Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me may be one of the funniest movies ever made. That said, I really think the franchise ran out of gas and overstayed its welcome with the follow up third film, Austin Powers in Goldmember. Where the second movie improved on the first by coming up with ever fresher and funnier things to do with Myers spy parody characters, the third movie just sort of rehashed what they’d already done before. So as much as I love the first and second Powers films, it’s hard to see anywhere else for this thing to go. Mike Myers and Goldmember’s $213 million domestic box office total seem to disagree.
While out promoting his voice work in Shrek the Third, everyone’s favorite former Garth Algar buddy revealed that he’s planning an Austin Powers 4. Myers tells Moviehole: “There is a fully conceived idea for a fourth and I can just say that it’s from Dr Evil’s point of view, so if you balanced how much of it was Austin with Dr Evil, it’s more Dr Evil than Austin.” Sounds like the franchise may have to be renamed after its much more popular villain character.
He elaborated a bit on what Dr. Evil’s big movie will be about over at RT: “There's one that we had an idea about and the only thing I will say is that it's entirely from Dr. Evil's point of view… It would be the first of his trilogy.” Yep, we’re talking about not just one Dr. Evil movie, but three.
Myer’s Dr. Evil character is genius and if they can revitalize this thing by making it all about him I’m all for it. That’s one of the things the third movie did wrong, they marginalized him by bringing in a new villain. Big mistake. Goldmember was was semi-evil. Quasi-evil. He was the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough. Even in the more Austin focused movies Evil is the reason people showed up. Let him open an Evil Petting Zoo and give him his own movie and maybe there’s hope for the future of Austin Powers after all.
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I squealed with delight when I relaized Id be the one to catch this error first... I dont know why... Anyway, Myers played Wayne Campbell, of Waynes World. Garth Algar was Dana Carvey. Booya... love the site by the way.
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me may be one of the funniest movies ever made. That said, I really think the franchise ran out of gas and overstayed its welcome with the follow up third film, Austin Powers in Goldmember. Where the second movie improved on the first by coming up with ever fresher and funnier things to do with Myers spy parody characters, the third movie just sort of rehashed what they’d already done before. So as much as I love the first and second Powers films, it’s hard to see anywhere else for this thing to go. Mike Myers and Goldmember’s $213 million domestic box office total seem to disagree.
May 8th, 2007 at 14:43
I squealed with delight when I relaized Id be the one to catch this error first... I dont know why... Anyway, Myers played Wayne Campbell, of Waynes World. Garth Algar was Dana Carvey. Booya... love the site by the way.