Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Reviews

It all adds up to one of the most refreshing, ambitious and hilarious comedies I've ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Spy movie parodies are common, but Myers is observant enough to notice things that others haven't.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Groovy, baby!.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Mike Myers may be a connoisseur of the old spy-and-sex genre, but the result is less a screenplay than a manic quote machine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Myers seems to get better and better with each script he writes, and here he managed to make light of a subject that few people gave much thought to.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Uneven and often not funny, relying on recycled jokes and far-too-broad physical humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Its plot notwithstanding, it has nothing to do with Bond -- and it misrepresents the poor '60s as well.

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As the ending credits went up, I realized that I had never laughed. A few smiles, but that was it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Austin Powers has plenty of originality to it, but a lot of the jokes either fall flat, or just don't give me the chuckles I expect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The things it's parodying -- Beatles and Bond movies and all those secret-agent TV shows of the 60s -- were already so tongue in cheek that one needs to go a lot further than this movie goes to really amuse me.

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Though there many hilarious moments, just as many miss the mark, some falling flat completely.

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Even at its best, it's not very funny.

The movie fails to live up to its promise.

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Myers and director Jay Roach seem to have no sense of how long is too long to stick with an extended gag.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Austin Powers feels more like the unfortunate amalgamation of a drawer full of short skits Myers has been holding on to since Saturday Night Live.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Tasteless and humorless!

There's more here than the perfect recreation of Sixties absurdities and genre spoofery; there's comedy that would be hilarious in any context.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Good parodies are hard to make, and while this one doesn't completely succeed, it is funny and silly enough to be enjoyable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Not only is Mike a funny guy, but he knows more about the 60s and Bond-style movies than I ever care to know in five lifetimes.

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Bubblegum for the brain.

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