Rupture/Cyberia webzine
Austin Powers, Man of Mystery
by melpomene whitehead
I rented this the other say. I laughed a few times, but only at the cat jokes. I felt that the basic message of the film was this: no matter what a man looks like, if he acts goofy enough while he tries to seduce a beautiful woman, he'll get her eventually. She'll just be so worn down that she won't be able to resist. This is something that occurs on television also, where impossibly ugly men get hooked up with impossibly beautiful women. I mean, it's not so outrageous that Jerry gets a model or a gymnast, but how does George get so many hot chicks? Explain, por favor. And this is why certain men in the real world, who are quite doofy and have bad personal hygiene think they can hang with supermodels.
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