Editorial

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Austin Powers in Goldmember

To misquote Austin Powers himself, "Sucks baby yeah"!

With an incredible opening featuring Steven Spielberg (himself), Tom Cruise (Austin Powers), Gwyneth Paltrow (his bird), Danny DeVito (Mini-Me) and Kevin Spacey (Dr Evil) I was looking forward to an original 90 minute parody.

Instead I should have just walked out after the first five mins and purchased the original two Austin Powers DVDs and watched them instead as the jokes in Goldmember were pretty much all ripped from them.

The opening was the only thing new to the series that seems to have run out of steam on the third installment to the point where it's just not funny. To borrow from previous installments is all right if it's done in an original way, but to blatantly plagiarize and pretend that it's something new just isn't.

Goldmember sucks on so many levels. Michael Caine just isn't funny as Austin's father and the revelation at the end of the film just makes no sense, but more importantly just isn't funny.

The character Goldmember is more embarrassing than funny, no doubt a creation that Mike Myers had left over from his Saturday Night Live days that he thought someone might find funny! Sorry but he isn't.

Austin Powers 3 looks and feels like it was written over a weekend when Mike Myers had suffered from writers block and forgot that he had put all of the jokes in the previous installments.

The Plot? Time travel, save father, get help from babe (Foxy Cleopatra, played by the gorgeous Beyonce Knowles) travel back to the future, crap revelation, the end.

Now if I had the ability to time travel like Austin Powers I would have traveled back to stop myself buying a ticket to this movie.

RATING: **