The Reel Rejects - AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER (2002) IS THE WACKIEST YET!! MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:27 Now further ado, I don't know where in time we're going to be, but I know it's going to be groovy and randy and roll the bump. Oh, my friends. Yes. Hi there. We just watched oust in the powers in the gold member. If you made this far into the video, leave a like. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the notification bell so you can.

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Starting point is 00:02:36 It was five stars. Yeah, a podcast platform of your choice. Arun! We're going to hop into some questions in a second, but let's get your initial immediate impressions. This one was interesting. It definitely did make me laugh, though I did have some. things that were a little questionable. What?

Starting point is 00:03:01 What? I know. Like what? How possibly could you? Not everything worked for me in this one, but I can't say that I didn't have a good time. Yeah, this one was a trip. You know, it's interesting watching the third movie in a franchise after the first two were cultural juggernauts, because that's when you get all the celebrities in there. And it's just like a cameo fest.

Starting point is 00:03:27 but yeah there are definitely some sorry bits that were working for me John just like turn up the volume I apologize they're singing what's it all about Austin which I believe there's a song from the movie Arthur that goes what's it all about Arthur so this is like a parody song happening here at the very end credits for just the like five people

Starting point is 00:03:49 who are here to catch this reference oh wow anyway forgive yeah I would say that i still i think my favorite still the first one but this one definitely had some moments that made me laugh pretty hard uh the the bit with we're fat bastard bastard like was hanging from the wire and then the first uh mole mole because i remember growing up hearing that so just now having context for for that reference but it was funny for me personally and then um yeah the twist was interesting um unexpected for sure oh

Starting point is 00:04:27 them being brothers. Yeah, it was cool. I was like, okay, it gives a nice little bow to the rivalry between those two characters. And yeah, I don't know. I thought Goldmember didn't necessarily work for me, but, you know, the classic characters that we're accustomed to with the other two were still strong. And I think this is the most Dr. Evil and Austin Powers have interacted in this entire trilogy. but yeah overall I can't say that I didn't have a good time I don't think that I don't know if it was like a contractual thing but this was definitely the lust the least horny with the lead that Austin Powers has been and these three I wonder yeah like what was put in place for that to be the case because yeah he is very professional he is a very professional relationship with fucking Cleopatra Yeah, he's not hitting on her too much And they got that one very, like, pristine, very, like, delicate kiss at the end.

Starting point is 00:05:32 Gentle, yeah. Yeah, it's, like, really planted on the lips and make sure we're not doing anything too crazy with this kiss. Jay-Z is just all on set, just on the side. Right off the, with the script in his hands. You try nothing. Script supervisor, Hova. Yeah, but, yeah, that's what I'm feeling right now is coming straight off of it. How are you feeling?

Starting point is 00:05:52 I had a really good time. I had a lot of fun. In some ways, this might be blasphemy. In some ways, this one kind of flew by the smoothest for me. This one definitely, I feel like had the fastest pace for sure. I think it was doing a lot of things. Like, I don't know. I think this one for me is a mixed bag because I feel like I had some of my hardest laughs.

Starting point is 00:06:13 And there are other some things that made me cringe. So it's just kind of an anomaly of an experience in that way. There's definitely some cringe for sure. It's weird. I think this movie had, of the three of them, something that struck me that is striking me in this moment and I could be wrong I'm excited to go back and rewatch these again

Starting point is 00:06:29 eventually. This one felt like it had the least amount of like, we're going to pause and we're going to do one joke for a very long time. This is true. This one had the tightest pacing or at least the tightest like editing in that capacity.

