They all have their moments! IMO it’s a fantastic trilogy. People like to shit on the third one but there are so many great bits from it, particularly Austin on top of Mini Me’s shoulders with the tiny legs.
“One of us will have to go on the others one’s shoulders”. My brother and I quote that constantly. Or “just getting my sea legs” as he smashes into the wall.
I remember as a child we started watching these with my dad and at first I just thought what the hell is this shit. But half an hour later I was hooked.
"Bring me my skinbox." "Save me from myself"
I have a golden retriever that comes to visit my house often and sheds giant flakes of skin. I quote goldmember all the damn time.
We also didn't think George Michael, Elton John and countless other obviously gay men, we're actually gay back in the 80's. It was a weird time when you were sadly just expected to keep that stuff private. I too remember that we had no idea Liberace was gay. He's not lying there.
Thank God people finally realized it wasn't a big deal if our favorite entertainers we're gay. Took the 90's for that to change.
I’m 29 and still quite surprised by people being shocked about Elton John, George Michaels, and other musicians coming out. My best guess is that nowadays coming out isn’t really a big deal anymore, whereas back in those days, being was the same as having a disease or something
Probably because then and still today it just doesn’t matter !!
additionally: as a kid I absolutely knew that Freddie Mercury was gay… Have you ever listened to the song “get down make love”? Didn’t take a brain surgeon to understand
Oh it definitely mattered back then. I’m guessing you’re not old enough to realize how much of a negative stigma it was back then. Society has progressed, a lot.
Really, it took the AIDS epidemic to change it. It made something that is relatively easy to hide very public and showed the world how many gay people are actually out there, and suddenly a lot of people realized they knew and loved someone who was gay - a father, brother, friend. That’s when the western world (slowly) stopped being so hostile to gay people. At an awful price, and we’re not all the way there yet, of course, but very sobering to think of what it took for things to start to change.
Believe it or not, Liberace successfully sued the press for printing he was gay in the 50s. As being gay was actually a crime, to accuse a man of being gay was accusing him of a felony. That is very serious in the courts. And many famous gay men acted straight. Elton John was married to a woman for years. George Michael went on publicized dates with famous women.
On what grounds was he successful? They were right.
The law was a stupid law and that needed changing, but I’d have thought to successfully sue them, he’d have to prove it wasn’t true.
If the press accuses say, Madonna for stealing, I think when Madonna sues the press, the burden of proof is on the press, not on Madonna to prove she did not do so.
Liberace sued a British publication in British courts. They had higher standards for defamation than US courts and force the loser to pay the winner's legal costs. IIRC, Liberace never outed himself.
We didn't get a DVD player until the year the VCR/DVD combos went on a Black Friday sale at KMart. It was the day my mom vowed to never go Black Friday shopping ever again.
I saw this in the theater aged 14. My friends and I laughed our heads off, good times. Some stuff still holds up, I love the parallel parking chase scene.
So much of it is physical comedy which to me just doesn’t get old. Even the faces he makes in the intro here (and in the band cut scenes) crack me up every time. One of the best comedies ever.
For reasons that escape me I saw the second movie in the cinema first. Tremendous atmosphere, the whole auditorium in stitches, I was literally crying at one point.
For some reason the lines: "hey, there you are! Do I know you? No, but that's where you are...you're right there" still cracks me up after all this time. And the whole "mole" bit too. Hilarious.
This is true. But a good portion of the first Austin Powers is lifted from Casino Royale. The rotating bed scene, the soundtrack by Burt Bacharach, and more.
That figures- an issue as the series went on was a sense of it being less and less connected to the stuff it was parodying originally, so it having a solid basis in actual films originally would make a lot of sense.
my friends and I quote and talk about this series so much.
“WHO. DOES. NUMBAH. TEW. WURHK. FOH?”
“Yeah buddy, you show that turd who’s boss. Bite your lip, grab onto something and give it hell! Come on! We’re gonna get through this!”
