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ZRand007 posted 06-13-99 06:12 PM ET
Saw it, loved it, nearly threw up laughing, thought it repeated too much. Any one else see it?
-007
Moonraker (Where are you, why do you hide?)
walruskkkch posted 06-13-99 09:27 PM ET
Saw it too, Great flick lots of laughs. It is the lowest sort of humour at times but sometimes that's is just the ticket. the Springer parody was hilarious! Two thumbs up(actually only one thumb now, isn't it?)
As always, I remain
Your faithful and obedient servant
Philip McCauley posted 06-13-99 09:34 PM ET
Yep. It was hilarious. I loved the 'It's a huge....' sequences.
President Korian posted 06-14-99 07:53 PM ET
Yes. It was hilarious. And god d*mn it was Heather Graham hot!
Octopus posted 06-14-99 10:44 PM ET
I refuse to believe that I'm the only person who didn't like this movie... Most of the jokes were either lame rehashes of the last one or really crude sight gags. The acting was flat and unconvincing. Heather Graham (Felicity Shagwell) was especially bad in this respect. I had high hopes for this film because the first one was so brilliant, but this one is mediocre at best.
ZRand007 posted 06-15-99 04:32 PM ET
I fully agree that some acting was awful, and the worst by far had to be Heather Grahm. She just didn't have the charisma that Liz Hurley did. I think that Liz should have remained in her role as Mrs. Kensington-Powers in this movie. Over than that, it wasn't the total blow-away that was the first AP, but I still loved it!
-007
Philip McCauley posted 06-15-99 04:33 PM ET
To each his own. But did you really expect something like As Good As It Gets when you walked into the theater? I laughed a lot, so I think it was pretty good.
Did anyone else have no clue that Mike Myers was the actor who played Fat Bastard?
Octopus posted 06-15-99 08:44 PM ET
"But did you really expect something like As Good As It Gets when you walked into the theater?"
Call me crazy, but I expected it to be about as good as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. I expected it to be witty and clever, like the first one. There were just far too many jokes that fell flat, and far, far too many attempts to rehash material that the first one had already done, without trying to put a twist on it. As has already been stated, there was no chemistry whatsoever between the leads. And, unfortunately, most of the new material was just not funny.
For an example of something that worked: it was amusing when Scott Evil was deriding Dr. Evil's "Alan Parson's Project" or "Death Star" (which was reminiscent of the first movie, where we laugh at Dr. Evil's lack of knowledge of the present day) because this time around the only people who are in on the joke are Scott Evil and the audience. Nobody in 1969 has any idea that these things are funny, and they all look at Scott like he's the weirdo. That's an amusing twist on something that was, indeed, funny the first time.
For an example of something that didn't work at all because it was a total rehash: the "zip it" sequence.
An example of something that was just horrible: Fat Bastard. "I ate a baby". What the hell was up with that? Did anybody find it funny? I didn't. They sure went to a hell of a lot of effort to include him. Where was the payoff?
Khan Singh posted 06-15-99 09:33 PM ET
Octo is right, this one is not nearly as good as the original. Lots of lame jokes that just go on and on. You can make bad jokes in a movie like this, but you can't make long bad jokes. You have to go right on to another joke. A funny one.
But I did laugh some. And I like the 'time machine' special effect a lot more than the 'Jar-jar Binks' special effect in Menace. I like special effects that look special. Well, most of the time anyway.
David Floyd posted 06-17-99 09:37 AM ET
Very very very very very very very very very very funny, at least in the beginning. Tapered off some, then got pretty funny again at the end.
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Author	Topic: The Spy Who Shagged Me
ZRand007	posted 06-13-99 06:12 PM ET Saw it, loved it, nearly threw up laughing, thought it repeated too much. Any one else see it? -007 Moonraker (Where are you, why do you hide?)
walruskkkch	posted 06-13-99 09:27 PM ET Saw it too, Great flick lots of laughs. It is the lowest sort of humour at times but sometimes that's is just the ticket. the Springer parody was hilarious! Two thumbs up(actually only one thumb now, isn't it?) As always, I remain Your faithful and obedient servant
Philip McCauley	posted 06-13-99 09:34 PM ET Yep. It was hilarious. I loved the 'It's a huge....' sequences.
President Korian	posted 06-14-99 07:53 PM ET Yes. It was hilarious. And god d*mn it was Heather Graham hot!
Octopus	posted 06-14-99 10:44 PM ET I refuse to believe that I'm the only person who didn't like this movie... Most of the jokes were either lame rehashes of the last one or really crude sight gags. The acting was flat and unconvincing. Heather Graham (Felicity Shagwell) was especially bad in this respect. I had high hopes for this film because the first one was so brilliant, but this one is mediocre at best.
ZRand007	posted 06-15-99 04:32 PM ET I fully agree that some acting was awful, and the worst by far had to be Heather Grahm. She just didn't have the charisma that Liz Hurley did. I think that Liz should have remained in her role as Mrs. Kensington-Powers in this movie. Over than that, it wasn't the total blow-away that was the first AP, but I still loved it! -007
Philip McCauley	posted 06-15-99 04:33 PM ET To each his own. But did you really expect something like As Good As It Gets when you walked into the theater? I laughed a lot, so I think it was pretty good. Did anyone else have no clue that Mike Myers was the actor who played Fat Bastard?
Octopus	posted 06-15-99 08:44 PM ET "But did you really expect something like As Good As It Gets when you walked into the theater?" Call me crazy, but I expected it to be about as good as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. I expected it to be witty and clever, like the first one. There were just far too many jokes that fell flat, and far, far too many attempts to rehash material that the first one had already done, without trying to put a twist on it. As has already been stated, there was no chemistry whatsoever between the leads. And, unfortunately, most of the new material was just not funny. For an example of something that worked: it was amusing when Scott Evil was deriding Dr. Evil's "Alan Parson's Project" or "Death Star" (which was reminiscent of the first movie, where we laugh at Dr. Evil's lack of knowledge of the present day) because this time around the only people who are in on the joke are Scott Evil and the audience. Nobody in 1969 has any idea that these things are funny, and they all look at Scott like he's the weirdo. That's an amusing twist on something that was, indeed, funny the first time. For an example of something that didn't work at all because it was a total rehash: the "zip it" sequence. An example of something that was just horrible: Fat Bastard. "I ate a baby". What the hell was up with that? Did anybody find it funny? I didn't. They sure went to a hell of a lot of effort to include him. Where was the payoff?
Khan Singh	posted 06-15-99 09:33 PM ET Octo is right, this one is not nearly as good as the original. Lots of lame jokes that just go on and on. You can make bad jokes in a movie like this, but you can't make long bad jokes. You have to go right on to another joke. A funny one. But I did laugh some. And I like the 'time machine' special effect a lot more than the 'Jar-jar Binks' special effect in Menace. I like special effects that look special. Well, most of the time anyway.
David Floyd	posted 06-17-99 09:37 AM ET Very very very very very very very very very very funny, at least in the beginning. Tapered off some, then got pretty funny again at the end.