Starting point is 00:06:45 So, yeah, this is a very, very interesting one in terms of like, yeah, this is definitely part three and they're definitely going bigger and they're doing more stuff and they're bringing in more characters and I I liked it's weird

Starting point is 00:07:01 Goldmember himself is like the weak link of the movie for me because you know it's the title character it's a new villain ostensibly but you know it's the little Austin Powers versus Dr. Evil at the end of the day so yeah Goldmember didn't leave that much of an impression

Starting point is 00:07:17 really beyond the look and the fact that he is gross and I don't know something about his like holland thing uh is the choice is a choice i could tell the choice was being made i was like i don't quite i don't quite fully click with what the choice is it's weird it's quirky it's it's humorous to a degree um also the skin thing very gross very very gross um but yeah i mean like the combination of like okay foxy leopatra we got a bit of a 70s vibe the whole like flip with mini me the stuff with his dad like this this one actually in a lot of ways might be the one

Starting point is 00:07:57 I would soonest like put on again just for like the barrage of jokes and such yeah I think it exchanges drawn out jokes for volume of jokes yeah and in a way that I appreciate that pacing a little bit better because it just feels like there's more it's not like more substantial in like a deep sense but it feels a little bit more substantial in the sort of like, in the previous ones, once you get the joke and if you're not fully like, you know, gut busted by the joke, then you're going to just kind of be there going like, oh, yeah, the joke is continuing. And there wasn't a ton of that here.

Starting point is 00:08:35 Even the bits that were designed to be like, you know, repeat or, you know, sort of to stop and, you know, focus in on some weird happenstance, even those were tight. The thing where he's like peeing by the fountain could have gone on a lot longer, you know, I thought that they kept those things tighter than the other two have. Also, this one didn't have any naked Austin bits. No naked Austin bit, but we did get the subtitles bit, which I thought was very funny. That was fun. That was clever and different for this franchise.

Starting point is 00:09:03 So I'm sure we're going to touch on some stuff. You guys want to know about those. I'm going to stop. And we're going to get into your guys questions because, you know, there will be more reviewing to come with those. So kicking us off today. R on the H. would you be open to reacting to any other movies with

Starting point is 00:09:23 Beyonce Cadillac Records DreamWorks obsessed no I'm just saying it right here no Beyonce I am only close-minded and why there are two things in this world

Starting point is 00:09:36 I hate people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and movies that feature Beyonce and the Dutch and the Dutch specifically no but I would be down Yeah, I've never seen Cadillac Records

Starting point is 00:09:51 I think I've seen obsessed Like on TV in passing But I don't really know much about it But I would love to And I don't think Dream works as a movie Maybe you're referring to Dream Girls Oh yeah, that's probably it Yeah

Starting point is 00:10:04 Because yeah I'm like how many movies is Beyonce made She's in The Lion King We did watch The Lion King too For this channel The Mufusso movie You can't check IMDB for Beyonce Because it's gonna throw you

Starting point is 00:10:19 a whole heck ton of music videos. Yes. Her actual film biography is relatively short. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would definitely be open.

Starting point is 00:10:30 She's in a movie called Epic. I don't know what that is. Nope. Wow, wow, Wobsey. She was a voice on Wow, Wow, Wobsy Idol. Shine. Obsessed 2009.

Starting point is 00:10:41 Okay. What is obsessed? It's a movie with Idrisel and her. Oh, wow. An Ali Larder. Oh, is this like this like white she devil comes to tempt Idriselba away and Beyonce has to like

Starting point is 00:10:55 beat her ass yep that's exactly what it is uh yeah i mean i would be i would certainly be down i feel like this was oh is she and pink panther also this seems like a good breakout yeah i would too fighting temptations yo i remember that was a kid i don't remember anything about it i would love to watch that movie wow yeah i would too yeah i mean i for me anyway this seemed like you know oh, her big kind of break into acting in a focal kind of way, and it seems like by her filmography, minus a couple small

Starting point is 00:11:26 roles, that is the case. And yeah, I mean, she has, like, just the right amount of potential acting chops for this role. It's not like an amazing performance, so to speak. It doesn't require it to be. But I thought she had a lot of, you know, fun on camera,

Starting point is 00:11:42 certainly. She's very appealing to watch. Foxy, Cleopatra. Definitely a fun addition to this franchise. So based off of that, I'd watch some more Beyonce joints. Yeah. Let's see. Brandon Camacho. Do you think Gold Member

Starting point is 00:11:58 is the funniest Austin Power movie? Or do you think Powers movie? Or did you think another one was funnier? And what did you think of the cameos? This is interesting. Because I feel like the first one is probably

