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Austin Powers in Goldmember
New Line Cinema


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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Mike Myers (also characters) Michael McCullers
DIRECTED BY:	Jay Roach
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 3, 2002 Video: December 3, 2002 Theatrical: July 26, 2002
RUNNING TIME:	94 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Mike Myers unleashes (or seems to unleash) the entire contents of his comic mind.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The most consistently funny of the ''Austin Powers'' films.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

This summer's comic gem.

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.

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.

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.

Film Threat Rick Kisonak

Not since the heyday of Fellini, I dare say, has there been such a merrygoround of a movie.

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.

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.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Uneven, self-conscious but often hilarious spoof.

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).

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil.

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.

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.

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.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Casting Caine as Austin's father is a stroke of pure genius.

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.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

The uneven Goldmember seems to take a big step toward the extremely juvenile, with more scatological and fewer sex jokes

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.

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.

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.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Star/writer Mike Myers and director Jay Roach struggle visibly with exhausted possibilities and diminishing returns.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

To paraphrase one of the few memorable lines in the movie, "Even stink would say this stinks."

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Goldmember comes after years of escalating vulgarity have thrown the need for caution -- and cleverness -- out of fashion.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 93 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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!

Dave C. gave it a 5:
Although it offers a few seizure inducing moments of laughter, overall the film is the weakest of the three. Fat B*****d is just not funny anymore, Dr. Evil and Mini-me are beginning to get tiresome, Beyonce Knowles is useless and the presence of Michael Caine has never been so annoying since the Swarm.

Andrew M. gave it an 8:
Myers is even sillier in this third AP installment, but again he gets away with it because he is simply so original and naturally funny. What I like about this film, as with the previous ones, is that you never know where it's going (heck, I doubt Myers did at times), which just seems to give it that exciting edge, a perfect balance for the blitz of comic inanity hurled at the viewer. It's mostly outlandish, at times mildly disconcerting, against-the-odds inimitable, without doubt shrewd, and most important of all - just damn hilarious!

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Austin Powers in Goldmember
New Line Cinema