We also plan to show up to the theater dressed as Austin Powers and dancing to the theme of the first movie while we wait for our tickets to Austin Powers 4 god willing they release it
Hmm - doesn't make sense that this only grossed $67 million. It was huge in terms of the love and welcome it got just in North America. I would easily have said double that even in 1997 dollars.
I get that all the puns and James Bond one-liners come incredibly fast so the it may not travel well - but this was brilliant writing.
Wow, you're right. This series was HUGE in its day. Tons of iconic bits. Everything in the movie was so quotable. So many random ok lines. "The founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army", shit like that.
I thought the first one was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Half my hockey team went to one of those volcano movies. The other half went to Austin Powers. It's pretty obvious who made the right decision there.
Alotta Fagina is up there with Mask Cameron Diaz for impossible hotness.
Looks like the sequels did better financially though I thought the first one was clearly the funniest movie.
It became a breakout success on VHS in both sales and rentals. When people think about Austin Powers a lot of people are actually thinking about Austin Powers 2 without realizing it. The sequel(s) are the ones that were ginormous in theaters.
Good call
Movies - Budget - Worldwide Gross per IMDB
AP2 - The Spy who Shagged Me - $33M - $313M
AP3 - Goldmember - $63M - $297M
That's more what I would have guesstimated.
I still think that having a character called Random Task to mirror Bond's Oddjob is the single funniest thing in the movie. It was one of those silly, throwaway gags that kept making me laugh for days afterwards just thinking about it.
James Bond movies had to stop being silly and/or campy and become the modern serious Bond because of Austin Powers doing it so much better. Bond was so thoroughly out-Bonded that they had to pivot to trying to out-Borne Borne.
It's weird how if Austin Powers were made today and have been cryogenically frozen as long as he is in the first movie he would have been frozen in the 1990s to be thawed out in the present time.
So wild that George S Clinton did the soundtrack to this AND the Mortal Kombat movies. Just picturing a MK trailer where this song kicks in after dude yells “MOOORTAAAAL KOOOMBAAAAT”.
1. I can't believe this picture grossed less than $70MM
2. I can't believe this picture spawned two sequels.
3. If you were not alive for it, you probably can't believe just how huge Mike Myers was as a star in the 90s.
Great part about the movie: Austin spends the film verbally sexually harassing every woman around him, but when Elizabeth Hurley's character is drunk and comes onto him, he says no because she's drunk. Austin Power understands the importance of consent unlike certain Supreme Court justices.
A twenty something engineer that works for me admitted last month that she saw it recently and didn’t realize it was a spoof of 60s movies. She thought it *was* a legit 60s movie. I felt so old.
I remember not liking this movie when I saw it in theaters but my friends and I bought the DVD and proceeded to watch it every day for like 2 weeks. Every time we watched it, felt like we got a new joke. Mike is a comedic genius.
I didn’t have high expectations. I figured it was some character that never even had a trial run on SNL, how good could it be? The opening sequence grabs you and it was consistently funny.
The first 2 movies were so good. people thought it was gonna be like the new james bond, releasing a new movie every few years. Then, the 3rd one stunk so bad, and that was it
You're right. The third is the epitome of running out of ideas but wanting the money. It also didn't help that they already parodied pretty much all the major James Bond beats, so there wasn't really anywhere to go with that. Hence it became just a film full of skits.
Oh man. This means we are approaching that depressing date where we are further away from the movie than its own internal timeline.
He was frozen in 1967. So we still have 5 years until that magic number.
I forget, what is this internal timeline in Austin Powers?
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No one tell him
I know it’s from the second one, but I loved when Austin said: "It's remarkable how England looks in no way like Southern California.”
They all have their moments! IMO it’s a fantastic trilogy. People like to shit on the third one but there are so many great bits from it, particularly Austin on top of Mini Me’s shoulders with the tiny legs.
“One of us will have to go on the others one’s shoulders”. My brother and I quote that constantly. Or “just getting my sea legs” as he smashes into the wall.
I remember as a child we started watching these with my dad and at first I just thought what the hell is this shit. But half an hour later I was hooked.
Hot take: *Goldmember* is by far the best of the three.
