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Welcome. One last time. Welcome to Shagmi, a retrospective on the Austin Powers trilogy of films. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Ending with a bit of a bang. Sure. In sort of like a, I don't know, it's a lot like in Akira when he starts mutating and growing.
Stuff just keeps happening. It absorbs everything. Austin Powers in Gold member is a lot like Akira. In more ways than one.
Dan and Dangly are. We'll get into it. Yeah. We will get into it.
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You love that. It's so funny. It is. It's for a guy who famously doesn't bother with plot at all.
Really? Yeah. I had an idea. It's like, what if a lady like my other ideas?
Like the idea is just like, what if a tapered is some pins to a lady's eyeballs? That's the idea. That's the whole idea. Yeah.
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Yes, I know why Dan of course. Why? Because we love gold. Oh, that's right.
Yes. Austin Powers in gold member. Yes. Last week it was Austin Powers' colon, the Spy Who Shagney.
Mm-hmm. And before that it was Austin Powers' colon, international man of mystery. A break from form. Yes.
We're really. In every sense it's sort of feet. It's fully metastasized. That's the perfect way.
It's Skynet. Yeah. It's Austin has become self-aware. Yeah.
Yeah. This is just the rewatching this. It's like a fucking insane fear dream. It is so bizarre.
It is just unbelievably of its time. To me it was like seeing an old friend. Sure. Dan, you love this movie, right?
I famously, famously, I saw this like four or five times in the movie theater. Right. As a child. As a, what, 10, 11 year old?
Yeah, as like a fat, annoying child. I'd be like, I'd go walk him at the biggest soda. And they'd make the worst jokes you've ever heard. And I'd go, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Just slapping your knee. Just a little of it. Spin soda all over the place. Like a damn long sprinkler.
Like a damn long sprinkler. Would you say that you were not in until the moment that Fook Me and Fook You showed up? And then you're like, all right. You know what?
I didn't think anything was funny. Up until right now. And I think this is hilarious. I think Mike Myers has a weird thing with Asian people.
I think he's got a weird thing with all sorts of people. He does have a weird thing with all sorts of people, but he hits like two, three weird Japanese jokes in this room. Right, there's like a whole good at all. Yeah, I think Mr.
Roboto is one of the single worst jokes. If you can call it a joke, but yeah. If you can even call it is purely a reference. It's like the work, but here's the thing.
This is like the pro, you can feel the master at work with that because it, I feel the best execution of basically what he's doing here, which is just like using a name of some, meaning a reference to something like that is in the love guru when his sort of like mantra chant is Mariska Hargate. So I have not seen the love guru. I mean either. I have to imagine though, it is a lot.
It feels like it's this progression that like, it goes from gold never directly into the love guru where it's like, yeah, nobody likes it. It doesn't make any sense. It's for nobody. It's for no one at all, except for me.
It's funny though. Yeah. I mean, saw it a lot in the Spidey Shagme, but I feel like this one too, I was also catching jokes that were in the sprockets play. The famous sprockets play.
Famous sprockets. Yeah. Which makes sense because his co-writer on this also co-wrote that. I, so watch this on Plex, right?
Sometimes with Plex, it'll like just sort of automatically pull bonus content and special features like just from the internet. Uh oh. So like, so there was one thing on here where it was just like, it's an interview with Mike Myers, right? And it's just him talking about this movie.
And he's like, so fucking pumped about it. He's like, this is the best one yet. Um, this, you know, we, uh, we have, we did everything we could. We didn't hold back at all, all this stuff, right?
Feels like. No shit. Big cocaine energy kind of, you know, where he's just like, uh, so into it, so into absolutely everything about this. And nobody was like, this doesn't work at all.
Like, not, not, so I disagree with that. Wait, is, all right. You disagree with the premise of this movie. Gold member doesn't work at all.
Yes. All right. Well, that's great. Um, also, that might be the first time I feel like I've ever really struck a nerve.
Like in a real way, I just think this movie, uh, I mean, it doesn't work as a movie. There's no like beginning, middle and end to it. It also that's completely true. Uh, I don't know if it has a clear antagonist.
