Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me (DVD)

...my Christmas present DVDs – Austin Powers II – “The Spy who Shagged Me”. This being a DVD review, rather than an out and out film review, I do not intend to dwell overly on the plot of this film. So I will give you a very rough outline in a single paragraph and no more, before concentrating on the extras included on the DVD, as from my point of view, it is the extras on the DVD that convince you of whether you purchase the DVD or not, as well as ...
...Plot in one paragraph: Austin Powers, frozen in 1967 and kept in a cryogenic state is unfrozen in the 1990s where he continues his swinging 60s way of life (Oh the care-free pre-AIDS era of swinging!). Ultimately the film once again revolves around Austin’s battle with Dr. Evil (who is also played by Mike Myers, who plays Austin himself!). This time, with the aid of a baddie of similar stature to Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote, a character known simply ...

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...it was not actually until Austin Powers was first shown on channel 4 that I first saw it. However it was well worth the wait as it is one very, very funny film. So funny in fact that it encouraged me to go out and buy the sequel soon after. This is a rarity for me, I only own about 10 films on video, but I am glad that I did folk out the cash as the film equals if not improves upon the original. The Spy Who... is, of course, a comedy and just like ...
...the 2 main characters - Austin Powers and his arch enemy Dr Evil. He also plays an addition character in this film in the form of Fat bas***d. Powers himself is a ‘spy' working for the ministry of defence. Originally from the sixties he now lives in the nineties due to being frozen in order to prevent Dr Evil from taking over the world in the future (watch the first film for more details on this). Although Austin is now a citizen of the nineties ...

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...as with James Bond, the Austin Powers creators were faced with the challenge of how to beat the first film. While Bond followed Dr No with From Russia With Love, Austin Powers followed International Man of Mystery with The Spy Who Shagged Me. Could Austin beat the beast that is sequel hell or would everyone's favourite shag-a-holic end up being a total square? Returning from his deep space exile, Dr Evil once more plots the downfall of mankind but ...
...back to 1969, and steal Austin Powers' mojo. With a lagging libido and no attractiveness to women, Powers would be helpless and the world would be forced to pay a hefty ransom less they face the awesome lethality of The Alan Parsons Project (aka a giant "laser"). With 1969 Austin frozen in cryo-genic suspension, Dr Evil's agents are easily able to steal the mythical mojo and reduce 1999 Austin to a shadow of his former self. What's an agent to do? ...

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...100 billion dollars. To prevent Austin getting in the way he goes back in time to steal the frozen Austin’s mojo (his “essence of life”). Luckily, Austin has also been built a time travelling device allowing him to go back to 1969 to get his mojo back and save the world. The film follows on from the first Austin Powers movie, with Austin on his honeymoon with Vanessa (Liz Hurley), who turns out to be a robot with machine gun breasts. When I first ...
...but I still understood it all and enjoyed it. The storyline is so simple that you certainly don’t need to have seen the ‘Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery’ ‘The Spy That Shagged Me’ also sees the return of Scott (Seth Green), Dr. Evil’s bratty son, who spends most of the film sneering at his Father’s daft plans to take over the world and who, I might mention, is very cute. ;) The other characters are original, but very silly. Scott is ...

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...another op. ~Characters~ Austin Power Powers is a British Spy from the sixties who when he managed to rid the world of his arch nemesis Dr Evil volunteered to go into deep freeze in case he ever returned. He is gradually adapting to the 90s and still clings to the sixties in his dress, sexual attitudes and lifestyle. Victoria Kensington The daughter of his original crime-fighting partner. Victoria is an oxford graduate best described as academic, ...
...secret service responsible for providing Austin with his assignments and as the time frame changes so do the length of his hair. Dr Evil Austin's arch nemesis who constantly holds the world to ransom with nuclear weapons. As the show starts he is trying to achieve a lasting relationship with his son courtesy of the Jerry Springer Show. He is constantly finding more foolish ways to attempt to kill Powers that enable him to easily escape, much to ...