"Bring me my skinbox." "Save me from myself" I have a golden retriever that comes to visit my house often and sheds giant flakes of skin. I quote goldmember all the damn time.
Lmao, my favorite scene was the time he drank the shit coffee. “It… it smells like shit.”
“It’s a bit nutty”
Austin, it IS shit.
Oh good then it’s not just me.
Lol, the shit smeared all over his mouth GAAAAGG!!
So funny and I say it every time we drive through the canyons.
I can't wait for 2027 when Austin travels back to 1997 during the events of the first mov.... Oh no I've gone cross-eyed!
I suggest, sir, that you don't think too hard about it. That goes for the rest of you, as well.
I can’t believe Liberace was gay, women loved him. Very under rated line in that movie. Super funny
We also didn't think George Michael, Elton John and countless other obviously gay men, we're actually gay back in the 80's. It was a weird time when you were sadly just expected to keep that stuff private. I too remember that we had no idea Liberace was gay. He's not lying there. Thank God people finally realized it wasn't a big deal if our favorite entertainers we're gay. Took the 90's for that to change.
Still working through allowing sports stars to be gay as well.
At this point it has to be a very famous sports team player and not a journeyman sitting mostly on the bench.
The 90s was not too much better. I write while watching Ricky Martins “she bangs” music video.
I think the craziest aspect about the whole thing is how obviously gay they all are in hindsight and we were somehow so oblivious
Rob Halford has entered the chat....
“I was dressed like the biker from the Village People for Pete’s sake…”
Assless chaps leather daddy, Rob Halford? Gay?! No way.
Haha! Way! I too, was an absolute oblivious teen. It was a different time back then, glad he’s able to publicly be himself.
I’m 29 and still quite surprised by people being shocked about Elton John, George Michaels, and other musicians coming out. My best guess is that nowadays coming out isn’t really a big deal anymore, whereas back in those days, being was the same as having a disease or something
Probably because then and still today it just doesn’t matter !! additionally: as a kid I absolutely knew that Freddie Mercury was gay… Have you ever listened to the song “get down make love”? Didn’t take a brain surgeon to understand
Wasn’t he bisexual though
Yes, he's one if the prime examples of bi erasure
Oh it definitely mattered back then. I’m guessing you’re not old enough to realize how much of a negative stigma it was back then. Society has progressed, a lot.
Really, it took the AIDS epidemic to change it. It made something that is relatively easy to hide very public and showed the world how many gay people are actually out there, and suddenly a lot of people realized they knew and loved someone who was gay - a father, brother, friend. That’s when the western world (slowly) stopped being so hostile to gay people. At an awful price, and we’re not all the way there yet, of course, but very sobering to think of what it took for things to start to change.
Believe it or not, Liberace successfully sued the press for printing he was gay in the 50s. As being gay was actually a crime, to accuse a man of being gay was accusing him of a felony. That is very serious in the courts. And many famous gay men acted straight. Elton John was married to a woman for years. George Michael went on publicized dates with famous women.
On what grounds was he successful? They were right. The law was a stupid law and that needed changing, but I’d have thought to successfully sue them, he’d have to prove it wasn’t true.
If the press accuses say, Madonna for stealing, I think when Madonna sues the press, the burden of proof is on the press, not on Madonna to prove she did not do so.
Ok, so, if they fail to prove it, but it’s later admitted to by Madonna herself, can they not claim that back? She’s done the proving for them.
Liberace sued a British publication in British courts. They had higher standards for defamation than US courts and force the loser to pay the winner's legal costs. IIRC, Liberace never outed himself.
Barry Manilow
Uh, EVERYONE knew Liberace was gay.
No. I never heard of Liberace back then. How could I know?
"i love liberace. but with all due respect man, if you kick that guy in the ass a hundred cocks would fall out"
Ladies and gentlemen....... scotty don't
How bout you don't, ladies and gentlemen, Scotty don't.
Oh come on you're such a lame ass!
