What the corpus says about Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · programming · DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total. · "DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie. · "Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:26:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · theme · Skarsgard's penis-showing in the Dark World is likened to the Swedish made penis enlarger pump gag. · "This feels like the Austin Powers, Swedish made penis enlarger pump."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:32:07 · unknown (0.30)] Young Frankenstein ⇒ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (the host's read) · craft · A host says the first Austin Powers has the well-designed look of a Young Frankenstein-style spoof. · "One of the spoofs that like young Frankenstein style gets the look, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:31:55 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · craft · The first was ramshackle on a small budget; this is bigger and more expensive. · "The 1st one, pretty ramshackle"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:32:19 · unknown (0.30)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · industry · The sequels try to top themselves and Austin stops being funny once he figures himself out at the end of the first film. · "The 2nd and thirds are just trying to top themselves."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:24 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Burt Bacharach ⇒ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (the host's read) · lineage · Bacharach's 'The Look of Love' on the car radio set Myers thinking about where the swingers went, and he wrote Austin Powers in three weeks. · "So one day, Burt Bacharach's look of love was playing on the car radio, Lady Mike Myers, to think about where the swingers of the world went to."
[pairs] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ↔ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World 3 · programming · Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers. · "He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40)] Our Man Flint ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films. · "a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Caine ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies. · "There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld. · "Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:05:22 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World · theme · Both 90s SNL-era comedies would not work now because the era is gone. · "I don't think this movie works now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:10:09 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ The Brady Bunch Movie · theme · Part of 90s nostalgia-mining comedy (Brady Bunch, Addams Family). · "this nostalgia mining comedy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B. · "This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone. · "And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Marvel in general is indebted to Doctor Who's tone of lightness, comedy, hope and teamwork, especially the Russell T Davies era. · "I think Marvel in general is very kind of indebted to Doctor Who with the same tone of like lightness and comedy and hope and team teamwork."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.