Starting point is 00:12:14 the strongest of the movies, but I feel like this one has the funniest moments for me because i think this one probably made me laugh the hardest but also made me cringe the artist so it's it's weird so in some ways yes and other ways no and what did you think of the cameos they're great super unexpected had cameos were hilarious yeah and yeah i think in some ways i would say that this is the funniest one to me or this is this might be my favorite personally because yeah i would agree like the previous ones have aspects that are probably better for like

Starting point is 00:12:47 filmmaking we're recreating these vibes of the 60s or the night well they were in the 90s for the first one for reels but you know what I mean I mean yeah I thought the cameo was really funny like Tom Cruise hilarious because we're calling the Mission Impossible thing yeah it's even him

Starting point is 00:13:05 and it's perfect as good filmmaking you know like it's great because it even all these years removed you're able to sit here and if you see Mission Impossible too you're like this really feels like mission impossible too and Yeah, having Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Steven Spielberg, doing the dance number. You know, I love a dance number, and these movies have really fun, you know, takes on that. Yeah, John Travolta at the end, and the various other people who cameo across the movie, the, you know, random appearances and such.

Starting point is 00:13:34 Yeah, I thought they were great. I really enjoyed, I thought it had just the right amount of meta for that wraparound, like, yeah. in some ways this feels like the rare three-quel that's like kind of hitting right at the exact time because this does have like this sort of pop culture review kind of quality with the cameos and things like that so yeah in a lot of ways I would say this one is the funniest for me I think I think it's because this one has the most attempts at this stuff this one throws the most at the wall and since it's not spending enormous amounts of even the mole gag is not as long as it would have been played in the previous two. So I feel like, yeah, the density of jokes, you know, kind of like helped the ratio out. Because even if not every joke was hitting, I just felt like the pacing of the humor was a little snappier. And if I wasn't enthralled with one joke, we would be on to the next one pretty quick.

Starting point is 00:14:31 And there would be multiple things, you know, in a scene that were funny or of note versus, like, okay, I get it. I get the bit, you know. Just waiting for it to, like, kind of conclude, yeah. Yeah, the previous two have, like, and I really enjoyed those two, but they have more of that quality of, like, if you're not with a bit and you get the bit, you're going to be waiting until the bit is concluded, whereas this one felt like it had more, you know, facets. For sure. For sure. For sure.

Starting point is 00:14:59 Yeah. Let's see. Michael Medine Katuria. Thank you so much for chiming in. Hey, guys, what is the funniest moment for you in this film? My personal fave was Nathan Lane's scene, his lip-sync is Foxy Cleo. patcher makes me laugh every time that was really funny yeah i do agree with that that was hilarious and a great yeah like great cameo for a recognizable actor but also like constant

Starting point is 00:15:24 professional really threw himself into that moment um yeah i'm trying to think of uh if any other bit got me quite as well i think uh just i can get a part of because like personal life nostalgia with like my own family because my i know my my dad really like he's growing up and i'll say i was too young to like really watch them so i saw like bits and clips here but um the one who was like a mole yeah my dad grew doing that so that that one was particularly funny to me also gold members wire breaking also had me dying because i just not expect that to happen fab master my bad yeah the fab bastard and actually i had more i get the fab bastard bastard bastard the joke is that he's off-putting i actually had a fonder experience with him here yeah it was way more gross last time way more yeah

Starting point is 00:16:17 like overtly off-putting in the previous one whereas here you're like you'd still gross still off-putting but like just enough that it's still kind of charming and i think that helps because you have michael mike meyers in four roles again gold member a lot of costume a lot of mannerism a lot of choices there but i felt like at least while I wasn't as enthralled with that specific character you had a strong showing from obviously Austin and evil but also fat bastard like left a good impression yeah but yeah I mean having the Michael Cain show up at all I love the the bit just watching the young actors do their roles that that was very funny the subtitles bit I thought was very funny um and yeah I'm trying to think and I know there's other you know bits and things that I'm forgetting and

Starting point is 00:17:05 the moment um the the the the boob bit or they the satellites the satellites yeah it was less drawn out than the first one another example yeah of you know them tightening that joke up yeah yeah yeah oh god there's there's one other job i like the i like uh the music video with uh with them in prison that was fun yeah two dr evil raps we have had in this franchise now and both of them surprisingly funny despite the fact that it's like like a requirement of this era of comedy that we have to do that. Golly, it'll come

