How Austin Powers Predicted the Future of Cinema

[@patrickhwillems]

Before anyone says it, yes, you can apply a lot of the same stuff to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[@havinfunfallin9458]

Damn homie, I think you got sompin there.

[@motor4X4kombat]

Maybe, but least Henry Jones senior was not a carbon copy of Henry Jones junior (or of course Indy but you get it) and most of the movie its them Solving the problems in their own separated ways and arguing on what the best methot of tomb raiding .

[@daviddenis4178]

Phew! Literally only came down here to say that lol.

[@AlexBalhatchet]

Disappointed that you said “we should treat the work in a vacuum” and didn’t make any “no, this is me in a vacuum” joke 😆 Great video Pat! ❤️

[@Anitube]

@@themasher4821 I think it's less "ripped off' and more, the very nature of franchises means you will run out of ideas and hit predictable tropes.

[@JacobGeller]

Patrick how did you put together this legitimately compelling an analysis on austin freakin powers

[@elijahbryce9526]

*frickin

[@phoebexxlouise]

With his genius forehead

[@andyeggs8292]

Coming from the guy who gave me an existential crisis talking about flight simulator

[@CHDCLXVI]

You're next, Jacob!

[@oops6876]

I think you mean Austin “Danger” Powers

[@eddache]

Every movie would be vastly improved with a montage dance between every scene

[@PeterG00000]

Make the LOTR dance montage cut

[@ProfMyronGaines]

Spielberg originally intended that for Schindler’s List, but time constraints didn’t allow it

[@gabrielodin2931]

Check Bollywood then, you might like it !

[@PressGaneyLive]

thought the same exact thing

[@debodatta7398]

Indian movies been doing this

[@alejoparedes2388]

"What we swingers were rebelling against were uptight squares like you, whose bag was money and world domination. We were innocent, man! If we'd known the consequences of our sexual liberation, we would have done things differently. But the spirit would have remained the same. It's freedom, baby, yeah!" I think about this quote from the first movie a lot.

[@Clown_Wizard]

Face it: freedom failed

[@MrOtistetrax]

Post-it sticking to the desk was one of the best visual gags I’ve seen in a while. Props, guys.

[@nolaffinmatter]

"Props, guys" I see what you did there

[@orikagan]

I legitimately laughed out loud at that

[@miaowmiaowchowface]

timestamp!

[@dreaminpng]

I was just about to comment this. 10/10

[@jongrubbdesign]

0:56

[@jasonguarnieri4127]

"Charl is the key to all of this." - George Lucas

[@creopictures]

"I may have gone too far a few places" - Patrick Willems.

[@Fork1]

This is sucha underrated comment!

[@blokey8]

(Bristles with indignation on behalf of a probably malevolent coconut at that comparison)

[@Canhistoryismylife]

“I make these movies for Charl” - George Lucas

[@chrisw2307]

"Now we have freedom AND responsibility. It's a groovy pair." I live my life by this quote

[@MedlifeCrisis]

I thought this'd be a fun vid, although basically just a big gag. But damn by about 20 minutes I was convinced Mike Myers is the greatest seer that has ever lived. Incredible work.

[@PentameronSV]

Absolutely did not expect you to be here.

[@dustinfocus]

He is a Guru after all....

[@JohnDRuddyMannyMan]

Yous clearly had a lot of fun filming those 60s interludes :D

[@LON009]

Patrick, I really wanted to hear how Scott Evil represents the toxic fandoms of our time.

[@andysee6996]

I think Annie Wilkes in Misery and Buddy Pine/Syndrome from The Incredibles do a great job at that sort of thing.

[@Jetsparx373]

Did Robot Chicken actually traumatize him somehow?

[@zenosAnalytic]

There IS, in fact, a term for when the original rips off the spoof: it's "Mobius Double Reacharound" u_u

[@BuiltDownLogically]

how much extra is that gonna cost me?

