AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER
The cool and resourceful master spy must take a trip back to 1975
in order to save his father from the triple threat of Dr. Evil, Mini-Me
and Goldmember.
(Now in stores)
CAST: Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles,Seth Green, Michael York, Robert
Wagner, Mindy Sterling, Rob Lowe, Verne Troyer, Michael Caine, Fred
Savage, Diane Mizota, Tm Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny
DeVito, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Britney Spears, Nathan Lane,
Katie Couric, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Jack
Osbourne, John Travolta, Burt Bacharach
DIRECTOR: Jay Roach
"The third movie about the shagadelic one, 'Austin Powers in Goldmember,'
is a step or two down from the first and second, but it has some very
funny moments, and maybe that is all we hope for...It's a small disappointment,
but I'm glad I saw it. Sorta." --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...the most relentlessly scatological exhibition I have ever seen
short of golden-showers pornography...I prefer not to analyze a spectacle
so awash in formlessness and facetiousness, not to mention a frenzy
of cesspool humor... it's all amateur-night vaudeville and movies
within movies that degenerate into total inanity." --Andrew Sarris,
The New York Observer
"...a wearying hit-and-miss affair that gradually disintegrates under
the weight of what might be a world-record number of scatological
references and bodily function jokes...Myers gets a charge out of
this material--it wouldn't be here if he didn't--but so much of it
is so tedious it's difficult to believe an adult actually sat down
and wrote it." --Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
"This comic avalanche of raunchy double entendres and pop cultural
references tosses in not only the kitchen sink but also the water
bed (leaky from strenuous overuse) and the toilet (unflushed and running
over)...For all the fun it conjures, 'Goldmember' is also a bloated
(and dare I say?) decadent mess...as the movie huffs and puffs its
way toward world conquest, its sheer tonnage of puns, sight gags and
winking parodies works an exhausting spell...Like a giant balloon
painted with Day-Glo colors, however, the whole gaudy mess wouldn't
inflate without the force of Mr. Myers's comic genius. It's his baby,
baby. And after three editions, it's still flying high." --Stephen
Holden, The New York Times
"There's more moviemaking comedy verve (and nerve) in the first 15
minutes of 'Goldmember'--and, intermittently, throughout this extravagant,
uneven, retro-happy celebration of the movies as international setters
of indelible style--than there is in all of 'Scooby-Doo,' 'Mr. Deeds,'
and 'Men in Black II' combined...for all the culty, comfy, campy pleasure
in watching familiar cartoon characters reiterate familiar behavior
(pinkie to mouth all over again), something just this side of shagaphobia
results from too much exposure to too much Austin." --Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly
"It's a varsity show for people who can't get enough potty jokes.
I wish the Austin Powers movies hadn't become such a big industry--some
things are better left small." --Peter Rainer, New York
"Erratically enlivened by brief salvos of inspiration, 'AP3' is largely
content to elbow the winks-per-minute count toward critical mass.
Complicity here means reaching across the fourth wall to congratulate
audiences on their superiority to the endlessly recycled material
you've just sold them. In a they-know-that-we-know-that-they-know-it's-rubbish
hall of mirrors, nothing matters but the simulacra of other movies
and the glittering reflections of your myriad product placements."
--Dennis Lim, The Village Voice
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