You know, Rob, I would argue this has three antagonists. Maybe, uh, but well, three and one eighth, I would say, like, it seems like they're throwing jokes out there quite a bit, but they don't feel they all feel like fucking, uh, like writer's room, like, all right, how do we add seven jokes to this page? How do we, you know, like that kind of thing? Put it in and we'll, we'll top it later.
We'll be in a rewrite. Yeah. And I think probably 90 to 95% of the jokes in this don't work for me at all. But yeah, we'll say, Dan, uh, there was like that five to 10% that did work.
There, there were a couple of moments in here that I was like, like actually dying laughing. I agree. I think it's, I know what you mean. Like basically the proportion of like actual jokes to just like filler stuff that clearly is just like Mike Myers, it's really hash from his little picadillos.
Yeah, it's, um, that, that ratio shifts in favor of these like weird sort of like, um, it's almost like when they're, yeah, when they're making a movie and they just use like a different film score as like a placeholder. Right. Right. It's just like the, the motions of a joke.
Yes. Yeah. You're like, oh, you like, right. It's like a car with no engine.
Basically. Like you recognize the form, but it simply doesn't go. Yeah. You're like, right.
You're watching a boxing match at half speed or something. You got it. Yeah, they look good, but you know, nobody's always making contact here. Um, yeah.
Three musical numbers, then three. Um, so what is this? I'm there's a musical. So there's the jailhouse rap, of course, which I would argue one of the jokes that does work in this is that he does that.
And then everyone in the prison is on board with him. I think that's funny. I like the idea of it is funny. It didn't work for me, but immediately after that, when he gets caught in the spotlight and he starts doing like a robot kind of thing.
I like that a lot. I like that a lot. That's a, that's been the constant in all of this, all this madness. It is chaos.
Is that the physical stuff works 100% of the time. Mm. I don't know about 100% of the time. Well, not the like, not the prop.
Not the like stuff in your life. That's weird stuff. No, I mean, like, but that's not even the suits doing all the work there anyway. Yeah.
But you didn't think it was funny when he says one of my wires broke. I thought that was funny at that point. I was so exhausted by it all. I'm just fucking kill me.
Oh my God. Come on. When he says one of my wires broke, that is funny. No, I disagree.
But this is going to be a speak no evil situation. There's so much laughing his ass off the whole time. This is going to be so much so much more polarized than to be no evil. Yeah, who's in this movie fucking everyone?
Yeah, everyone under the sun. All of our favorites are returning, of course. Mike Myers playing four characters. Yeah.
He plays half of the cast in this movie. He's fully clumped. He's fully clumped. Yeah, he's fully.
Yeah. Evolved. And every, yeah, he's doing a tour of Europe. Yes.
He plays awesome powers British, Dr. Evil raised in Brussels. Yes, Belgian. Belgian gold member famously Dutch.
Right. This is weird. Yeah. And fat bastard Scotland.
Right, of course. And of course we have Beyonce. What? Yeah.
Beyonce. Maybe the most beautiful woman who's ever lived. Yeah, of course. It's 21 years old.
That's so crazy. It's crazy. So it's such a like her performance and is such a tragic mixture of like, there's it's heavy with regret for green to it. And she's just like so green as an actor.
Yeah. And she has nothing to do. They gave her nothing to do. Yes.
Except call everybody like sugar. Yeah, I mean, there's like, there's weird race stuff going on. Yeah. I mean, besides like the weird Japanese stuff that we already talked about, but yeah, we touched on that we will talk about a lot more.
But that's just what Rob calls them. He calls them the weird Japanese. I don't agree with it. OK.
I don't like it at all, but that's, you know, you got to meet people where they're at if you ever hope to change them. Sure. But the stuff with Beyonce just feels so cool. I know Austin with the Pymmobile and costume.
And it's like you're doing a 70s thing, but it doesn't got to do that. It's so as soon as I saw him in the Pymmobile and it started, you know, bouncing on hydraulics, I knew I was in for a great time. Who else who else is in this? Of course we have a.
So I'm sure all our all our guys. Yes. All of our stable of actors are back, but added to the mix now, Michael Kane as Nigel Powers. Michael.
