Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

James Bond films were parodied from the very beginnings of the series. The most successful parody, however, happened three decades later with *Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery*. The achievement of that film is even greater considering that was initially a box office flop. It took nostalgic Boomers that, unlike theatre-going teenagers, had known original Bond films and understood its jokes to turn it into…

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the kind of fall-out-of-your-seat-laughing comedy that only comes around on the rarest of occasions. Hilarious, amusing, sexy and maybe even shagadelic. Austin Powers is the comic convention of 1999, with acting so uproariously funny, and a script that delivers punch line after punch line at a rate so fast that you miss much of the movie while trying to stop laughing. A seque…