[@JamesLawner]

😏😏😏😏

[@luispanzar4764]

LOL

[@zenosAnalytic]

@@Oldney google it :p

[@dwc1964]

@@Oldney Without ducking it first (that would be cheating), I'm going with TV Tropes ETA after ducking it: Nope

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

You've outdone yourself with this one. Really, it's fucking great work. To put a hat on a hat: The final movie ends with Tom Cruise playing Austin Powers. Tom Cruise being the actual actor and star of the Mission Impossible franchise, which in turn was of course largely modelled (after the first movie at least) on the Bond franchise in terms of spy action - and which has arguably surpassed that franchise to become the best spy-action franchise in the whole genre!

[@dvillines26]

the thing about Mission Impossible is that it has kept moving forward. the purity of it as a franchise has depended on its unwillingness to look backwards. like Ethan Hunt it's constantly moving forward. even when it brings back his wife, she's moved on and that's fine, and Ethan accepts it as the price of his role. Mission Impossible is about constant forward momentum, like a shark that has to keep swimming or die. it's a miracle JJ Abrams had his hands on it and somehow didn't muck up the franchise, but kept it alive. It takes what works, and leaves what doesn't. it's what all franchises could be if they had the purity of purpose. which is why, I think a franchise needs to have a Reason. it can exist as a sad moneymaking shell without one, but to last, to make a real enduring impact, it has to have a core to it. and when it loses that core, it fades. that's what I think TROS did to Star Wars, it finally blew up that core. all that's left of it is a sideshow with imitations of two popular characters to keep it going, and the hope of better video games perhaps. suits unfortunately don't understand cores, don't get Reasons. it's funny that JJ Abrams saved Mission Impossible and then killed Star Wars, too. really makes u thunk

[@dvillines26]

@@themasher4821 Solo didn't kill Star Wars, Solo's fine. TROS took the joy out of the franchise, and I say this based on how the fans and general audience reacted to it, not on my bias (never actually saw it).

[@CautiousKieran]

tf did you say about Mission Impossible being the greatest spy series? gtfoh.

[@dvillines26]

@@themasher4821 I would not disagree that firing them was a very bad thing, but Solo was one movie. TROS retroactively ruined the entire sequel trilogy by undercutting it, denying pretty much any of the characters a good payoff, and giving the whiniest fans a cynical checklist of what they wanted.

[@blokey8]

@@dvillines26 Yep. I have... considerable issues with Solo (its stuck-together nature was apparent to be on a shot-by-shot basis) but I could write it off as a single dud. Whereas TRoS went out of its way to undo the previous film to the point of crippling itself, and showed a staggering lack of care for the characters.

[@Wyrmknave]

Pat coming out here as a defender of Oasis' "Be Here Now" is the most surprising part of this video

[@Malkmusianful]

Not surprising. He defended the album in his video about music biopics. Not that I'm mad - it's easily up there with What's the Story (Morning Glory); its coked-up aesthetic actually makes these songs really engaging like Oasis is going down with a party on a sinking ship - but not shocking.

[@ethansloan]

Not a terrible album, but Magic Pie is godawful.

[@patrickhwillems]

@@ethansloan worst track on the album. Should've swapped it out for Going Nowhere or The Fame

[@LycoLoco]

And yet he's not wrong. That album is a bop

[@SEGAClownboss]

@@patrickhwillems Please do a straight-up video about Oasis since I'm a huge fan of them and I think people underestimate how good they are, lol. Even post-Be Here Now they are really compelling

[@NickPiers]

Okay, two things: 1) The sticky-note gag at the beginning nearly killed me. That was brilliant. 2) I loved every single montage dance. You guys were clearly having a lot of fun with that.

[@MattAndImprov]

Totally agree. Anybody writing something down would do it onto a sticky note, which would not slide a la the trope.

[@helloofthebeach]

That's three things. I agree with all of them, but it is three things.

[@NickPiers]

@@helloofthebeach No, it's two points: the sticky note, and the montage. That's it. Two points.

