Jay Roach

We thoroughly enjoyed this light-hearted romantic comedy. Ben Stiller is excellent as the unambitious and slightly hapless (but very likeable) Greg. He's in love with Pam, and most of the story covers the weekend when he goes with her to meet her parents.

Robert De Niro is very well cast as the uptight Jack, Pam's father, who doesn't think anyone is good enough for his daughter. He has everything scheduled, and has even trained his cat.

All rather caricatured, of course, but with some serious show more themes, and a lot of very well choreographed humour. Recommended if you want a light-hearted evening's viewing. Rated 12.

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A 1960's spy follows his nemesis to the 90's.

2.5/4 (Okay).

It's aged surprisingly well. I mean, it's incredibly dumb, and every scene is just built around a single gag. But it's no worse now than it was in 1997. I don't know why that surprises me. I guess I have really low expectations of 90's comedies.

The weakest of the trilogy. Mike Myers plays four characters in this movie and it got too much, especially with the revelation of Austin Power's surprising connection to Dr. Evil. There are quite a few things that could have been better about this.

Overall a pretty funny movie, though the revelation about Vanessa at the beginning felt somewhat tacked on just so they could introduce a new girl.