| 91 |
Portland Oregonian
For 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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| 88 |
USA Today
There 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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| 80 |
TNT RoughCut
Graham Verdon
For 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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| 80 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The most consistently funny studio sequel in some time, and the rare blockbuster that actually delivers on what it promises.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
The 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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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
It's all fab, baby, a kicky, wiggy sequel that scores on all levels, from the sexy to the sublime.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
As a character, Austin Powers hasn't worn out his welcome, exactly, but he has outlived his novelty.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Places Myers firmly on the top rung of movie comics.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
A 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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| 70 |
Salon.com
Given 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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| 70 |
Slate
Better 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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| 70 |
Washington Post
There's a rampant looseness to this movie, and it's subversively liberating.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Myers 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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| 70 |
Washington Post
With its outrageous double-entendre, gonzo performances and appalling lack of restraint, the sequel is more than a guilty pleasure.
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| 70 |
Film.com
The 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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| 63 |
New York Post
Rod Dreher
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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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Turns out to be less than the sum of its wonderfully silly and bizarre parts.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
There is an underlying likability to Austin Powers that sort of carries us through the movie.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
For my taste, too much of the new Powers looks like bad TV and sounds like old burlesque.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Actually funnier than the first movie, but getting to those parts requires a little bit of patient mental fast-forwarding.
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| 60 |
Newsweek
Kendall Hamilton
If it all seems a bit dizzying, it is, but there's plenty to enjoy.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
A movie that's nearly as good as its publicity campaign.
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
At this point, the effect of Myers' one-man Sixties love-in already feels less shagadelic than just shagged out.
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| 50 |
Variety
Script just doesn’t have it in terms of fresh narrative developments or individual gags.
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| 50 |
Time
AP2 starts out bright and clever--shagnificent, we might almost say--before sinking into a swamp of shagnation.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The 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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| 50 |
ReelViews
Too 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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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
After a while it becomes apparent that this movie is too eager to please, too willing to sacrifice its point of view toward its targets to sustain itself for the length of a feature.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
Several love beads short of its predecessor. Intermittently hilarious comedy.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The 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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| 40 |
TV Guide
Would be too long even if it were twice as funny. And that about sums up the movie.
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| 20 |
Film.com
I just really, really, really, don't like this movie, and I don't care who knows it.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
Patrick Williams
Kills whatever charm the first movie had by recycling its few serviceable parts.
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