[@helloofthebeach]

@@NickPiers Yeah, well, if there _had_ been a third thing, I probably would have agreed with it. (Also my bad habit of saying very stupid things as jokes, knowing full well that it doesn't look like a joke and that everyone will just think I actually am stupid, has reared its ugly head once again.)

[@pvrhye]

It's not Meyers' only impact on generational nostalgia. Let's not forget Wayne's World.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Except Wayne's World wasn't commentary on nostalgia at the time it was made. It might be nostalgic to people *now* but it was more a parody of dead-end no-lifers of the "slacker" Gen Xers who made up the primary audience of SNL back in Mike Meyers' days on the show. It was a pretty common thing to lampoon, as it also formed the basis of Beavis and Butthead and other comedies making fun of the audience that the audience actually like because they found it relatable.

[@pvrhye]

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe It's an old comment but I think I was imagining how he brought Queen back to the pop consciousness again for a moment. Anyway, Wayne feels much more of a holdover from the 70's than for instance Airheads. He's into Zepp and Queen, not grunge.

[@peterritchie1084]

Also, Galaxy Quest has jokes that are later repeated in the Abramsverse Star Treks.......

[@KyleJMitchell]

I'm definitely up for the discussion on how Scott Evil's character arc tracks with toxic fandom, in case you have more to say on that and want some encouragement to go ahead with it!

[@c0nd0rd4myt]

You and me both. I heard that and went "Wait, hold on! I recognize that's supposed to be a joke, but it sounds plausible enough to be true, and I need to hear more!"

[@adamgreenspan4988]

I offered an analysis of this in another comment thread here, but here’s the short version: 90’s apathy and cynicism gives way to 2000’s ironic indulgence which leads to 2010’s unironic embrace of authenticity. The mocked become the mockers.

[@KyleJMitchell]

@@adamgreenspan4988 That makes sense, for sure. I'd still love to hear what Patrick's specific thoughts were (probably not actually that deep, hence the joke's throwaway-ness), but I appreciate the good insight on the idea in any case!

[@TheSugarRay]

I like how Austin Powers thought the communists would win.

[@catherineescobar3123]

And I loved the subtle suggestion that he was a little disappointed they didn’t.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@catherineescobar3123 Heheheh.

[@splak_5624]

we will

[@communistpropagandist4608]

Oh we're still planning to win.

[@davidjames579]

I think he was just playing safe in case they had and he was seen to be supporting Capitalism.

[@LOCKEYJ]

The Sound design on that post-it note- that’s true comedy

[@ChrisAkaMastermind]

"is this a joke?" "... are you?" "... are you ok?" "are you?" "... yikes aahm (...)" *not listening, checks non existent watch* thats some amazingly funny conversation.

[@Kevin_Street]

The watch joke was genius.

[@helloofthebeach]

This film analysis channel is some of the best sketch comedy on KZbin right now.

[@vincentmuyo]

It's a bold assumption that Mike Meyers doesn't have a time machine.

[@ECL28E]

If he did, he'd stop himself from saying "yes" to Cat in the Hat, or from making the Love Guru.

[@Burnettski9292]

Truly laughed out loud when I realized you'd be doing the scene transitions

[@SuperSeenith]

I always thought it was funny how Die Another Day released in midst of the AP franchise and completely re-used the "giant space laser" plot as if the 2nd AP movie didn't exist. Also, "Austin Powers in Reboot Royale" should exist, where it parodies the Craig-era bond and our obsession with reboots

[@Ken-fh4jc]

So almost Inception level rebooting a reboot.

[@zeilian]

Am I the only one who thinks that Pat really outdid himself this year? I was a casual fan last year and now he is easily one of my favourite youtube creators.

[@blokey8]

Yep. I think leaning hard into the Covid punch has helped, but the other videos from this year are also comfortably among his best.

