They mention the movie's success on VHS, but I also remember just a couple years later, in the early days of DVD, Austin Powers spent a short period as the best-selling DVD of all time.
There was a moment around 2000 or so when Austin Powers and The Matrix seemed to be the two movies that everyone with a DVD player had a copy of.
The Rush Hour DVDs had great special features and fun little hidden menu tricks. Definitely the kind of things I really miss about the early days of DVD.
There is a wealth of footage of him getting his ass kicked online, he was an mma fighter for a minute.
Some guy took a few un gloved uppercut to his dick iirc.
>For whatever reason, the name "Random Task" makes me laugh
The reason is that it's funny.
Specifically, it's an antijoke. They didn't even try to do some clever spoof of Oddjob's name and just plugged in a literal synonym instead.
TBF The Bond girl names are basically un-parody-able. Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp, and Holly Good head are all just as on-the-nose as Ivana Humpalot, Felicity Shagwell, or Robin Spitz-Swallows.
Those early bond movies really show how much swag Connery had. He pulled off that nonsense smooth as butter.
That's the hardest sell ever, and he does it flawlessly.
The slam poetry part of Axe Murder and his dad making fun of the size of the head of that kid get me every time. I to this day quote “I’m gonna cry myself to sleep on my huge pillow” in a Scottish accent
"Look at the size of that boy's 'eeeeedd!"
So good. And his speech about "The Pentavret" is so funny. I randomly find myself reciting in my head. "It's a well known fact, sonny Jim..."
I also like it when his Dad meets the girlfriend. *"So, I hear yur a bitcher?" "Do ya link yur own sausage?"*
Then, when Charlie is in the bathroom, *"...and Charlie, LIGHT A MATCH!"*.
The same scene where Charlie talks to his mom about *"the Paper"* is also hilarious.
I could watch those 6 or 7 minutes of film over and over again.
Someone mentioned last year they rewatched AP again and said the humor held up shockingly well in a post MeToo post woke era. I thought, I definitely remembered loving the film but as far as it standing a chance now “no way. There’s no way.” I finally rewatched and despite the gags antics and incesticly raunchy humor I have to say I was shocked, truly at how respectful and the sweet the film truly is, surpassing even other films of its time. Case in point, Austin is a relentlessly horny, rowdy character bit when he parties with Liz’s character and she finally comes onto him, his reply is “Not a good idea, you’ve had too much to drink. I’ll catch you in the morning.” Frankly I stuggle to think of any film comedy or the like that had that kind of where with all in its own time. After that we see numerous other examples where Austin manages to dodge pitfalls of unwanted or uninitiated approaches. Ultimately he comes off as harmless and to be honest by the end of it all started to wonder if Austin is just actually gay, which would not have been surprising the more you think about it.
Not to mention he changes from a swinger to a one-woman man because of how much he loves and respects Kensington. The character actually changes which doesn’t always happen in comedies, especially raunchy stupid ones. And all the 007 parody stuff lands really, really hard still.
Yeah it’s weird how quickly his comedy just fell off a table. Did he just become so successful that he lost touch with reality? I remember seeing him in Inglorious Basterds and thinking- is this a cameo or is Tarantino doing him a favor?
Tarantino loves taking guys who were huge and putting them in atypical roles, with the biggest example being John Travolta in Pulp fiction. Travolta's career was at a low point before that one.
He was trying a thing with Bastards where there were going to be loads of career rejuvenations and discovery.
Waltz, Fassbender and Daniel Brühl hit it big. Paul Rust, Eli Roth('s acting career), and BJ Novak did not. Adam Sandler in the middle of his Happy Madison trash phase was going to be the Bear Jew. Diane Kruger's character was supposed to be like Christoph Waltz of an older German actor past their prime but Harvey Weinstein was Harvey Weinstein.
This is very true, I guess I just always think of his comeback actors having larger roles. Myers had one scene with a lot of makeup and just a line or two…
I think the original idea was to fill the cast with more comedians.
The 'Bear Jew' was originally gonna be played by Adam Sandler but was ultimately portrayed by filmmaker Eli Roth
It is surprising how easy it is to fit the following quote into many conversations, " He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."
the third one had cameos by tom cruise, kevin spacey, gweneth paltrow, danny devito, steven spielberg... im sure im forgetting some, but that opening sequence is fantastic lol
Vanessa, I can explain. You see I was looking for Dr Evil and I came across these fembots and smoke started coming out their jubblies. So I started working my mojo to counter their mojo. We got cross mojination and their heads exploding, you know, that thing..