Starting point is 00:17:41 back to me. There was like one other gagger routine that I, that like stuck in my mind and now I can't access. Oh, I like the fuck me, fuck you. That was funny. Yeah, and his Paul change that he wasn't there. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:55 Yeah, that was a fun one. ZB. K&D. Thank you for chiming in. This one always feels. feels like the most put together movie out of the three. Yeah, see, you guys are helping me find the words to it. I think the humor stayed the same, but was still executed in a way

Starting point is 00:18:13 that managed to keep up with the times. Do you think they could do another sequel in 2025 with that same humor? I think yeah, I think you could do Austin Powers now. For sure. And this one was the least sort of like flirting with we didn't have one Will Ferrell and Brown

Starting point is 00:18:29 face this time. No, now they left in the 90s. No, they left that in the 90s. Yeah, I think you could do Austin Powers now and I think it's been long enough that there's enough shit in culture for him to react to the changing times of and yeah I mean I guess it would come down to just coming up with a new fourth fifth character for Mike Myers to play and some more you know having Michael Cain show up as his dad I thought was an inspired choice yeah and so like it's stuff like that it's like you would need I think the trickiest part would be finding

Starting point is 00:19:05 things like that to do i feel like if they were to do it it'd be like another like soft reboot or they'd freeze him again in the early 2000s and unfreeze him in the 2020s yeah or have him with a kid or something i don't know yeah so something like that'll be they'll all be fun you know have them going against scott evil this time instead of yeah and i think yeah you could definitely there's nothing about the sensibility it's it's randy and and stuff like that but you know like it's not like you can't do that now and i feel like again we've We've been through enough with Austin Powers to know that he's not, you know, he's the right kind of perv. He's the right kind of good-natured purve.

Starting point is 00:19:44 And I don't think there's really much off-limits with him that you couldn't do now. No, I mean, if they can update American Pie to be in the 2010 and still be hilarious, they can definitely be Austin Powers. Yeah. In fact, I'm sort of low-key hoping that we could get a fourth one sometime soon. So heck, yeah. Please, Mike Myers. Get on it, Mike. Jay Rushden

Starting point is 00:20:06 Sorry The parody movie At the beginning Was great And the ending of the film Was perfect question Who is your choice For a new Austin Powers today

Starting point is 00:20:17 I think Austin Butler Should play Austin Powers Yep That would be a great choice Any Samberg Would also be a fun choice I think Yeah

Starting point is 00:20:26 He would be a good comedic actor choice Get Glenn Powell Because he did that Disguise his movie I was going to pitch Glenn Powell for everything Glenn Powell's Austin Powers I'm with it

Starting point is 00:20:37 Glenn Austin Powellers I mean Going back to the funniest moments I mean I think the Just because we are here for that I think the movie Within the movie was among the funniest moments The funniest you know

Starting point is 00:20:52 It really sets a tone of like Oh man anything could happen And we're in for surprises And for Madcap Yeah But yeah I I feel like you should cast a black Austin Powers now

Starting point is 00:21:04 I was gonna say Kevin Hart is awesome power. I was going to say, who can do an accent? I think that's the real thing you need is you need somebody who can hold down the accent, and then you're good. Which is, it's a great accent because it, like, invites you to try it. Bill Hader could also do it. Bill Hader would be very funny.

Starting point is 00:21:22 I mean, part of me would like to, I don't know, we've had the whole dumb and dumberer of it all to know that, like, it doesn't always pan out the way you hope it will from what I've been told when you cast, like, young actors to take up the mantle. But, again, from what we saw here, it is possible. You could do a prequel, Austin Powers. Do, like, a casino royale movie where it's, like, his first mission or some shit like that.

Starting point is 00:21:47 Do, like, yeah, do some kind of weird legacy sequel where he's, like, at the end of his career, it's like, do a combo casino royale, no time to die with it. I haven't seen those movies, so I can't get on it, but a legacy scene. One peers in on Bond. at the beginning and one peers and on bond at an end for this era, I guess I would say. Okay.

