Michael Myers has officially signed to do AP4

[LitmusDragon]

Have you guys ever watched the outtakes on the Goldmember DVD? Funnier than then stuff they left in, I think. Especially that musical number. Why did they cut all that stuff?

Anyhow, yeah the 2nd is the best one imo. I love the Dr. Evil -> Scott interaction and Fat Bastard is hilarious.

I would definitely watch a 4th. Terrible third movie aside Austin Powers is far and away Mike Myer's best character (who isn't Shrek) and one of the funniest movie chars ever.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I will grant that it was contrived but I look at it like Scott just finally broke down after years of neglect from his father and finally went insane, it was probably meant as a joke as well in the instant that his father went good he becomes evil.

 

[doubleohfive]

See, for my money that involves way too much thinking for what is at it's best a farce.

 

[Trekker4747]

The first movie worked really, really, well as a riff on the entire '60s spy genre. "What are you going to do to him?

"I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death. Then I'm going to leave him with one inept guard and close the door and assume everything went to plan. What?"

The whole movie is fantastic in how it treats this, Basil Exposition, the quips after a kill, the front company Dr. Evil runs being more profitable than his desires for world domination, his plans for world domination having already been done by the natural course of events.

All. Fantastic.

The second two movies while funny lost this thread of making fun of the entire genre of movies from the 60s and instead decided to go for more "main-stream" humor in large part by introducing the walking fart joke in Fat Bastard. The second and third movies are funny and all but they didn't quite capture the "magic" of the original.

The one deleted scene from the original movie I really liked and would have liked to see kept in is when Number Two offers Austin a bribe to let him (#2) go free and continuing operate Virtucon as a profitable multi-national. Austin seems to accept the bribe but on checking the money discovers that it's a few hundred dollars short of the offer starting an argument between him and #2, #2 claiming the missing money was spent buying the expensive case the money is kept in. Eventually Dr. Evil tires of this fight and presses the button to dump #2 into the fire pit.

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I'd go see a 4th movie, though. It could be pretty fun.

 

[Kelso]

Loved the first two. Hated the third one.

I'm not terribly optimistic about this, but I'm willing to give it a shot. I would LOVE for it to be great.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Have you guys ever watched the outtakes on the Goldmember DVD? Funnier than then stuff they left in, I think. Especially that musical number. Why did they cut all that stuff?

Same is true of the deleted scenes from the second movie.

Fat Bastard to young #2:"You're prettier than most girls I've shagged.....after you pretty boy, I wanna look at your arse...looks like 2 eggs in a hanky....you don't even have an arse......I don't have such tendencies, but if I did, you'd be on the list."

FB was my favorite character from the second movie, but like everything else in the third movie, he was too forced.

 

[Kelthaz]

I enjoyed the first film more because it's the only one that felt real. Austin wasn't just a walking joke, but a real (if somewhat exaggerated) person. One serious scene that really hits this home is after he has a fight with Vanessa about sleeping with Alotta Fagina (stay with me here), it finally dawns on him how much he's missed out on and how out of place he is in the 90's. He goes to a pub where he gets laughed at and mocked for how ridiculous he looks, watches tapes on the moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and makes a list of deceased friends.

No, the film wasn't exactly Schindler's List, but humanizing your characters just a bit, even in a comedy, can make a world of difference.

 

[doubleohfive]

Also, Burt Bacharach! Burt fucking Bacharach!

 

[Starkers]

"Who knew Liberace was gay? I didn't see that coming..."

I seem to recall quite liking that Scott went Evil at the end of 3, and there is one redeeming moment in the middle when we get Michael Caine's intolerance/dutch gag. But we're talking little more than 5 decent minutes in the 90 or so.