Totally shagadelic baby!! (Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me (DVD))

Member Name: Whizz11

Product:	Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me (DVD)
Date:	05/11/09 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Better than the first, new characters

Disadvantages: None

Austin is back and is still as controversial and shagadelic as ever!

When we first met Austin Powers in International Man of Mystery we found him to be ugly and rude but someone who had an amazing way with the ladies. He had defeated his arch enemy Dr Evil and ends up marrying his assistant Vanessa Kensington played by Elizabeth Hurley. Austin Powers is a secret agent and the films are a very funny take on the James Bond movies, the suave, sophisticated agent who always gets the girl.

The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second Austin Powers film in the trilogy and this one, even more than the first really uses a variety of different James Bond films to spoof. In fact the title of this film is a play on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. This film was released in 1999.

I think it's funny the way this film has actually changed our vocabulary and projected some of its term into modern words for things that we still use today. For example, and correct me if I'm wrong, before this movie, a shag was not a word one used to describe having sex with someone but it seems that this is not the most popular and everyday given slang term for it. Also the plot of this movie sees Austin Powers losing his mojo. We now use this term and if we don't perform well or live up to certain standards we say we have lost our mojo and everyone know what we are talking about. Amazing how just one film can change the English language forever.

This is my favourite of all the Austin Powers films due to the introduction of some new and amazingly funny characters. Fat Bastard makes his appearance as a disgruntled "Scottish Guard" who has been hired to extract Austin's mojo from his frozen body at the Ministry of Defence Cryo Chamber.Austin's mojo is described in this film as a fluid inside his "family jewels" which is the source of Austin's incredible sexual prowess and appeal.

As well as playing Austin and Dr Evil, Mike Myers also takes on the role on fat bastard too. He is just like the name sounds, fat, with some very unusual eating habits and not a very nice guy. I really think Mike Myers plays all three characters them brilliantly. He is so out of there and wacky/crazy that the characters really work. It must have been quite fun playing both the fun/good character and the dark/evil ones as you would assume a different persona for each role.

Just when Austin thinks everything is going his way things with Vanessa take a devastating turn and Dr Evil is after him again, this time going back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo. Dr Evil is helped in his plot but another great first time character, Mini Me, a mini version of Dr Evil and in my opinion the nastier one of the two. He is played by the now very famous Verne Troyer who has gone on to be very successful in Hollywood because or despite of his size!

Austin hooks up with a new female side kick, CIA agent, Felicity Shagwell and things turn decidedly romantic as you would expect them to do with Austin. Felicity is played by Heather Graham and I think she does a good job, she's cute and funny and in my opinion better than Elizabeth Hurley was in the first movie.

This film is definitely very funny, it capitalises on the jokes and stereotypes from the first movie and just makes them better in this sequel and with a great plot and the introduction of new characters it makes this Austin Powers installment unmissable.

According to an article I read, the film grossed around US$310 million in worldwide ticket sales, making more money during its opening weekend than the entire box office proceeds of its predecessor.

Summary: Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me