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Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Still funny, but wearing thin
Ok, so we're back for the third go-round with Austin Powers. This movie will make you laugh, but it is really beginning to reach. The ending is one of those that wraps everything up, but then again, leaves the possibility for more sequels.
Michael Caine is excellent as Austin's father. Seeing that the teeth run in the family is amusing. The opening of the movie gets one of the biggest laughs. Cameo is the name of the game.
I was disappointed that there was no Will Ferrell in this sequel, and there was no end-of-the-credits joke. So don't stick around in the theater expecting something else, it isn't there.
The Wonderful World of Disney: The Growing Pains Movie (2000)
Could be worse...
Interesting movie. I sat down to watch it frankly because I enjoy the reunion shows, even though most of them are painful to watch. This one had the characters to be just that. Most of the stars have minimal work since the end of the series. That, of course, is not saying too much because this series went off the air in 1992, and just 8 years later, there is a reunion movie. I just thought "Already?" when I saw previews of this.
Anyway, this stank of being a "We're out of work and need the money" move on the part of the actors, but was really a little better than that.
Somewhere, somehow there was a plot change in this movie that completely threw the storyline into the crapper. From what I understand, originally Ben Seaver(Jeremy Miller) was to have become an alcoholic. Throw that in and some things start making a whole lot more sense. Mike was incredibly upset that he wanted to take his kids, and later had an accident because he had the music up too loud? Ben "finds" himself at the end of the movie helping people? Throw the alcoholism storyline in and the whole thing makes alot more sense. Unfortunately, I imagine that Disney was behind the removal of this plot point, and the movie suffers because of it.