Starting point is 00:22:12 So, you know, there's shit you can do in that, in that, uh, you know, general vicinity. Thank you, Jay. Reject Nation, I'm interrupting this video because the start of this year, here's some photos. I started off at 218 pounds and had over 20% body fat. Since then, I've dropped close to 50 pounds. I am now at 7.9% body fat. Pretty proud of the results. Now I'm focused on like building muscle.

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Starting point is 00:24:03 Again, that's Huell.com slash rejects, code rejects. Use the code and fill out the post-checkout survey to help support the show. Thank you again, Huell, for being a big part of my lifestyle. Robi Bobarp Pierrata. In this movie, Mike Myers plays four different roles. Do you think that an actor playing so many different roles in the same movie can be very distracting or very beneficial for the movie itself? Also, were you surprised by Sir Michael Cain playing the role of Austin's father? and which ones of his performances are your favorites and why keep up the good work and chow from sardinia

Starting point is 00:24:38 chow to sardinia i'm feeling i don't think it's distracting i think that it's it's fun and especially if the actor is able to bring a sense of versatility to each of these characters because in this movie specifically he felt like very different people for all four uh characters he was playing which which only added to the comedy especially today if they were to do this if they didn't do a fourth one uh we just had a movie like sinners we're having two actors in the same movie and it's pretty seamless so i feel like the effect of this could even be stronger today than it was in the early 2090s yeah and to make it feel more seamless so i would be down for it and yeah i think it works in the movie's favor to you know especially you know

Starting point is 00:25:22 with them making awesome powers and dr evil brothers i'm like okay yeah that makes sense of twin brothers okay sure and i really i actually really like that development for a third for a Part three. I thought that was a really choice. Choice. It definitely begs the question, yeah, will it just go to Scott, which would make a lot of sense if you did a fourth one, and I would want it to be such. But also, then you're sort of like, what do we do with Dr. Evil? And that would be an interesting thing. Maybe him in a grew scenario, or he's, like, grappling with his goodness versus evil or whatever. This also makes me curious to go back and watch some of the Eddie Murphy movies where he plays,

Starting point is 00:25:59 like a ton of roles because you know like that's a i feel like that's a tradition that exists within film history that is very fun because we've had i've never i've never seen the nighty professor yeah like i i saw like a snippet of it as a child but yeah like he plays a ton of characters in that movie obviously uh tyler perry movies he's playing a lot of characters and and i i feel like oftentimes i mean yeah it'll be noticeable or occasionally it'll get a movie where they really surprise you with it but oftentimes it's noticeable and i feel like yeah it's a well-worn tradition and it's just up to whether or not the actor themselves has the range to do it i mean in this movie i feel like it works in the sense that they all four do feel like very different characters even if you

Starting point is 00:26:44 can see the parts of mike meyer's face that are the same um i like yeah i like them in order so it's like i like austin the most i like dr evil pretty on par with austin and then you know fat bastard and then a gold member at the bottom because gold member as we've said in this review and actually as will pertain to the next question too so we'll get too we can talk about the the nitty or grittier but gold member yeah like even though he was the weaker of the four characters to me he was still distinct enough that it didn't actually like hurt the movie um and it didn't really like detract that much i just kept occasionally being reminded like oh yeah he's gold member and uh you know i didn't really love the jokes for

Starting point is 00:27:29 Goldmember but I thought that his commitment to the character was good and then yeah the Michael Kane yeah was like such a fun surprise and a great again perfect choice for this because he's a guy who's not he looks kind of like him he's from that

Starting point is 00:27:45 era of the 60s and 70s especially and he's played you know secret agent types obviously the Italian job and the mini Cooper you know as a reference to that yeah I thought that was like perfect casting um in terms of favorite michael kane rolls though that's a tricky one man i feel like there are a lot of michael kane like classic movies i gotta go back and see actually yeah i feel

Starting point is 00:28:08 like i haven't seen a ton of michael canes earlier work because yeah i mean obviously he's great as alfred uh you know he's left a lot of impressions in some recent like christopher nolan movies and stuff but i'm trying to think if there's like a good uh he was in sherlock gnomes so that was uh the best i don't have to say alfred that's one that sticks out the most to me and i know he's in how you see me but i don't really remember those movies yeah it's the one that sticks out the most alfred yeah is like the one that comes to mind and it's like very much of our era when a lot of you know young folks were disguised and this movie predates the batman movies and stuff so i guess for a lot of you know people in our gen you know