[@sena167]

I believe his is the hardest working creator on this website

[@gabrielledebourg2487]

The God tier level of KZbin video essays are the really deep and well researched essays on silly movies. I say that, because it proves the validity of film theory and media readings and how everything deserves to get proper analysis - and by being bold and looking closer at something other film critics might discard, it is something we can learn from. Patrick, this video makes my film studies heart say: Yeah Baby! Yeah!

[@joshhiroti]

Check out the "Some More News Movie" just uploaded on youtube. Glorious over analysis on silly movies.

[@RappinPicard]

@@joshhiroti always fun to see Cody’s Showdy get recommended.

[@Largentina.]

@@themasher4821 We get it, you like Sam Mendes. Get over it. It's a throwaway line in a 30 minute film analysis video about 3 comedies from years ago. You're going to be ok.

[@benwasserman8223]

Fitting this comes right after Sean Connery's passing. RIP Mr. Bond.

[@michellemarty7510]

Just going to ignore his disgusting misogyny huh?

[@carterslade8771]

@@michellemarty7510 it's almost as though someone has chosen not to define a person's entire worth by their more negative qualities. In 2020?! Shocking.

[@HonkeyKong54]

@@michellemarty7510 miserable and will probably expire alone

[@archer1949]

I’ve spent years trying to forget the “twist” in SPECTRE. Thanks for dredging that shitshow up.

[@47Jaspers]

To crib on the words of Nick Fury: "I recognize the canon has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

[@JamesLawner]

I practically forgot about this, but it has been awhile since I last saw it.

[@blokey8]

I'd be curious to know if there has ever been a good example of a villain popping up and taking credit for the previous film's events.

[@lillyrey5727]

@@themasher4821 Scorsese ripped off Animaniacs? I knew it!!🤣🤣

[@digitaljanus]

@@blokey8 Moriarty is like the earliest example in fiction I can think of, and it's not good there either! It's like Doyle thought "I want to kill off my character, but I can't just have some rando kill Sherlock Holmes... I'll retcon in some hidden mastermind!"

[@aron4117]

Shrek never left. It’s the true king of the 21st century

[@bettyreads222]

Yesss scene transitions. Oh man forgot about the daddy issues storyline. What a time this trilogy was. Dope to look at it knowing what we know now.

[@votekyle3000]

5:49 more stuff needs these transitions, it’s amazing

[@jonathandbeer]

A great video, but I'd pay good money for a full-length video examining (and hopefully exorcising from Hollywood's collective creative energies) the character motivation of "Daddy issues".

[@faggykrueger]

Maggie Mae Fish has you covered: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3uTn3ShjbSeg9U

[@jonathandbeer]

@@faggykrueger Much obliged!

[@d3nza482]

Here's a free text-only summary of the issue: Tropes built on Freudian bullshit are crutches of the lazy and inept writers/creators. Had they any talent or artistic substance in them, they'd be writing novels - not scripts for 100-million-a-pop entertainment Kool-Aid for the masses. Being lazy and inept, they gravitate to congregating and being hired by even lazier, more inept creatively and far less cultured people with money. Thus, lazy and inept "creators" end up prostituting themselves to the lazy and inept and uncultured, who are paying for and marketing that slop for the masses. Ergo, Kool-Aid for the masses for ever it is. BTW, video above confuses and conflates "like father like son" daddy-trope with "absent father" daddy-trope with "conflict/reconciliation with father" daddy-trope... with "sibling rivalry/favorite child" daddy-trope. Which probably stems from viewing all those tropes through the lens of Freudian bullshit and thus treating them all as just "daddy issues" - when they are all distinct tropes. E.g. Big part of "Hero's journey" (which in turn is mostly Jungian bullshit) is only one of those tropes - but if one is lazy and inept all those tropes get simplified to "daddy issues". Thus, if he had been written more lazily and with more ineptness, Luke could have ended up being a parricidal Sith Lord, in constant conflict with his sibling. You know... like Kylo Ren.

[@digitaljanus]

Years ago I was reading of all things an unofficial Babylon 5 episode guide, and the (British) author at one point notes: "It's said all American fiction is ultimately about the main character's relationship with their father" and daddy issues in stories have annoyed me ever since.

