The Reel Rejects - AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997) IS GROOVY BABY, YEAH!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:02:13 stuff five stars man that's what we like to see baby all right Aaron John old are you ready for some questions man yeah babe all right babe we got a little bit of

Starting point is 00:02:29 of a time, you know, we got shoots going on throughout the day. So we do have to be a little expedient this time around. But I think we got a good amount of time to get these questions. We got a lot of people showing up. I want to talk about Austin Powers. I want to make sure we get to as many views as can. So thank you guys for chiming in.

Starting point is 00:02:46 Tim Porkroll, my delicious Royal Reject kicking us off. What did you guys think of how this movie lampoons and references past spy films? Also, fun fact. Michael wrote, Mike Myers. I was what I call Michael Myers. It's Mike Myers is how he's formally known. Wrote these movies in tribute to his father who grew up watching,

Starting point is 00:03:09 who he grew up watching old spy films with. It's a very heartwarming. What did you think about this movie, lampoons and references past spy film? I thought they were fun. I would be lying if I didn't say I understood. All of them, you know, I haven't really seen a ton of 60s-based movies.

Starting point is 00:03:29 buy films or have I seen the James Bond movies but it's a lot of them it's a lot of them it's a great of James Bond but I do know that I believe that Dr. Evil is based on Dr. No if I'm not mistaken. That would track that would make some sense let's look up a picture

Starting point is 00:03:45 of Dr. No while you continue because I've seen a good amount of scattered bonds but I do not have like the encyclopedic like I've seen everyone kind of thing so yeah but I thought it was fun as far as how they're their references were coming across.

Starting point is 00:04:02 I even knew I didn't know what the references were. I still felt them, you know. I still felt the love for that time. Okay, you know, kind of like a similar... Definitely his outfits, definitely. Yeah, maybe not to look, but the definite outfit. But yeah, man, what do you think? This was very fun.

Starting point is 00:04:18 Yeah, I mean, I've seen a handful of the classic Bond flicks. I feel like the Roger Moore ones are probably a bit more... I think they all, the 60s ones, have their own... brand of broadness likely. But yeah, I've seen a handful of the Roger Moors, which tend to be, I think, more of the broad, kind of sillier James

Starting point is 00:04:39 bonds that you think of. And then the Sean Connery ones are a little bit more, you know, cool and slick and stuff like that. I always thought actually that Timothy Dalton was kind of an underrated bond because, you know, he brought the slick and the cool, but he also brought some pathos. But yeah, I

Starting point is 00:04:55 I mean, you know, I think there's enough cultural osmosis that, yeah, for like you know 90s kids and such you know if you're growing up with the basic language of what you understand james bond to be out in society and plus the 60s you know it's easy to pick up i feel like it's easy not to be too left out of a movie like this but having some of those touchstones i mean yeah i thought this did a nice job at you know recreating both the silly bombast of the diabolical world domination scheme undercutting it with bob's big boy i thought was kind of funny um and yeah you know it's like this isn't 100% just james bond it's not quite as like gadget

Starting point is 00:05:32 centric at least yet um as i feel like especially in the 90s we would have been associating james bond um but yeah i mean like as the 60s international man of mystery archetype i thought he did a really fun job of yes embodying the sort of like randy giggly free spirited nature of the time and you know playing that in a way that yes is incorrigible but isn't entirely off-putting like it's a movie that's aged fascinatingly because there's some stuff where you're like oh this is even more you know sharpened today by today's standards and there's some stuff where you're like wow we couldn't do this now but yeah I thought this did a nice job of lampooning the 60s bringing some of those production values back into the fray and you know it's shot on film so I'm sure they went to some level of trouble to get some film stock that would have evoked the 60s. And I forgot this was going to be like a 90s culture shock thing, which like, as much as it is that,

Starting point is 00:06:32 it really does feel like Austin just carries the 60s around with him because you kind of forget it's in the 90s part of the time. So, yeah, I thought this did a nice job of being, you know, a silly lampooning of, yeah, both the evil arch nemesis and the ever suave, ever ladies, man, spy. Yeah. It's definitely broad and silly, you know. Some jokes are more obvious, and there are other jokes that are a little more clever or a little more inspired.

Starting point is 00:06:59 But, you know, I get the sense this is aiming to be, you know, a broadly silly experience for people, and I think it succeeds at that. Yeah, it's definitely a very silly, very fun. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much, Tim. On to Corey H. If you were frozen in time and then revived decades later, what's one thing you'd be curious about? Oh, there's like a serious answer and a joke answer to this. Let's get one of each.