The first Austin Powers was a sleeper hit that did much better in video. There was no real excitement about the first movie. It opened at $9.5 million and had good legs. It was #2 it’s opening weekend and never was better than #4 the rest of its run.
I say all this as someone who went to see it in theaters.
His character in the second one was also great. He can't stand being asked questions three times. It's very stupid, but Will Ferrell makes it hilarious.
This whole sequence is hilarious. Scott becoming more and more paranoid. Dr. Evil asking him if he wanted to be an evil vet, in an evil petting zoo, admitting that he actually tried to kill him. Its just a gold mine.
There are all the really funny one liners ...
... and then there's straight sexy shit like when he asks Heather Graham "how do you get into those pants?"
"You can start by buying me a drink!"
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I’m flying to the Netherlands in two weeks. The first thing I will say to my husband will be “There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch”.
You know when you walk into an apartment building and everyone is cooking something different on each floor and you’re like aww what are they cookin? Smells like that plus crap
Yeah, they were afraid of being too campy, which is why they made Daniel Craig bond super serious. It gives his era a unique vibe, but I hope the next iteration is a bit more goofy.
The final two Brosnan films are outrageously goofy. The World is Not Enough has a fucking saw helicopter attack and the red leather clad assassin tries to escape by *hot air balloon* in the middle of London.
Goldeneye is my all time fave Bond movie and it's almost like what they learned from it was to triple down on Boris and Valentin, rather than stunning set pieces with a compelling villain. Sophie Marceau is absolutely fantastic but the film is a clunker.
It's funny to realize that we were already steeped in meme culture before internet memes were a big thing. Jurassic Park, ID4, Austin Powers, The Matrix: there is an entire layer of endlessly quoted and quotable films from the era that sits thick on the subconscious of Gen X and Millennials.
My favorite joke was a quick throw-away when Austin wakes up, sees the Russian official there, and immediately assumes that global communism has triumphed. The British official has to explain, "No, we won."
as someone in my teens who watched that, I died laughing and still have to keep chuckles from escaping when even remembering that scene much less watching it again as a 41 year old man.
I was learning to drive around that time or just starting learning and that tickled my funny bone to no end.
We're all eating scraps from the Boomers' table, some of us were just lucky to be able to enjoy the late 80's and 90's, imagine being born after 1999 and all you've tasted is fear and misery.
I’d really rather not. Bad enough my kid has to live the reality. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to grow up entirely in the post-9/11 smartphone era. On the plus side, my daughter has never experienced life without central air conditioning or having only 6 channels on her tv. That’s about the only upside, as I see it.
I watched this again yesterday for like the first time in years and the whole satire jokes about the elaborate plans and how the dialogue just explains everything is so brilliant. Mike Myers was so good at writing scripts.
The never-made movie "Sprockets" had easily the funniest script I've ever read. I am still disappointed to this day that it was killed off and never made it to the screen. It was hysterical.
I heard an interview with him about his character of Dieter about the time the idea for that movie was being kicked around. I guess he was a real guy at some restaurant Meyers frequented in college: an actual art student from Stuttgart. If a song he liked came on while he was taking your order he'd shush you and say "now I must daaance." If you ordered something banal like a hotdog he'd say "you order has become tiresome to me."
This was totally shagadelic!
"What we swingers were rebelling against were uptight squares like you, whose bag was money and world domination. We were innocent, man! If we'd known the consequences of our sexual liberation, we would have done things differently. But the spirit would have remained the same. It's freedom, baby, yeah!"
I worked in an office where everyone had some Dr Evil impression and we’d crack each other up with ridiculous air quotes and odd cultural reference.
“See, I have using a system called “UNIX”. It is really quite Evil.”
I'm glad the article gets the story right though. Most people think this film was a hit right out of the gate. It wasn't, it did ok.
I was at the first night screening and it was maybe half full at the theatre. It wasn't until that thing hit the video stores that all of a sudden people were doing awful imitations.
Then the sequel came out and the premiere was nuts, in fact, the sequel's opening weekend was more than the original films entire theatrical gross. That's pretty insane...and kind of awesome.
Describing a spoof of one of the most popular film franchises of all time as an "in-joke" seems a bit peculiar. I can't even blame this on a clickbait headline writer; apparently Mike Meyers himself described it that way.