[@d3nza482]

@@themasher4821 He's a dime-a-dozen TV director with the creativity and artistic expression of a Hallmark Channel journeyman work-for-hire. His main abilities as a director are his devotion to obedience to the people who sign the paychecks, obligingly giving them the final cut of his films so as to be digestible for average middle-class audiences, bland approach to outdated subject matter and being British and thus really cheap compared to other directors. The only reason he even does theatrical movies is cause he lucked out early by being something like a 31st choice for a Dreamworks movie which later got HEAVY campaigning during the award season. Not because the movie had a pretentious masturbatory portrayal of a "brilliant young filmmaker" who sees beauty in a grocery bag tumbling down the street.

[@JamesLawner]

The statement about characters being like their parents and using nostalgia to escape their troubles really hit close to home for me. Also, it perfectly ties with your themes & messages in the Time Loop/Talk Show Finale video.

[@stephenjohnson9745]

Scott, Kendra, Rachel, Emma, Griffen, Chloe, Dave, and Jake? So much of the Willems extended universe (and by extended universe I mean real human beings with lives outside of their association with Patrick), I love it

[@euansmith3699]

I'm looking forward to all of their inevitable spin-off movies.

[@blokey8]

You forgot Rachel's cat :P

[@stephenjohnson9745]

@@blokey8 I mean, we'd also need his parents and Matt

[@blokey8]

@@stephenjohnson9745 true, but I feel like Matt's being withheld for a triumphant return. Possibly involving Charl and a hammer.

[@bloodswarms]

The genius of this series is that they were somewhat interconnected until they're very interconnected, and thus even the videos that were flops or that I'm genuinely uninterested in, like one on Austin Powers, I watch anyway because there may be a plot development involving the greatest thing to ever happen on KZbin, Charl.

[@LingLingX8]

You deserve an Oscar for that post-it scene. I literally figuratively pissed myself

[@kevynonvideo1643]

You don't have to look too deep into the 1st Austin Powers movie to understand that it was about how the title character's retrograde 60's attitudes towards women and personal responsibility were rightly called out as problematic in the 90's. There was some nostalgic wankery in the opening, but the bulk of the film is clear on why its best to leave past in the past. The sequels abandoned Austin's character growth and became more the series you described, but the first film actually did have a progressive point of view.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

I mean, yes and no. That's Austin's arc in the first film, yes. But Vanessa Kensington *also* goes through her arc, and it's about how being too uptight and politically correct (for the 90's at least) was stifling and she needed to loosen up to enjoy herself and life. So it's really less about how "past retrograde, modern progress good" and more about "let's find a balance between these two attitudes."

[@TheMajorStranger]

Showing Limp Bizkit to a 18 year old should be considered a war crime.

[@kamerongillum4404]

I'm here too late to weed through the comments to see it someone else said it, but: I never watched Spectre but the "good guy" and the "Villian" being foster brothers ALSO happened in 50 Shades of Gray.

[@aolson1111]

@@themasher4821 That doesn't make it no shit, buddy.

[@dplunk13]

Lucas pulled the "Here's where everything came from!" thing well before The Phantom Menace with The Last Crusade. The entire prologue is showing us where Indy got his name, hat, whip, and passion for antiquities. We should have known then...we...should have known then.

[@blokey8]

You can write it off as an aberration or a cutesy thing when it happens once. When it reveals itself as a modus operandi, we're headed for bad places. I remain convinced that Solo started off as a parody in the same spirit as 22 Jump Street, and the origin of everything was meant to be a big cumulative joke.

[@mttkra]

@@blokey8 The directors did get fired and went on to do Into the Spiderverse so I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they were going for.

[@NobodyC13]

@@mttkra That's not how animation works. It takes 3-4 years to develop an animated film and Lord & Miller were producers and writers working on it simultaneously with Solo before they were fired.

