Austin Powers in Goldmember
New Line Cinema | Release Date: July 26, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Puerile, pitiful, grotesque, offensive, immature, repulsive and, of course, extremely funny. Read full review
90
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Mike Myers unleashes (or seems to unleash) the entire contents of his comic mind. Read full review
90
SlateDavid 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
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence 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
83
Portland OregonianShawn 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
80
The New York TimesStephen 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
80
SalonCharles 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
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The most consistently funny of the ''Austin Powers'' films. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
This summer's comic gem. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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
75
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
75
New York Daily NewsJami 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
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Nothing to write home about, though nothing to stay home about either, especially if you're a dyed-in-the-polyester Powers fan.
70
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
The movie will leave you smiling forgetfully on the way out, and Myers will have done his job.
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)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
70
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
Not since the heyday of Fellini, I dare say, has there been such a merrygoround of a movie. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley 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
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean 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
63
Baltimore SunMichael 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
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's a shapeless, derivative-but-funny show with another loony parody plot about super-villain Dr. Evil. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames 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
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Uneven, self-conscious but often hilarious spoof. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderHank 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
60
VarietyTodd 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
50
Rolling StonePeter 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
50
L.A. WeeklyMark 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
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Casting Caine as Austin's father is a stroke of pure genius. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The uneven Goldmember seems to take a big step toward the extremely juvenile, with more scatological and fewer sex jokes Read full review
40
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Star/writer Mike Myers and director Jay Roach struggle visibly with exhausted possibilities and diminishing returns. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
To paraphrase one of the few memorable lines in the movie, "Even stink would say this stinks." Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Goldmember comes after years of escalating vulgarity have thrown the need for caution -- and cleverness -- out of fashion. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan 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
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