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The Worst Kiss in Cinema | Austin Powers in Goldmember · Potato Chip Pictures - A Podcast

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  4/3 what? 3 different characters. 444.
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  Oh, right, because it was. It was the extra guy.
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  Yeah, we had in order of their movies.
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  We had Austin, Doctor, Evil, Fat Bastard and now Gold Member, new
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  movie, new character. Like, do you know how to do an
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  accent? Does it matter?
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  Does the audience know? The accent, I mean.
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  To his credit, Mike Myers is known for having pretty good
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  accents. I don't know the Dutch accent
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  well enough to tell you for sure.
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  This was sia stereotypical take or something that stands the
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  test of 20 extra years. I just.
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  Don't know enough Dutch to tell you or Dutch people.
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  I don't. I don't know.
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  I don't even know if Dutch is a language.
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  I thought they spoke German but I guess shows what I know.
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  I think it's nationality that's as hard as I know.
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  Yep. I mean, I don't want to start
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  right on the beginning, but I will preview it as this must
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  have been like relevant in the time period it was made because
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  Dang, there's a lot of regular actors in our beginning.
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  I actually have the entire list of cameos pulled up.
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  Oh good. Because I had a feeling one, if
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  not both of us were going to be like, that's a lot of famous
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  people that just showed up in this.
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  Without me expecting it to be that.
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  Yeah, I I was surprised by the immediate cameos and then
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  wondering if I have the right copy of whatever this is.
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  Like did they make a payment? Because of censorship.
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  Because of the. Because of Tom Cruise, I'm like.
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  This. Is all set like Mission
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  Impossible 2? Why would they do this?
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  I thought I had the wrong movie because when it got to Doctor
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  Evil's rap, it started to get censored.
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  And I was like, Oh no, did they censor this?
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  Like, were they like, oh, it's, it's terrible for the times.
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  But then I realized they were censoring everything.
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  It was meant to be like a music video, but there was a moment
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  where I really thought that my movie had been censored.
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  That's. The wrong one.
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  Hello and welcome to Potato Chip Pictures, the movie franchise
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  review podcast. Currently looking at Austin
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  Powers. My name is B Sammy Davis.
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  Hello, welcome again. I am Justin.
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  And today we looked at Austin Powers in Goldmember, the third
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  and final movie. In the.
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  Austin Powers trilogy promises promises.
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  Man. I was looking at the Wikipedia
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  and the last time we were threatened with another Austin
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  Powers was 2022. No, no, thank you.
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  Like I I had it in my head because there were people who
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  didn't like that I use the term threatened.
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  With another Austin Powers. And so I was like, well, maybe
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  I'm unfair. Maybe, like, this hasn't been
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  teased for most of my adult life.
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  And then there's this entire huge section devoted to a
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  potential sequel where they talk about all the times and all the
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  people who brought it up in a major interview where they were
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  like, yes, we're going to do an Austin Powers 4, or yes, I'm
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  interested in Austin Powers 4. Like they they need Mike Myers
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  and Basil and that's about it. Yep, I was going to say, I think
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  those are the only two truly reoccurring characters.
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  You've got Johnson, who was in two of the movies, maybe. 3 #2.
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  Yep #2 Robert Wagner, although with all the time shenanigans,
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  they always recast anyone who doesn't want to be in it, anyone
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  who may not be with us anymore. I think Mini me is no longer
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  with us. He died in 2018.
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  So we don't have any more of that mini me.
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  But I mean, you know, otherwise, like both director Jay Roach and
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  Austin Powers have said that they would do another one and
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  nobody has. But I don't.
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  I'm now I'm sounding as though I'm like, oh, why not?
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  Because I don't want it. Why not?
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  No, it is OK. We can go over that next week in
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  the wrap up when we talk about all this stuff, but for now,
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  let's get down to the nitty gritty.
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  This came out in 2002. This was the same year, I think,
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  or maybe one year apart. Let me look.
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  No, it was the same year as Die Another Day, the last of the
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  Pierce Brosnan Bond movies. And I bring that up because MGM
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  sued for the Gold member title, saying that it was too close.
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  And when it was settled, part of the agreement was that Austin
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  Powers would have a trailer for Die Another Day.
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  So oh, I get the beginning. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's that seems odd to be like, yeah, you got to
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  protect your investments, but who's going to mistake gold?
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  Member for Goldfinger. Yeah, and.
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  And then it being in the Brosnan era, it's like, well, nobody's
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  even thinking about Goldfinger. For real.
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  But nonetheless, that's 2002 for you.
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  Another reason I wanted to bring up the year is because in 1993
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  Madonna had another hit in the Austin Powers movie and then in
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  2002 she put out one of my favorite bad songs ever written
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  like, so I guess she's she's hitting on all cylinders Anyway,
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  a budget of 63,000,000. That is $30 million more than
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  the last one returned, 297,000,000.
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  That is 25,000,000 less than the last one, but still nearly $300
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  million for a comedy movie. Like, it's pretty ridiculous.
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  Yeah. And great.
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  Like, very good for them. Good for them.
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  You don't need to make a another one.
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  It's OK. This one covers all the bases.
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  Everything is wrapped up. They're very chummy by the end.
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  Most of them are anyway. Well, I guess it's not too
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  surprising, but it it just feels like this if for whatever reason
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  has had the the moment to get a bunch of people to the theatre
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  and see it. And I don't know that you would
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  have that happened now unless you get a lot of.
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  I would go, I would go. I would go with no cameos.
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  I would go with them saying Mike Myers is only playing Austin
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  Powers and Doctor Evil, none of the other characters and no
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  fifth character. I would still be like, Hell's
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  yeah, let's go. They could say there will be no
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  other characters that you know and love from the franchise, and
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  I would still go to the theaters to watch Austin Powers 4 because
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  that's the power that franchises have on me.
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  OK, well, yeah, I'd probably skip it.
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  That's Fair. Written by Mike Myers and
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  Michael Mccullers. That was the same duo as last
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  Time and Again directed by Jay Roach.
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  I've got to tell you, I have to be honest with you, I think this
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  was a fantastic cold open into an intro theme song.
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  I loved it 10 out of 10 on the very beginning of this movie.
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  Well, my major problem with it was it's so average.
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  It's like 5 out of 10 for me. No, I after I get over my
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  confusion, I appreciated the fact that they have Tom Cruise
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  Gwyneth Paltrow. Except I will say Gwyneth
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  Paltrow was was she meant to be the stand in for for Heather
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  Graham? No, she's a totally new
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  character. OK, I was like everybody else
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  kind of exists in this universe already.
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  Danny DeVito has mini me. Kevin Spacey is Doctor Evil is a
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  little ironic so. I was gonna say they Anytime I
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  watch Kevin Spacey be a bad guy, I'm always like, ah, yeah.
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  So I think those are the main ones there.
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  They didn't have like Rob Lowe as that would be.
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  I think that'd be fun if it was Rob Lowe at #2 but.
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  I mean after the Austin pussy then we get Steven Spielberg.
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  It started being like, this is a little, it felt like the skits
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  they put on at the Oscars where Ben Stiller was his Tom Cruise's
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  stunt double. And it's like, well, maybe that
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  was in this vein of where they were going with it, OK.
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  Yeah, maybe. Maybe I I genuinely chuckled out
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  loud when a stand in for Steven Spielberg started back flipping
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  during the demonstration of Mojo.
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  I I don't know why that tickled me so much.
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  I knew it wasn't the real Steven Spielberg back flipping, but I
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  chuckled very hard at the concept of Spielberg being
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  overcome by Mojo. Yeah, I I chuckled too.
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  And the other producer or whatever else doing a backflip
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  to match the the ensemble dance. Mm hmm.