Starting point is 00:07:30 All right. Does McDonald still do the McRibb? 30 years in the future, or however many decades. And then I guess the other one, yeah, I guess what has become of AI 30 years from now? Sure, sure. But, yeah, did they get on that telepathy thing? Do we all speak the same language now? I'd be curious about that.

Starting point is 00:07:51 Yeah, I'd be curious if anybody ever finally finished fax machine technology or if we just gave up on that halfway through and never came back. The Mick Ribaba one's a fun one. I like that. What would I actually be curious about? I guess I would be curious as to, I guess beyond the whole, like, what's the world like now? I guess I would be curious as to if we ever got past, if we ever found a way to make I don't know solar and wind power is a thing

Starting point is 00:08:24 like stuff that hydropower shit that like exists everywhere that we should be able to harness that we you know for various reasons don't do people still drive do people still drive themselves you know yeah

Starting point is 00:08:37 do you still have to use your hands to go on the internet you've used your hands that's like a baby's toy god there's so many things though yeah man because I'm like I know that Musk talking about the neuralink thing

Starting point is 00:08:50 yeah I'm like, oh, there's so many ways I could go bad, but... Yeah, are humans still fully organic, or have we merged yet, I guess? Oh, the book that's definitely coming. Is a big scale question, I would be curious about it. I don't want it to come, but thank you. Let us know your thoughts about what you guys would first be checking upon. Mark Leach, thank you so much.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Do you think a film like this could be made today? For example, if they made another one now, they'd be able to make the same kind of jokes. I think it could be made today but I definitely think some of the jokes would have to be changed. It's funny because this movie makes self-war jokes about how things in the 60s

Starting point is 00:09:31 weren't acceptable in the 90s. And then watching this movie, it's even age even further. So things that are acceptable in the 90s are like taboo in 2025. Yeah. So it's a very interesting way of going about that. But I have to imagine, obviously, there's still some humor to be had there, but I for sure

Starting point is 00:09:47 I think some things would be altered. and they'd probably find some clever ways around some of the kind of jokes they're trying to do, but you find other ways to make it just as funny. Yeah, I think it's only a handful of things that you really could. Like, you know, you don't cast Will Ferrell to be a Middle Eastern guy now. Probably not. Probably, you don't do that. But there's most, I feel like most of this you could do now.

Starting point is 00:10:11 Because this isn't, yeah, like... The sexual persistence would probably be altered. I'm torn, because part of the point is that, like, Like, that's probably who a 60s guy might be. So, like, I didn't actually feel like the movie was, you know, where it counted. It's like, okay, he's clearly trying to force himself on her. And I think that, yeah, you would have to probably tweak the scene where they're in the airplane. And he's like, oh, I keep falling down on you.

Starting point is 00:10:36 Like, it's so lighthearted and silly that it's not, like, actually upsetting. But, like, you know, if you're doing it now, I suppose you would demonstrate his persistence in a slightly less physical way, maybe. But I think the persistence being confronted as part of the point, and it makes for a nice set up and subversion when she's drunk later on and he's like, well, I can't do it, man. It's not ethical baby. You know, like, and

Starting point is 00:11:00 that's a moment where you're like, oh, wow. And like, man, Austin Powers, you know, like that has aged surprisingly well. Or when he wakes up from cryosleep and he's like, you know, yes, comrades, we did it. You know, like, oh, capitalism one, great.

Starting point is 00:11:16 You know, like, that was something that I wouldn't have expected them to make a joke about in the 90s which is cluing me into how much longer certain conversations that exist in modern society have existed but perhaps just in a different portion of the conversation

Starting point is 00:11:32 I think there's like most of this I think you could do because again as long as you have the 60s and old spy movies as a touchstone you know I think there's little that truly crosses a line of portals

Starting point is 00:11:48 taste I suppose. I feel like some of like the more like awkward bits will probably be changed. I feel like some of the jokes went on a little bit too long. But yeah, maybe that's just like the, I don't know, the modernization of humor and how things are like more like quick these days rather than like letting things just like sort of breathe. We definitely, I don't know. Because yeah, because we went through the period of the 2010s where like banter based comedy with very little editing became such a thing. But it's not the same as yeah, like a silly bit that continues and continues and continues and I'm actually really interested to see the new naked gun because I don't know how that handles it and that would be a perfect I think litmus test. Not that this is a 100% that level of spoof but it is on the spoof ladder and I think that movie could be a fun litmus test as to yeah how this might exist

