Austin Powers: Allow myself to introduce… myself.

Austin Powers. A riff on 60’s culture and especially the genre of spy movies (James Bond especially) absolutely loaded with a particularly rauncy, vulgar sort of humor.

Vanessa Kensington: Mr. Powers, my job is to acclimatize you to the nineties. You know, a lot’s changed since 1967.
Austin Powers: No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I’ll be sound as a pound!

It’s definitely not a movie for everyone, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think the (over the top) characters really drive this movie. Austin Powers of course, but also Dr. Evil–both played delightfully by Mike Myers. It’s obvious enough once you know he’s playing both roles, but they’re they’re still a delightful contrast.

U.N. Representative: So, Mr. Evil…
Dr. Evil: It’s Dr. Evil, I didn’t spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called “mister,” thank you very much.

That’s… pretty much it. It’s a comedy/parody with a ton of dirty jokes. You’ll probably love it or hate it. I enjoyed first watching it probably 20 years ago now and I still enjoyed watching it today. I doubt I’ll be recommended it to my children anytime soon.

Onward!

Oh. One of my favorite jokes:

[Austin and Vanessa see a man decapitated]
Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one’s head.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That’s not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It’s a shame he wasn’t more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He’ll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that’ll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.

It’s just so dumb to keep going on… which is of course something I’ve done entirely too many times.