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  At least he had his dance intro again.
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  Well, here's the thing. I had a great time with it.
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  I had a great time with meeting Quincy Jones.
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  The the one sour part, it's not taking me down from a 10 out of
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  10 intro, but the one sour part was when we had the extended
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  Britney Spears section where she reveals herself as a fembot.
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  Like great, we got another fembot joke, but it wasn't a
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  very good Britney Spears song. I don't remember the song even.
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  Something about boys it yeah, it wasn't a very good one.
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  And I will admit I'm not a very big Britney fan.
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  But then there's Toxic, which is one of the greatest songs ever
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  written and. You would.
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  Have to be an idiot to not say. Like I will whistle that anytime
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  it comes to mind. Pops into my head more
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  frequently than I would care to admit.
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  It's a banger of a song. So because I know.
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  Because I know that she has this incredible song in her.
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  I'm like, why'd they pick this dud?
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  I don't know. Yeah, I'm trying to think if
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  there's anything else from that intro that was displeasing.
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  It is all right. It was about normal.
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  I guess if I have to say something that I love about it
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  is Austin Powers never got naked, and that's OK.
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  That gag was completely done away with of the repeated jokes
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  in this movie. They did not repeat the overly
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  complicated blocking of covering nudity.
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  Yeah, that's OK. I'm OK.
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  Like they didn't do. I feel like they didn't do as
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  much interaction with poop, they just did a bunch of like fart
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  jokes. Several fart jokes.
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  Lots of piss are or pee if. If the other word is offensive,
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  we'll. See see what YouTube says.
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  I was going to say if if anyone gets upset about it I will try
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  to retroactively censor it, but for now it's it's remaining
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  uncensored. Oh, would you call the intro?
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  How far does the intro go? Like 'cause that people like,
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  says a plan and. I was gonna say, I think it goes
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  to the end of the theme song and then we go into act one with the
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  plan and the busting. No, Dad, I think they did a
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  decent job of finding kind of the same profile of a face in
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  Michael Caine. Like, OK, that's that's semi
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  believable for him to be related to Austin Bowers.
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  I thought that was fantastic casting and I thought it was a
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  great justification for what I said like 2 weeks ago when I was
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  like, it's not based on James Bond, it's based on Michael
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  Caine. And there's Michael Caine
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  playing the father. But I do have to say, give me a
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  moment because someone said exactly that.
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  And I was like, dude, I don't remember that movie.
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  OK, so Estuary under score wave on TikTok was like when I said I
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  think he's based on Michael Caine, he said, I mean, who's
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  his father in the third movie? And now we know his father is
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  Michael Caine. We're watching these movies,
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  people. How are we supposed to know the
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  future? I watched this movie 20 years
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  ago. I don't remember everything
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  about it. Don't.
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  Remember the past, OK? I I don't think I had even an
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  inkling that Michael Caine was in this at all.
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  And it showed. Completely completely slipped my
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  mind and I'm trying to think anything else.
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  I also had a view of the movie where Goldmember.
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  Like in my memory Goldmember was a much bigger villain than he
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  actually turned out to be. Like I thought he turned main
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  villain like halfway through the movie.
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  Apparently not. Nope.
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  It's like the very beginning and the very end.
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  He's really a nothing character with 11 disgusting quirk that he
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  does like two or three times. And so like, I don't even know
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  why it's in the movie. It's just to be gross, whatever,
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  but we meet him in this intro with or not intro with.
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  At the beginning of the movie when Doctor Evil is giving away
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  the plans, he talks about how he I guess he gave Goldmember a
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  time machine because Goldmember hides in 1975.
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  Gets captured but Goldmember makes use of the thing which
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  with a time machine you could turn it on whenever I guess.
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  But I think continuity and logical planning is not the
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  strong suit of the Powers franchise.
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  So. I mean, to the franchise's
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  credit, all three movies have been time travel movies.
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  The first one being, you know, you get cryogenically frozen in
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  order to travel to the future, and then the next two are actual
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  time machines. Hug.
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  But you know, it is what it is. We've got, like you said, we got
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  the capture, we got the no dad because Austin Powers got
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  knighted. That's not even a big deal in
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  this movie. Nobody calls him Sir Austin
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  Powers. I feel like it's mostly to say,
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  oh, his dad is not there, Yeah. I so I'm just going along for
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  the movie. I'm like, all right, it's fine.
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  It's got a good in like it's interesting.
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  I'm thinking about how in the Bond movies, in some of them, I
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  can't remember which Roger Moore one it was, but they
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  specifically had a reference to Blofeld.
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  They just never showed his face or said his name, but they
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  killed him off in the the cold open with a helicopter.
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  And so I was, I was like, all right, maybe this is an illusion
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  to that where they're like, here's the villain from one of
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  the last movies. We're going to lock them up so
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  you can focus on the new villain.
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  And if that had been the case, I probably would have liked this
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  movie more. Except for no reason whatsoever,
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  Doctor Evil gets transferred from his isolation cube into
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  general population. Like they gave OH for the
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  exchange for the information about Goldmember with toilets
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  obviously in the past. Fine, send.
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  Me to a different place, but yeah, I mean.
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  All right, that works. You're I was being unfair.
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  I was sitting here like, then what was the point of that
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  little isolation prison? Yeah, it felt very X-Men Magneto
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  esque. Which this likely was making
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  right around, yeah. What's something else that I
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  like about the first act? Because so far like the setup
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  for Gold member to be the bad guy and it's OK.
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  Oh I did enjoy the back in time Doctor Evil and Austin Powers as
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  kids. Mainly because I don't know if
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  they did the voice overs, but Dang, the kids did amazing.
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  They did great. Pretending to be them.
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  Yeah, I genuinely hope that those were like those kids
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  voices and they were just doing their best version.
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  And Basil. Too.
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  Yeah, like #2 Basil, like. They're both so good.
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  Oh man. Like commit to the bit.
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  And they did it 'cause it could be like, oh, you know, we're
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  gonna try and play this a little bit realistic and serious.
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  No, no, this is just the script for Doctor Evil and Austin
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  Powers on these different actors.
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  And part of the school's award is International Man of Mystery.
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  It's a title that gets given to a teenager.
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  Yeah. Like I genuinely loved that
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  entire flashback. Like it was good.
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  Yes. One of the things that I I will
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  often say is like even in a movie I didn't like, there can
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  be brilliant and great things. And for me, most of it, like
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  almost all of it if I'm honest, is loaded in the front.
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  I loved the cold open with the big stars, I loved the musical
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  sequence, and I loved this flashback.
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  I genuinely thought all three of those were really great moments
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  in this movie. Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
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  Oh, because the knighted. We don't see his dad.
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  I was like, why are we back in time anyway?
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  Oh, because his dad has not been there.
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  Also the thing, because he's talking to Doctor Evil.
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  OK, I was like, when did that all happen?
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  Meanwhile, Austin's remembering it and Doctor Evil's just take
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  another P Yeah, which big theme of the movie?
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  Yes, P is the theme of this movie, but I OK, I'm not a big
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  fan of the Freudian slips 'cause they're not all Freudian.
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  It's just like when the characters cannot get past
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  certain ideas. It starts here with Austin's
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  daddy issues where he keeps plugging something in and then
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  later on everybody gets obsessed with the mole and I.
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  So I've got mixed feelings on those.
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  I I usually don't find it that clever.
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  I kind of find the dad 1 funny. But then beyond that I'm just
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  like, no, the joke is done. And it's like now you're just
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  making fun of someone's physical appearance.
