I remember when the Austin Powers movies started playing on TV, my little brothers inevitably watched them (our TV was not blessed with an all-holy V-chip). Later, they asked my mom what, “Do I make you horny?” meant. The movies were, and still are pretty damn funny. By Goldmember, though, you could tell that the jokes were getting a little too played out, and that Mike Myers had wrung the last bits of comedy out of the franchise.
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d, characters would break the fourth wall to let the viewer know that even they knew there were no new jokes, just rehashes that were only funny because they had been funny before, not because they were innovative. That inevitable conclusion, as well as the fact that literally a negative amount of people liked Myers’ latest, Love Guru, leaves me confused as to why Austin Powers 4 is going forward.
d, characters would break the fourth wall to let the viewer know that even they knew there were no new jokes, just rehashes that were only funny because they had been funny before, not because they were innovative. That inevitable conclusion, as well as the fact that literally a negative amount of people liked Myers’ latest, Love Guru, leaves me confused as to why Austin Powers 4 is going forward.I don’t think anyone has been begging for another scenario like “That bomb looks like a giant…” [cut to view of Tom Brady making a cameo while holding a ball bag] “Ballsack! I’ve got the ballsack for the game!” I could be wrong though. Definitely…
And speaking of Brady, his girlfriend Gisele Bundchen is rumored to be the next Powers girl. I’m very skeptical about the whole thing, but I won’t count Mike Myers out until he forces me to.
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