In the final showdown between Austin Powers and Dr Evil, a Dutch maniac called Goldmember has kidnapped Austin’s father Nigel Powers and is hiding him in the year 1975. While Austin is out to save his father, Goldmember is working with Dr Evil to build a tractor beam that will pull a meteor made of solid gold to Earth, causing a global flood. Now it’s up to Austin to defeat Dr Evil and save the world…for good this time.
As much as I love the Austin Powers movies, Goldmember got a little strange and a bit too edgy for my liking. With seedier jokes (a few of which were used in The Spy Who Shagged Me) and more famous cameos than either of its predecessors, Goldmember was slightly edgy but still very funny “on the whole”.
Dr Evil is concocting another plan to take over the world, but very early in the piece, he gets captured by Austin Powers and sentenced to 400 years in prison. Meanwhile Austin’s father, Nigel Powers, is kidnapped by a Dutch maniac called Goldmember, who is hiding him in the year 1975. While Austin is back in the 70s rescuing his dad, Dr Evil escapes from prison and flees to a new hideaway to begin preparations for his new plan to take over the world. With the help of Goldmember, Dr Evil plans to construct a tractor beam that will pull a meteor of solid gold to Earth and cause a global flood. With more determination than ever, Austin returns from the 70s to rescue his father, defeat Dr Evil, and save the world… this time for good.
In all honesty, Goldmember was a bit of an anticlimax to the whole Austin Powers phenomenon. The film was made up of jokes that had featured in the previous movies, flashbacks to scenes from the previous movies, and samples of Star Wars, Annie, and Silence of the Lambs. Quite a bit of the toilet humour crossed the line and there was even some double-jointed gags that should not be viewed when one is eating or if one has a really weak stomach.
As I mentioned before, this film has heaps more star cameos than either of the other two films, including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, Burt Bacharach, Britney Spears, the Osbournes, and John Travolta.
Mike Myers is back playing four roles this time: Austin Powers, Dr Evil, Fat Bastard, and Goldmember. Trying to fit a life’s worth of acting into one movie?
Starring Beyonce Knowles, Mindy Sterling, Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Verne Troyer, and Michael Caine, Goldmember was packed with toilet humour, the colour gold, kickstand jokes, dodgy shadows, fart analysis, and the biggest mole to grace our screens. It definitely had its moments, but (I’ll say it again) it was a bit of an anticlimax to the trilogy.
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