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  Like I'm not enjoying it as much, but having them come back
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  from the flashback to Austin kind of in this wistful or I
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  guess like his face is just, you know, 1,000,000 miles away, just
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  in dreamland. Naturally, if you had if you
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  were in a conversation with someone who just drifted off,
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  you go do your own thing. And in this case, Doctor Evil
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  had to take a leak like so I I did find that a little silly,
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  like just the concept of it, that Austin for this entire
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  period of a flashback, has just been standing still and staring
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  at the ceiling. Yeah, I enjoyed the flashback
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  itself, kinda just not laughing as hard for the rest of the the
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  conversation. But after that, at least they're
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  starting to go back in time, I think.
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  I do think Austin Powers does better in the past time periods.
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  I agree with you there. Interesting cryogenically frozen
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  past persons in the modern days out of fish, out of water and
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  like, well, it doesn't really do too much.
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  It's all oh, Austin, you can't be that way.
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  Well, he's awkward and weird, let him be that way back when he
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  existed. So I think it works better that
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  way. I agree, I I find I find him
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  less entertaining when he's fish out of water.
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  I, I really think the first movie is probably the worst
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  movie. And the hyper confident Austin
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  is the character that I came to see.
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  And he, I feel like he's, he's come alive for the whole movie.
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  But when he's in his element and he's back in the past and we've
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  got Beyoncé, I think that's that's when this thing starts to
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  get better. I mean, Beyoncé's not bad
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  throughout this whole thing. I think she sticks to her
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  character and motivations that way.
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  I I think I don't, I didn't realise how much I enjoy the
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  bits and pieces I get of Nathan Lane.
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  Right, yes, but right here, right.
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  It's like, I do like this guy, like he's great.
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  He doesn't say a word. Anything.
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  Yeah. Which is he emotes with his face
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  so much that it's perfect for the absurd.
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  Oh, Beyoncé is a spy. She can't be seen talking to
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  Austin Powers, which is a little bit of spy logic that you put in
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  other movies. And it's like, Oh yeah, sure,
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  I'll say that maybe overshadows all of the introduction of Gold
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  member, because I'd forgotten the gold member is being
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  introduced in this and only remembered that Beyoncé talks to
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  Austin Powers through Nathan Lane.
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  Yeah, like there's this whole extended skate sequence for Gold
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  member where he's doing a whole little thing and I don't care
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  about any of it because Nathan Lane tried to make out with
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  Austin Powers and he's so good. He's probably, well, I don't
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  know if I'd say, OK, I will say it.
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  I think he's the best cameo in this whole movie.
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  I don't think he should be listed as a cameo, even though
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  he's in one scene with a non speaking role.
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  And he's really just there for the people who are like, hey,
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  that's Nathan Lane. His character is critical to the
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  movie and he's fantastic in it. Yeah, I I really enjoyed Nathan
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  Lane in this this scene. And I've got to say, for Beyoncé
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  as a whole, I think she put her everything in this movie.
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  I don't know if this movie was as good to her as she was to
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  this movie. Sure.
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  Yeah, I feel like she's really putting it out there, and maybe
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  I'm just a bigger fan of her than I want to admit to being.
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  Yeah, I think that's fair. I think I don't know if I've
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  seen her in any other movie role.
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  So the fact that it's Austin Powers is like, she signed on
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  for this and that's that's decent.
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  That's like, yeah. And then she did a great job
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  with her parts. I the only criticism I have of
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  the entire performance from her and it's probably not her fault
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  but it's that forced kiss at the end where she is well.
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  They do. They they have a very brief Peck
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  on the lips. Yeah.
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  I don't know which one of them was uncomfortable with it, but
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  clearly one of them was. Not Nathan Lane.
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  That was a better one, yes. Well, looks like Beyoncé started
• 28:51
  acting in 2001 and she has done it off and on all the way to
• 28:55
  2024. So she is a genuine actress.
• 29:00
  And I do remember because I saw it on the list, she was in Dream
• 29:04
  Girls and I never saw that. But I do remember that having a
• 29:09
  lot of trailers and a big marketing push when it happened.
• 29:15
  Is there any other one that I might have seen?
• 29:17
  I'm like, I don't. Know well she was in the 2019
• 29:21
  Lion King I didn't watch. That animated well.
• 29:27
  Yeah, the the air quotes live action, that is all computer
• 29:32
  animated, yeah. Well, maybe we'll do a
• 29:38
  franchise, but she's in again. We'll see.
• 29:41
  Yeah, we will see. We will see if we make it that
• 29:44
  far. Foxy Cleopatra is her
• 29:48
  character's name. I think she's based on is it
• 29:52
  Foxy Jones or Roxy Jones. I have no idea.
• 29:57
  Foxy Brown No, that's not it. That's a rapper.
• 30:02
  I think it is Foxy Jones. I gotta look this up, I didn't
• 30:07
  didn't know she was what do you call it based?
• 30:12
  On it is Foxy Brown. OK, so in the 70s, that was the
• 30:17
  film period that people often call Blaxploitation, where you
• 30:21
  had a lot of directors who were willing to put black people on
• 30:24
  film because the civil rights movement allowed it to happen,
• 30:28
  essentially. And so a lot of actors who could
• 30:32
  be hired for cheap were getting their shot.
• 30:35
  And Pam Grier was one of them, where she was the action star
• 30:40
  Foxy Brown in this. It almost felt like a spy
• 30:46
  thriller, but it isn't. It's about this vigilante who
• 30:52
  goes on the streets as a prostitute in order to get close
• 30:56
  to mob mobsters and kill them. Like it is such an.
• 31:03
  Interesting. It really is.
• 31:06
  And it I think it's technically part of a franchise because why
• 31:13
  can I never? Quentin Tarantino did Jackie
• 31:19
  Brown the movie and it also starred Pam Grier as Miss Brown,
• 31:28
  although I don't think she is Foxy Brown anymore.
• 31:31
  I think she's a totally different character.
• 31:34
  But it's another good movie. Pam Grier again, we'll see if if
• 31:39
  people are willing to call the Brown movies a franchise, then I
• 31:44
  will force you to watch them with me.
• 31:47
  People will find copies somewhere.
• 31:50
  Oh, we absolutely will. They are classics.
• 31:56
  All right. Well, I think that's all of Act
• 31:58
  One. Are you ready to go to Act 2?
• 32:00
  Let. Me see what would qualify as
• 32:03
  still act one because they do find Austin's dad Goldmember
• 32:11
  manages to escape in his time machine thing.
• 32:14
  Right, we forgot all about that. I mean, that's where it's like
• 32:18
  the name of this show is Goldmember and we've focused on
• 32:23
  Beyoncé and Nathan Lane and Michael Caine, so.
• 32:28
  Well, what did you think of when Michael Caine and Mike Myers
• 32:32
  started speaking English? I tried to follow it.
• 32:38
  I'd also watch movies with subtitles just so I could know
• 32:42
  what they're saying. So it kind of got all jumbled up
• 32:44
  for me. Yes, I do the same.
• 32:47
  I kept looking up and down at the, you know, the hearing
• 32:50
  impaired subtitles versus the joke subtitles.
• 32:54
  Right. Like for the subtitles, I didn't
• 32:57
  actively dislike it, but it was a little confusing.
• 33:02
  I think in the theatre it probably would have come across
• 33:05
  fine. Oh.
• 33:06
  Yeah, but would have played very well.
• 33:08
  Don't know what they really talked about.
• 33:11
  They were trying to decide if Austin would should leave him
• 33:16
  alone with the women that are there, I think.
• 33:20
  And then they just started reminiscing about old
• 33:23
  Christmases. Like, yeah, it's interesting.