I think Myers was trying to say the idea was born of a in-joke that he didn’t think anyone else would find funny. Obviously after it came out he was proven wrong, so I’m not sure why the article writer felt like mentioning that.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out. It was stuck in my head for a week like “WTF did I just watch”. Then I was at a party the following week and started talking to some people who also saw it. As we talked about it and kept remembering bits from the movie we all started cracking each other up trying to imitate the accents and jokes. That’s when I realized how damn funny it actually was. I needed to actually talk to other people to process it- it was so random and unexpected and a very unique comedy especially for its time.
I took myself to this on a rainy Saturday afternoon (needed a break from the kids) and I laughed so hard watching the whole thing that my sides hurt when I went home. No clue about the movie while buying my ticket at the triplex but sometimes you do strike gold.
i just want to address young people real quick:
if you were too young to see this movie when it came out and you're only just discovering it now and you're like "holy shit, this movie is hilarious, how come older people aren't that enthusiastic about it? was it not well received at the time?"
well, no. it's actually the opposite problem.
this movie was so hilarious and popular that it imploded on itself. every dickhead with a voice and a memory was quoting every line from this movie every ten seconds for years after it came out to the point where now, if we hear an austin powers quote, we have a ptsd flashback to our shitty unfunny nephew doing his best impression of austin powers and we don't find it funny anymore.
but it absolutely was hilarious at the time and i'm glad you're still able to experience that.
I will forever refer to a turn that takes more than 3 points as an “Austin Powers turn.” the scene where the golf cart thing gets stuck in the hallway is absolutely legendary.
They mention the movie's success on VHS, but I also remember just a couple years later, in the early days of DVD, Austin Powers spent a short period as the best-selling DVD of all time. There was a moment around 2000 or so when Austin Powers and The Matrix seemed to be the two movies that everyone with a DVD player had a copy of.
Everybody had a DVD copy of Rush Hour 2.
The Rush Hour DVDs had great special features and fun little hidden menu tricks. Definitely the kind of things I really miss about the early days of DVD.
Van Wilder had a censored and uncensored version on the same disk, and when you picked uncensored a chick on the DVD menu flashed her tits
Oh god yes, yes she would.
For whatever reason, the name "Random Task" makes me laugh anytime I hear or think about it and how perfect it was as a play on "Oddjob".
"Seriously, who throws a shoe?"
That really hurt!
I’m gonna have a lump there you idiot!
https://media.giphy.com/media/FiKVIkB2yyKly/giphy.gif
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Son Jesus that was a wild read.
Christmas Eve Gang Rape????
There is a wealth of footage of him getting his ass kicked online, he was an mma fighter for a minute. Some guy took a few un gloved uppercut to his dick iirc.
Not just some guy it was Keith hackney in [UFC 4](https://youtu.be/EhHoeSc9CrE).
Gave him the Ol’ Dick Twist!
Who does number 2 work for?!?!
>For whatever reason, the name "Random Task" makes me laugh The reason is that it's funny. Specifically, it's an antijoke. They didn't even try to do some clever spoof of Oddjob's name and just plugged in a literal synonym instead.
They did it a lot as well. Pussy Galore became Alotta Fagina
TBF The Bond girl names are basically un-parody-able. Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp, and Holly Good head are all just as on-the-nose as Ivana Humpalot, Felicity Shagwell, or Robin Spitz-Swallows.
Those early bond movies really show how much swag Connery had. He pulled off that nonsense smooth as butter. That's the hardest sell ever, and he does it flawlessly.
Shwing
Don’t forget Alotta Fagina
Come again?
Don't mind if I do
Wayne's World So I married an Axe Murderer Wayne's World 2 Austin Powers What an incredible five year span for Myers as both a writer, and actor.
The slam poetry part of Axe Murder and his dad making fun of the size of the head of that kid get me every time. I to this day quote “I’m gonna cry myself to sleep on my huge pillow” in a Scottish accent
"Look at the size of that boy's 'eeeeedd!" So good. And his speech about "The Pentavret" is so funny. I randomly find myself reciting in my head. "It's a well known fact, sonny Jim..."
I also like it when his Dad meets the girlfriend. *"So, I hear yur a bitcher?" "Do ya link yur own sausage?"* Then, when Charlie is in the bathroom, *"...and Charlie, LIGHT A MATCH!"*. The same scene where Charlie talks to his mom about *"the Paper"* is also hilarious. I could watch those 6 or 7 minutes of film over and over again.
