DVD Brief: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
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Description: The further adventures of that throwback to the 1960s, photographer-cum-spy Austin Powers, with more really really really bad and stupid jokes and gags -- but audiences love it. Powers' nemesis, Dr. Evil, returns to Earth from the frozen recesses of space and time travels to 1969 to steal Powers' power -- his mojo. Naturally Powers journeys after the evil Evil, re-encountering the swingin' London scene and super-sexy spy Felicity Shagwell. Along the way there's love (between Austin and Felicity and between Dr. Evil and his sidekick Mini-Me), swingin' parties, and lots of off-color and scatological jokes (including the bizarre and evil Fat Bastard.
New Line, as is its wont, has loaded this DVD with features galore. There's
nearly 20 minutes of deleted scenes; animated menus featuring original material
filmed by Myers; a 30-minute behind the scenes documentary; commentary by Myers,
co-writer Mike McCullers and director Roach; Dr. Evil's "Hidden" Special
Features Page, accessible through an inventive "Easter Egg" that contains Comedy
Central's Canned Ham: "The Dr. Evil Story" (a spoof of A&E's Biography series),
funny text-based menus on famous film villains and their plots to take over the
world, and a jump to the Dr. Evil song; multiple music videos (Madonna's
"Beautiful Stranger," Lenny Kravitz' "American Woman" and Mel B (Scary Spice)'s
"Word Up"); a "Jump to the Cameo" menu that allows viewers to be launched to
cameo sequences; and three theatrical trailers. DVD-ROM features include screen
savers, a sample round of the "Austin Powers Operation: Trivia" computer game;
e-mail postcards, three interactive Austin Powers episodes from Togglethis; and
the entire "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" Web site.
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