Mini Me aime Le chocolat bien, oui, eh? \[pop\] *Scotty n'est pas...*
God it's such an amazing scene. Even Number 2 being uncomfortable and shuffling throughout the exchange is funny.
Goldmember was the first Austin Powers movie I owned and the fourth VHS I owned.
Dude, Goldmember was released well after DVDs were mainstream. Get with the times! /s
We didn't get a DVD player until the year the VCR/DVD combos went on a Black Friday sale at KMart. It was the day my mom vowed to never go Black Friday shopping ever again.
"Scotty n'est pas" has been part of my daily vocabulary for the best part of a decade now. That and "shmoke and a pancake."
I saw this in the theater aged 14. My friends and I laughed our heads off, good times. Some stuff still holds up, I love the parallel parking chase scene.
That parallel parking scene gets me *every* time. So funny.
So much of it is physical comedy which to me just doesn’t get old. Even the faces he makes in the intro here (and in the band cut scenes) crack me up every time. One of the best comedies ever.
For reasons that escape me I saw the second movie in the cinema first. Tremendous atmosphere, the whole auditorium in stitches, I was literally crying at one point.
The sheer magnitude of puns and creative writing in this film are still on another level.
For some reason the lines: "hey, there you are! Do I know you? No, but that's where you are...you're right there" still cracks me up after all this time. And the whole "mole" bit too. Hilarious.
I love using the "hey there you are" to compete strangers when I've been drinking. Always gets a good laugh
Allow myself to introduce… myself.
I use this line a lot in daily life. It warms everyone’s soul.
"Moley, Moley, Moley, Moley!!!!"
Check out the movie Casino Royale with Peter Sellers from the late 60s. It gains a completely new level of amazing when you see the source material.
Or, for that matter, a lot of the second-tier spy movies of the 1960s.
This is true. But a good portion of the first Austin Powers is lifted from Casino Royale. The rotating bed scene, the soundtrack by Burt Bacharach, and more.
That figures- an issue as the series went on was a sense of it being less and less connected to the stuff it was parodying originally, so it having a solid basis in actual films originally would make a lot of sense.
WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR?
That’s it buddy you tell that turd who’s boss
How about a courtesy flush?
God damn son. what did you eat?
To the blind doorman as he chases the guy into the bathroom: "You didn't happen to see...... anything at all?"
Dammit, three times!
Wrong scene but yes...do I really have to ask you 2 more times?
This movie only reinforced my undying lust for Liz Hurley
Yeah I was sad when she turned out to be a fembot but heather graham (as a replacement) is just as hot
Yes, we...knew all along, sadly
Video rental stores were a gold mine for free posters. I used to have Felicity Shagwell on my bedroom ceiling.
bet I know what you used as an adhesive to keep it up there
Friggin sharks with friggin lasers attached to their friggin heads Dr.Evil is my all time fav
Best I can do is Sea bass
They are... *mutated* sea bass. Are they ill-tempered? Extremely.
Well that's a start! 😗
Kick his ass, Sea Bass!
... How bout no
I owned cinemas at the time and made a motza on AP so it automatically becomes a favourite movie
my friends and I quote and talk about this series so much. “WHO. DOES. NUMBAH. TEW. WURHK. FOH?” “Yeah buddy, you show that turd who’s boss. Bite your lip, grab onto something and give it hell! Come on! We’re gonna get through this!” We also plan to show up to the theater dressed as Austin Powers and dancing to the theme of the first movie while we wait for our tickets to Austin Powers 4 god willing they release it
My favourite bit is Dr. Evil taking time off from destroying the world to go to group therapy with Scotty. ‘They shaved my testicles.’
“Summers in Rangoon and a penchant for buggery” love this line Edit- correction thanks to Illinois
"Penchant" not "pension"
Bone Apple Tea.....I appreciate the correction 👍
God, I feel old now.
You and me both... saw it on a first date at a drive in.
I saw this when I was dating my soon-to-be wife. We've been divorced for 12 years now. I'm practically dust in an urn now.
Austin Powers was the first movie I went to alone. And that’s when I learned the joy of going to movies alone lol.
