Austin Powers

Austin Powers (1997) starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, and Seth Green.

Before...wow, it has been so long ago that I saw this film that I can't even remember a time before seeing this film, how sad is that. Anyway, kinda wasn't really looking forward to rewatching it. It is a classic but still very childish humour...would I be wrong?

Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has been teamed up by his boss (York) with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past.

My wife's view..."Good fun but kind of annoying. I've never watched this film by choice and probably never will, nevertheless it was quite enjoyable. ★★☆☆☆"

Where to start...childish and silly, this is a film you have to be in the right frame of mind for in my view. It is incredibly over the top and ridiculous, much in the same way that Anchorman is. Both of these films have been created by Saturday Night Live alumni's and it is easy to see their similarities in type of humour. They are entertainment at it's best in some ways...part of me however wants something more, I definitely know that my humour has matured since I originally watched this film.

Myers has to be commended for re-invigorating the multi-role portrayal in this film, it was 3 years later that Murphy did his role as the multi-tude of characters in Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps. For Myers this was only the beginning of developing this, as in Austin Powers 2 and 3 he created more characters in which to pour further jokes.

The brilliant thing about this film is that Myers hits the comedic nail on the head. It is funny in all the right places and doesn't over step the mark, which is an issue for the sequels. As I noted earlier though, you definitely need to be in a silly mood to truly appreciate this film, because of this I have struggled to give it more than...

★★★☆☆