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Austin Powers in Goldmember

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 95 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Mike Myers (also characters)
Michael McCullers
Directed by: Jay Roach
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 26, 2002
DVD: December 3, 2002
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual innuendo, crude humor and language
Starring Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Seth Green, Eddie Adams, and Robert Wagner
It's been three years since Austin Powers, that swinging international man of mystery, has faced his arch-nemesis, Dr. Evil. But after Dr. Evil and his accomplice Mini Me escape from a maximum-security prison, Austin is called to action once more in this third installment of the highly successful "Austin Powers" movie franchise. (New Line Cinema)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Puerile, pitiful, grotesque, offensive, immature, repulsive and, of course, extremely funny.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Mike Myers unleashes (or seems to unleash) the entire contents of his comic mind.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Mike Myers is like a rich 12-year-old who rents out F.A.O. Schwartz, upends every toy in under two hours, and brings in strippers. He can get away with this privileged romp because he grooves on what he does in a way that none of his contemporaries -- can comprehend.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The funniest, crassest, wildest, most musical, most satirical and most scatological of the Powers trilogy. And you get to watch Britney Spears' head explode. What more could you want?
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
You go into an Austin Powers movie with a big grin on -- or at least you should. The charm of this one is that you leave smiling even more broadly.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
It's a mess, and a ridiculous golden shower of toilet humor. But Mike Myers' superspy spoof still provides the summer's purest movie delight.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Like a giant balloon painted with Day-Glo colors, however, the whole gaudy mess wouldn't inflate without the force of Mr. Myers's comic genius. It's his baby, baby. And after three editions, it's still flying high.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Myers's sheer fertility of invention is of a different order, and even if he misses as often as he hits, he's definitely a swinger.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Mike Myers and Austin Powers may stick to their old Beatle boots, but they've both come a long way, luvvy. For proof, just look at all the A-list celebrities-I-won't-mention happy to crash the party.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The best way to look at this installment, however, is as musical theater of the absurd. The song-and-dance set pieces are brilliant, including a rap-style "It's a Hard Knock Life" in a prison.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Caine is burlesquing his own iconography and enjoying every minute of it. He hasn't lost his dignity, though; it takes a lot of self-possession to act this blissfully silly. He even looks good with bad teeth.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rick Kisonak
Not since the heyday of Fellini, I dare say, has there been such a merrygoround of a movie.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Nothing to write home about, though nothing to stay home about either, especially if you're a dyed-in-the-polyester Powers fan.
New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
The movie will leave you smiling forgetfully on the way out, and Myers will have done his job.
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The latest installment in the Austin Powers series has stopped making much sense at all, but it sure gets its giggle on, and good.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's often quite funny (when it's not spinning its wheels in rehashed skits and recycled gags), but when Myers gets his mojo working and his mind out of the toilet, he's capable of better.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
In all fairness to the film, it is superior to the disappointing second movie in the series. The comedy is about as low-brow as it can get (at least without treading into R-rated territory).
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Austin does have a psychedelic buoyancy and Dr. Evil an addle-pated sadistic goofiness that are original and engaging, but Myers doesn't build on their best stuff. That's where a real plot would help.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Hank Sartin
With the jokes coming about one per second, you're bound to find something to laugh at. I found myself laughing a lot--even as I began to feel the whole thing wearing thin.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A picture that, even more than the previous two, feels like a bunch of gags tossed together. The laughs are here, to be sure, although even some of the best of them are retreads and the Swinging '60s recycling act is now feeling a bit past its zeitgeist prime.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Casting Caine as Austin's father is a stroke of pure genius.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The only thing that won't make you laugh, unless you've got a 12-year-old's sense of humor, is the film's tireless parade of gross-out gags and scatological verbal jests. Myers gets a charge out of this material--it wouldn't be here if he didn't--but so much of it is so tedious it's difficult to believe an adult actually sat down and wrote it.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
The uneven Goldmember seems to take a big step toward the extremely juvenile, with more scatological and fewer sex jokes
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Mark Olsen
The laugh always comes first, and Myers' puppy-dog tenacity to that cast-iron tenet of low comedy, disarming and even somewhat charming in the first film, now has an air of careerist desperation about it.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A step or two down from the first and second, but it has some very funny moments, and maybe that is all we hope for.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The gifted Myers lets his once and (I hope) future shag king get lost in an elephantine Hollywood franchise. The first time was the charm, baby.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Star/writer Mike Myers and director Jay Roach struggle visibly with exhausted possibilities and diminishing returns.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
To paraphrase one of the few memorable lines in the movie, "Even stink would say this stinks."
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Goldmember comes after years of escalating vulgarity have thrown the need for caution -- and cleverness -- out of fashion.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Myers returns as his menagerie of repulsive characters, but this time, his frantic mugging feels more like an insipid parlor trick than ever.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 95 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Joel C. gave it a0:
Not as good as the other two, for sure. But that's expected. Automatic 0 for score balancing enforced. Please continue to the next user review.
Alex G. gave it a9:
What a riot! just as good as ever before if not better (actually not as good as the second one) but this is hilarious Goldmember stealing the show with his whitty accent and disgusting habits...it's just a shame it looks like the end for them or is it? Scott is after Austin now.
Katherine gave it a0:
I liked the first one. Loved the second one, but this one? Not at all. I hated this one. I found it kind of gross. It did'nt have it's same humore. They could have done better, and like I said, it was really gross.
Anna R. gave it a10:
Really great movie. I loved Fat B*****d, Mini Me played a great part when he moved to the good side, Beyonce and of course, Mike Myers. [***SPOILERS***] I loved the fight scene between Mini Me (who wanted to tell Austin he turned to the good side) and Austin! Really recommend this movie!
R. Dalvi gave it an8:
Painfully and outrageously funny. Mini Me, Austin and Dr. Evil are the best characters already. Now, Number 3, Nigel Powers and Goldmember join the list. The starting sequence is the best.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Funniest so far. The more you watch it the more humor you'll catch.
Mike gave it an8:
Best austin powers movie out of the 3! Very funny!