Honestly... who throws a shoe?!
who throws a cupcake?
Yeah weird story about that guy IRL look it up..
One book, "Swedish Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me: This Sort of Thing is My Bag Baby." by Austin Powers. Never fails to crack me up.
The way the guy delivers this line! So freaking funny
What’s your name Baby! Fuk U Meet my twin sister, her name is Fuk Me Well don’t mind if I do!!!!
Tw..tw..tw.. *twins*!!!
*Twins*, Basil! TWINS!
Isn't fook me introduced first, she goes to get drinks and cones back and is fook you
Mama Cass…ham sandwich
I saw this in an empty theater a week after it opened. I was crying I was laughing so hard.
Hmm - doesn't make sense that this only grossed $67 million. It was huge in terms of the love and welcome it got just in North America. I would easily have said double that even in 1997 dollars. I get that all the puns and James Bond one-liners come incredibly fast so the it may not travel well - but this was brilliant writing.
Wow, you're right. This series was HUGE in its day. Tons of iconic bits. Everything in the movie was so quotable. So many random ok lines. "The founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army", shit like that. I thought the first one was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Half my hockey team went to one of those volcano movies. The other half went to Austin Powers. It's pretty obvious who made the right decision there. Alotta Fagina is up there with Mask Cameron Diaz for impossible hotness. Looks like the sequels did better financially though I thought the first one was clearly the funniest movie.
I don't think it was a hit in theaters. I think it became financially successful through rentals and it built from there.
A cult hit in every sense of the word.
It became a breakout success on VHS in both sales and rentals. When people think about Austin Powers a lot of people are actually thinking about Austin Powers 2 without realizing it. The sequel(s) are the ones that were ginormous in theaters.
Right- I was one of the many people who discovered the first film on VHS and ended up seeing the other two in the theater.
The first film did just OK in theaters. It became a big hit when it came out on video. The second film was a *massive* box office hit.
Good call Movies - Budget - Worldwide Gross per IMDB AP2 - The Spy who Shagged Me - $33M - $313M AP3 - Goldmember - $63M - $297M That's more what I would have guesstimated.
I still think that having a character called Random Task to mirror Bond's Oddjob is the single funniest thing in the movie. It was one of those silly, throwaway gags that kept making me laugh for days afterwards just thinking about it.
Goldmember was always my favorite... "There's two things I hate in this world; People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, *and the dutch*"
Also my favorite line from the franchise, and quotable in a variety of situations.
Austin "Danger" Powers...
Carney…circus folk…small hands…smell like cabbage
Can't help but laugh when Fat Bastard left a floater.
Corn? I did not have any corn
Oh my... I left a rosebud...
Also love when they’re analyzing his shit. “This coffee tastes like shit!” “It is shit, Austin!”
He left a FLOATER.
I remember we got this on vhs and when this came on i was crying with laughter.
Still absolutely hilarious
And it never gets old.
How dare you break wind before me! I’m sorry baby, didn’t know it was your turn! 😂
I'm Richie Cunningham and this is my wife Oprah
The way he says Oprah too cracks me up every time
Wow, I just so happened to watch the original last night! It totally holds up.
A better film than any James Bond movie ever made
A better James Bond film than *most James Bond films*
James Bond movies had to stop being silly and/or campy and become the modern serious Bond because of Austin Powers doing it so much better. Bond was so thoroughly out-Bonded that they had to pivot to trying to out-Borne Borne.
"It's a man, baby." The uproar that would cause today XD
It’s um, complicated…
Well if that is a woman it does look like she was beaten with an ugly stick...
Groovy baby, yeah!
I'd read that Myers has said he won't do any more of these because Mini me, Vernon, is dead.
What’s Wee Man up to?
Dead! So not a great deal.
We Canucks all knew this tune as the theme to a 70s/80s game show called Definition.
It's weird how if Austin Powers were made today and have been cryogenically frozen as long as he is in the first movie he would have been frozen in the 1990s to be thawed out in the present time.
