What sort of foul masochism leads me to attend a screening of the sequel to Austin Powers 2? Did I really believe that I'd extract enjoyment from the same jokes? ..hmm, looks like I need a hobby. :)

Was the 1st one funny? It looked really dumb to me/so I never bothered to see it. Now/the sequel is #1 at the box office. So I guess somebody must find it funny.

they were both funny. goddamnit.

And I,m planning on going to it,but then again I,ve been told I have the mind of a 15 year old boy,but then what does that mean coming from someone who has been married to me for so long?Was Elvis Costello in it?Was he good?I posted somewhere about this before the board went down,but never found the thread.

Elvis Costello was wierd. They did these close ups of him giving uncomfortable smiles. It scared me.

I'd agree that both movies are funny. I feel like the second movie didn't really have much to add. (Not that any sequel should be expected to add anything at all) The first Austin Powers was sort of a sleeper hit that snuck up on most people. You thought it looked stupid, but you saw it anyway. It turned out it was much better than terrible. However, this time around, the public has a favorable view of the movie coming into the theater. I know that I hate it when I go into a movie thinking it's going to be good. More often than not, I'm disappointed. Nobody's fault but mine I suppose. btw- any time you can get a good look at English people's teeth, it's funny! Hence, Elvis Costello's goofy grin making an appearance... :)

i didn't see the first one. the recent one is simply one penis joke, from beginning to end. literally. if you like penis jokes, you'll like the movie. seeing Elvis Costello sing was worth the entire $7 i paid to see the movie. he always has been and always will be so far ahead of his time... a brilliant artist. and the short appearance of Willie Nelson rocked too.

I would like to point out that every single "bit" involving Seth Green was uproariously funny with the exception of the roadkill thing. My fave from this one was the "I have a gun upstairs, I'll go get it, let's just shoot them now" mock-up of the whole batman style imprisonment/murder, and this one I really favored the early Springer thing. Seth Green rawks (too bad he's so very wee and so very young).

the roadkill thing seemed to die not only in the crowd, but in the movie also. it didn't make sense that they left it in. penis jokes are funny.

Lots of Elvis Costello fans here. If you play an instrment but aren't good at picking songs off records yet, you can go here: east.isx.com/~schnitzi/ec/albums.html (i just now I would fuck up putting it as a link) for lyrics and chords to all of E.C.'s songs.

WOOHOO my buddy Jules scored us a double ticket to tomorrow nights preview (movie dont come out here until next week) YEAH BABY

my sister just got a pair of austin powers false teeth. we were scaring people all over vancouver, bc with them. she put them in when we were in a bar, and the waiter recoiled in horror when he saw them. it was very funny.

I saw the sight that sold them,you go girl.I would shag Elvis in a New York minute.

I freaking hate Heather Grahem or however you spell her freaking name. She has nice legs, though. Was she Annie on "Twin Peaks" or was that someone else? Elizabeth Hurley (in the first one) was very surprisingly good. Both movies did seem basically the same, but it was okay with me cuz I saw them both for the first time just this past week, so it was like one Long movie. The Springer bits were hilarious, and Seth Green looks so much much prettier with red hair. How old is he?

I don,t know,but her head looks too big.

www.shh.com *lmao* That was so funny. The whole zip it scene cracked me (and surprising the rest of the peoples in the theatre) up. Austin rocks. And Heather does look funny. So does that Reese Witherspoon chick from Cruel Intentions. Whats up with her face?

god..i've been told to shczz so many damn times i can hardly stand it.. haven't even seen it yet

i was real disapointed, all the cross promotions killed me, the jerry springer bit was the highglight, otherwise it was the same lines different people

Oh my God, Reese Does look freaking weird! I always think she looks like she has a chipmunk face. I'm really not getting the latest standards on beauty.

I'll be seeing Elvis Costello on Saturday. I'm heading up to the City for the all day New York Fleadh on Randall's Island. It'll be good to see my buddies the Saw Doctors again. No idea why the hell Hootie's going to be there, though. Heather Graham has a weird intensity, especially around the eyes, that served her well in Boogie Nights. Or am I smoking crack here? I know I've seen her somewhere before, and am pretty sure that was it.

Yea Swine,your right.

I'm pretty sure Everyone's smoking crack here.

I love Reese Witherspoon's features, precisely because it's a stretch to call her pretty in this super-model-attenuated whatever, and I don't want that frigging chick beauty thread restarted. Let's leave it at Reese Witherspoon looks interesting to me, and Heather Graham doesn't, and couldn't act her way out of a wet paper sack to boot (ok, actually she wasn't bad in Boogie Nights, but she was either REALLY poorly directed in AP2 or else she's got some sort of laudanum action going on). She's just, not, like my type...but that's a forgivable sin. That performance she turned in as Felicty Shagwell was pretty darned unforgivable. My cats are campier when playing with ever receding irony horizon around the subject of their objectification of me as the dinner machine and the meaning of love and human/non-human epistemological chasms.

Reese Witherspoon looks like an eternal 12 yr old. She looks the way little sisters & best friends look. She will still look that way when she is 50. Which is what I like abt her. Heather Graham looks like something the cat. dragged in. Altho' I'm sure my cat (& Margret's) wd have better taste than that.

Summer movies always suck. I generally use the summer to catch up on videos of the movies that were in the theatres 4 mos. ago. that I refused to spend $6.00 to see. Or missed when they were at the $1.50 theatre(which now costs $2.00) just before they came out on video. Other than "Eyes Wide Shut"/I can't think of a single movie I plan to stand in line to see at a theatre this summer. Maybe "Bringing Out the Dead". Just to see Nic Cage get back to doing some real acting/instead of playing the action hero. But those 2 are it.

Dude: Wild Wild West.

heather graham is beautiful. plus she has a great little ass.

bingo, cyst.

i'll second that, she WAS the best part of the movie, hot pants and heather go real nicely

I didn't say she couldn't weasel a drink out of me, Jeez, I said she's not my type and she can't act. Kelly Lynch, now... Ahh.

like on that episode of the simpsons when homer goes to the lighthouse and then marge too and the lamp gets fucked up and the lighthouse goes dark and then the ship crashes and all those boxes of hotpants start washing up on shore and everyone is on the beach and all excited and the police guy who looks like a pig and has that funny kid as a son says "who likes short shorts?" and all these people say "we like short shorts!!" oh god that was funny.

yes indeed, i was just watching that episode the other day.....

last night I discussed with my roommate how gentlemen do not prefer hanes.

it's very true. i can't even believe they call those things burgers. hanes burgers taste nothing like burgers.