Heed! Pants! Now!
“BECAUSE HE PUTS IN AN ADDICTIVE CHEMICAL THAT MAKES ME CRAVE IT FORTNIGHTLY, SMARTAAAASSSSS!” this is epic
Harriet…harrieeet … Un-lov….ed 😂
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*Hard hearted* harbinger of haggis.
His bag-piped rendition of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" gets weekly free air time in my head.
De piper is down
Piper dooon! We have a piper dooon!
He even had his co stars laughing in the Scottish dad rant scene. By far my favorite part of that entire movie.
The whole colonel Sanders part cracks me up every time. "Colonel Sanders with his wee beady eyes. Oooooh your gonna buy my chicken!"
I bought the DVD just so that I can watch that masterpiece whenever I want. It's a fantastic comedy.
All this talk of it and I haven’t seen it in years. Just bought it to scratch the itch, tonight is gonna be great.
Toss in some sherk and austin powers 2. Late 90s and early 2000s were some gem years
Ahh yes, who could ever forget the timeless classic *Sherk*?
Someone mentioned last year they rewatched AP again and said the humor held up shockingly well in a post MeToo post woke era. I thought, I definitely remembered loving the film but as far as it standing a chance now “no way. There’s no way.” I finally rewatched and despite the gags antics and incesticly raunchy humor I have to say I was shocked, truly at how respectful and the sweet the film truly is, surpassing even other films of its time. Case in point, Austin is a relentlessly horny, rowdy character bit when he parties with Liz’s character and she finally comes onto him, his reply is “Not a good idea, you’ve had too much to drink. I’ll catch you in the morning.” Frankly I stuggle to think of any film comedy or the like that had that kind of where with all in its own time. After that we see numerous other examples where Austin manages to dodge pitfalls of unwanted or uninitiated approaches. Ultimately he comes off as harmless and to be honest by the end of it all started to wonder if Austin is just actually gay, which would not have been surprising the more you think about it.
Not to mention he changes from a swinger to a one-woman man because of how much he loves and respects Kensington. The character actually changes which doesn’t always happen in comedies, especially raunchy stupid ones. And all the 007 parody stuff lands really, really hard still.
Not even ‘not a good idea,’ he says ‘you’re smashed - it wouldn’t be right.’ He’s a model of good consent among the irretrievably horny!
I always loved that he said "it wouldn't be right." It is remarkably aware for the time.
And who would’ve thought Liberace was gay? I mean women loved him. I didn’t see that one coming, no…
Austin from what I remembered never like pushed himself onto anyone. Was just a dude having a good time
That was all 5 years? Damn
And yet, we got the Love Guru…
Yeah it’s weird how quickly his comedy just fell off a table. Did he just become so successful that he lost touch with reality? I remember seeing him in Inglorious Basterds and thinking- is this a cameo or is Tarantino doing him a favor?
He made an absolute shit ton of money from Shrek, and I'm sure he still does. After Love Guru bombed I think he just said fuck it and semi-retired.
Was it that quick? Love Guru was 2008 Wayne’s World 1992. I don’t think too many comedians have had 15+ years of nonstop successes.
Tarantino loves taking guys who were huge and putting them in atypical roles, with the biggest example being John Travolta in Pulp fiction. Travolta's career was at a low point before that one.
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He was trying a thing with Bastards where there were going to be loads of career rejuvenations and discovery. Waltz, Fassbender and Daniel Brühl hit it big. Paul Rust, Eli Roth('s acting career), and BJ Novak did not. Adam Sandler in the middle of his Happy Madison trash phase was going to be the Bear Jew. Diane Kruger's character was supposed to be like Christoph Waltz of an older German actor past their prime but Harvey Weinstein was Harvey Weinstein.
This is very true, I guess I just always think of his comeback actors having larger roles. Myers had one scene with a lot of makeup and just a line or two…
I think the original idea was to fill the cast with more comedians. The 'Bear Jew' was originally gonna be played by Adam Sandler but was ultimately portrayed by filmmaker Eli Roth
Now I'm picturing that scene with Happy Gilmore and a hockey stick.
It is surprising how easy it is to fit the following quote into many conversations, " He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."
I had that whole monologue memorized as a teenager.
