The new film picks up where the old one left off: Austin, Mike Myers, is enjoying a sensual honeymoon with his voluptuous bride, Vanessa, Elizabeth Hurley, when disaster strikes. Meanwhile, talkshow host Jerry Springer has brought Dr. Evil, also Mike Myers, back from cyberspace to threaten the free world again. What`s most at risk is Austin`s most precious possession, his Mojo - and without your Mojo, baby, you`re seriously lacking in the equipment department, if you know what I mean...The Spy Who Shagged Me, even more squarely aimed at adolescents than the first film, mixes the quite funny with relentless overkill. That`s the joke, of course - that everything is so overdone, and if you prefer subtlety in your comedy, this isn`t the film for you. The target audience will almost certainly love all the fart, tit, willie, bum, toilet jokes - and they`re amusing for a while but, again, they`re done to death. Myers, once again, is more effective as the Bond-like hero than as the villain, and he plays another character here - a gross Scottish villain called Fat Bastard. Heather Graham enters into the spirit of the fun with her delightfully naughty Felicity Shagwell, it`s good to see Gia Carides as a femme fatale called Robin Swallows, and I liked the character of Evil`s son who keeps pointing out how silly the plot is. Plus there are some enjoyably unexpected guest appearances. But the gags really are done to death.
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