Review of Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) by Kai82 — 21 Mar 2021

The third and so far last Austin Power movie. It was neither bad nor did it a poorly performance at the box office but the franchise is now in limbo with rumors that a fourth movie will be made popping up from time to time.

I follows the standard formula of the franchise being a parody of James Bond movies with Mike Myers style of humor. For clarification: Mike Myers humor means that it fully depends on how much you like his style of humor.

Can be a 1/0 or 10/10. This time we got more insights into the past of the characters, some Goldfinger references, another role for Mike Myers and overall a slightly weaker but still enjoyable movie. The story starts again with Austin Power trying to stop another scheme by Dr.

Evil who has allied himself with the Dutch Johan van der Smut called Goldmember (There is a bizarre accident behind the name and lets say he “likes” gold even more than Goldfinger from James Bond).

However this time his father who is also a world class spy named Nigel Powers gets involved. The story works for me but does not wow me enough. I think it is the weakest in the franchise but it is nowhere weak enough to being called garbage or bad.

The humor works well enough to make this entertaining. By franchise standards it has all sorts from clever jokes, word puns, satire, toilet humor up to some really dirty jokes. Would say >75% work if I had to put numbers on it.

Some jokes are not my cup of tea here. For the acting we get a solid performances and a lot of cameos by big names. Mike Myers expanded again with another role. He is Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard (Yes that is his name) and Goldmember.

Good performance as always but maybe not as refreshing or original anymore. Michael Caine plays Nigel Powers and does a great job. Mini Me played by Verne Troyer is again a hidden gem of the movie. Beyonce Knowles does a good performance as Foxxy Cleopatra (Yes this is a jab to James Bond as was it in the prequels).

The rest does a good performances and I point out that I liked the set up for a potential fourth movie they teased even if I believe it will ever been green-lighted. Then we have a lot of cameos with some of the big names from Hollywood with Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Danny DeVito, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Osbourne family and Kevin Spacey to just name a few.

The rest is the same as before like in the prequels for me. The visuals and effects are nice and the awesome soundtrack is not my cup of tea. Overall I say this is still entertaining but the weakest movie in the franchise.

With this it enters the list of franchise without a truly weak entry.