Starting point is 00:12:37 in the current times but yeah thank you so much Mark and obviously leave your guys comments on that down below. A has this to say thank you for chiming in with the success of The Naked Gun, the announcements of Scary Movie 6 and Space Balls 2, spoof slash parody movies seem to be on the rise again. Would an Austin Powers reboot be something you would want to see,

Starting point is 00:12:59 or should they not go anywhere near it? I would welcome that. I mean, I remember at the time, and I'm really excited to see Gold Member again, because that's the one I would have actually seen at the time it came out, and I remember that being such a phenomenon, and it's been such a long time. Obviously, legacy sequel is a thing we do.

Starting point is 00:13:18 now that's a little bit contentious depending on how and when. But I think anything that's predicated on the idea that like this character should check in every once in a while to respond to the times, I feel like now it'd be a great time to bring Austin Powers back. And it's like we haven't had a major Mike Myers vehicle in a long

Starting point is 00:13:34 time. Yeah. I'd be super down for that. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like it'd be fun. Yeah. If we're going to redo it, you know, Mike Myers is still around. He's still creative in Hollywood. So, yeah, this is a very beloved franchise. I don't know where. the third one ends as far as

Starting point is 00:13:50 does it enter the 2000s, another made like in the early 2000s, but yeah, I'd welcome it. I'd be there for that. And too, I mean, like, in a day and age where King of the Hill has conversations about, like, ethical, non-monogamy and shit like that, like a character like Austin Powers in 2025 would actually be

Starting point is 00:14:06 pretty fascinating because we have both the, you know, knowledge and practices that were a response to the sixth, coming out of the 60s, the 80s and 90s with, like, greater protection, less sleeping around. Now we're in a sort of both ways

Starting point is 00:14:22 moment where things are more liberated in the mainstream than ever in some ways, but there are also way more ways in which to take precautions and like do the protocol. So I feel like yeah, as a character, there would be plenty for him to respond to and to be fish out of water with.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Yeah, it's also interesting how that conversation between Dr. Evelyn and Austin Powers. He was like, yeah, man, there's this freedom and love. And that's what we're trying to do, just like, yeah, be able to express ourselves freely, and now we live in a time where, because I take it from this with a very like a liberal sentiment, you know, peace of love, but now this sense of freedom has been co-opted for different purposes in today's

Starting point is 00:15:05 day and age. So it's very interesting how that dichotomy has changed over time. Absolutely. So I say go for it. Let's do more Austin Powers. It's just got to be inspired on the writing. But it's their game to lose, I suppose. you a jordan lewis griffin which scene in austin pow's international mad of mystery would you say is the funniest scene which had the most mojo baby oh wow the funniest scene oh my god that's a hard one i mean the the choreography i was i was very impressed by the ingenuity of the silliness of the choreography when he's like naked in the background and she's talking on the phone to basil exposition and you know they cut back to that later i thought that was like a pretty you know it's goofy

Starting point is 00:15:56 it's dumb obviously but it also took like she clearly had to be like kind of watching some visual reference to keep the different props going and yeah just like their commitment to the physicality was quite funny they probably rehearsed up a lot yeah i don't know i think I think a lot of them were funny, but nothing made me to, like, die of laughter. Like, it never came from the point of tears. But if I had to think of a couple off the top of my head, I think when Will Ferrell was dying, that bit was pretty funny. And then, Manas and Todd was like, or when Dr. He was like, come, come, son.

Starting point is 00:16:35 He was like wanting him to walk over. Oh, this movie had a few bits that got me, but those were the first two to come to the top of my head. Yeah, yeah, Will Ferrell dying. quite funny the bathroom scene too with tom arnold uh that was probably my i thought that was pretty that was pretty great and and just the tag on that after all that like who does number two work for show that turd who's butt like that that what did you eat tag is just so dumb that it's yeah that's rounder funny funny funny as heck so yeah but leave your guys favorite funny moments down in the comments because i'm sure there this is a movie with a lot

