first two. The third movie was more about blaxploitation in contrast to the first two movies that were campy spy films.
Once they mass produced Austin's blue crushed velvet suit and Felicity's hot pants suit, my girlfriend at the time and I won 3 different Halloween costume contests!
I miss her like crazy...but I still have that blue suit full of memories.
These movies are timeless and will always give me comfort. No matter how down I may feel these movies will always come through.
Just shows how much of a legend Mike Myers is!
I'm honestly glad the Critic is still going
RIP Verne Troyer the actor who played as Mini Me
Mike Myers was really great in his earlier roles. Imagine the hours spent on set (make-up, on set) for those movies. Incredible.
I always loved the first movies. Guilty pleasure.
Doug brought up a good point. Elizabeth Hurley actually brought charisma to the movie unlike Heather Graham did in the sequel. Which had alot to do why the first one was better
That may be true to some, but Felicity was Austin's CIA counterpart..right down to the casual shagging to get info.
And yes, the MacFarlane Felicity and Vanessa figures still adorn my shelves.
True, but I also think the particular characters was also a reason: Hurley was playing a serious 90s spy having to get Austin to realize that times have changed; her serious role naturally stands out in contrast to the silliness. Graham's character was a 60s fangirl of Austin to the point of emulating him by becoming a spy, so, rather than stand out from the silliness, she's part of the silliness. That would be fine if she had some other aspect of her character to help her stand out, like Mini-Me and Fat Bastard, but she doesn't; her character can largely be summed up as "elevated fangirl" and "American woman".
I remember not being allowed to see the Austin Powers movies when they came out, and older family members were talking about how awesome they were but I couldn't see them, which was frustrating. Later, when I grew up and could watch whichever movies I wanted to, I saw them and thought they were okay but didn't really get them.
I remember when this series aired often on movie channels in the 00s era. I was a kid back then, and watching it as a teen made it better.
Spy Who Shagged Me rarely airs compared to the first and Goldmember for some reason, though. Heck, Goldmember aired the most often.
I've always felt a kinship with characters out of phase with time. Mostly because I myself have always felt out of step with world around me. So characters like Austin Powers and Philip J. Fry (from Futurama) which are not only fish out water but fish out of time are more relatable to me than most. Knowing I'm not the only one brings some small comfort in an otherwise miserable existence.
Fans in 2002: Goldmember is the most unfunny i've seen Mike Myers
one year after Goldmember:
D I R T Y H O E
2003? i though it came out in 2004
Dr. Evil's pinky move is apparently something lorne Michaels does that Mike Myers put in
Austin Powers 2 was HUGE. The hype leading up to the release was massive. I remember being kinda disappointed by it but it had some good moments.
And wow, I forgot how bad Graham was…she makes Hurley look like Meryl Streep.
Felicity was Austin's CIA counterpart...even shagging for info.
Yes...I rode the hype train of Austin Powers. Michael Caine perfectly cast as Nigel Powers.
Honestly loved these films as a child, they may not have aged brilliantly but there is a genuine charm towards them, so glad your finally covering them critic!
Some aspects of them have aged brilliantly. For instance, the twist in film 3 that Austin and Dr. Evil are actually brothers now retroactively feels like it's mocking the Bond movie Spectre, which unironically did that exact same twist with Bond and Blofeld.
Austin Powers 2 was made for a packed theater. I remember being in that theater with my friend in the Summer of 99 and when the Dr Evil Just The Two Of Us"song wrapped up with the up until that point mute Mini-Me singing "You and I" in a deep voice, the place just exploded and didnt die down for minutes afterwards.
When you mentioned Dr Evil taking over the world I turned around in my chair and said "Of course!" expecting Raul Julia to do the same. So, yeah, I think some of us do remember it.
This is my favorite guilty pleasure series. The humor is mostly juvenile and often makes me feel dumb after watching. Yet I cannot deny there is a certain charm to it. My favorite parts are the parodies of spy and other beloved Hollywood films (Silence of the Lambs for example) and I love how the series manages to do this while also maintaining its own (albeit paper-thin) plot. I would say the Austin Power series are among the best spoof movies of all time - not that this sets the bar very high but still.
0:57 *There was a time when Austin Powers kind of ruled the world*
(Instantly thinks of the Cat in the Hat review where basically the exact same thing was said)
15:55 skip ad jesus that was a long one
Whilst not as popular as they were in their heyday, Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are still timeless pop culture icons in my eyes.
I want an Austin Powers Movie with Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey and Danny Devito so bad.
Uuh Why?? Don't get me wrong I like that whole Austin Pussy joke at the beginning of the third movie but if we were to get a 4th movie it would probably be Tom Cruise taking Mike Myers place as Austin throughout the entire movie and Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil and Danny Devito as Mini Me and it would suck. An Austin Powers movie will never be the same without Myers in the roles of Austin and Dr. Evil.
British stereotypes + British spy movies + toilet humor = The Austin Powers
Stupid movies. You are correct.
I remember sitting in the cinema as a kid waiting for The Phantom Menace to start. When the trailer for Austin Powers came on before I thought Star Wars had started.
I remember how huge these movies were. Strange to think how little I hear about them anymore.
Same goes for Western movies, big in the 60s-70s, ok afterwards, then almost non-existent. Like damn do we need some Westerns in the cinema.
I remember going to six flags and hearing everyone quote this movie or Chappelle show.. good times
I think I’ve seen goldmember more on tv than the others. Used to be on Comedy Central a lot. Found it amusing.
I still wish Dr. Evil would of gotten away with turning Gonzo nose into a leafblower just to pay off the cops.
I always think it's funny that Goldmember is considered the forgettable one, because that's the one I grew up watching, and the one I remember the most vividly. I suppose the tradition of these movies doing well on video continued all the way through the series.
Honestly even Elmo would be scared of Dr. Evil
How dare you compare this to minions
That "HERO" joke was such a great piece of humour, bravo.
Oddly, I think I liked the 3rd one the most. From the opener (Kevin Spacey aside), to capturing Dr. Evil in the 1st act, to bringing in Michael Caine to sorta reprise his role as Harry Palmer, to some of the stronger jokes (like the Austin/Mini Me baby legs routine). And I don't care what Critic says, the musical number featuring the Jay-Z cover of Hard Knock Life is pretty funny, especially since it's what all these hardened criminals needed to hear to help him escape.
I first watched Austin Powers when I was 8 & have alot of good memories joking about it with my friends.
I didn't understand the groovy sexual humor in it but I treated the rest of the humor like it was from one of my cartoons