You got a Michael Kane in your pocket or what? Oh, yeah, Michael Kane. It's like a Jason State. The man's.
Oh, boy. Oh, I'm like a guy on Michael Kane and you've got one hour to get me my guzzling. I don't know. Yeah, that's good.
Do I have a Michael Kane? No, I know. I don't think so. I really don't think I have to do Michael Kane.
It's it's Steven. Yeah, Steve Coogan. Or what's the other guy to I forgot the other guy? Yeah.
More of a cougue. Yeah. A man. I'm very bad man.
Yeah. So he's in this. What do you think of him in this? He has some moments.
Yeah, he's he's screen acting legend Michael Kane. So he can hold his own with fucking Seth Green or whatever. Right. Yeah, you can go toe to toe.
Also him trying to sell Dr. Evil is my son is like, give him the Oscar. It's just unbelievable to see like, yeah, Michael Kane being up there like, no, he's my son. No, he's not evil.
He was born and he blew up in a car. And now, now he's my boy. And just playing that up and you're like, Michael Kane. What?
Yeah. No, hey, the money spends, you know, the check clears Michael Kane is like known for being like a obviously like he's good actor, but he's also a paycheck actor. He's like he was in Jaws for the return. And in some interview, they asked him like, yeah, big fish.
Oh, I squat. They're quite a big fish. Quite a big fish. Get out of the water.
I don't got it. I don't got it. In some interview, they were like, you know, would you ever see it? Like people don't really like that.
He's like, I've never seen it, but I've seen the house that it bought me. Yeah. Some shit like that. Pretty, pretty cool thing to say.
Yeah. Like you should have gotten to wear the Pimp costume. Yes, seriously. That line.
So you got to know. Yeah. Oh, no, I was truly just going to talk about my favorite Michael Kane role. What is it?
Is mostly due to the house he lives in in the movie. I love children of men. Oh my God. As like the guy who's just like, I'm just going to smoke weed in the woods until I'm murdered in cold blood.
Dan, my absolute dream. Same. Rob, as we veer, you know, as the foot's on the accelerator, driving us directly into that reality, yeah, all I can think is like, man, if I'm going to get shot by a firing Scott squad anyway, yeah, give me the cool rolling stones house in the woods. Absolutely.
Listen to Ruby Tuesday. Yes. Let me. Yeah.
As they're shooting me, let me be making the pull my finger joke. Yeah. Yeah. Damn.
Is that really good? Oh my God. You've never actually. No, no, I've seen it and I like it, but is it good?
I haven't seen it a long time. I mean, it's been a little while, but I remember being like, very good. Yeah. It's got that famous one or it's got a couple of wonders, but yeah, even beyond that, I think it's just like a it's good movie.
And yeah, I mean, the Michael Caine stuff and just being an old hippie that's like taking care of his like mentally completely broken wife out in the middle of the woods and just being like, no, don't quite careful with the establishment. I like it. Yeah. Like a lot who else we have Fred Savage as number three.
Oh my God. Did you like all that stuff? No, I didn't. All right.
Well, we don't learn to that. I think I actually think the worst line in the movie is cut it off, chop it up and make some guacamole. Yeah, it's gross. Somehow that is it just, yeah, it's gross.
It's so forced. Doesn't need to we'll get into it. We'll get into it. No boo.
Matsuhisa. Yes, who plays Mr. Roboto. Yes.
What's the shatlier to me? No boo over the restaurant. Wait, no boo. What?
Yep. Dan. Really? Yes.
Apparently him and Mike Myers and maybe Spielberg, they were all like at some thing, whatever. And he just mentioned sort of impassing like, hey, if you ever need a Japanese character, let me know. And they were like, that's insane. Actually, we got to bring you on for like a good week.
That's the craziest thing ever. Was it Spielberg or was it a Squersazy? Cause Scorsazy could be scores because he's in a casino. He is in casino.
Yes, as himself as well. No, he's credit is Ichikawa. Is it Ichikawa? I thought it was no, no, I'm wrong.
