Popcorn in Bed - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Cassie watches "Austin Powers 2" for the first time.

By total coincidence, I re-watched this movie recently. It's a very uneven movie and a lot of it falls flat. The character of Fat Bastard seems like an old relic, the plot isn't even trying to make sense, there's never been anything funny about the coffee/lab scene... 

The musical numbers. When Austin introduces a Burt Bacharach number, it's completely appropriate. But then when Dr. Evil sings "One of Us" I was baffled and wondered how many people today are even aware of that song. Finally you get to Dr. Evil singing "Just the Two of Us" and it's a "jump the shark" level of bonkers. Why are there so many musical interludes?

Still, the good jokes outnumber the bad and so if you look at it as a series of gags - which it is - and you add to it the extreme nostalgia of seeing it during a college summer, it's an enjoyable movie. I have my criticisms but I don't want to go too far.

Rob Lowe in Austin Powers (The First One)

 Was watching "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (the second in the series, in case you forget) and noted this imdb trivia:

Rob Lowe (Young Number Two) and Michael McDonald (N.A.T.O. Soldier) appeared uncredited in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) as different characters from this movie. Lowe appeared in the scene where a group of friends waiting at a henchman's bachelor party hear of his death. A similar scene showed McDonald's family being informed of his death.

In case it's not clear, they're saying it's strange that Rob Lowe has a part in Austin Powers 2 because he already played a different role in Austin Powers 1. The only problem is, I know the movie pretty well and I was pretty sure that scene doesn't exist.

The answer to the riddle is that it does exist, in the international version, not in the American version. It was deleted for time, or so I've read. If you're like me and never heard of this scene in your life, here it is:

And here is the scene it would have followed. RIP John Smith, his death was a heady moment.

And here is the second deleted scene connected with the second repeat actor, also cut for time from the version we all saw:

Popcorn in Bed - Austin Powers

 

Absolutely delightful.