• 33:28
  I did get a chuckle out of it because until they started
• 33:32
  speaking gibberish where they weren't actually talking, they
• 33:36
  were just making some noises. My ears were doing a fairly good
• 33:40
  job of following because I've, I've tried to watch, you know,
• 33:45
  some, some cultured stuff out there, including some British
• 33:51
  stuff. So, you know, I thought it was
• 33:56
  clever. I thought it was a fun little
• 33:58
  moment. But you're right.
• 33:59
  It all just leads up to them being captured.
• 34:02
  So that. Yeah.
• 34:04
  They can go back to the future. I'm trying to to remember at
• 34:09
  which point it happens because my only beef with it is at some
• 34:17
  point I want to say Cleopatra and Austin Powers and Nigel are
• 34:24
  talking about Gold member and Nigel says he hates people that
• 34:33
  are intolerant of other cultures and the Dutch.
• 34:36
  And I was like, isn't that just the Seinfeld joke?
• 34:40
  Didn't he already do that joke? I don't remember that.
• 34:45
  No, I feel like the George Costanza says the same exact
• 34:48
  thing, but I. I genuinely don't remember that.
• 34:52
  I thought that was a totally original and amazing joke.
• 34:56
  I I laughed. No, I didn't laugh so hard.
• 35:00
  I chuckled again. I went.
• 35:04
  I'm thinking about it now as being a funnier moment than I
• 35:07
  think it was in the actual thing.
• 35:09
  'Cause I feel like I'd heard it before and I didn't know that I
• 35:12
  would have heard it second hand from Austin Powers.
• 35:17
  Maybe it's original, yeah. There there are a few jokes in
• 35:24
  this movie that have withstood the test of time, and I think
• 35:29
  the number one is how about no from Doctor Evil?
• 35:37
  But it's very possible because I'm pretty sure I have heard
• 35:41
  twins, basil twins from lots of people and I just never realised
• 35:48
  that they were referencing Austin Powers, you know?
• 35:52
  I mean, Google's saying that it came from this Michael Caine I.
• 35:57
  Was like it just. Feel man, I must have heard it
• 36:01
  second hand and attributed it to Seinfeld because they do have
• 36:05
  the Dutch thing where George is confused about the Netherlands
• 36:08
  and the Dutch and I guess I thought it sounded like it came
• 36:13
  from there. My apologies to the writer of
• 36:17
  Austin Powers in gold number. Can I have some original jokes?
• 36:22
  On your really good joke, I. Well, let's get back to the
• 36:30
  present, because Doctor Evil also escapes and I, I genuinely
• 36:35
  thought. That the song and stuff.
• 36:38
  Yes, I thought all of that was going to end up being a dream
• 36:42
  sequence and that when Doctor Evil came to, someone was going
• 36:47
  to start fighting him and that was going to be the start of the
• 36:51
  riot that he needed to escape. Nope.
• 36:55
  He really did a song and dance number and it convinced all of
• 37:00
  the prisoners to do what he said.
• 37:03
  Yep, and then he immediately got caught.
• 37:06
  But it's OK because he did get away.
• 37:11
  Like, I don't know, I think that whole section got lost on me
• 37:16
  'cause like they're singing, I don't remember.
• 37:23
  I think they're just him and Minnie me in a prison.
• 37:29
  They get out and like all of the escape is on a, I don't know,
• 37:35
  like a side screen. I don't know what you call it,
• 37:37
  just an overlay. Yeah.
• 37:40
  We don't want to take up our budget with this, so stand in
• 37:43
  front of a wall and we will. We'll take.
• 37:47
  Put a spotlight on you. Yeah, we'll show you riding away
• 37:50
  on a motorcycle that's like Batman and Robin.
• 37:55
  Oh see, I don't even remember that I was hung up on the
• 37:58
  spotlight on Doctor Evil in the mini spotlight on mini new and
• 38:03
  I, that was the only thing in my head was like they were caught.
• 38:06
  Why did they get away? I completely.
• 38:09
  They got away. That they got away.
• 38:13
  Yeah, so dumb it it doesn't come back at all.
• 38:18
  So no, whenever something doesn't come back, I always
• 38:21
  wonder, am I missing the context of the time period where there
• 38:25
  was some sort of prison video? Like is this when The Office
• 38:29
  happened and did their prison Mike or who was it?
• 38:37
  Michael Scott? Yeah, I think they do a music
• 38:41
  video for one of the the episodes.
• 38:45
  Yeah, I'm looking that up to see when that when that was 'cause
• 38:49
  I'm like how when Prison Mike did that happen?
• 38:53
  Because Prison Break, the show happened in 2005, so they're
• 39:00
  definitely not referencing that. Why won't anyone give me a?
• 39:07
  Date. The original air dates, they're
• 39:10
  like, this is the season, this is the episode, and I'm like,
• 39:13
  no, I want to know. 2006 is what I'm finding for season 3
• 39:20
  November. 30th. When did this one?
• 39:22
  Come out 30th 2006 and we are in 2002.
• 39:26
  OK, well. So everybody's just copying
• 39:30
  Austin Powers, I guess. I.
• 39:32
  Guess that's where I feel like. This movie's more original than
• 39:37
  we want to give it credit. For we're not trying to take it
• 39:39
  out of context, but we have to because this is 2026 or 2025
• 39:45
  and. You're jumping ahead.
• 39:47
  No jumping ahead on us. I wish it was over.
• 39:52
  Yes, yeah. So we get our our submarine.
• 39:58
  I I kind of like that Scott is getting a redemption arc in this
• 40:09
  movie where like he's finally starting to.
• 40:14
  Bond with his evil father. It's not bad.
• 40:19
  I think it's it it makes it easier that we're all kind of
• 40:23
  done with the shutting up Scott. Like, let him do something
• 40:28
  different. Let's find a new joke, OK?
• 40:33
  Yep, and he brought sharks with lasers on their head so.
• 40:37
  Yeah, I did applaud that because it was like, good job, you did
• 40:42
  the thing #2 couldn't do. Yeah, we finally got him.
• 40:46
  And this also sets up the betrayal of mini me.
• 40:55
  And he gets pushed out of second place and somehow ends up on
• 41:00
  team powers. It's when Goldmember meets up
• 41:06
  with them and delivers Nigel and Minnie.
• 41:11
  Me is the one who escorts him to prison or the Brig or whatever.
• 41:16
  And Nigel's like, I think, oh, the brain to this operation.
• 41:21
  That was my worst. Michael Caine than I have.
• 41:24
  Ever done? I used to have a pretty good
• 41:28
  Michael Caine and that that was horrible.
• 41:33
  Anyway, that's that's the impetus for betrayal.
• 41:37
  And then it's #3 who actually gets him out?
• 41:43
  We haven't talked about Fred Savage at all.
• 41:45
  Oh yeah, he is a double agent spy.
• 41:50
  He has a mole on his face, and so he is technically a mole in a
• 41:56
  different organization and everybody can't take their eyes
• 42:00
  off of the mole 1. Yeah.
• 42:04
  And frankly, Austin is the worst of them because yes, Doctor Evil
• 42:10
  is also put off by the mole, but he moves on, whereas Austin
• 42:17
  cannot ever move on from it. And I'm like, I kind of hate
• 42:22
  Austin the way he's a jerk. Yep, yeah, I'm trying to think
• 42:29
  of what even purpose the mole serves for.
• 42:36
  He's the convenient information exchange for the movie.
• 42:41
  Whenever Basil Exposition needs to send Austin on his way, it's
• 42:47
  because Mole has or #3 has given us information, OK?
• 42:54
  And he's the one who brings mini me to Austin's apartment for
• 42:59
  that fight. I'm trying to think of whether
• 43:03
  how necessary that was. Oh, we need a joke character.