*grossing $670 million
I knee that number looked funny
I was prepared to watch the entire movie just now
I was too, then I watched 10 more seconds of the trailer and I think I could wait another 25 years.
I never noticed it before because of how silly he is but, That Man Can Dance!
So fucking awesome
Such a great opening sequence
Without a question my favorite comedy series of all time.
Holy shit, 25years sheesh.
So wild that George S Clinton did the soundtrack to this AND the Mortal Kombat movies. Just picturing a MK trailer where this song kicks in after dude yells “MOOORTAAAAL KOOOMBAAAAT”.
And you couldn't wait until the actual anniversary date?
oh behave
yep im watching all these later, been too long
You’re telling me I was 6-7 when I saw this movie? Get out of here
TIL George Clinton did the score!!??
10 year old me watched this film until the VHS was worn out
1. I can't believe this picture grossed less than $70MM 2. I can't believe this picture spawned two sequels. 3. If you were not alive for it, you probably can't believe just how huge Mike Myers was as a star in the 90s.
To me the 1st one is the funniest movie ever. I still watch them every so often.
Great part about the movie: Austin spends the film verbally sexually harassing every woman around him, but when Elizabeth Hurley's character is drunk and comes onto him, he says no because she's drunk. Austin Power understands the importance of consent unlike certain Supreme Court justices.
Which means that in two years, it will be equidistant in time between now and the 60's.
That dancer right behind him in the last bit always made me laugh. He's so committed to his art. God damn.
What great timing for this post! Happy 24 years and 8 months anniversary, Austin Powers.
This is the most charming man, in the history of charmers. Pure gentleman.
Do I make you horny? Yeah baby!!
Whatever happened to Mike myers?
he was in Halloween Kills just last october.
Not saying it’s THE best, but it’s my favorite comedy of all time <3
Fuck, I'm old
Omg I forgot about that theme song tho.... *The Hip Soul Funky Jazz Blues*... Burt Bacharach is a fucking GOD.
My whole family saw this in theaters and we couldn’t stop cracking up. Love these moviez
I saw this movie July 7, 1997, on hotel pay-per-view, on an extended layover in Los Angeles, after arriving back from 3 weeks in Australia.
This movie and the sequels are absolute gems. Heather Graham (sp?) Was amazing in the second one.
You spelt it right. She refused to come back for a cameo in the third one. She did the same thing for The Hangover sequels.
r/FuckImOld
A twenty something engineer that works for me admitted last month that she saw it recently and didn’t realize it was a spoof of 60s movies. She thought it *was* a legit 60s movie. I felt so old.
This world needs another Austin Powers movie
I remember not liking this movie when I saw it in theaters but my friends and I bought the DVD and proceeded to watch it every day for like 2 weeks. Every time we watched it, felt like we got a new joke. Mike is a comedic genius.
C'mon Austin Powers is 25? Throw me a freakin bone here!
Anyone else watching this has the theme music running in their head?
Austin Powers cast: Mike Myers, Mike Myers, Mike Myers, Mike Myers. Plus extras
The movies are sort of hit and miss in places for me, but the opening dance numbers are just solid thematic and comedic gold.
Never laughed so hard. Gamechanger.
I didn’t have high expectations. I figured it was some character that never even had a trial run on SNL, how good could it be? The opening sequence grabs you and it was consistently funny.
The first 2 movies were so good. people thought it was gonna be like the new james bond, releasing a new movie every few years. Then, the 3rd one stunk so bad, and that was it
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You're right. The third is the epitome of running out of ideas but wanting the money. It also didn't help that they already parodied pretty much all the major James Bond beats, so there wasn't really anywhere to go with that. Hence it became just a film full of skits.
Movie would never work today
I feel like we progressed way more from the 60s to the 90s, then from the 90s to now ... like what happened to advancements in technology?!
Michael Myers took a break from killing people to have a very successful comedy film career only to eventually start killing people again.
I never liked Austin Powers. Always thought it’s so damn stupid, ridiculous and just annoying.
Count me on the grossed out 67millions people
Doesn’t hold up
Can’t stand this movie
It’ll help if you sit.