I mean, it’s as silly as a goose, about as deep as a puddle, and less original than a regular family sit-com, but it’s meant to be silly, it’s meant to be shallow, and it’s meant to be unoriginal, so I won’t really hold these things against it. Because this is a typical run-of-the-mill parody flick; one of those with a plot mainly consisting of Saturday Night Live like sketches, loosely tied together by a thin story. In other words, kind of like Mike Myers’ other famous movie, “Wayne’s World”.
However, it is a very funny parody/sketch movie. In spite of coming close to overkill in the use of dragging a fart joke (or any other kind of joke, for that matter) out to ridiculous lengths (like the “evacuation” phase of Powers’ thawing, or the toilet scene in the Las Vegas casino), it manages to evade the trap many of these jokes end up dying in: That the jokes merely make the viewer (or more intelligent ones, at least) embarrassed.
That being said, the one thing that carries this movie almost on its own is Mike Myers, and especially his Dr. Evil character. The awkward way in which this character relates to his environment, and then especially his son (played by Seth Green, by the way), provides many laughs. After all, he has been cryogenically frozen for the last thirty years, and even before missing the developments of these years, he was a bit of a doofus. One of the best sequences in the movie is the one in which Dr. Evil and Scott, his son, attend some kind of group therapy in order to bond and heal, a venture which ends with the following exchange of lines:
Scott: But we were making such great progress in group!
Dr. Evil: I had the group liquidated. They were being insolent.
All in all, this is a great movie for wasting away one and an half hour, but hardly much more. It is, however, ridiculously funny. 5.0/10.
Oh, and it has a character in it called “Basil Exposition”, Austin Powers’ chief in the British intelligence, whose only purpose is to provide plot exposition. How cool isn’t that? 
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