• 43:08
  Like OK. We need callbacks.
• 43:12
  There are two of them in this movie.
• 43:14
  We've got Doctor Evil saying you and I are not so different,
• 43:18
  calling back to International Man of Mystery and then the
• 43:22
  peace sign from Mini Me calling back to the Spy who shagged Me.
• 43:27
  It's strange that we have to do that.
• 43:31
  Yeah, I don't know how much we need Fred Savage having a mole
• 43:40
  and then jokes at the expense of him for the mole.
• 43:44
  Like OK. I think Fred Savage was great in
• 43:52
  this movie and I am. I am going to take myself back
• 43:56
  to 2002, when at that time Fred Savage was former child star
• 44:03
  Fred Savage. Like, nobody saw him as an actor
• 44:08
  anymore. People still have a hard time
• 44:11
  seeing him as an actor. I think that's the reason he's
• 44:13
  now mostly a director and a producer.
• 44:17
  Like, I think it's because nobody takes him seriously as an
• 44:20
  actor. But I think he was good in this.
• 44:23
  I think, oh man, who who's that guy from Malcolm in the Middle?
• 44:27
  The guy who played the dad where he said like, the key to comedy
• 44:33
  is the actor doesn't know he's being or the character doesn't
• 44:36
  know he's being funny. And I think Fred Savage embodies
• 44:40
  that in this role. I'm just going to stand up for
• 44:45
  him. I'm going to say Fred Savage,
• 44:47
  thumbs up. Yes, he did a good job.
• 44:50
  The other interactions are. Unnecessary self did a bad job.
• 44:59
  I don't know, like how do you make it funnier?
• 45:01
  It's. I, I don't, I don't know.
• 45:05
  And that's what sucks is they, they, they made his entire
• 45:09
  character the gimmick of a mole. And it's like, come on, like he
• 45:14
  really could have been used for something interesting.
• 45:18
  I mean for as odd, awkward, those two or three.
• 45:25
  I don't know how many times they obsess over his mole.
• 45:30
  Can can we get a time machine and just cut the mini scene with
• 45:41
  Nigel talking about his gold member?
• 45:46
  Oh. My gosh.
• 45:48
  What the hell is going on? I don't know what this there
• 45:53
  for, but I do think there's a lot of completely.
• 45:55
  Forgot it. Being that there's a lot of
• 45:58
  penis jokes in this movie, there are.
• 46:01
  And, you know, good on the movie saying that that he's got a
• 46:06
  third leg. You know, of all the ways that
• 46:11
  you could take that joke. I thought that was hilarious,
• 46:15
  especially when we got to the mid credits sequence or mid
• 46:22
  credits scenes where Britney Spears is asking about it.
• 46:25
  I. Just think the setup getting
• 46:29
  there is like, Nigel, what are you doing?
• 46:33
  You're asking about how's your penis doing.
• 46:37
  It's like OK. Why is that where you go to, Mr.
• 46:43
  Ballas? I know you were right.
• 46:46
  I don't know what do you call it just like Austin, but.
• 46:51
  Yeah, a horny spy, but why? Are we talking to mini me about
• 46:56
  this? Feel like it's so awkward.
• 46:59
  I time machine go back. I don't think we need this.
• 47:04
  Yeah, I'm trying to think I, I think I would say this, you
• 47:09
  know, that's probably all of Act 2.
• 47:11
  There's probably some things that we're missing here and
• 47:14
  there, but I can't really think of anything that.
• 47:17
  Let me whip out my notes because I was wrong about the Seinfeld
• 47:26
  joke like. Let's see what else you're wrong
• 47:30
  about, right? Like is the is the peeling skin
• 47:36
  a a shot at the Dutch or something 'cause don't never
• 47:41
  have peel skin. It's like this part's just
• 47:45
  gross. What is?
• 47:46
  Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with anything.
• 47:50
  I think because they had a gross thing about Fat Bastard, they
• 47:56
  wanted to have a gross thing about a gold member Speaking of
• 48:00
  Fat Bastard. Here he comes movie.
• 48:02
  Also I I appreciate that they brought in the sumo wrestlers
• 48:07
  angle from Jay's bond. I was like this is what super
• 48:12
  spies do. Apparently in the 70s they go to
• 48:15
  a sumo wrestling match, but fat bastards they're working on
• 48:19
  being a wrestler and proceeds to have all sorts of jokes about
• 48:26
  poop and it. I'm not the biggest fan of poop
• 48:32
  jokes. I'm not the biggest fan of Fat
• 48:36
  Bastard. True in general, just don't
• 48:40
  think he works. They do have a crocodile walk
• 48:43
  from James Bond, but it's over other sumos.
• 48:46
  So I do appreciate the little nods that they do put into that.
• 48:49
  Like I guess most of the spaceship scenes or when there
• 48:54
  was space could point to like Moonraker and whatnot, but.
• 48:57
  Oh yeah, for sure. And this one, this one's
• 49:01
  pointing to a lot of movies. It's not just one, but yeah,
• 49:05
  it's Live and Let Die that has the crocodile run the the racist
• 49:10
  one that was that was probably the best part of the racist one.
• 49:17
  I There are two things that I like about this Fat Bastard
• 49:23
  sequence. Three things.
• 49:25
  I'm gonna say three things. And the first one is more to do
• 49:32
  with something that I heard a few years ago.
• 49:35
  I don't even remember which podcast it was, but I was just
• 49:37
  listening to a podcast and it was talking about the corruption
• 49:41
  that is inherent in the sport of sumo wrestling.
• 49:45
  And the main thing that they point at is the fact that in
• 49:49
  most sports the best person always does their best.
• 49:53
  But in sumo, you can get kicked out of the sport if you don't do
• 49:57
  well enough. And people will become friends
• 50:00
  with other people. And so they will throw matches
• 50:03
  in order to keep their friends in the professional league
• 50:08
  rather than, you know, doing their best and getting rid of
• 50:11
  the worst and allowing new people to come in.
• 50:14
  They try to keep it all inside. And I don't remember where I
• 50:18
  heard that. It's, It was a podcast many
• 50:21
  years ago. And I thought it was
• 50:23
  interesting, the fact that Fat Bastard was like, I'm trying to
• 50:26
  go legit, but like, nobody takes me seriously.
• 50:30
  I was like, yeah, I mean, of course you would have to pay
• 50:33
  someone off. That's what people do today.
• 50:36
  Like there are bribes that happen today in sumo wrestling.
• 50:41
  So of course. But they didn't make anything
• 50:43
  out of that. They it was a throwaway line at
• 50:46
  a time that they probably didn't even care about corruption in
• 50:49
  sports. So they like, I like it more
• 50:52
  than the movie, probably liked that line.
• 50:56
  Second thing I liked was Foxy picking out her Afro.
• 51:01
  Like we cut to her once and she's got a ponytail with her,
• 51:05
  her Afro pick, and then we cut to her again and she's got her
• 51:08
  beautiful Afro back out. And I just chuckled at that.
• 51:12
  I was like, OK, I like that. I like that they're like, and
• 51:16
  she's back to her 70s look. And then the thing I probably
• 51:21
  like the most was the broken wire.
• 51:25
  I thought that was kind of funny.
• 51:27
  Yeah, that, that wasn't too bad. I think I missed the the picking
• 51:31
  out of the hair it. Really is a blink and you miss
• 51:35
  it 'cause they cut to her and she's doing nothing, but she's
• 51:38
  got her hair pick and she's pointing at something for
• 51:43
  Austin. And then when we cut back to
• 51:45
  her, her Afro is out and she's got her gun out and she's ready
• 51:49
  to join in, but she's like not part of the fight because she
• 51:54
  has to do her hair. It's a dumb thing.
