Looks like Mike Myers has gone green. I can't believe how much of this trailer is recycled directly from the Austin Powers series. Showing some hometown love, though.
Trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TLB1r9lh7gY
DVD Josh
02-29-08, 03:04 PM
This movie has it all:
Recycled accents
Recycled jokes
Vern Troyer
John Oliver
Black Canadian Hockey Players
Worst Actress of all time (hotness aside)
Hockney premise
maingon
02-29-08, 03:06 PM
Loved the end with the Academy award bit.
Suprmallet
02-29-08, 04:16 PM
I didn't laugh once. Mike Meyers is completely destroying his career.
mrflix
02-29-08, 04:19 PM
Mike Myers routine has been recycled for a long time now. This just looks pretty horrendous. I'm surprised he didn't use a Scottish accent as per his usual routine (So I Married an Axe Murderer, AP 2 & 3, Shrek 1-3). Not even a rental.
Suprmallet
02-29-08, 04:36 PM
I would kill for something with the quality of So I Married An Axe Murderer (pun intended). Easily his most underrated film.
William Fuld
02-29-08, 04:42 PM
The accent he's doing is a spot-on Deepak Chopra.
The Bus
02-29-08, 04:58 PM
One funny line: "I'm sorry, I didn't get your gnome." :lol:
Everything else seemed to smugly self-aware.
Suprmallet
02-29-08, 05:00 PM
But even the gnome line was just a rip of a line from Austin Powers, anyway.
DVD Josh
02-29-08, 05:17 PM
One funny line: "I'm sorry, I didn't get your gnome." :lol:
Directly stolen from AP3 (Mole).
Brack
02-29-08, 05:24 PM
It's probably not a good sign when the best thing about the movie, based on this trailer, is Justin Timberlake. That's a sentence I never imagined writing.
Zen Peckinpah
02-29-08, 05:48 PM
NEXT!
It's funny seeing Justin Timberlake with a Ron Jeremy pornstache, but this one looks hopeless.
Did I see Romany Malco wearing Eddie Murphy's Delirious jumpsuit in the bar scene?
BJacks
02-29-08, 05:49 PM
Wow, that was pretty awful.
Brent L
02-29-08, 05:54 PM
Horrible, just horrible.
If you were to edit this trailer together with clips from any of the Austin Powers flicks, you wouldn't even be able to tell that this was a new movie. At the most you'd think it's a trailer for a new AP movie.
I hate to tell MM, but this type of stuff isn't going to cut it these days. Go back in time 5 or 10 years and it could work, but I can't see people flocking to see this one like they would have done before.
Watch me be 100% wrong and this will do $200 million at the BO. :lol:
MartinBlank
02-29-08, 07:46 PM
What an abortion -ohbfrank-
Brack
02-29-08, 07:49 PM
The "Austin Powers" flicks have made a combined 675 million in worldwide box office.
I can see why Paramount would want to angle the marketing that way.
Looks pretty funny to me. *runs away*
You didn't like Charlie Bartlett but think THIS looks funny? *shakes fist* ;)
dcprules
02-29-08, 08:55 PM
Hope it'll be good but that trailer was pretty awful. Well, I did smile when Justin Timberlake showed up for three seconds and still got third billing in the trailer. He looked pretty funny
Lateralus
02-29-08, 09:44 PM
Ugh... Not for me.
troystiffler
02-29-08, 09:51 PM
Looks funny. I'll see it.
Austin Powers 3's suckiness angered me.
mdc3000
03-01-08, 09:01 AM
I used to love Mike Myers and was a huge fan of Austin Powers back in the day (saw the original in theatres 3 times!) but this looks like a rehash from top to bottom... the only thing making me see this on opening day is that I'm a die hard TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS fan, so the fact that they could win the Stanley Cup in this film makes it a must see for that reason alone...
Why would Paramount choose to put this up against 'Get Smart'? That seems like an idiotic move since they'll share the same target audience and the 'Get Smart' trailer actually has some laughs.