Who else is in this? I don't want to get into the opening scene, people. But of course we have our, you know, our Clint Howard's who else who's that? I can never remember the guy's name from that TV.
Oh, Michael McDonald, who has been in all of them. Yeah. What a crazy name to not remember. Michael.
His name is Michael McDonald. That's true. I like the, I like that there's an actor named Neil Malarkey who gets cast in all three of these. Did you, were you like kind of stoked to see him?
Yeah. Cause I was like, I mean, he's in a terrific scene in the first one. He's also in the second one, apparently, but I don't remember him. Yeah.
But he's the guy who checks Austin's like personal affects out of cryo freeze that whole thing with the penis pump early on. This sort of thing is my bag, baby, which I got to tell you, Dan, seeing him and like even some of the other people like that, I don't know, I'm more connected with like the first movie. I was just like, I miss that first movie. Yeah.
I miss when we were joking about penis pumps and such. I know. Instead of just showing them on screen and having that stand in for it, just being like, remember, didn't we, we had fun, right? Yeah.
We used to find five years, Dan. It's like seeing like old friends you haven't seen since like high school. Yeah. And he's like, I'm like, I don't remember, man, I can't even remember, I'm sorry.
I don't want to remember that. That, that you've never seen before, but you know, I don't remember that. It's like, it's just, you think, I don't remember it. It's one of the most important things that you've ever seen before.
You know, so it's like, if you're thinking about it, the most important thing to collect is that it's like, unless you collect all the time, you know, or And yeah, I learned this recently that the third one is like, and you know, for as excited as Mike Myers was acting in that interview, this one, like my understanding of the Hangover 3 feels like just poisoned with bitterness and resentment over the success of this franchise. So this is, I mean, I know we're not talking about the Hangover and Joker and whatnot, but Todd Phillips seems like a guy who hates the establishment, right? Like he sort of built his career even early on being like a little anti-authoritarian, right? His movies are always like, yeah, the early stuff like, what's the fucking old school, right?
Old school being like sort of like peak, like him peeking and like comedy and whatever and being like, this is the thing, this is the trend. Then he makes like the Hangover, which people fucking go crazy for and they love it. And they're like, yeah, more of that. And then he makes the second one and they're like, yeah, this sucks.
This is, you just gave us the same thing and it's not as good or whatever, right? And then he makes the third one and it's almost like spitting in their faces, which is exactly what the Joker, Siri, the first one comes out and you know, the people who really like it are like these fucking, you know, dorks that are like way too into the idea of the Joker and like all the weird in-celly kind of shit. And then he makes this movie where it's like, no, actually the Joker sucks and you're stupid for liking him and I shouldn't have done that. And like all of this, it feels like initially it's like, I want to be like edgy and like, you know, right?
But he's like, but he's also like, no, no, death of the author, please, no, it's my creation. No, yes, yes, once I hang on to it completely. Yeah, he just wants it to not, he wants it to be perceived exactly how he imagines it in his head and is uncomfortable with the idea that like, especially if you're going to be provocative on purpose that people are going to like, take it and run with it and turn it into this stuff, if they're going to interpret it. Right.
No, it's just weird. But Austin Powers in Goldmember. Yeah. I don't know.
I don't know. It's a it just feels like at this point, it's gotten so big, Austin Powers, right? And like it opens with the biggest stars of the time, you know, just being in the movie as a cameo, which feels all like just so I heard somebody describe this movie as like an extended MTV movie awards sketch. Oh, yeah.
That's working for me. Which really fucking hits. That's like, oh, yeah, you kind of nailed it where it's like, it's way too like kind of dumb and on the nose and not like, and also it's like, it's also like, how much money did you spend for this? Yes.
Right. This is like a huge tax shelter for you. Yeah. So a couple more cast members I want to call out before we really, really dig in.
Okay. Mink T is back. Mink T is back. Thank God.
Mink T is back with with an original song. A song I sang along to as it was playing in the movie because it delights me so much. It's a great song. It's been in my head since I watched it.
So it's it's great up to and including daddy wasn't there a piece. Daddy wasn't that a piece. That's funny. Yeah, that's pretty funny.