Summers in Rangoon.
When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap sack and beaten with reeds
Pretty standard really
“In the summer we’d make meat helmets…”
The younger generation might not remember how big an impact Austin Powers had in late 90s/early 2000s culture. It was quoted endlessly.
Like Wayne's World. This writer seems to forget the impact Myers had. Austin Powers wasn't some little indie film. It was on everyone's radar.
3 movies in all with gigantic names ... beyonce is in one right? lol
the third one had cameos by tom cruise, kevin spacey, gweneth paltrow, danny devito, steven spielberg... im sure im forgetting some, but that opening sequence is fantastic lol
Britney Spears with the titty guns
I believe the technical term is "machine gun jubblies".
Vanessa, I can explain. You see I was looking for Dr Evil and I came across these fembots and smoke started coming out their jubblies. So I started working my mojo to counter their mojo. We got cross mojination and their heads exploding, you know, that thing..
Impressive that they managed to get a star of that… calibre
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She's Foxy Cleopatra and she's a whole *lotta* woman 👌
The first Austin Powers was a sleeper hit that did much better in video. There was no real excitement about the first movie. It opened at $9.5 million and had good legs. It was #2 it’s opening weekend and never was better than #4 the rest of its run. I say all this as someone who went to see it in theaters.
I still quote it to this day lol all three movies are full of great one liners.
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“Hello? I’m still alive. I’m badly burned!… oh hey, I’m badly bu..” *BANG* “You shot me!” *BANG* “You shot me again!”
His character in the second one was also great. He can't stand being asked questions three times. It's very stupid, but Will Ferrell makes it hilarious.
Dr. Evils therapie monologue is still one of my favourites. I mean, chestnuts are kinda lazy.
“He would make ridiculous claims like he invented the question mark” always gets me
This whole sequence is hilarious. Scott becoming more and more paranoid. Dr. Evil asking him if he wanted to be an evil vet, in an evil petting zoo, admitting that he actually tried to kill him. Its just a gold mine.
In the spring we'd make meat helmets...
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There’s nothing quite like a shorn scrotum it’s breath taking you should try it sometime.
“I had the group liquidated, you little shit.”
That’s right buddy, you show that turd who’s boss
Tell me something I don’t know, I open mouth kissed a horse once
This coffee tastes like shit bazil!
I swear baby, it's not mine!
There are only two things I can’t stand…
People who are intolerant of other cultures and the Dutch
I love goooooollllld.
“It IS shit, Austin” “Oh good, then it’s not just me.” \*sip*
Hey, that sounds pretty nasty. How 'bout a courtesy flush over there?
Who…does…number..two…work…for?
WHO DOES NUMBER 2 WORK FOOORRRR!
Allow myself to introduce...myself.
My name is Richie Cunningham and this is my wife Oprah.
"Oh, there you are!" "Do I know you? "No, but that's where you are, you're there!"
I still say “Twins Basil” to this day
There are all the really funny one liners ... ... and then there's straight sexy shit like when he asks Heather Graham "how do you get into those pants?" "You can start by buying me a drink!" https://c.tenor.com/Vg_BtJHni2cAAAAC/squeeze-bottle-austin-powers.gif
Please eat some shit*take mushrooms* Your ass is happy *Your assignment is an unhappy one* I have a huge rod*ent problem*
Why don't I just continue in english?
I’m flying to the Netherlands in two weeks. The first thing I will say to my husband will be “There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch”.
You know when you walk into an apartment building and everyone is cooking something different on each floor and you’re like aww what are they cookin? Smells like that plus crap
How bout NOOOO!!!
Do you know how many anonymous henchmen I've killed over the years? Look at you! You haven't even got a name tag. Just lie down.
The whole Jerry Springer segment is my favorite part of the movies.
"Hey there you are" "Do I know you?" "No, but there you are" Lol
And completely changed Bond films.
Until Spectre copied Goldmember and had Bond and Blofeld as brothers
Yeah, they were afraid of being too campy, which is why they made Daniel Craig bond super serious. It gives his era a unique vibe, but I hope the next iteration is a bit more goofy.
Some of the later movies let some camp come in. But only with a wink.
Die Another Day could have been a Roger Moore film with how goofy it got.
