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Austin Powers In Goldmember

Dr Evil, the arch-nemesis of top spy Austin Powers, kidnaps Powers' father Nigel (Michael Caine) and hides him somewhere in 1975. In order to fetch him, the younger Powers uses his time-travelling pimpmobile to roll back the years and in the process runs into a set of new characters. Directed by Jay Roach, who also directed the first two instalments of this gag-filled movie, a spoof of a spoof.

Roger Ebert

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The Chicago Sun-Times

'Like the James Bond series that provided it with comic inspiration, the Austin Powers series benefits from a certain familiarity. Not every Bond movie is good, but once you get started going to them you would never think of missing one. Same with Austin Powers. The third movie about the shagadelic one, Austin Powers In Goldmember, is a step or two down from the first and second, but it has some very funny moments.'

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Peter Bradshaw

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