Austin Power

My children have rented Goldmember several times over the last few months. They really like the childish, immature humor that makes the Austin Power movies so charming. I must say that they got better the further you got into them. Mike Myers has a knack for making the absurd seem a little less ridiculous. He is best at the sight gag and the one with Mini-Me being born is watch able over and over.

I remember renting the 1st movie and thinking how unfunny it was. The best scene was when Austin Powers are in the bathroom with Tom Arnold. Austin is being strangled in a stall by the guy with the charm bracelet and Tom Arnold is egging him on from the next stall about flushing twice and blowing out an O ring. I laughed so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. But that was pretty much it for the movie. The rest of the humor was either too childish or I didn’t get it.

I do not think I have seen the second movie entirely through. I have seen sections of it but never at the same time. My kids have taken to talking about the freaky deeky Dutch and Goldmember eating his skin. Try talking about that at the dinner table. It keeps them entertained and the humor, although rough at times, does not cross the boundary into what I would consider too much for kids. It is amazing what I let my kids watch compared to what was out when I was that age. Of course the standards are a little looser and we did have Clinton is there to help reduce the moral standards of the nation. At least there weren’t any cigar jokes.

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