So you admit it. Anyway, the other cast member I want to call out here, although you never see his face is Scott Crockerman. Yeah, you only see the back of his head. Yes, but it is him.
And that's funny. That's yeah. It's funny that he's in this as a young Michael Caine. Yes.
So the movie opens with this enormous sort of action, you know, set piece very mission impossible to when it opens on like Tom Cruise cliff, like a rock climbing and he's just hanging there like it's free was a free climbing, right? Thanks. We're in the desert. Yeah.
There's a helicopter chasing Austin Powers big union jack flag convertible. Yeah, the shag war, of course. There's a woman on a motorcycle that we see. We see Austin like jump out.
Has anyone not seen this movie? Do we have to act like it's a big reveal? No, I mean, yeah, this is like the opening of this movie. I think it would have been a lot funnier if it was real.
If it wasn't like some sort of Hollywood, like that's the joke is that, oh, they're making an Austin Powers movie and they cast, you know, Tom Cruise as Austin Powers. Yeah. It would have been funnier if it was just like, this is the opening scene of the movie and then it turns into a Austin Powers style comedy. Well, yeah.
Yeah. If like if he, if whatever at the end of this scene, he like sticks a landing, nails it fucking gets a bad guy and then it breaks out into a dance sequence. Yeah, that would have been pretty good. I think it would have been good.
Yeah. You know what I'm with you. A better movie. That's what they do.
Yeah. Also, but you know, you know, here's the thing. Yeah. You're watching this.
You know something is up as soon as he lands in that car and doesn't smash is not something short. It's true. That's when you know, you're like, wait a tick. That's not it.
That's not it. That's not it. I know. Yeah.
I was saying that to myself. I went, wait a tick. So, you know, it's then it's, you know, we get this like camera pans up from, from his boots to his face and it's Tom Cruise and it Austin Powers wig and he says the line, he says, yeah, baby. I love the way that I mean, like Tom Cruise can do comedy, right?
And like clearly the direction here was just like, play it serious, you know, you're Tom Cruise. You play it as Tom Cruise, you know, whatever. It just, it feels like so like he doesn't understand the lines when he says like, shall we shag now or shag later, you know, it's just like, oh man, this, this, this guy's, is this Mr. Roboto?
Right here. It's interesting because like Tom Cruise famously sees every single movie that gets released in theater. So it's not like he hasn't seen these movies. No, I'm sure he loves them.
But he does have zero take on on Austin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So the girl is a girl one is Gwyneth Paltrow. Yes. Enormous? Yeah, Dixie enormous.
Which I mean, just holding to the logic of the names, it doesn't really make sense. It doesn't make sense as far as like, you know, you in the first one, first movie had Vanessa Kensington. That's not even a pun. Right.
But you had a lot of Fachina, which goes a long way. I think the shift from main girl being named Kensington to main girl being named Shagwell. That's a real line in the sand. Yeah.
That's the ethos changes drastically. Yes. And now all in that decision. Right.
At this point, you're like, all right, well, we have to stick with this. It's a new girl. We're not doing a normal sort of posh British name. We're doing puns.
We're being gross about it. Dixie enormous. And guess, and yeah, Austin, I think what if like the jumping the shark of this franchise and it could be jumping the shark with frickin' lasers on their head? Of course.
But what if jumping the shark in this case is drinking the poo? Just like this series has drank the poo. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, that's real.
Did you not care for that? No, it's gross even now to think about it. It is. Anyway, back in the movie, just because I haven't paused on this exact frame, we, you know, Dixie and Austin share kiss.
And then we hear a familiar voice from an ill-fated knight at a bath house, say. Hey. We hear a powers or whatever. And then jump scare, cut in spacey as Dr.
Evil. Yeah, kind of hamming it up here, huh? Yeah, he's having fun. So are we.
So are we the audience. Man, along for the days of 2002, when you could just watch this movie and be like, yep, everybody in it's a good guy. I like it. Oh, look, there's Kevin.
Oh, I like Kevin spacey. He was good in that movie about the plastic bag. Capex. Yeah.
He's good in Capex. Yeah. You think that's just what his friends called him? That's where they got the name of the movie from.
