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Yar, you be here: Austin Powers in Goldmember (Infinifilm Widescreen Edition) > Customer Reviews Austin Powers in Goldmember (Infinifilm Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews (22 - 24 of 48 Reviews)It's SOLID GOLD, baby!
If you love Austin Powers this is the movie for you,baby! Austin Powers in Goldmember is a combination of James Bond meets Shaft!This movie is so funny. This time Mike Myers plays not only Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, and Fat Bastard but a crazy disco loving, fruity man named Goldmember who lost his genitalia in an unfortuante smelting accident! Dr. Evil wants to melt the polar ice caps and he and Frau, Number 2, Scott, and Mini-Me (played very good by Mindy Sterling, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, and Verne Troyer) steal Austin's father Nigel, played by none other than Mr. Micheal Caine! Goldmember has him hostage in his disco club back in 1975! Austin boogies in time and meets the jive afro headed Foxxy Cleopatra played by Beyonce Knowles, who did a great job in her first big screen movie! Now, I don't believe in ruining a movie so I won't! However ,the infinifilm features on this dvd are great! You can see four music video's and plenty of behind the scenes footage along with bloopers and other things! This movie was just amazing and was packed with jokes however, the film really didnt tie back in with the whole secret spy thing, however it was really funny and people with odd names are back just like they were in the first two films! Fook Mi and Fook Yu, japenese twins! And of course Austin alwaze has to have a new girlfriend, and this time its Foxxy Cleopatra, a bad mother-shut cho mouth! The laughs keep coming as Austin and Foxxy try and save the world! Its SOLID GOLD, baby! Tarnished Gold
There's no doubt that comedian Mike Myers is a genius. However, as the latest Austin Powers film painfully demonstrates, the once fertle idea, may be running out of ideas. I am a fan of the first film and liked the second movie very much. I went to see GOLDMEMBER, not knowing what expect from the flick, except to have a good time. Instead, I was pretty disappointed with it, and felt that all of the best parts of this installment were seen in the trailer. The rest of the humor is just recycled from the other films in the series. The plot involves Austin (Meyers) squaring off against Dr. Evil (Myers), who has allied himself with Goldmember, (Myers) another of the spy's sworn enemies. All of the usual suspects are along for the ride. Scott Evil (Seth Green), Number 2 (Robert Wagner), Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling) Mini-me (Verne Troyer). All of these characters welcome Michael Caine (Austin's Dad) and Beyoncé Knowles as Foxxy, Austin's love interest. The new cast members don't really add anything original here. The plot doesn't have to be all that unique since this is a spoof, but I wish the jokes were a little funnier Sure, there are cameos aplenty in the film, but once you realize who does what here, the follow-up joke isn't all that great or unexpected. Couldn't they find anyone better than Katie Couric to play her scene? Directed, once again by Jay Roach, GOLDMEMBER has only a few funny bits. He seems to have grown tired of the series, as does Myers The best part of this film is the "prison" scene. That's the only true laugh out loud sequence in the movie. GOLDMEMBER is a tired comedy whose jokes have come and gone. A real bummer, baby.
Opening with an action-packed pre-credit James Bond like sequence, with cameos from many of Hollywood's biggest stars gets the movie off to a funny if somewhat irrelevant start, which is great if you like movies within movies, not so great if you don't. From there we get back into the real action with Dr Evil and Myer's latest character Goldmember (a Dutchman with a gold penis and bad skin, which he likes to eat) plotting once more to take over the world. So far so good you might think but herein one of the problems lies: the character Goldmember just isn't funny and is positively poor next to all of Mike Myers other characters, including a disappointingly under-used and very flatulent Fat Bastard who makes a welcome but all too brief return. There are some very funny visual and verbal gags of course and a few clever scenes that retrace Austin Powers and Dr Evil's childhoods but all in all there are just as many hits as misses and too many scenes that are obvious retreads of the previous movies most successful gags, such as the use of silhouettes, telling Sean to zip-it and the Jay-Z "It's A Hard Knock Life" routine. Okay so these scenes are still, to an extent, funny but nowhere near as funny as the first time you saw them. As for the cast, Myer's is his usual brilliant comedic self, it's just that his self-penned lines are not as good as before. Verne Troyer is once again splendid as Mini Me and Destiny's child's Beyonce Knowles makes a sassy and sexy Foxy Cleopatra, whilst Seth Green (sporting a receding hairline) is quite fabulous as Dr Evil's son Sean. However, the star of the show in my view, is Michael Caine, with a marvellous comedic performance as Austin's father Nigel, delightfully sending up his Harry Palmer persona from the 1960's movies that first made him a star. As for the movie as a whole, it is probably ideally suited to the DVD format more than any other movie out there, because on DVD you will be able to pick and choose which scenes you watch (and there are some very funny and very imaginative scenes). It is just that all n all you feel that you've seen it all before and seen it done better in the previous instalment. What is more the ending of the film suggests that not only is Mike Myers running out of new ideas for his spoof spy movies but that indeed it may be the end of this very profitable franchise. Still funny but not as funny as its predecessor: Three and a half stars.
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