Why did the Austin Powers series succeed?
>>223435163The first movie is fucking hilarious.
nah it sucks. most of the comedy is nonsense like>hey you know that American advert? we're quoting it! now we're EXPLAINING that it's from the television advert! punchlines? we have punchPARAGRAPHS.of course, anyone can miss any pop culture references and move on. but it's the difference between The Simpsons and Family Guy. 'remember that thing on TV?' is not a joke.
>>223435163Because instead of parodying Bond they just copied 60s Bond parodies like Matt Helm.
Sincerity. Myers may have garnered a reputation at the time of being difficult to work with but the man could play the fool without insecurity.
>>223435325no, Austin Powers (1997) INVENTED parodying Bond, o-okay?
>>223435325Matt Helm and other 60s parodies weren't funny though, Austin Powers is
>>223435163Marijuana
>dick jokes>sex jokes>fart jokes>everyone on the planet has seen at least one Bond film>Bond is easy to parodycouldn't do it today because modern Bond films are too serious
>>223435163>Why did the Austin Powers series succeed?Because Americans are raging anglophiles.A Bond parody dumbed down for an American audience was always going to succeed.
because the first one was really goodthen people showed up to the other two because they recognized the charactersMike Myers himself said it was hard to figure out what jokes worked and didn't work in the sequels because focus groups loved it just because Austin Powers was on screen
>>223435163Parodies always work better when there's genuine love and knowledge of the genre they're spoofing. Myers's parents were bongs so he grew up watching all those swinging 60s British movies.
>>223435163Part of it was probably because it wasn't mean spirited about what it parodied. It wasn't saying "look how stupid this is", it was saying "wouldn't it be silly if we took this scenario and made this happen instead". The earnestness made it its own thing, rather than just finding success by riding the coattails of something more successful.