• 51:56
  It doesn't matter. I liked it.
• 51:59
  Nobody else has to. I guess next dumb thing is Domo
• 52:07
  Arigato, Mr. Roboto, they talked to him just so they could do
• 52:11
  subtitle jokes and that's part of the bad doctor evil plan.
• 52:17
  But like, he's just there as maybe a continuation of the
• 52:22
  James Bond jokes, but. Maybe you could point to You
• 52:28
  Only Live Twice with that Japanese businessman who turned
• 52:35
  out to be subservient to Blofeld.
• 52:38
  Maybe you could point out point to that, but it feels like the
• 52:43
  character only exists for the subtitle joke and it sucks and I
• 52:49
  don't like it that much It there's parts that made me the
• 52:54
  very end made me chuckle, but I otherwise I was like, uh, like.
• 53:02
  And during that, Austin has his bad teeth again.
• 53:07
  Yeah, all the time. Now that you point that out, he
• 53:10
  had good teeth at the very beginning.
• 53:13
  They went to bad teeth when he went to the 70s.
• 53:16
  And so I thought he had good teeth again in the present,
• 53:20
  unless Mr. or Roboto, I don't remember his title.
• 53:25
  If Roboto exists in the 70s, there's like, I don't know, I
• 53:30
  don't know. There's so much time shenanigans
• 53:33
  in this that like, I don't know how to keep it all track.
• 53:37
  Yep, I don't know what time period we're supposed to be
• 53:42
  getting. I think 2002 is where their
• 53:45
  Doctor Evil exists because gold number went back in time.
• 53:48
  But. And I thought that when
• 53:51
  Goldmember took Nigel Powers back to 2002, I thought we
• 53:55
  stayed in 2002. It's possible that Mr. Roboto is
• 54:03
  happening in the past, but I don't remember anyone saying
• 54:07
  that he's building this critical component in 1973, like or 72 or
• 54:13
  whatever they said. So to me, his bad teeth just
• 54:18
  showed up arbitrarily and I don't know why that's what it
• 54:22
  felt like. That's what it felt like, 'cause
• 54:28
  yeah, I don't know. Yes, it's a, it's a comedy show.
• 54:34
  That plot isn't necessarily important, but I I think there's
• 54:42
  just a lot of pee jokes between now and them getting captured.
• 54:47
  Yeah, I completely skipped over the fountain.
• 54:50
  Yep. It's an extended pee joke.
• 54:56
  That was funny for a moment, and then it just kept going and then
• 55:04
  you thought it was done and then it went on again like.
• 55:10
  Think, I mean, we could skip over a lot of things because
• 55:13
  it's just gold car, gold key. Well, yeah, there's there's the
• 55:21
  car chase that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it's a
• 55:27
  car chase in a spy movie. So yeah, check the.
• 55:30
  Box think that the next thing that would make me stop and say
• 55:35
  Oh yeah I enjoyed seeing this silly joke is mini me is
• 55:44
  defecting because he got pushed out because of the laser sharks
• 55:48
  etcetera and Austin doesn't know that he's defecting and they
• 55:54
  start a broken bottle fight and mini me grabs the minibar bottle
• 55:59
  and breaks it because Austin is broken the regular size bottle
• 56:04
  OK that's cute for like. It's a it's a pretty good visual
• 56:09
  gag there like this. This movie has a couple of
• 56:12
  really good gags and then a lot of repeated gags.
• 56:16
  And I think the repeated gags make me a little bit harder on
• 56:20
  the movie really fast. The Godzilla joke.
• 56:25
  I do want to point out that we get these appearances from, at
• 56:31
  that time, relative nobodies Brian T and Masi Oka.
• 56:40
  And Brian T I've seen a few times, but I don't I I think the
• 56:44
  only show of his that I watched even a little bit of was
• 56:48
  Entourage. And then he's appeared in a few
• 56:50
  movies here and there, usually as the the strong silent bad
• 56:55
  guy. Which one's he?
• 56:58
  But say that again. Which one is he in the Godzilla
• 57:02
  shot? He's the first one.
• 57:05
  He's the first guy who's like, Oh no, it's Godzilla.
• 57:08
  And then Masi Oka comes up next and he's like, no, it's yeah,
• 57:15
  it's legally distinct. And he's from Heroes.
• 57:18
  And I loved Hero from Heroes like he was.
• 57:23
  I think I only watched the first two seasons of that show and
• 57:27
  Hero was my favorite character for the entire time that I
• 57:31
  watched it. Like when I saw.
• 57:33
  Seasons worth watching. Yes, so the entire movie is
• 57:39
  worth watching just so you can see Brian T and Masayoka as tiny
• 57:45
  cameos and not even cameos 'cause they're not in the cameo
• 57:49
  list, they are just extras. Doing a nice, doing a nice job
• 57:54
  of telling us the punchline, I guess.
• 57:58
  Yeah, yeah. Let's see.
• 58:02
  They do a different take on the flying Johnson where it's the
• 58:06
  radar and people that are trying to say.
• 58:11
  Is boobs. Boobs, various different
• 58:14
  phrases. I don't think it flows quite as
• 58:16
  well, but I definitely on the radar.
• 58:20
  They that's what they looked like before they even started
• 58:23
  the gag. I was like, oh, here it comes.
• 58:25
  Yep, Yep, exactly. I think the thing that is the
• 58:29
  weakest of that gag, it's already a weak gag because it's
• 58:33
  a repeated joke from the last movie.
• 58:36
  But then to have the Osbournes from their hit 2002 television
• 58:43
  reality show telling us that this is a repeated joke.
• 58:48
  I just, I didn't vibe with that. Rest in peace, Ozzy.
• 58:51
  You're you're a wonderful person.
• 58:54
  I didn't love that the bloopers more than the actual cut that
• 58:59
  they used. The bloopers were better because
• 59:03
  that was the charm of the Osbourne reality show was, you
• 59:08
  know, a, a, a brain fried Ozzy trying to interact with the
• 59:13
  modern world. And Ozzie never needed to do
• 59:16
  anything but be a rock star. And even up until like right
• 59:19
  before he died, he was still able to be a rock star.
• 59:23
  Like he's that was what he was good at.
• 59:26
  And he remained good at it up until he was not with us
• 59:30
  anymore. So I like at the time I was
• 59:32
  like, oh, poor Ozzy. He's like, he's not gonna make
• 59:35
  it. But he lasted another 20 years.
• 59:38
  Like he didn't need to know how to operate the television.
• 59:42
  He just needed to sing his songs and be awesome.
• 59:46
  Yep, I I didn't I didn't know exactly much of his exact music
• 59:54
  and influence, but it seems like he was a rock star.
• 59:59
  I would recommend going on a journey, whether it be starting
• 1:00:05
  with, well, yeah, definitely start with Black Sabbath because
• 1:00:08
  there are some incredible songs there.
• 1:00:10
  But then, you know, go into the Aussie days because it's a trip.
• 1:00:15
  Like I'm pretty sure he even continued to work with the
• 1:00:18
  guitarist from Black Sabbath on his solo career.
• 1:00:22
  So like, it feels like an extension of Black Sabbath.
• 1:00:26
  It's. It's very interesting and there
• 1:00:29
  are some undeniable hit songs that other people have covered.
• 1:00:34
  Black Sabbath has this song called War Pigs, and one of my
• 1:00:37
  favorite covers of all time is by Cake.
• 1:00:41
  I love their version of War Pigs, but I love both versions.
• 1:00:48
  I'll give it a try. I think I just remembered him
• 1:00:51
  from that TV series so. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:55
  And that's definitely what this is referencing.
