Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless". (from IMDb)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is one of those movies where part of you wants to see, but another part knows you probably shouldn't. So, since I went with a friend who wanted to see it, for their birthday, I decided to go along so I can see for myself what the movie would be like and to be able to write about it. So, well, it was better than I thought it would be... and worse than I thought it would be...

Like I heard one reviewer on TV say, the first half-hour or so was really funny, with minor innuendo and vulgarity, till the crudity ramped up to a greater degree as the film progressed, thus ruining a great deal of the movie for me. From constant references to "shagging" and sex, to Dr. Evil's space ship being shaped like male genitalia, this film is loaded with innuendo. In two scenes showing people spotting Dr. Evil's space ship in the sky, a long slew of rather painful "nicknames" for the male reproductive organs spew forth as people describe what it looks like. They're two scenes that truly could have been left out of the movie.

One plus would be the character Mini-Me, Dr. Evil's mini-clone. Although he bites and gives the middle finger to people three times during the film, his relationship with Dr. Evil always conjures up a ton of laughs. And Austin Powers himself is as funny as ever, especially when he's not being overly crude.

The language in the film is pretty bad. The worst is in the beginning when Scott Evil and Dr. Evil appear on the Jerry Springer Show, and they all get into a fight. During the commotion, you hear people cursing, but the words are bleeped out. You clearly can read the "F" word on people's lips, too, including Dr. Evil's. Also, the name of one of the villains is "Fat B*stard." The "S" word is used several times, and as I mentioned earlier, a slew of male slang words are used to the point where you want to fast forward the movie (which unfortunately isn't possible in a theater).

The violence is high, but mostly of the of slapstick variety. In one scene, Robin Swallows is shot and stabbed and blown up repeatedly without blood, and she still lives. Another guy is thrown into a lava pit and there are yet several other instances.

The movie was very very crude (Fat B's stool sample/coffee scene, Dr. Evil's spaceship, as well as many others) and at times, very very funny (The "zip it" skit, the Crybaby bit and the "Just the 2 of us" song spoof). But, overall, while the movie was entertaining, it is by NO means a family or kids' movie. Also, it isn't exactly a movie for Christians to see; some may be able to look past the crude humor and innuendo and laugh at the clean stuff (however rare it does show up), but I wouldn't recommend it.

So, due to all the above-mentioned stuff and the below-mentioned content breakdown, and how it put a damper on the overall film, I can't give it a high score. - John DiBiase (reviewed: 6/14/99; edited for readability: 5/22/24)