While Seth Green plays an even funnier version of Dr. To do a musical number in its swinging London locale.)Д«ut the film's Dr. (Incidentally, at 95 minutes, the film still has enough water-treading time for Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello Hurley's quick-witted air of being in on the joke.ДЇelicity, Austin and the 1969 Carnaby Street setting for much of the film are essentially one-note inventions. Graham also makes terrific eye candy, but she doesn't share Ms. Graham's Felicity Shagwell as his new companion.

Like a large impatient baby, whether bossing his underlings or plotting to rule the world.ДЄfter the newlywed Austin is alarmed to find that his bride (Elizabeth Hurley, in a brief, delicious cameo) can be made to speak Spanish with a remote control, he reverts to his man-of-the-world mode and winds up with Heather He's the peevish but endearing villain who shows how easy it is to think Evil is an even more recognizable bundle of neuroses. Grrrr in swinger, baby'), and for not having any idea how nutty it is, Dr. If Austin is lovable for his wishful studliness ('I put the Evil, who emerges again as Myers' most inspired creation. It On.') But the real stealing comes from Austin's nemesis and alter ego, Dr. (That term, as loosely defined here, is whatever makes one sway when Marvin Gaye sings 'Let's Get The new film nominally centers on the possible destruction of Washington and a plot to steal Austin's mojo. With a couple of others waiting in the wings. It doesn't hurt that the very first thing on screen here is a poke at 'Star Wars,' Wearing nothing but his dead-animal chest pelt while scampering through a hotel, Austin shields himself with enough metaphoricalД®dibles (two hams covering his posterior, phallic anything, etc.) to recapture the first film's giddiness immediately. Myers wrote the screenplay with Michael McCullers for a candy-colored, amiably slapdash film directed by Jay Roach.Д®ven the credit sequence shows that this franchise's sense of fun hasn't faded. Mike Myers stars as Austin Powers, the happily delusional nerd, hedonist and secret agent. Made bad teeth adorable and restored the word 'shag' to its former glory. He grins gamely once again as the man who

In a cheerful hit-or-miss laugh-in that plays like 'The Three Faces of Mike,' Myers slips back into party mode as the happily delusional nerd and hedonist of the title. Mike Myers' neo-Sellers multiple-personality act guarantees that. Waterboy in the Smart-Stupid Hall of Fame. Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me' is several love beads short of its predecessor, but some of that was bound to happen once Austin's novelty dimmed.Дespite an oversupply of bathroom jokes and scattered scenes that play like outtakes, this is still a crafty, intermittently hilarious comedy that deserves its place alongside Bill, Ted, Wayne, Garth, Ace, Mary and the

Here may come a time when even Austin Powers tires of the words 'Oh, behave,' but it isn't here yet.

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