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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

As much as I’d like to see a good sequel to Austin Powers, I kinda feel like the posters are forgetting about The Love Guru in hoping for a progressive, non-tone deaf story. 😬

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

That movie is twenty years old, fam.

Based on the Pentaverate... No, he's too old to pull it off.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pentaverate was disappointing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was. I didn't manage to get to the end to find out.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I liked that movie. I don’t understand why it got panned so hard by critics and fans.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

IMO, I couldn't get through the first episode because too many of the jokes fell flat. The overall concept was brilliant, and Myers' track record suggested that this recipe couldn't fail. To me, the story and circumstances were humorous, satirical, even witty in places, but not funny. And with a story that is moving in service of flat jokes, it just didn't work for me.

I look back and think that whatever was in the room that made Austin Powers tick, just wasn't there. Writing? Direction? People to keep Mike reined in? More/better ensemble characters? Who knows.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

keep reined in

Soneone didn't make it to the orgy "plate of hotdogs" scene, I see lol.

I recommend giving it another go, the first episode starts out slow to establish a lot of plot, but it pretty quickly ramps up.

There's a lot if good bits, and you do need to be 100% ready to see Micheal Myers dick. That show is not reined in lol.

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