Starting point is 00:17:12 like quotables for sure so uh yeah all right resonance zed watching someone alien to the world around them is always a fun time austin was frozen for 30 years from the 60s to the 90s how do you think he'd fair if he was frozen another 30 years and was unfrozen now it makes me feel old we have touched on this a bit already um but yeah what do you think of uh 2025 austin without the context of any future movie growth it would be definitely fun definitely interesting I think it would also depend on

Starting point is 00:17:49 where he is in the world and where he's unfrozen because yeah I feel like different parts of the world respond differently to someone like Austin To a pervert To a pub Yeah but yeah I don't know there's something like I think we live in a culture that's very much

Starting point is 00:18:07 because of the nature of the internet there's a lot of time looking back and like nostalgia so I felt like he'd find his little niche pocket of 60s nostalgia to kind of latch on to but also just seeing him adapt to a contemporary environment and how he'd respond to smartphones and you know, TikTok trends

Starting point is 00:18:28 or just general things in our world and I think he'd be baffled. How he would respond to the world of internet as it relates to all the possible The possibilities of the human body would be insane. Oh, yeah, and all the toys he could get. All the toys you could get. They have toys at Target now.

Starting point is 00:18:46 Oh, do they really? You see? I've been told. I haven't seen them myself because I don't go near that aisle. I feel like it's interesting because I feel like in some parts of, you know, America, we re-wrapped back around to a state of sexual liberation. So I felt like he'd find that crowd. Yeah, you know, he'd be in some orgies.

Starting point is 00:19:09 He would definitely, oh, my God, Austin would be... He'd find the swingers. He would find the modern swingers of the world. Hey, man, there's probably an app for that now. So, yeah, look out for Austin Powers, FetLife profile any day now. Kev B! Reject Nation, I have officially lost over 45 pounds this year. I am still working on a couple of extra goals for body composition development.

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Starting point is 00:21:45 what's one fun or cool thing from the 1960s you want to bring into today's world and what's something you'd rather leave behind baby also some trivia Mike Myers improvised about 30 to 40% of this film Jim Carrey was

Starting point is 00:22:01 the original choice for Dr. Evil but had scheduling conflicts that would have and wild to see them go head to head, especially because such a thing about this franchise, I gather, is him playing multiple characters. And prior to the film's theatrical release, MTV released a 42-minute film

Starting point is 00:22:19 called Austin Powers Electric Pussy Cat Swingers Club. It featured Austin discussing being frozen for 30 years and served kind of like an early introduction to the character and the tone of the film. It's on YouTube. We won't have to search that out. I never knew that.

Starting point is 00:22:35 That's crazy. Yeah, something from the 60s You want to bring into today's world And something you'd rather leave behind The social climate of the 60s We could leave behind Yeah, you know, leave me Some hose behind

Starting point is 00:22:48 Some segregation behind I don't know what I want to bring From the 60s to here That's good Maybe some like extinct animals I don't know I don't know Maybe Herbie

Starting point is 00:23:02 Let's bring Herbie back in the 60s Yeah Bring back the prevalence of bugs and buses. There we go. I would say we could bring back like, I feel like the 60s they had a lot of like

Starting point is 00:23:12 neck-centric clothing items. Bring the ascots back. Bring back. Bring back Dickets back. Bring back, not Dickies the pep but you know, like a dicky that you wear like, you know,

Starting point is 00:23:21 bring back a neckerchief or a scarf. There's some cool fringes back then too. They did. Yeah, we don't have those type of fringes. Bring those back. Yeah, bring them old fridge will last you 100 years

Starting point is 00:23:31 and you could survive a nuclear bomb inside of. Bring water beds back. Water beds and bring those floaty They had a lot in the interstitials especially Those like When you put like some kind of rotating stencil on a light So it makes like a cool, wavy patterned man

Starting point is 00:23:50 I think we should do that We should bring some of those things back Also, ooh If they could if they could modernize it And they're not be actually real Conceptually I think when You ever seen those pictures or videos You know what I'm going to say?