• 1:00:56
  It is not a reference to Ozzy Osbourne the Rockstar.
• 1:00:59
  It is a reference to Ozzy Osbourne, the reality TV star.
• 1:01:03
  Yeah. And I I think that just dates
• 1:01:08
  it. It just sets it firmly in the
• 1:01:11
  early aughts. Yeah, I'm trying to think.
• 1:01:17
  I don't like there's stuff happening, but really we are
• 1:01:22
  winding down to Doctor. Evil's infiltration.
• 1:01:27
  Failing and Austin winning. Well, I mean, I I will say I I
• 1:01:36
  loved the very beginning. I kind of think that the second
• 1:01:40
  best element of this movie is the infiltration up until
• 1:01:46
  everybody's related to each other.
• 1:01:48
  But when they're infiltrating and mini me has that shadow gag
• 1:01:55
  with Austin, it's another repeated joke.
• 1:01:58
  But this time it worked for me. It tickled me.
• 1:02:01
  I thought it was pretty good. It was all right.
• 1:02:07
  I constantly not try to take the contrarian view, but it's like,
• 1:02:12
  well, the original light gag felt a lot like the blocking and
• 1:02:19
  naked scenes where it's funny, let's see how far they can go
• 1:02:24
  with it. And then like that's like that's
• 1:02:31
  where that's where it tends to lose me.
• 1:02:33
  It's like, oh, OK, that's that's happening.
• 1:02:38
  That's it's. So dumb, but I like it better
• 1:02:42
  than the last one. Like, OK, yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Because the last one, the only part that I thought was funny
• 1:02:49
  was when she picked up the bag and dropped the grenades so it
• 1:02:53
  looked like he was pooping grenades.
• 1:02:55
  Other than that, I was like, none of this conceptually makes
• 1:02:58
  sense. Like the way he's seated, the
• 1:03:01
  things that she's pulling out. Why are the guards freaking out
• 1:03:04
  about this? How could they possibly believe
• 1:03:07
  that a racquetball like racket? A racquetball racket.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah, thank you. How could they possibly believe
• 1:03:17
  that? That's getting shoved back up
• 1:03:19
  his rectum. But AI forget what it's called
• 1:03:25
  when you've got a muscle that can move on its own, like your
• 1:03:28
  tongue or an elephant's nose. Prehensile is that.
• 1:03:34
  Yes, a pre, because a prehensile tale would be one that you can
• 1:03:38
  move around, I think. But you know, a prehensile penis
• 1:03:42
  in the shadows, that works better for me than a racquetball
• 1:03:46
  racket. Yeah.
• 1:03:49
  I guess I can agree to that perspective.
• 1:03:53
  What a perspective to agree to it's.
• 1:03:56
  These these little NIT picky ideas that we got to find.
• 1:04:01
  I mean, if it hasn't come across, I haven't really enjoyed
• 1:04:07
  this one. Earlier in the movie, while
• 1:04:12
  Doctor Evil was in prison, he gave us his back story where he
• 1:04:16
  was a child who was in a a car explosion and then he was
• 1:04:21
  adopted by some evil Dutch who raised him to be as evil as
• 1:04:26
  possible. Here we come back and learn that
• 1:04:31
  no, it was a vacation and Nigel Powers is actually Doctor Evil's
• 1:04:38
  father and he thought that only Austin had survived.
• 1:04:42
  And when he discovered that Dougie survived, he saw that he
• 1:04:46
  had been adopted by the Dutch and could never get him back.
• 1:04:52
  When I said that Spectre had become a parody of itself, with
• 1:04:58
  the new Blofeld saying that he was Austin's brother, This was
• 1:05:03
  the movie I was talking about, Goldmember, where Doctor Evil
• 1:05:08
  suddenly becomes Austin's brother.
• 1:05:11
  Yeah, that's it's a bit of a surprise.
• 1:05:18
  I did not expect it to happen. I think they did OK.
• 1:05:25
  They did OK. And making it appear as how they
• 1:05:31
  would have both come to that, that knowledge like because they
• 1:05:37
  were just too little. So thought that Dougie had died,
• 1:05:42
  but then it it it fizzles it all like, OK, so they're brothers,
• 1:05:51
  OK. My beef with it is the fact that
• 1:05:55
  in the last movie, Doctor Evil was making the Star Wars joke of
• 1:06:00
  saying I am your father. And then he's like, I can't back
• 1:06:03
  that up. I don't, I don't have any
• 1:06:04
  evidence for that. And now suddenly we just, we
• 1:06:06
  discover not only did they go to school together and therefore
• 1:06:10
  Austin could never have believed that Doctor Evil was his father,
• 1:06:15
  but they were also brothers. Like, and it doesn't matter,
• 1:06:21
  it's a comedy movie. We don't need it to have lore or
• 1:06:25
  anything like that, no. It's just a little silly of A
• 1:06:30
  twist. Yep, it it allows us to have
• 1:06:35
  Doctor Evil become good. The balding Scott Evil run away
• 1:06:41
  like a girl. And yeah, just one more thing to
• 1:06:48
  throw in there for no reason. And then of course, the sudden
• 1:06:52
  turn for Gold member to be the main villain where his gold
• 1:06:57
  member was a backup key for some reason.
• 1:07:01
  Surprise. Yeah, 'cause they're what
• 1:07:08
  they're trying to do, tractor beam something.
• 1:07:10
  Then they were, oh, to make the ice caps, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:15
  But then they've managed to fix it and it is all OK.
• 1:07:22
  It's kind of cute. It's kind of cute when Austin's
• 1:07:26
  like, come on, Dougie, think of a plan.
• 1:07:29
  You are always the smart one. And Doctor Evil's like, well, I
• 1:07:34
  guess I could go and reverse the polarity.
• 1:07:36
  It kind of reminded me of those 70s cartoons where you had the
• 1:07:41
  the nerdy guy who had no confidence and he would be like,
• 1:07:45
  well, I guess I could just save the day and he's got the plan
• 1:07:50
  that's gonna save everything, but nobody cares 'cause he's the
• 1:07:52
  nerd. Like.
• 1:07:55
  So that part I thought was a cute nod to something I don't
• 1:07:59
  know, maybe only for me to laugh at.
• 1:08:03
  Yeah, I think I lost interest at the end because I don't know the
• 1:08:14
  end with the lame kiss, but I think that comes after John
• 1:08:19
  Travolta and Fat Bastard losing weight.
• 1:08:24
  And I like watch this like six hours ago and I have no
• 1:08:30
  recollection of what how it ends ends.
• 1:08:35
  They reverse the polarity, it electrocutes Goldmember.
• 1:08:38
  He falls down and then they're talking and Foxy's like freeze
• 1:08:43
  Goldmember and we cut back to him and we see that he's
• 1:08:46
  standing up, but then when he turns around, it's John Travolta
• 1:08:51
  as Goldmember and we have now cut to the premiere of Austin
• 1:08:57
  Pussy. No more conclusion to what was
• 1:09:02
  happening because I guess we caught Goldmember doesn't.
• 1:09:05
  Matter now it is a a story movie.
• 1:09:08
  Yep, and we get to see Fat Bastard who has lost a bunch of
• 1:09:13
  weight. I'm trying to think if there's
• 1:09:19
  anything. Oh, and then we get Scott Evil
• 1:09:23
  in his evil lair, but now he's completely bald.
• 1:09:28
  I think that's everything from the hard cut.
• 1:09:34
  Oh, we get the awkward kiss. The awkward kiss between Austin
• 1:09:38
  and Foxy. The kiss that looks as though
• 1:09:44
  neither of them wanted to have it.