Starting point is 00:28:51 the austin powers and gold member might have been there you know bigger intro to him um but But, yeah, it's like I feel like we would have been very much becoming learning his name and becoming very aware of him as, you know, part of the Dark Night trilogy. Also, I don't know we're not supposed to take these movies too seriously, but it was racking my brain because this is how my brain works. So Austin Powers' dad was still alive in 2002. Then we had to go back in time to bring his dad in the 70s to 2000. So then there's two awesome, two Nigel Powers in 2002 now. Oh, he was Alfie, of course. what's it all the the song sorry uh walk me through that again so you know how he was when he was

Starting point is 00:29:33 getting knighted in 2002 his dad wasn't there yeah he's like sad because daddy wasn't there and had to go back in time to get daddy from the 70s back to 2002 that means just two Nigel powers in 2002 wait a minute did we go back in time and get him yeah because he was in the 70s that's right because he comes in in the fukyu scene right yeah Spook-you-Fook-Me scene When we first meet him We don't meet him We don't meet him in that scene

Starting point is 00:30:00 They come to get him During that scene Austin to tell him to go back In time And then when we go to the club In the 70s where we meet Foxy Cleopatra He's in the room

Starting point is 00:30:12 With the four girls And that was in the 70s I'm definitely going to have to go back And yeah And like double check the The timing and whyminess I'm reminded of the previous film in which they instructed us not to think too heavily about it.

Starting point is 00:30:30 I was like, okay, you know what? It's fine. It's fine. There's just something I was thinking about. But, oh, children, you know, I'll throw out children of men. I still need to see children of men. He's really good in children of men. And he has a very, a very lovable character in that movie.

Starting point is 00:30:48 You know, it's not a movie that's like super fun and cuddly. But he is a very warm character. And then the prestige, too. I think he's really good in the prestige. I need to watch some stage. Yeah, so there's a lot of good Michael Cain's out there, and clearly we need to see a handful more. So leave us all of your deepest Michael Cain recommendations.

Starting point is 00:31:09 Finally, Brian Reed, how does Goldmember's bizarre personality and obsession with gold to add to the comedy compared to Dr. Evil's usual antics? I don't think it did that much. I felt like he in large sort of felt like an afterthought and just an excuse for us to go to the 70s and get Beyonce

Starting point is 00:31:31 that's the biggest surprise to me actually yeah is the fact that yeah like gold member is an action is we cut to him he does bits he foils off Dr. Evil a bit but yeah there's not actually he is just a bizarre personality

Starting point is 00:31:47 and there's not really that much in the way of like I guess there are jokes but yeah i guess if you aren't really charmed by the bit with him that's pretty much all you're getting yeah and i wonder if the title of this movie because he doesn't feel like he should be the title character and i'm like it was just like a reference to like a james bond thing like austin bowers in gold member like it did feel yeah it did very well yeah it's gold finger you know it's supposed to yeah it oh my god sorry it's supposed to evoke gold finger and i really

Starting point is 00:32:20 like the, again, the imagery of him. I liked the, you know, everything they were going for, except that it just didn't feel like he amounted to very much other than a look and an outlandish character. This is still very much Dr. Evil and control is still very

Starting point is 00:32:36 much his plan. It just so happens that Gold member has an affinity for gold and there just so happens to be a gold asteroid, but it really feels like, it almost feels like there was an existing character that they wanted to bring in and they found an excuse to bring in rather than

Starting point is 00:32:52 them actually being like inspired by this gold member character because yeah it's weird it's like he didn't detract from the movie for me but in this viewing I was sitting there kind of thinking to myself that like again aside from his

Starting point is 00:33:08 his vinky being a key like he's not really all that effective or that you know plugged in of a character you know it's odd it's an odd I wonder how that turned out if they were just like well we just gonna have him play another guy you know and we'll still have dr evil and austin and fat bastard be like the main you know mike meyer's comedic offering

Starting point is 00:33:30 or what but yeah it's it's it was an odd one because i definitely expected there to be more memorable comedy out of him and i'm yeah i remember the gross stuff or just the joke often seems to amount to like isn't being dutch weird yeah isn't speaking like the best jokes feet gags Those I thought were funny. Those are fun. I thought the feet were funny. His look is great. Everything is in place.