[@RudieObias]

It's 2020 and I'm watching nostalgia for a movie made in the '90s that was nostalgic for the '60s.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Have you timed that?

[@thechroniclesofthesuperhob167]

What do you mean? Because of Sean Connery’s passing?

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

@@thechroniclesofthesuperhob167 or Biden

[@thechroniclesofthesuperhob167]

@@mrflipperinvader7922 oh right yeah

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

this is pretty different from your content lol i love seeing other youtubers in the comments

[@audrenstein2356]

this is now among my favorite movie video essays and I'm not even done with it yet! My parents took me to see every Austin Powers movie in theaters even though I was only 5 years old when the first one came out, and bought each one on vhs. These movies have been in my life since I was a toddler, and I had no idea I needed a video essay about it until it happened.

[@daishoryujin95]

I'm rewatching the Charl saga because I finally got Nebula and I'm reacquainting myself with the lore before watching Night of the Coconut. 19/26

[@DanPurcell]

THIS WAS INCREDIBLE

[@alphabettical1]

This is only slightly related, but here's my algorithm comment: Recently, I was rewatching a sort of flashback Star Trek episode, and it struck me just how far back the 2000's are. It was a flashback in the story, but an opportunity for the team behind Voyager to do something set in their present time - yet, for me, it's so much in the past that it's more foreign than not. That's even further complicated as I can know we never did start those ambitious sci-fi projects of the Trek 2000's. And of course, when the episode came out in 2001, I was 3. This line of thinking about how the recent past imagined their recent future (different than the original Trek's 60's futurism, but still optimistic) has been sticking in my head because of Covid. Usually, I can't imagine the future because of climate change and capitalism and right-wing things becoming common. Now, I can't imagine it because of Covid, especially since my reference point - how travel and the world changed after 9/11 - is something I experienced, but don't remember.

[@albionharrison-naish3329]

Wouldn't be surprised if a big part of this phase of nostalgia, which is happening across most art forms, is in part driven by the easy access we all have to all the stuff made in earlier periods. If you are a creative, then you are likely to be interested in where stuff came from etc etc. Well now, if I want to listen to music from almost any time, or view movies, photos, art of pretty much anything else, I can do that from home. Anytime. That is bound to influence people. So maybe we are going through a necessary creative epoch where we are all a bit saturated by the past and hopefully collectively find our way out of it naturally sometime soon.

[@forestcochran4196]

This might be my favorite video essay ever. I LOVED Austin Powers, and I always knew there was something special about it which remained unexamined.

[@bobilly]

God bless these scene transition montages. I haven't smiled that wide in a while.

[@Curarkaig]

I just found this in my feed and clicked on it. I’m listening to the video essay and thinking “Why did I ever stop watching this channel?” But then the joke segments keep popping up and I’m like “Oh yeah, that’s why…”

[@piggy81741]

Hi Pat, I don't comment a lot but I'm 2 minutes into the video and I need to praise the level of comedy in this thing already. The shot of you reaching for your movies, looking like you're going to grab West Side Story and then revealing Austin Powers from behind it is amazing and had me dead. You make good stuff.

[@ratmandraws]

23:18 who's gonna tell Patrick that "I Am Legend" was also a remake?

[@adam-uncools]

The transitions made my month

[@eudaimona]

I feel like this video is a good example of how good art criticism can be less about deducing the intent of an author and more about using art to make an argument about the world. Excellent video essay.

[@JamesQPurcell]

Oh my god. That sticky note gag is incredible.

[@Chris-hx6tr]

I only now realize how much the first two Austin Powers movies influenced me as a kid. As a 11-year-old, I loved these movies, and the 60's mod aesthetic was the coolest thing in the world to me, even though I knew very little about actual British pop culture from the 1960's. I got it all from Austin Powers, and through it I ended up having weird second-hand nostalgia for a decade I never even saw.

[@zil1832]

Wow!