Starting point is 00:24:05 But when a woman had, like, the heels, but they're, like, goldfish in the heels? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring that back, but not real fish. Bring back aquarium shoes. There's a great spoof movie called I'm going to get you suck a, that's a Wayans. It's like a Keenan Ivory Wayne's movie, and there's a character who's a, it's like a, you know, crime action movie, and there's a character who's a pimp, and he has these elaborate wardrobes, and one of them involves these really tall platform boots with,

Starting point is 00:24:35 aquarium is aquaria inside basically yeah and there's yeah there's a whole scene where he gets like jumped and then they break his aquarium shoes and they're like splashing everywhere and yeah it's it's funny that movie is hilarious as shit at least as i remember it it's been a long time since i've seen it but it was one of those like that was a spoof movie my fan would put on a lot when i was growing up like yeah it would be like that was on a lot blazing saddles was on a lot uh yeah airplane anyhow

Starting point is 00:25:05 leave us your your things you want and don't want from the 60s gang Michael Medina Katuria hey fellas what was the funniest

Starting point is 00:25:14 part of the movie for you were there any surprising comedic moments that caught you off guard the unfreezing scene lives rent free in my mind

Starting point is 00:25:23 there were some really great like editing timing things you know it's like I can feel some of the improv as this movie is kind of constructed together. Golly, we've already talked about, yeah,

Starting point is 00:25:38 some of the funniest scenes and stuff like that. I'm trying to think if anything caught me like especially off guard, and I know there's something in the reaction. I think the way the laughing bit plays out when I'm a little too long was good because you expected to go on too long, and I think they know that people were going to have fun laughing along just as we did,

Starting point is 00:25:59 And then it goes on so long that, yeah, like, it comes back around. It's what I call that blunt force comedy sometimes. And this was sort of border to that, where it's like, yeah, just the way they all peter out. And the beat before the cut happens is just, yeah, it's really well timed. So that was a thing. But I'm trying to think, yeah, I mean, Basil Exposition is a great name. The whole bit with number two at the end where he's like, you. constantly be mean to me and like him wanted to use a little boy's room like that part was

Starting point is 00:26:34 little little bits and pieces like that for sure yeah i feel like we we talked about it before we got to your question a little bit but yeah i'll say the moments we've mentioned are all really stuck in my head and then the uh the car bit of him trying to figure out to use the car was both hilarious and frustrating that's so intense thinking about that the people use that as a gif and just him going back and forth between the walls and it all it raises my blood pressure every time too real here in L.A.

Starting point is 00:27:05 Absolutely. Zuri Birmingham thank you so much. If there was an Austin Powers reboot today, if there were, who could you see Cass as the iconic man of mystery? Oh, that's amazing. Oh, that'd be tough. I mean, I think you've got to have, I think you should

Starting point is 00:27:21 have Michael Myers do it. Mike Myers. But if he had like a son and you had to do like, we're recasting you as the son. character or something like that is I guess how I would go about it so if you're casting a character to essentially be Austin Powers if I'm recasting awesome powers today I think I'm going with Andy Sandberg that would be very funny I would enjoy seeing Andy Samberg's Austin Powers I don't know why because I've only seen him in like a couple things but I feel like getting

Starting point is 00:27:52 Glenn Powell to do it would be really funny you know it's funny he actually came to my mind too You know, because he's so counter to, like, the concept of the image of the character in your mind. And yet, like, he's a, he seems like a fun and, like, willing to be silly enough guy that, like, the joke of him playing the character would also work if he was really committed to it or something like that. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, he'd be a fun unexpected one. Yeah, get Tim Chan to do it. Tim Chan? Timothy Chalime, get him to be Wonka and then get him to be freaking Austin Powers.

Starting point is 00:28:24 I'm not mad at it. Why not? I mean, Chalemay is who they pitch for everything. Obviously, Pedro Pascal needs to be Austin Powers. Of course. I expect no less. I think, yeah, weirdly, for some reason, ask me tomorrow, it'll be different. But Glenn, Austin Powell's, I think, would be kind of... And Austin Butler is Austin Powers.

Starting point is 00:28:42 Actually, I think that's really funny, because I don't know how that would work, and it wouldn't sound quite like him, but it would be really funny. So, like, I'd watch him get stuck in the voice. Oh, God. I'm Austin Butler. I can't stop talking like this man. Yeah, baby. I was Elvis.

Starting point is 00:29:00 The next five years. Yeah. All right. Leave your Austin Powers casting below. Last couple questions. Jay Rushden, Danger is my middle name. My middle name, too. Hey, hello.

Starting point is 00:29:12 So what is the worst or best middle name you know of there? Who's got the best middle name? I do know a guy whose real name is actually Danger. Really? And his first name is Buzz. That's a pretty sick-ass name, yeah. That's pretty dope. I don't need bad middle names.

