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91For long stretches, the film is just as funny as the first -- which is saying something, since the first is one of the funniest comedies of the decade, the only film in years to truly infiltrate our communal language and sense of humor.
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88There is enough mirthful good will generated to justify even another sequel. May we suggest: "License to Shag," "You Only Shag Twice" or "Thundershag."
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80The Spy Who Shagged Me is impossible-to-resist summer fun that left me feeling, dare I say, randy for more? Oh, behave.
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80The most consistently funny studio sequel in some time, and the rare blockbuster that actually delivers on what it promises.
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80For now, there are enough big laughs and women in tight clothing to make this one of the best comedy sequels in recent memory and a worthy candidate for the smart, no-brainer comedy of the summer.
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78It's all fab, baby, a kicky, wiggy sequel that scores on all levels, from the sexy to the sublime.
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75Places Myers firmly on the top rung of movie comics.
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75A collection of arbitrary sketches, bits and improvs jammed into a locker room-style variety show masquerading as some semblance of a narrative.
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75Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too.
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75As a character, Austin Powers hasn't worn out his welcome, exactly, but he has outlived his novelty.
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70Given the choice between a movie that's better structured and only half as funny, I'd take The Spy Who Shagged Me (or its predecessor, for that matter) any day.
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70The jokes fly so furiously that it'd be impossible for a single weak performance (Graham) to unravel this very funny film.
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70Myers has a singular talent for skit humor… You can get away with an awful lot of gross, juvenile humor if you've got that to fall back on. [11 June 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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70Better than anyone dared hope: bigger, more inventive, and more frolicsome than its predecessor, with a grab bag of scatological gags that are almost as riotous when you think back on them.
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70There's a rampant looseness to this movie, and it's subversively liberating.
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70With its outrageous double-entendre, gonzo performances and appalling lack of restraint, the sequel is more than a guilty pleasure.
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63There is an underlying likability to Austin Powers that sort of carries us through the movie.
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63For my taste, too much of the new Powers looks like bad TV and sounds like old burlesque.
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63Turns out to be less than the sum of its wonderfully silly and bizarre parts.
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It all gets repetitive, and after about the halfway point, you get the feeling that Myers and Co. don't know where to go next, and are making it up as they go along.
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60Actually funnier than the first movie, but getting to those parts requires a little bit of patient mental fast-forwarding.
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60If it all seems a bit dizzying, it is, but there's plenty to enjoy.
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50The satire is crammed with sexual and scatological humor; some may find this Rabelaisian and refreshing, while others will detect the end of civilization as we know it.
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50Too much of what The Spy Who Shagged Me has to offer is tired and derivative, and, when the various jokes and gags are tallied, there are many more misses than hits.
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50At this point, the effect of Myers' one-man Sixties love-in already feels less shagadelic than just shagged out.
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50The repulsive turn of events erased all my good memories of the first half, and makes the movie hard to recommend to a normal human being.
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50A movie that's nearly as good as its publicity campaign.
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Several love beads short of its predecessor. Intermittently hilarious comedy.
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50AP2 starts out bright and clever--shagnificent, we might almost say--before sinking into a swamp of shagnation.
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50Script just doesn’t have it in terms of fresh narrative developments or individual gags.