[@puellanivis]

30:59 I am reminded of when I was watching The Shining for the first time, 25 years after it was released. “Oh wow, this movie has _all_ the clichés.“ To which my friend said, “uh, no. None of these were clichés when it was made. It _made_ these cliché.”

[@quiltrowave]

When I was a kid, a cousin came to visit and we went to Blockbuster. He bought AP: The Spy Who Shagged Me. He left and the tape stayed here for years. Another cousin, a friend and I finally watched it and loved it. It became one of the most quotable movies for us for years. I was very shocked when I found out we watched the sequel first. Because of that the first was just OK and Goldmember was fine. But to me, the second one is top tier comedy. Thanks for the video. I just discovered your channel. Love from Chile

[@candylove1234]

I seriously needed this

[@Flanfartigan]

The sticky note gag at the beginning is so funny and so well done. I'm surprised I've never seen it done before. It feels straight out of community. Marvelous work, well done

[@GaviLazan]

Love that the zoom call says "1 participant" even though there are like 7.

[@MartiniLinguine]

I’m so glad Patrick of all people is finally shining the spotlight on Austin powers! I’ve always been quite the fan of these films and he’s able to accurately describe of why I love it.

[@shandorno6305]

So, I wake up this morning (in Australia) to find out that the nightmare that was the President of the most powerful country on earth being a petulant, deranged baby will soon be over, Mass Effect will be getting a remaster, it's raining (shut up, I like the rain,) Coronavirus is on the verge of being wiped out in my country. AND a new Patrick Willems video is up. This was a really good start to Sunday.

[@jjmot27]

Right from the start, that "attempting to slide the post it across the desk" moment was great

[@themastermason1]

Looking back, I clearly watched Austin Powers at a way too young age. I was in the single digits but clearly my tiny brain just couldn't comprehend any of the sex stuff and interpreted a lot of moments in the films as slapstick.

[@Plusphe]

No surprise you’re still making some of the best videos on the platform! Keep it up

[@saintdane05]

The first scene with Patrick and his agent is shot the same way as the destiel scene

[@MrFreakshow182]

As ever Patrick, your commitment to being damned entertaining while delivering hot takes never fails to please

[@__-vb3ht]

I always enjoyed Chloe acting in your videos, and great job with her new role of the new starry-eyed cast member who perfectly plays into Pat's toxicity and craving for attention. These characters feel very fleshed out and I can't wait to see the Charl plot line continue!

[@euansmith3699]

I'm expecting that it will turn out that Charl is Patrick's ha;f-brother, three-times-removed.

[@JLE8811]

I have been half expecting the Austin Powers spoof of the craig dark and gritty Bond films anytime now.

[@bwatson77]

Might push back a bit against Austin Powers being *just* an homage to the sixties. While definitely a pastiche, it also pokes fun at the naivete of the sixties, and ultimately updates its pathos to something that better fits with modern sensibilities: "Right now, we've got freedom and responsibility. It's a very groovy time."

[@gabagooltube4441]

This is the exact type of content I've come to love and expect from you Patrick

[@ItsGregKon]

Austin Powers is smart and deep, actually.

[@Chinnybon]

This could have been a half hour video of just those montages and I'd have enjoyed it almost as much. I love those montages.

[@tobigrantlbart]

Can we talk about something different Back to the Future is a movie that is now 80's nostalgia and caters to 50's nostalgia. That's weird I'm feeling like I'm in Inception

[@tobigrantlbart]

No please no! But if means that we get punk revival, because of the 2000's punk revival, that happend, because of 70's punk. I'm on board

[@blokey8]

@Mitch Lang So... stilted dialogue is coming back to blockbusters? No wait, we had TRoS so it's already here. Can we count the likes of Bourne and such as 70s nostalgia, as they were updating paranoid spy thrillers for the 21st century? I feel like there was one with Will Smith too?

[@christophermiller3031]

The Love Guru is one of my favorite goodbad comedies of all time. So underrated

[@kinchlmi]

I thought Jake was gonna sit on Charl and I was really scared for him.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

Scared for Jake?