Starting point is 00:29:29 It's tough. I guess if you don't have a middle name. I don't know. He's still a girl whose last name was Glasscock. I went to school with a Dick Dickerson back in the day. Dick Dickerson. I didn't know what his middle name was, so it doesn't help me now. Maybe he was Dickie.

Starting point is 00:29:47 Dick, Dickie Dickerson. Little Dickie. A little Dickie, man. Shouts out. shouts out and he did fine it seems like I don't know I'm sure it's always

Starting point is 00:29:57 got to be hard when your name is anywhere I got hump in my name so you know how it goes but yeah I think he did okay

Starting point is 00:30:03 maybe juicy maybe juicy is a bad middle name juicy wouldn't be the best middle name but I guess it really depends on what's around it John juicy Humphrey

Starting point is 00:30:12 yeah not bad I don't hate it okay I'm with it if my mill name was just like trash or something I would hate that

Starting point is 00:30:19 I'm juicy Alexander it's not bad I'm not the same ring I like Juicy Humph, John Juicy Humph, John Juicy Humph. Leave us your best and worst middle names down below. Thank you, Jay. Finally, Brian Reed, thank you so much for tuning in. Is there anything you love in Austin Powers Man of Mystery besides the jokes? I love the aesthetic. I love the costume design. I love the cutaways that we do.

Starting point is 00:30:48 I think the casting is really strong. Yeah. Yeah, I think the little gadgets, the way they play on, you know, 60s spy things are fun. Yeah, those are the things that I liked. Yeah. I would agree. I feel like, yeah, I mean, I obviously laughed a lot during this. It's a silly, wacky comedy doing silly wacky comedy things, but the production values as a film nerd and as somebody who does enjoy movies from the 60s as well as various other decades, I delight in seeing those.

Starting point is 00:31:23 visual cues in that visual language recreated with the zooms and the crazy lighting and the wacky interstitial moments and stuff and and yeah the little floaty flowers and the big musical intro shouts out to the musical intro love a big dance number um so yeah like i said during the movie like obviously it's silly and there are a number of things that are meant to look campy or dumb or whatever but uh this didn't look like a cheap movie and uh it did look like they put you know a good amount of production value into, yeah, like making the 60s stuff look and feel credible. And I appreciate a film style comedy as much as, you know, a spoof in spirit. You know, I like something that, yeah, spoofs and recreates a visual tone, a language, a look, and aesthetic.

Starting point is 00:32:10 And I think this does that really nicely. Powers, international. I just want to get to the Rotten Tomatoes. Let's hit it. Let's hit them tomatoes. Okay. What do you think the critics gave out this movie? 62%

Starting point is 00:32:23 62% What about your What about the audience 85% Oh no You're close though for the first one Okay 72%

Starting point is 00:32:38 Okay Critics surprising me out here Yeah and then audiences for 77 Okay All right fine You know I'll take that Not too bad, not too bad Michael York

Starting point is 00:32:46 Shouts out yeah I thought the supporting cast was really funny I'm glad this did decently among people out there. I also just want to know really quick if that was freaking Reagan, if that was frigging. Yeah, the group leader of the support group that they were in looked just like, you know, frigging, oh God, what's her name? Why am I forgetting her name?

Starting point is 00:33:13 Reagan actress, come on now. No, come on. The exorcist. Linda Blair, doy. Okay, Linda Blair, Austin, Powers. There we go. It's not her. No, so yeah, just a lady who looks like Linda Blair.

Starting point is 00:33:34 Well, all right. Gang, we did it. We powered our Austin's. The shushing scene was improvised by Mike Myers and Seth Green. A lot of his stuff seemed like it was going to be, yeah, improv-based. and two, yeah, a lot of nice tributing to, you know, Peter Sellers, some of the stuff reminded

Starting point is 00:33:54 me of things like Dr. Strange or love or whatever. And apparently Elizabeth Hurley and Mimi Rogers asked to keep their tight leather outfits and they were. And apparently, oh my goodness gracious, I am not going to read that fact about the guy who played Random Task, but he's in prison now. Oh, yes, I saw a video about that. Yes, Random Task is in jail.

Starting point is 00:34:15 That's wild. Well, anyway, thanks for joining us for Austin Power. Hope you had a shagodelic time, man. Stay groovy, and maybe we'll catch you for part two. Number two. Stay groovy. Stay groovy, baby.

The Reel Rejects - AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997) IS GROOVY BABY, YEAH!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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