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Goldmember
Takes the Bronze
by Michael Flanagan
Solid
The best part of Austin Powers in Goldmember
was the fact that I saw it at a drive-in movie as part of two films for
the low price of $6.50. Aside
from that, a lot of the movie itself was pretty good.
The cameos were wonderful.
I won’t give any away, because the opening cameos and the
opening number were my favorite part, but every celebrity cameo in this
movie is a laugh riot. They’re
funny because of who the celebrities are, and who they play, but they in
no way drive the plot or humor of the film.
The gags were pretty good.
Most of them, unfortunately, were retreads of the other Austin
Powers films. In some cases
they improved, in some they were unnecessary, and in some they were the
exact same thing…and still damn funny.
The actors were entertaining, as they should be.
Mike Myers is still a comic genius, though he doesn’t exemplify
it to the fullest here. His
Dr. Evil is still hysterical, much more so than Austin.
Austin is, for the most part, exactly the same, but we wouldn’t
want a change, would we? Seth
Green’s Scott Evil is given more to do, and he’s great at it.
Green and Myers’ Evil play off of each other better in this
film than in either of the previous two.
Verne Troyer as Mini Me is actually funnier in many ways, and
it’s more because the actor seems to have grown moreso in talent (no
pun intended) than the material. Beyonce
Knowles is pretty much a waste. Where
Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Graham were sexual and personable screen
presences in the first two, Knowles is given very little to do.
What she does is good enough, but at the end of the movie I
couldn’t think of a single reason for her character to exist.
There are some bad elements. Some jokes fall flat, the ending stretches on too long, Fat
Bastard really shouldn’t have been in the movie. Michael Caine was used to his talents better in Jaws the Revenge.
Here, he’s good, but not really used well.
But the worst of the worst was the title character, Goldmember.
Myers plays him as well as anyone, but he’s useless, and not
really funny. Nor is he
really a bad guy. The plot
never takes off beyond him being with Dr. Evil in his lair, and his
cameo replacement gag was really the only payoff for his character, and
even it was the weakest of cameos.
Overall, Austin Powers in Goldmember is
enjoyable, but it takes a distant third when compared to the first two.
If you liked the first two, you’ll probably like this one, just
not as much. If you
didn’t like them, wait for the film to be aired on television and
watch the first fifteen minutes.
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