• 1:09:47
  Maybe, yeah. But maybe, maybe they're
• 1:09:51
  channeling something from James Bond.
• 1:09:53
  I don't know. I am desperately looking to see
• 1:09:57
  if there is anything in the trivia on any of these pages
• 1:10:02
  that say that that was intentional because me sitting
• 1:10:06
  in 2025 I'm just watching 2 actors not want to kiss each
• 1:10:13
  other. Hope we got to at least get it
• 1:10:17
  on tape, so OK. Yep, they got to get the girl.
• 1:10:24
  Yeah, 3 mid credits sequences that kind of start right at the
• 1:10:30
  beginning, and I don't remember any of them except for the
• 1:10:34
  Osborne bloopers. Oh, there was Britney Spears.
• 1:10:41
  Britney. Spears was going to talk to many
• 1:10:43
  me about his kickstand but I can't remember the other one.
• 1:10:53
  Same. I yeah, it's it's lost to time
• 1:10:58
  now. For real, 'cause we're about to
• 1:11:02
  get out of this thing and I cannot remember.
• 1:11:05
  All right. Well, the third mid credits
• 1:11:08
  sequence is lost to history. You'll have to watch the movie
• 1:11:12
  yourself and tell us what it was 'cause we both completely
• 1:11:17
  forgotten it. Yeah, which last time I skipped
• 1:11:20
  the credits, and this time I was like, OK, I got to watch them,
• 1:11:23
  see if there's anything that happens.
• 1:11:25
  Yeah, they they do that now they're going to catch you.
• 1:11:32
  All right. Well, on this podcast we do
• 1:11:36
  ratings and not grades. The primary difference is where
• 1:11:40
  you find the average and therefore where you weight
• 1:11:43
  weight the scores. So in a grade, you put the
• 1:11:46
  average at 7 out of 10. That's where you say something
• 1:11:49
  is average. And so you say a movie that's
• 1:11:51
  kind of bad gets a higher score to fit closer to the average.
• 1:11:55
  But here we say A5 out of 10 is the average and we're sticking
• 1:11:59
  with it. A bad movie doesn't get a a
• 1:12:02
  higher grade just because it's got a weighted average.
• 1:12:06
  So with that in mind, Justin, what would you give this movie
• 1:12:11
  on a scale of 1 to 10? I didn't enjoy it like the
• 1:12:16
  second one, it has some funnier moments.
• 1:12:21
  It doesn't have as much naked people I don't want to see naked
• 1:12:27
  and still has the musical bit. Don't love that.
• 1:12:36
  I I don't like it. I don't think it's as funny as
• 1:12:44
  it may have been in 2002. Things can not stay funny after
• 1:12:52
  2 decades. Most comedies do not age well,
• 1:12:56
  and frankly, I think that's a compliment to the comedy.
• 1:12:59
  If it was great then and it's bad now, that's a sign that
• 1:13:04
  society has changed like and. Maybe this?
• 1:13:07
  Hasty was a part of it. This is a 4.
• 1:13:12
  Really. Yeah, that's a genuine shock to
• 1:13:16
  me. I don't like it like I've
• 1:13:19
  tolerated all of the Austin Powers and there's there's good
• 1:13:24
  parts, I think callbacks. Sure, they're fun, but it's just
• 1:13:28
  not something that I ever want. I don't I don't know that I
• 1:13:35
  could recommend it as a well, you know, I think you like funny
• 1:13:39
  shows now you would like this one like.
• 1:13:41
  I don't. I don't.
• 1:13:43
  I don't think so. Yeah.
• 1:13:45
  I feel like even even with our advanced years having more
• 1:13:50
  context of like Mission Impossible 2 and Tom Cruise, it
• 1:13:55
  could still be enjoyable and nostalgic.
• 1:13:59
  I I'd say, but I just don't I don't jive with the laughs.
• 1:14:05
  This Yeah. Billing P cup the it's not it's
• 1:14:13
  not unfunny, but it's just yes, still juvenile.
• 1:14:20
  It is still juvenile. I will say I appreciate that
• 1:14:25
  they went from poop to pee. Like of the waste products that
• 1:14:30
  I have to watch in comedy movies.
• 1:14:33
  Pee is preferential I guess. Yeah.
• 1:14:40
  I the reason I was shocked by it was I thought you were going to
• 1:14:43
  go lower than me. And that is because I am also at
• 1:14:47
  a four. And my my reasoning is I do
• 1:14:52
  think this movie is better than International Man of Mystery,
• 1:14:55
  the very first in the trilogy, but I think it it recycles too
• 1:15:03
  many jokes. I feel like half of the jokes in
• 1:15:07
  this movie were jokes that I already heard in the previous
• 1:15:10
  movies, primarily the second movie.
• 1:15:15
  And frankly, that kind of makes me like the second movie more.
• 1:15:18
  I'm not going to go and retroactively change my score
• 1:15:21
  for it, but the fact that even the third movie was like, hey,
• 1:15:26
  guys, remember the second movie? Like that was so good, wasn't
• 1:15:31
  it? Like and so I think a four is
• 1:15:35
  fair to the fact that it's better than the original, but it
• 1:15:40
  really isn't a very good movie. It's got some great moments.
• 1:15:46
  I'm going to say the very beginning, that school days
• 1:15:50
  flashback and the dance scene at the beginning.
• 1:15:55
  Those those are genuinely great moments.
• 1:16:00
  And then, you know, I can appreciate the three lines that
• 1:16:04
  I remember from this movie. The oh, crap, I can't believe I
• 1:16:10
  forgot the first one. But how about no, the one you
• 1:16:14
  pointed out where it was like, yeah, people who disrespect
• 1:16:19
  other people's cultures and the Dutch and then twins, Basil
• 1:16:23
  twins. Those are the three lines that I
• 1:16:25
  hear the most often from this movie.
• 1:16:31
  But yeah, we're both at fours making this an easy show average
• 1:16:36
  of a four, which is also in the middle of the three movies for
• 1:16:41
  us. So it's it's becoming more
• 1:16:45
  frequent that you and I have the same scores.
• 1:16:47
  It's only happened once in this franchise, but we had it a few
• 1:16:50
  times in in the Bond franchise. That's true.
• 1:16:54
  That's true. We'll have to see how the next
• 1:16:58
  franchise goes, but next week we are going to be doing our
• 1:17:03
  franchise wrap up. Probably won't be a very long
• 1:17:09
  episode. I don't know how much we'll have
• 1:17:11
  to say about the whole franchise, but we're going to do
• 1:17:14
  it next week and then we will announce what our next franchise
• 1:17:19
  is. So make sure to join us next
• 1:17:22
  week so you know your your homework for the following week.
• 1:17:28
  Keep up. Yeah.
• 1:17:29
  Exactly. All right, if you enjoyed
• 1:17:32
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• 1:18:15
  Groovy baby. I didn't do that last time.
• 1:18:20
  So your last chance? Exactly.
• 1:18:22
  I needed a a groovy baby goodbye.
• 1:18:29
  Bye. I didn't quite expect to be the
• 1:18:42
  exact same score, but that, that tracks.
• 1:18:46
  Yeah, I thought you were going to go down to like a three.
• 1:18:50
  Maybe. I was like, maybe he liked this
• 1:18:52
  less than the last one so. No.
• 1:18:56
  Well, yes. Well, yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:58
  The last one, of course, was the Spy who shagged Me, which was a
• 1:19:02
  legitimate. A good one.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah, a good movie. Whereas the first one, that's
• 1:19:07
  what I meant. I thought you were going to go
• 1:19:09
  lower than the first one. But then I thought about it
• 1:19:13
  again and that movie is really bad.
• 1:19:16
  Yeah.