Amazon.com video review:
If you don't think Austin Powers is one of the funniest
movies of the 1990s, maybe you should be packed into a cryogenic
time chamber and sent back to the decade whence you came. Perhaps it
was the 1960s--the shagadelic decade when London hipster Austin
Powers scored with gorgeous chicks as a fashion photographer by day,
crime-fighting international man of mystery by night. Yeah, baby,
yeah! But when Powers's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, puts himself into a
deep-freeze and travels via time machine to the late 1990s, Powers
must follow him and foil Evil's nefarious scheme of global
domination. Mike Myers plays dual roles as Powers and Dr. Evil, with
Elizabeth Hurley as his present-day sidekick and karate-kicking
paramour. A hilarious spoof of '60s spy movies, this colorful comedy
actually gets funnier with successive viewings, making it a perfect
home video for gloomy days and randy nights. Oh, behave!
--Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
If you don't think Austin Powers is one of the funniest
movies of the 1990s, maybe you should be packed into a cryogenic
time chamber and sent back to the decade whence you came. Perhaps it
was the 1960s--the shagadelic decade when London hipster Austin
Powers scored with gorgeous chicks as a fashion photographer by day,
crime-fighting international man of mystery by night. Yeah, baby,
yeah! But when Powers's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, puts himself into a
deep-freeze and travels via time machine to the late 1990s, Powers
must follow him and foil Evil's nefarious scheme of global
domination. Mike Myers plays dual roles as Powers and Dr. Evil, with
Elizabeth Hurley as his present-day sidekick and karate-kicking
paramour. A hilarious spoof of '60s spy movies, this colorful comedy
actually gets funnier with successive viewings, making it a perfect
home video for gloomy days and randy nights. Oh, behave!
--Jeff Shannon