Starting point is 00:33:56 They just needed, I think, better material for him. I think the funniest thing that gold member supplies the movie with is a Michael Cain moment where he says, you know, there are two things I hate in this world or whatever. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch, you know, which is a great joke. But yeah, it's like he didn't ruin the movie for me by any stretch. it was the one element where I was like this feels like it could have been richer or more suited to my comedic sensibility anyway.

Starting point is 00:34:29 Yeah, I most of the time when he was on screen with the exception of the leg bits, I was like, okay, or like this skin thing is gross and I'm not digging this, but there's a lot of other great comedy to kind of

Starting point is 00:34:44 counterbalance it when he wasn't on screen. Yeah, I thought we were going to get more gold-related gags and bits. I thought I just thought he would be more of a criminal something or other. He just like kind of a weird. He just feels like another one of the guys at the table. Yeah. You know,

Starting point is 00:34:58 he feels like another one of the eccentric, you know, league of villains people rather than like, oh man, we need this guy. He's so important. This guy's got some kind of criminal mastermind edge that Dr. Evil doesn't have. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:35:13 I never felt like him and Dr. Evil were equals or like that they were of that same caliber. even though the beginning of it wants you to think that it's weird my favorite joke with gold member is when he becomes john travolta yeah that was my favorite too you know like but anyway not yeah not not bad but certainly the least flavorful when i expected it would be more flavorable kind of character but yeah this was very fun uh yeah laughed a lot a lot of good gags a lot of fun weird i do like the idea that he could fit on mini me's shoulders too that was very funny uh we got us a for a shadow gag as well, baby's arm holding an apple. Yep. Yeah. And the curtain.

Starting point is 00:35:56 Oh, the verbal reference, but then also seeing it was also funny because they reprised the thing from the last movie. Exactly. So, yeah, a lot of, yeah, nice callbacks, I thought, still continuing the solid production values

Starting point is 00:36:12 that we've come to expect out of the franchise. I like that this one was especially sort of globe trotting. We got some time travel. We're in the 70s. We're in Japan. were in a submarine layer, you know,

Starting point is 00:36:22 this story with Scott and Dr. Evil is evolving. All that stuff is really fun. I thought the characters they chose to keep coming back were well placed and whatnot. It's always a joy to have Basil and there wasn't a lot of number two,

Starting point is 00:36:34 but even he, I was happy to see anyway. And, yeah, as a three-quel, as far as like the part three of a comedy franchise goes, I thought this went pretty dang well because, you know, not every comedy franchise, we don't really even have them anymore.

Starting point is 00:36:48 but yeah to get to this point to have three what i would consider to be you know if this is your vibe three very solid installments of that vibe uh you know not bad j roach and mike myers you know they did good with this one and i liked it for the fact that one we get to see austin doing the most spot stuff i think out of any of them and the fact that this was vastly different from the first two i appreciate it for that yeah it's it's different it's like yeah it clearly is part of that it's not like doing anything drastic to like mess with what you want out of it but it's also yeah it's like just enough of an evolution and it's jam packed with stuff and there are some really inspired moments that i think work because of what came before but also because of what was happening in culture at

Starting point is 00:37:33 the time like there's stuff that's like kind of neat in response to what we've done with austin powers before and that opens the door then to having a whole bunch of other surprises and things and so yeah it really feels like they threw a bunch of things and ideas into this movie and a lot of them were inspired so yeah and even though there's a lot of cultural references i noticed that there was less even though it was still there there was less winking at the camera yeah at the first day yeah even though we still did a couple of times like directly break the fourth wall and wink into the camera yeah but i'm saying it was still there but i feel like it was more prevalent in two yeah this was a blast gang thank you for joining us if you joined us leave

Starting point is 00:38:09 your favorite jokes down below what you thought a gold member what you thought of any and all the things in austin powers in gold member and And, hey, what are your wishes for an Austin Powers for? Pitch it down in the comments. We'll catch on the next one. Be groovy, baby, and stay Randy out there. O behave. O'Bade.

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