What should we call this movie? I don't know. Capex. Wait a second.
Say that again. Yeah, wait a tick. So then we get done watching Austin power. And you know, Dr.
Evil throws to mini me who is Danny DeVito. Of course it's what you think. What do you think? I'm going to be asking you this a lot.
Yeah. Well, I'm going to ask you right back. I mean, it's not just having mini me be Danny DeVito is not as funny, but when he's like, Hey, assholes, it's me, mini me. Yeah.
Coming get me and he says machine gun. He says, Hey, assholes, I'm right over here. I'm mini me. I'm mini me.
Which to me just feels like there was nothing in the script for him to say. Yeah. It was just like, say something. Yeah, just say something.
If you want to get to lunch on time, you'll cross town or whatever to say your line real quick and then we'll get you out of here. I'm right over here. I'm mini me. I'm mini me.
Whatever. That's there's something sort of like haunted in that pleading. Yeah, I'm right here. Well, that does sort of that is a journey that mini me sort of goes on in this movie.
Oh my God, you're right. Okay. So, so this is yeah. All right.
So, yeah, that's it. And then, you know, they call cut and we see that it's a movie production. A Steven Spielberg. Yes.
And Steven Spielberg is in the director's seat and he turns to Austin and says, what do you think of that? Austin? He's like, he says something along the lines of pretty groovy, but you don't have any mojo ever mojo. Yeah, central to the last one.
And when he says mojo, he holds his hand up and the word mojo appears in his hand. Why? I don't know. I think just because like, see, this is the kind of thing that like it's sort of like a Brewster's million in the situation.
This happens throughout the movie, not him holding his hand up. But like these sort of like, I think this is supposed to be a joke right here, but nothing is happening inside of me. It's just vibes, man. It's pure vibes.
It's pure vibes. It's not a great vibe, but it is. It is just like, it's a maximalist sort of. That's it.
I mean, it's just a maximalist version of Austin Powers. In every sense, they're like, we have more money than we know what to do with here. What do we do? Yeah.
Let's get like the biggest actors of today in the, you know, for cameo here. Let's get Steven Spielberg because that's just him being in an Austin Powers movie is funny. Right. And yeah.
Also, yeah. Awesome power. I mean, Steven Spielberg, not really like an action movie guy. Steven Spielberg.
Yeah. I mean, like more, I would say he's an action adventure guy. Yeah. I guess that's true.
I guess that's true. Not like, not pure action though. He's not like making what shorts and make are movies or anything like that, but like, you know, does work on like the Indiana Jones movies and yeah, saving private Ryan. So, then we get our, our big opening dance number.
So okay, I'm watching this. We're whatever five minutes into the movie. But right as the dance number starts, it cuts to Gwyneth Paltrow and Spielberg like standing next to each other. And then we cut back to Austin and it's a reverse shot.
And we see two people dressed as Spielberg and Paltrow do like back flips out of the scene. Rob, I liked that. I liked it too, Dan. Good.
I thought that was funny and I laughed. Yes. Steven Spielberg doing a back dance bring is funny. I'm going to have to point out every time that I laugh during this movie.
All right. That's one. That's one laugh. And you know what?
We're only four minutes in. So at this rate, we're doing okay. Yeah. One laugh for four minutes.
I'm going to say about this opening scene one. I saw this movie so many times when I was younger that I truly, it was like seeing old friends when I saw all the backup dancers. I was like, oh yeah, I know all of your faces like deep in my brain. Yeah, a guy in green shirt and girl in a hash.
That's right. What I didn't notice is that one of the girls right up front is wearing like a rap party hat for the movie Lost Souls starring Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin. I just, I saw that and I was like, that's weird. That is super weird.
But okay. So big ass dance sequence here. Yes. Would you agree?
All things considered that it is better than the opening sequence in two. Yeah, man. Okay. Here's my thing.
Okay. The one in two I think is boring and not funny. This one is just not funny. Yeah.