[@FloW_W]

I'm like weirdly excited about this video. What you said, about nostalgia, hits it right on the head. This trilogy is one of the most nostalgic things from my childhood.

[@dianacrow9400]

"When the real thing rips off the spoof" You mean like how in the Season 2 finale of Star Trek Discovery has a scene that almost exactly mimics the rhythms of Galaxy Quest? I was literally yelling "Activate the Omega-13" at a Star Trek episode

[@BobbinRood]

Okay, also, that postit note push was actually art

[@Ken-fh4jc]

Exposing an 18 year old to Limp Bizkit should be a crime.

[@Inhuman0]

This is why that chanel is one of the very best on KZbin.

[@wongalahara8196]

Why do I want that guy to say "vsauce michael here!"

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

i had the same thought. he's a like a discount michael. lol

[@chip783]

This is absolutely brilliant. Well done!

[@briankenney9528]

Charl is not going anywhere Damn right

[@ComKid100]

Thank you to the cast and crew for the montage transitions, its not easy having that kind of high energy for multiple takes

[@shebjess]

Okay, the Scott Evil representing the evolution of toxic fandom made me audibly gasp.

[@blokey8]

He looks like the last thing toxic fans would want to be likened to which, like Kylo Ren and Hux in full bitch-mode, makes him the perfect representation.

[@shebjess]

@@blokey8LMBO, the toxic gatekeepers who think of themselves as this majestic scholar when they're really Scott Evil!!

[@LycoLoco]

Speaking of deepening mythology, this video digs *way down*. Fantastic, like always. Love the evolution of the show.

[@STormnNormn2027]

I have always thought that a fourth Austin Powers movie would work best as a commentary on the Jason Bourne series. Hyper realistic and gritty with a ton of shaky cam. Austin wakes up not knowing who he is so you’re not immediately tied to the previous continuity.

[@CaptainVryce]

once the first groovy transition happened i knew that was the thing Pat had the most fun doing. you can see the "this is dumb and i love it" look on his face.

[@mr.moviemafia]

05:21 Holy shit is that JOHN MULANEY as Andy Warhol?! 🤣 (False alarm, his name is Mark Bringleson but he just looks exactly like Mulaney)

[@evilincoln23]

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not, but John mulaney would have been in grade school when this movie came out. But it does look like him though.

[@mr.moviemafia]

@@evilincoln23 I didn’t really think about the age, but right?! 😂 It’s so uncanny

[@davidjames579]

The younger actor they cast for Basil Exposition looks spot on like Michael York.

[@lilhonor5425]

Me watching this video talking about Austin Powers with a oasis reference: I gotta send this to my dad

[@MsMcPolly]

i actually squealed with joy at that first scene transition montage 10/10

[@mildsoup8978]

I wish i had friends that would randomly say "it's montage time!" Or do it when I would randomly say it :/

[@seanmichaelwalroth9462]

You get better every time. This is some of your best work. Keep them coming.

[@mitchgosser2802]

YEAH BABY YEAH what a way to celebrate this specific day.

[@lulairenoroub3869]

I lost it at the sliding of the post it. Something about knowing that that was an intentional joke. Just a perfect little bit of visual humour, a tiny little deconstruction of the sliding the paper trope, from a channel that's all about moments like that. In one tiny, seemingly silly little moment, hours of Edgar Wright analysis was crammed into a conceptual singularity that the moment itself probably didn't warrant, it it just went nova in my brain. Probably says a lot more about me that Patrick, but I completely fucking lost it at that. I don't know why I hadn't seen that exact thing before, but I'm so glad that I have now :p

[@Liz-Istrata]

Funnily enough about a year back there was a revival of Austin Powers memes on tumblr

[@Yahkov]

I didn't know I needed a video essay on Austin Powers. But damn, am I glad this exists.

[@Chaosm03]

Patrick: I make this sweet innocent youth find out who Limp Bizkit is. Me: Patrick H. Willems is history's great monster!