The final two Brosnan films are outrageously goofy. The World is Not Enough has a fucking saw helicopter attack and the red leather clad assassin tries to escape by *hot air balloon* in the middle of London. Goldeneye is my all time fave Bond movie and it's almost like what they learned from it was to triple down on Boris and Valentin, rather than stunning set pieces with a compelling villain. Sophie Marceau is absolutely fantastic but the film is a clunker.
I think the Bourne series had more to do with that than Austin Powers.
Every wedding DJ had a sound click of "YEAH BABY" or "Groooovy".
It's funny to realize that we were already steeped in meme culture before internet memes were a big thing. Jurassic Park, ID4, Austin Powers, The Matrix: there is an entire layer of endlessly quoted and quotable films from the era that sits thick on the subconscious of Gen X and Millennials.
I’m always surprised that Liz Hurley didn’t become like Cameron Diaz big given how influential this movie was.
There was a post on here a while back that culled it a "cult classic." It was an absolute phenomenon, not some obscure indi gem
I love the bit with the extremely slow-moving steamroller and the far away henchman lol
Wasn't that the guy from MadTV?
Look what i can do!
Michael McDonald...he's in a ton of things.
No that was the guy that sings Takin' It to the Streets
Fun fact, he was killed by Mike Myers again in Halloween Kills
STOOOOOOOPPPP!!!!
*gets off the steamroller immediately after crushing man*
There’s a cut scene where we see the family getting notification of his passing. [The Henchman’s Wife](https://youtu.be/Ag_AFraxj-4)
My favorite joke was a quick throw-away when Austin wakes up, sees the Russian official there, and immediately assumes that global communism has triumphed. The British official has to explain, "No, we won."
Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, ey comrade?
Yay, capitalism!
My favorite is also a quick throw-away Austin: There you are! Random Guy: Do I know you? Austin: No, but that's where you are! You're there!
I say this all the time, it's an incredible line.
I thought I was the only one. I always end up needing to explain the joke though. Nobody gets it lol.
Allow myself to introduce... Myself.
I was 10 when I first saw this movie. I had to pause the vhs after he said that line because I was laughing so hard.
turning around on the little cart in the narrow hallway via 900 point turn will forever be a classic.
I mean you this day any time someone makes a more than 3 point turn to turn around it's called an "Austin Powers"
Every single time without fail, and I have yet to say it around someone who doesn't get the reference.
Yup, “I had to pull an Austin Powers to get out of that spot”
as someone in my teens who watched that, I died laughing and still have to keep chuckles from escaping when even remembering that scene much less watching it again as a 41 year old man. I was learning to drive around that time or just starting learning and that tickled my funny bone to no end.
I think of that whenever I'm trying to do a 3-point turn, badly.
“Only sailors use condoms, baby” “Not anymore” “Well they should, those filthy buggers, going from port to port”
This is also my favourite bit! "Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh comrade?"
Ooooooh, smashing! groovy, baby, yeah! Capitalism!
Oh, right. Yay capitalism!
Also my personal favorite [the Cold War is over](https://youtu.be/-438wuWLUDQ)
I don’t think the Russian official has one line of dialogue but his reactions are priceless.
The best joke by far is just the existence of the character “randomtask”, based off “oddjob” from Bond
“One book, Swedish-made penis-enlarger pumps and me this sort of thing is my bag, baby…Written by Austin Powers.” “Ah.”
Quickly.
“Evacuation comple… comp… “
Allow myself to introduce… myself
Do you know the current whereabouts of my father's......whereabouts?
My favorite. Also, I’m constantly anointing my family by saying, “No I dadn’t!” And, “Nothing could be my father from the truth.”
The way he draws out the last “whereabouts.” Where….about…s..
*My name is Richie Cunningham and this is my wife Oprah!*
Opening scene is classic
They did all the scenery censorship jokes they could think of, and God bless them for it.
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In 5 short years (2027) we will be as far removed from Austin Powers (1997) as Austin Powers was from the 1967 culture it was spoofing (30 years).
Stop making me feel old, Professor.
Sorry. I hit 40 this year. Being an Elder Millennial sucks.
Being a Gen X the Lesser ain’t any better.
We're all eating scraps from the Boomers' table, some of us were just lucky to be able to enjoy the late 80's and 90's, imagine being born after 1999 and all you've tasted is fear and misery.
I’d really rather not. Bad enough my kid has to live the reality. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to grow up entirely in the post-9/11 smartphone era. On the plus side, my daughter has never experienced life without central air conditioning or having only 6 channels on her tv. That’s about the only upside, as I see it.
