Even better than the first. Shagadelic baby, yeah!
Great scene. Dr. Evil asks for 100 Billion dollars and TPTB just laugh at him.
Dr Evil & Mini-me seem to be the only occupants of the rocket, but Frau & the others seem to get up there somehow. Was Fatb*st*rd really Mike Myers? I would have guessed it was Gregor Fisher padded up.
It got weird, didn't it?
Was Fatb*st*rd really Mike Myers? Yup.
Yes, He was.
Woody Harrelson would've been a kid in 1969, right?
(Elvis Costello I could buy as a young man who could be performing and Willie Nelson certainly was)
Also, somehow Dr. Evil had to get that laser up there and build that station very fast up there, too. :)
If Austin Powers had his mojo all this time until time changed, then Scott couldn't have been conceived yet, given that logic of how time travel works in the Austin Powers universe.
My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) Scott Evil, his mother, and Fat Bastard returned to the present how exactly?
2) Mutafa's and Austin's past counterparts are not properly aligned with the rest of the time line. Mustafa is significantly trampled in the past, thus not leaving much room for his future counterpart to suffer a far worse situation, and Austin apparently lost his mojo, therefore rendering his alleged sex appeal obsolete against the fembots, Vanessa Kensington, etc.
3) The Time Loop Theory clearly states that time cannot be altered in any way, shape, or form, yet such liberties are taken with this particular film.
4) Let us be real! Mini-Me would die in outer space.
5) How did Basil Expedition's past counterpart and Felicity Shagwell become aware of Austin's future counterpart's arrival to the past?
6) Vanessa Kensington's relationship to her mother and her immunity to Austin's fembot-malfunctioning pulchritude does not quite fit with her being revealed to in actuality be a fembot herself.
7) Why and how did Austin's teeth revert to their original state after he time-traveled?
To try and answer your questions...
1)I don't know about scott (another "time machine" maybe?) But Frau and Fat Bastard remained right where they were supposed to in the timeline. The Frau that Dr Evil shags is the past Frau, the same for FB.
2)Mutafa probably recovered from his injuries just in time for the first movie.
3)True
4)True
5)Temporal Radio maybe.
6)I don't know
7) Maybe that is the effect of traveling through time in a bug. Your teeth get all gross.
Don't you remember what Michael York told Austen before he went back in time and was asking about time traval paradoxes "Don't worry about that; just sit back and have a good time. (faces the audance) and that goes for all of you too"
Since it got lost, I'll repeat it here: Woody Harrelson would've been a baby in 1969.
Also Elvis Costello would have been a teenager in 1969.
Since we are just supposed to have a good time about the Time Travel, I will, and I'll post a nit that doesn't have anything to do with Time Travel.
How did Dr. Evil build his base on the Moon? That probably cost SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS (pinky to mouth). But besides that, it was the height of the Cold War. How could Evil have launched ANYTHING, much less the huge amount of material needed to build said base, without either NORAD or the Soviets noticing it?
Maybe he built a radar jammer like Hugo Drax did in the James Bond film Moonraker.
Very crude title, Captain.
I didn't really like it too much, but there were some great stuff:
*Rob Lowe as Number Two. But how did Robert Wagner survive the first film?
*"Why don't you call it Operation: Bananarama?"
Rumor (from the IMDB): Sean Connery and Honor Blackman will play Austin's parents in AP3!
That would be rather amusing. Well, the Sean Connery bit is, I don't know who the other person is.
P'ussy Galore from Goldfinger!
D'amn censorware!
Ah. Well, that would be amusing, too, then, FURBY.
4) Let us be real! Mini-Me would die in outer space.
Well, he's a clone-thingy and very strong for his size so maybe he's as vulnerable (LICC reference here!!!!) as Kiehart.
6) Vanessa Kensington's relationship to her mother and her immunity to Austin's fembot-malfunctioning pulchritude does not quite fit with her being revealed to in actuality be a fembot herself.
Well, they just needed to get rid of her so he'd be open for another love-interest, right? It was just a spur-of-the-moment plot twist, right? Or maybe that was a fake one and the other one was someplace else.
Oh, and, hey, anyone notice Austin has the same laugh as his evil antithesis (that's a big word meaning... a you know): Muhahahahahahahahaha!
Whooooops, I meant as INvulnerable as Kiehart... well, I guess that's the same thing, basically.
Rob Lowe as Number Two. But how did Robert Wagner survive the first film?
Like Mustapha, he probably survived, he was just very badly burned.
I always interprete the fembot Vanessa as one of those "doesn't make sense plot twist" spoofs (ie, it's not supposed to make sense, because in several movies which this one is spoofing, they never did [it's along the same lines as leaving prisoners with one inept guard...])
It was both a play on the old plot twist and doesn't make sense and the old guy looses girl who was supposed to be one true love and forgets about her in a second and gets another girl.
Maybe Evil switched them out when he captured Vanessa during the final fight (Remember? Alotta had Vanessa at gun point before being Judo chopped?)
Peter David pointed out that Austin and Vanessa get married at the end of the first movie in 1997, but are still on their honeymoon in the beginning of this movie in 1999!
Also, Evil seems to take notice that whereas Number Two is so much younger in the 1960s, Frau looks the same. But he already knew that in the first film, because we SEE Frau in both time periods in that film, and sure enough, she DOES look the same in both of them, but Evil doesn't seem to notice it then.
To me Vanessa being a fembot actually made sense. Why else would she think Austin repulsive in the beginning of the film, and then suddenly get jealous when he shags Alotta Fagina? She first doesn't want anything to do with Austin romantically, and then just flipflops and wants him. I think Evil killed Vanessa and replaced her with a fembot as a backup revenge plan in case Austin foiled his plan, and that Fembot was the one that "fell in love" with Austin.
>Peter David pointed out that Austin and Vanessa get married at the end of the first movie in 1997, but are still on their honeymoon in the beginning of this movie in 1999! >
A two year honneymoon sounds about right dor Austin Powers.
Dr Evil & Mini-me seem to be the only occupants of the rocket, but Frau & the others seem to get up there somehow.
Maybe when he got to his moonbase, he employed his (finger quotes) TRANSPORTER and (finger quotes) BEAMED the rest of his cohorts to the moon.
If Austin couldn't keep his fixed teeth in the past, then how was Dr. Evil able to keep his destruction scene of the White House from Independence Day?
How does Austin's time-travelmobiles in AP2&3 know how to appear where they do and not at the coordinates of his departure origin?
All other nits excused due to this being a comedy, Frau's appearance being unchanged in the 60's from her 90's appearance was supposed to be funny (and it was). But Clint Howard is back doing his same job in the 60's and his age appearance is unchanged (just added a moustache). Charles Napier is there in the 60's playing the same classic crusty old general or colonel when he should look more like Adam from TOS's "The Way To Eden". Finally, Fat-Bastard is back in the 90's in his FBS (UPS) uniform looking the same as his native 60's self. Did he escape the 60's in the time machine when we weren't looking? Assuming he wasn't from the 90's in the first place.
If, and this is just an if, If SCOTT Evil was conceived during Dr. Evil and Frau's Mojo affair in '69, then SCOTT Evil introduced in AP1 as a typical teenager would really be at least 27 years old, which was closer to the actor's actual age BTW.
I like the depiction of the president as someone not quite Kennedy (he would've been dead in 1969 anyway) but some trigger happy president who wanted to blow up the moon.