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Slightly annoying even. ;)
I'm really only a fan of the first Austin Powers for this reason. While the toilet humor worked in the first one (especially when actual toilets were involved), they just got lewder and baser in the next two, going more for shock value than for the fresh and well-played comedy of the original.
I had a crush on her as a kid thanks to that film.
The Bonds took the idea of getting Madonna to do the main tie-in song instead :D
My first celebrity crush.
"Throw me a frigging bone!"
"My titties are bigger than yours!"
"Who does number two work for?"
And the soundtracks were killer. I include most of the songs in my Bond playlist to mix things up a bit
Yes, I still play the soundtracks to 1 and 2 a lot (I won the Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack, along with 2 tickets to see the film, in a draw run by the local paper).
Even 'Beautiful Stranger' would have been a better song for DAD than 'Die Another Day'. Imagine the torture montage combined with that song. :-D
Like @DarthDimi said, by Goldmember it's no longer slightly. It's downright juvenile and frankly gross. Apparently they had to tone it down: test viewings saw members of the audiences vomiting.
Only makes me like it more. It clearly knows what it wants to be, and it succeeds. :))
I remember when I was a kid, we went on a lot of road trips and at one point we got a DVD
player / screen that hooks up to the back of the headrest, and I would watch these three films on loop for the entire trip.
It’s really not that bad. It’s hardly even Young Ones level stuff.
Almost goes without saying that the films also have great songs. BBC, The Look of Love sung by Susanna Hoffs, Mas Que Nada, I Touch Myself, Dr. Evil by They Might Be Giants, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, etc. etc...
There is a "promo score" album for the first film that has an unused instrumental version of Mas Que Nada. Fantastic stuff, really beautiful.
I don't remember that much of the third film; same goes for the music. Must watch it again. All of them really.
Another film that came to mind as having a great score as well as an abundance of terrific songs is The Mask.
Spielberg doing cartwheels.
Robert Wagner is great at comedy. He was great in The Pink Panther as well. That scene in which he is hiding in the hotel room as Capucine tries to distract Clouseau is terrific.
In 2002, 13 year old me found Goldmember side splittingly hilarious.
33 year old me finds it one the dumbest movies ever made. I watched it a few years back and barely even laughed. And I can be a sucker for stupid comedy movies.
The first 2 hold up well though.
I find it better than the previous movie, in some ways, sometimes. But it's rather lame overall and the jokes that work feel like unused ideas from the original. I don't think anybody wants to watch more.
Well I was talking about the tasteless thing, not the overall quality. I haven't seen it in many years but yes, I recall it being diminishing returns.
TSWSM did have its moments, didn't it? I'll have to revisit this one sometime.
I distinctly remember George S. Clinton homaging the main theme of You Only Live Twice when Powers and Shagwell come up on the beach, and of course his cover of Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" for the films' main titles was absolute perfection.
Yeah, but you can also see him doing cartwheels in the behind-the-scenes on the War Horse Blu-Ray, and frankly I've seen people do better cartwheels. Scorsese does crazy good cartwheels while shooting his films.
Robert Wagner did have great comedic timing in AP. He was perfectly deadpan. I actually haven't seen any of the Pink Panther films. I'll have to check them out.
I have enjoyed Jean Dujardin's OSS 117 films, but I must get around to the Johnny English films some day.
I hear Hitchcock did them too. Tippi Hedren probably said so. But that's a conversation that deserves its own thread. Cartwheeling filmmakers.
I loved all the Nigel Powers stuff in GM, though - I found it genuinely moving (though not as much as Austin's monologue in IMOM to a sleeping Vanessa about how much he loved her mum, which makes me actually cry).
Check out this deleted scene (parodying 'Alfie', which starred Michael Caine):
There's a thing called movie clips, see.