Perhaps I slept through the gags. I haven't seen the first Austin Powers but if it's twice as good as the second I've saved a bit of cash. But even this can't console the empty feeling that remains after seeing this disaster of a movie.
The gags are so old that I could easily imagine Kenneth Williams or Charles Hawtrey singing half of the catch phrases (oh behave? Oh brother!). There's nothing in this movie that you haven't seen before. OK - so maybe I laughed once or twice at the beginning, but a film that relies on so few (weak) jokes, over and over, is an insult to those watching it.
It's supposed to be a parody of the bond films - but this is perhaps the vital error. Bond films, by their very nature, never take themselves seriously - parodying a parody just doesn't work!
I don't mind admitting that if it wasn't for Heather Graham's 'breathtaking performance' I could have comfortably slept through the whole thing. Please Mike Myers, change the record.