Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery a Piece of Stuff by marcus (marcus westbury) The swinging sixties meets the conservative nineties. You'd think the jokes would be there for the picking. How could it not be funny? Austin Powers Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap... (submitted by marcus.) When am i going to realise that the 'spoof' genre just ain't what it used to be? Perhaps i was just trying to recapture those teenage years when Flying High, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun were the funniest things on earth. My friends and I managed to carry various incarnations of the 'A hospital, what is it?' and the 'Surely you can't be serious' gags well past their use-by dates. You think i would have learnt after seeing Leslie Nielson's Spy Hard (yep, i was the one!) and almost walking out, you'd think i would have clued to the fact the whole genre is one i should leave to linger in nostalgia. Alas, i actually bought a ticket and saw Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery. Sure, i expected it to be crap, mindless, escapism, but i actually thought it would be funny. It's not! Created on Wed, 17 Sep 1997 and last modified on Thu, 16 Oct 1997.

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