NOT funny
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mike Myers
drrclavan — 15 years ago(October 03, 2010 05:45 AM)
I've tried. Really. But any movie he's in is just unbelievably boring. The whole Austin Powers thing, the Wayne's World etc. Yuk! It must be something American, no sane non-American would regard Mike as funny. His presence in a movie just ruins everything, makes it unwatchable.
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TMC-4 — 9 years ago(November 28, 2016 10:26 PM)
Besides Mikes difficult to work with reputation, I think that its now quite obvious why his star started to dwindle sometime after the third
Austin Powers
movie, people started to grow tired of his shtick. I think Mike was perhaps, at his best when he was surrounded by equally if not funnier people like when he was on
SNL
(since it was a sketch comedy TV show rather than a full length movie w/ him headlining, it was harder to worn out by him over a short period).
Another problem that Mike Myers had arguably, is that he never really played a normal guy (w/ the exception of his character in
So I Married an Axe Murderer
and to a certain extent, Wayne Campbell). Mike Myers is really a glorified character actor (he always has to play some eccentric, overly cartoonish character w/ a silly accent and heavy make-up) when you get right down to it. But if youre a leading man type performer like Myers its much harder for audiences to relate to him.
At the end of the day (especially by the time he made the third
Austin Powers
film), its probably safe to say that Mike was tired and out of good ideas (he kept making cheap jokes without extra layers). In other words, Mike arguably cashed in too much on the gimmicks that he created in the previous movies without really introducing newly funny and fresh concepts. Therefore, he pretty much just cashed in all his chips and milked the tit/cash cow for all it was worth so to speak.