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...second outing for 1960’s super-spy Austin Powers. His character is born out of the Bond era but Myers uses it as a parody. It is completely over the top and politically incorrect throughout. The fact that Austin Powers is supposed to be a sex symbol in itself is ludicrous (check out the yellow teeth and the chest hair!). You only have to watch the opening (naked romp) sequence to this film to get a feel of how serious it’s going to be! ...
...to the 1969 to steal Austin Power’s mojo (supposedly his sex-drive?!). Without it he is powerless so nips back in time himself with a similar machine provided by the British secret service (how convenient!). What ensues then is farcial adventure with Powers trying to recover his mojo, meeting up with various weird (and wonderfully named!) characters en route. Don’t expect anything ground breaking here. It’s just a great comedy and ...

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...God knows what else. Austin Powers, again also played by Myers, definitely takes second fiddle here, while the third Myers character, Fat Bastard, is a sad mistake, light relief in this collection of light reliefs, but bringing the whole thing down very much to worse than toilet humour (see the toilet scene in the London Underground as FB ditches the homing device. Myers is undoubtedly a very gifted talent, with an eye and a talent for the absurd. ...
...Myers hadn’t come up with Austin Powers and these two episodes then someone else would have had to invent them because this sort of over the top spoofery is very, very necessary and it might as well be MM coming up with the goods. He teeters on the brink of falling apart for most of this film, but there is enough of merit here to rescue the project. It ain’t an Oscar winner, but it’s a pretty fun way of spending a couple of hours. ...

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...about it before now. Austin Powers was a modest hit on release that went on to become a huge hit on video. A sequel was put into production and released in the summer of 1999 to huge box office success. Some don't like the film but personally I find it very funny for all the right reasons. The first film had some good humour but by far the funniest thing was Dr Evil and his inept style of world domination. In the sequel he's featured far more heavily ...
...back in time and steal Austin Powers mojo, the libido, the essence, the life-force, what the French a certain I don't know what. With this gone Austin will be powerless to stop Evil's plans for world domination. Aiding Dr Evil this time is a 2-foot clone of himself called Mini Me who is like a vicious dog, Dr Evil still has problems with his son after taking him onto Jerry Springer and we also learn why Scott is there. Not only that but there is ...

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...The film begins with Austin and Vanessa, (Liz Hurley) on honeymoon. Austin discovers that his wife is a Fembot. Basically he has to knock his wife's head off, he quickly recovers from this 'little upset'. Austin Powers, (in case you don't know) is a secret agent and obsessed with sex. His Mojo, makes him attractive to any female, which is lucky as he isn't exactly goodlooking. Favourite catchphrases include- 'yeah baby' and 'do you think I’m ...
...going back to 1969 when Austin was Cryogenically frozen. Austin is impotent without his Mojo and can't stop DR Evil. The rest of the film is about Austin trying to solve this, I won't give away the rest of the plot (there's not much to give away!). There's a great soundtrack which goes with the film perfectly (notably Madonna's 'Beautiful Stranger'). Dr Evil, (also played by Myers)is Austin’s enemy. He has a bigger role in this film. Hilarious ...

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is simply more of the same enjoyable silliness that made the original movie such a surprise hit. And for a sequel to retain even half of the original's quality is quite an achievement. Mike Myers returns as the bad toothed international man of mystery, and we join the film, with Austin and his lovely wife, Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley), on their honeymoon. But, horrors, she is not what she appeared to be, and Austin ...
...the inspired foolishness of Myers. Austin Powers thrives on the foundation that it really has no redeeming social value whatsoever. It is just pure, wacky comedy. Myers' Dr. Evil has more screen time here than in the first movie, and that is a good thing. Just as with the original, some of the funniest moments in the film are when Dr. Evil argues with his son, Scott (Seth Green). And their battles are even better in this sequel because Dr. Evil ...