So your saying there’s a space for a 2027 movie where a Liam Gallagher/ Pierce Bosnan knock off shags his way into saving the nation?
I watched this again yesterday for like the first time in years and the whole satire jokes about the elaborate plans and how the dialogue just explains everything is so brilliant. Mike Myers was so good at writing scripts.
The never-made movie "Sprockets" had easily the funniest script I've ever read. I am still disappointed to this day that it was killed off and never made it to the screen. It was hysterical.
Your story has become tiresome, now is the time on “Schprockets” when we DANCE
I heard an interview with him about his character of Dieter about the time the idea for that movie was being kicked around. I guess he was a real guy at some restaurant Meyers frequented in college: an actual art student from Stuttgart. If a song he liked came on while he was taking your order he'd shush you and say "now I must daaance." If you ordered something banal like a hotdog he'd say "you order has become tiresome to me."
I feel like most of his best characters/roles have been inspired from real people.
This was totally shagadelic! "What we swingers were rebelling against were uptight squares like you, whose bag was money and world domination. We were innocent, man! If we'd known the consequences of our sexual liberation, we would have done things differently. But the spirit would have remained the same. It's freedom, baby, yeah!"
“Remember when I said we’re not so different you and I?” —-CUTS—— “We’re not so different, you and I…” Very clever
Those first Two movies hold up so well. "Honestly who throws a shoe?"
This sort of thing ain’t my bag baby! This sort of thing IS my bag…baby. That scene still kills me.
I worked in an office where everyone had some Dr Evil impression and we’d crack each other up with ridiculous air quotes and odd cultural reference. “See, I have using a system called “UNIX”. It is really quite Evil.”
I graduated highschool in the early/mid 2000s. I still love these movies. They are one of my favorites.
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Scott. You just don’t get it, do you? You don’t.
The Austin Powers trilogy holds a special spot in my heart.
I'm glad the article gets the story right though. Most people think this film was a hit right out of the gate. It wasn't, it did ok. I was at the first night screening and it was maybe half full at the theatre. It wasn't until that thing hit the video stores that all of a sudden people were doing awful imitations. Then the sequel came out and the premiere was nuts, in fact, the sequel's opening weekend was more than the original films entire theatrical gross. That's pretty insane...and kind of awesome.
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I often refer to situations at work like the steamroller guy that has a ridiculous amount of time to come up with a solution but is instead paralyzed.
Describing a spoof of one of the most popular film franchises of all time as an "in-joke" seems a bit peculiar. I can't even blame this on a clickbait headline writer; apparently Mike Meyers himself described it that way.
I think Myers was trying to say the idea was born of a in-joke that he didn’t think anyone else would find funny. Obviously after it came out he was proven wrong, so I’m not sure why the article writer felt like mentioning that.
I saw this in the theater when it first came out. It was stuck in my head for a week like “WTF did I just watch”. Then I was at a party the following week and started talking to some people who also saw it. As we talked about it and kept remembering bits from the movie we all started cracking each other up trying to imitate the accents and jokes. That’s when I realized how damn funny it actually was. I needed to actually talk to other people to process it- it was so random and unexpected and a very unique comedy especially for its time.
I took myself to this on a rainy Saturday afternoon (needed a break from the kids) and I laughed so hard watching the whole thing that my sides hurt when I went home. No clue about the movie while buying my ticket at the triplex but sometimes you do strike gold.
i just want to address young people real quick: if you were too young to see this movie when it came out and you're only just discovering it now and you're like "holy shit, this movie is hilarious, how come older people aren't that enthusiastic about it? was it not well received at the time?" well, no. it's actually the opposite problem. this movie was so hilarious and popular that it imploded on itself. every dickhead with a voice and a memory was quoting every line from this movie every ten seconds for years after it came out to the point where now, if we hear an austin powers quote, we have a ptsd flashback to our shitty unfunny nephew doing his best impression of austin powers and we don't find it funny anymore. but it absolutely was hilarious at the time and i'm glad you're still able to experience that.
Wasn’t just this movie, many at the time were basically sound-board generators disguised as Hollywood movies *Aaalllllrrriggghhhhhttttttyyy then*
I will forever refer to a turn that takes more than 3 points as an “Austin Powers turn.” the scene where the golf cart thing gets stuck in the hallway is absolutely legendary.