Snowmaker
03-01-08, 09:19 AM
I'm a sucker for these movies. I'll rent it.
rexinnih
03-01-08, 09:47 AM
Few grins but that's about it.
troystiffler
03-02-08, 12:45 AM
Why would Paramount choose to put this up against 'Get Smart'? That seems like an idiotic move since they'll share the same target audience and the 'Get Smart' trailer actually has some laughs.
Get Smart interests me much more. It'll also probably pull in a lot of older people.
Plus, it's Summer, man. Both will get fucking mindnumbing ad space. One will open at 70mil and one at 50mil. With those kind of frontloaded Summer numbers, it's not really a competition. It comes down to 'which movie is actually better, and will continue to sell tickets'.
fumanstan
03-02-08, 01:01 AM
Timberlake looked like the only funny thing in this.
Ronnie Dobbs
03-02-08, 01:05 AM
Wasn't this movie already made?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0280720/
troystiffler
03-02-08, 04:36 AM
Wasn't this movie already made?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0280720/
No. That was a different movie. And it apparently isn't good.
mdc3000
03-02-08, 11:56 AM
No. That was a different movie. And it apparently isn't good.
The Guru is actually a very very funny movie. I don't know why some people didn't like it, but I thought it was quite good.
RichC2
03-02-08, 12:08 PM
Yeah, I didn't enjoy The Guru very much, was a pretty dull flick. Sadly, this doesn't look much better.
Coral
03-02-08, 12:30 PM
...the only thing making me see this on opening day is that I'm a die hard TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS fan, so the fact that they could win the Stanley Cup in this film makes it a must see for that reason alone...
I guess this can be labelled a fantasy flick, although most fantasy flicks have some aspects that are more plausable... like dragons and talking animals, etc... Leafs winning the Stanley Cup - wow, that's really out there.
Ronnie Dobbs
03-02-08, 12:55 PM
I guess this can be labelled a fantasy flick, although most fantasy flicks have some aspects that are more plausable... like dragons and talking animals, etc... Leafs winning the Stanley Cup - wow, that's really out there.
A black hockey player. It really is fantasy.
hapgilmore
03-02-08, 05:19 PM
The preview looks pretty lame, but maybe the movie will turn out decent.
Charlie Goose
03-03-08, 09:26 AM
You didn't like Charlie Bartlett but think THIS looks funny? *shakes fist* ;)
Shake harder, boy!
Yes, this looks GODAWFUL. Then again, I've never had even the slightest interest in seeing any of the Austin Powers movies.
Not that fucking kid again. I could probably handle listening to that douche speak if he could save up his allowance and get some software that changes that nasal forced wince of a voice he has.
miz.eerie
04-04-08, 03:33 AM
Following him after he wore himself out in austin powers i thought seeing him fuck up cat in the hat would be enough for studios to know hes done and hes at his last straw but guess not. This movie looks like another weak attempt of saveing a career totally downhill. Waynes world 1&2,Shrek,So I Married an Axe Murderer is the only movies i carred for him in
harrydoyle
04-16-08, 02:43 PM
I love that "break the pickle, tickle tickle" part of the trailer. rotfl
Mike Myers has done some amazing work, and like other comedic greats, he really commits to the role, so I think he'll be excellent in this. Having seen his Linda Richman sketches, Wayne Campbell, Dr. Evil and Shrek, I've got to take a look at his newest character.
RoyalTea
06-07-08, 07:11 PM
When I go to the movies, I don't watch the trailers, knowing that this trailer could be shown.
kstublen
06-07-08, 07:32 PM
When I went to see "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" yesterday, they showed a new trailer for "The Love Guru"
For some inexplicable reason, I nearly lost it when they had Mike Myers head on a child's body. For whatever reason, and I know it was incredibly stupid, I just could not stop laughing.
If I go and see this in theaters, it will be entirely due to that one scene.
And for the record, this is nothing more than Austin Powers 4 for me.
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