I don't know. I kind of, I did get a little bored with it, but not maybe not as yeah, I guess this one is slightly above two. It's got like Corio in it has. Coriography and then when they when they stop, they at one point they're doing like a singing in the rain kind of thing and then they stop and they're in a like a orchestra studio and there's an entire order store that's playing the opening song being conducted by Quincy Jones and we get the ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
Quincy Jones. Again, I can't watch that. He says, he says, this is who gives the movie. It's Mojo, baby.
Right. Which is like weird. He says it to camera, obviously. It's a weird digression.
However, I like it. I think it's sweet. Yeah, sure. It makes no fucking like it makes no sense in this comedy.
No, of course not. But it's like, you're going to shout anybody out. But like, you know, the other like when it's a Birkback rack and Elvis Costello, it's like a diegetic thing where they're like present there. Yeah.
This is like, I'm also a power science stepping out of time right now. I'm acknowledging Quincy Jones has been like, you know, musical musically involved in the series the entire time, which is fine. But I don't know. It does.
It adds nothing and it's not funny. Robert, are you familiar with Baudrillard's concept of the hyper real? Yeah, I'm familiar with Baudrillard's concept of the hyper real. It's giving that.
It's giving that. And I don't think we don't need to try to elaborate on it. Obviously. Yeah.
All right. We're dealing with layers of reality here. I would think there's something almost reminiscent of sort of almost England Empire. I'm getting notes of England Empire or a woman in trouble.
Which one? With the rabbits part when they're just the sort of the layers of reality and. Oh, okay. I'm sort of.
Is it a film? Is it a film? I'd say no. You'd say this isn't a film.
I'd say yeah, Golden Persona film. Well, right now it's a music video because who do we stumble upon? This again, it's like, what year did this take place? Oh, got it.
Never mind. Yeah. You know, it feels like this. What was this release?
I know 2002, but like we have a date here. It's got a summer flick, right? July 26th. Oh, yeah.
It feels like it was filmed before 9-11. Does that make sense? Yes. When we were all feeling great about ourselves.
This, I think this is like the DMT release of pre-9-11 era. Yeah, like right before the death of the slow death of civilization. Right before as El Pacino says, there's nothing you experience this. Yeah.
You saw that, right? El Pacino saying there's nothing after you die. No, I didn't know. I don't know if it was like an interview or something.
It's for some people. No, no, it's like, I think he just put a memoir out or something. He may have said it in an interview promoting it. But I guess he like died medically for a few minutes just in his chair one day.
Of course. And he's like, I remember none of it. There's nothing. Oh, there's nothing, baby.
That's going to be his death rattle. Yeah. So there's a dance, a dance off scene between Austin Powers and Britney Spears. And this is like peak Britney Spears right here.
Yes. She's performing her original song for this movie. Yeah. Good song.
Sure. It's fine. You are such a negative Nancy. It's fine.
I gotta say, it's like the whole idea of this just bums me out so much that it's just like, oh, we're not we're not even trying anymore. It's just visual references to things that like like this is the kind of shit that people harp on, you know, whatever, like fucking Marvel movies now, rightfully so. But just being like, oh, that's interesting. This is just like a visual like, remember this?
And like in the Marvel situation or whatever, it's like, remember this from the comic books, I'm going to say this person's name that like you've heard of in comic books, right? This movie feels like that, but I'm going to reference something in the real world, like Britney Spears. I'm going to have a weird dance off in the first five minutes of the movie with Britney Spears, which is like, I mean, she's also a fembot. Yeah, I know she's a fembot.
Also a reference to the other two movies. Right. Yes. Specifically the first one where the fembots are introduced where it's, you know, good and funny.
We get so I feel like there are some course corrections in this one from the same one, which is being like, yeah, like one of them being like, what are the fembots? Whether they work like, like, they're not, they're not these like, they're not playing the long game like Vanessa was. They're just like, right, just like sexy as hell. And then they shoot machine guns out of their jubbly's to borrow a phrase.
And they get back to that in this. It's just like Britney Spears doing like a sexy little dance routine. And then she's like, click, click, pull. Well, at least they straighten out the mythology of the fembots in the Austin Bauch movies.
Really rewarding loyal fans who have been there since they won. Absolutely. And it comes into play later on when there are no fembots. I guess I didn't really notice them.