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Austin Powers (The Spy who Shagged Me) is the second of the Austin Powers films and carries on the antics of the first film. When the film was due for release there was some doubt whether the title of the film would be allowed. In the end it was, but at most cinemas they didn?t display ?The Spy who Shagged Me?, they just displayed Austin Powers 2. ~~The Cast~~ Again Mike Myres plays many of the characters in the film including Austin Powers, Dr Evil ...
...which is quite funny. When Austin and Felicity get to Dr Evils secret volcano layer (an island) they come ashore. Felicity is in a bikini, so is Austin! I also find Dr Evils cloan, Mini Me, quite funny. He is identical to Dr Evil in everyway, except one eight his size (but a lot more evil). By far the funniest part of the film is right at the beginning of the film, Scott Evil is on the Jerry Springer show and Dr Evil appears as a surprise (you can ...

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...his super groovy alter ego, Austin Powers, the sexiest swinger from the 1960's - "Do you swing, Austin?" "Are you kidding, baby? I put the Grrrr in Swinger." This time he's hipper than ever and taking the rise out of more films than ever before. The first Austin Powers film (‘Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery’ 1997) was wild enough, but in this one there's no holds barred as he unabashedly goes for the jugular, cracking all ...
...Dr Evil and special agent Austin Powers, both played with verve and larger than life in yer face intensity by Myers. Dr Evil goes back in time via his (crooked fingers emphasising the “so called” nature of the beast) time machine and despatching his special envoy, Fat Bastard (also played disgustingly by Myers) to steal the mojo (now is that libido or life force?) out of the cryogenically frozen Powers. Powers follows him back and comes ...

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the follow up to 1997’s International Man of Mystery. Those who say IMOM first will feel right at home, recognising the characters. Those who saw TSWSM first (and that includes me) will soon feel right at home. All the characters are back, Austin Powers (obviously), Dr Evil, Number Two and more. There are even a few new characters, most noticeably Felicity Shagwell and Mini-Me. Mike Myers stars as not ...
...to steal Austin’s mojo. Austin follows him back where he teams up with agent Felicity Shagwell to defeat Dr Evil who also plans to destroy Washington DC using a giant laser. It is actually a lot funnier than it sounds, with jokes a plenty. The focus of the movie isn't the plot, it's the gags and we all know it, right from the credits. The DVD itself is pretty impressive. It's extras include audio commentary, almost 20 minutes of deleted scenes, ...

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...start with the actual film. Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me, is in itself a brilliant film starring one of the kings of comedy, Mike Myers. Mike plays the lead character Austin Powers, international man of mystery. Oh - he also plays Dr Evil, and Fat Bastard. It's a great set-up. There's no way that you can tell straight away its the same person. Heather Graham stars as Agent Shagwell, assigned to assist Austin. Heres the basic plot for those ...
...his honeymoon with his wife, Austin realises that she is actually a fembot, a gift from Dr. Evil. After she tries to kill him, she self destructs. We then see Dr. Evil is still alive, orbitting the Earth. We then visit his secret lair, to find that his 'evil' company have taken over a coffee company, where their 'evil' headquarters are located. While Dr. Evil's been away, they have cloned 'Mini Me', a perfect clone of Dr Evil, although only 1/8 or ...

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...floppy sequels that suck! Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me is different, honestly! If you loved the first one then this is truely unmissable, I watched it a few nights ago for the 100th time and while it's fresh in my mind I have to praise it! The basic plot here is that Dr Evil has travelled back to the swinging sixties and stolen Austins' mojo, the essence of Austins' 'shagadelic' nature! So our hero journeys back to the place he came from ...
...as funny as the first Austin Powers you say? Can it deliver the same humour without being too much of the same? The answer is yes! The lines are fresh and some scenes will have you in tears. Look out for the fight between Austin and Mini Me - "poor little bugger"! I couldn't stop laughing, it was one of those moments where you'll either bust a rib or suddenly need to go to the bathroom! The Spy Who shagged me is a credit to the script writers and ...

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