OUR MAN FLINT MOVIE
All the same there is very little in the way of heart or plot, the movie is basically a series of increasingly ludicrous set pieces on its way to the demise of the semi-boring villains. This god among men wanders his way through a hodgepodge of plot points lifted from Fleming’s James Bond novels, mostly straight-faced, avoiding feeling too tongue in cheek. If you’re wondering whether or not Flint is a lovable goofball like Austin Powers, or a more stern-faced master of the universe like Sean Connery’s James Bond, refer to the poster: Our Man Flint makes love in 47 different languages! He’s a Karate Champion, Brain Surgeon, Swordsman and Nuclear Physicist… He’s the top Master Spy of all time, with his Cigarette Lighter containing 82 Death-Dealing Devices, his 2 Man-Eating Dogs, his 4 Luscious Playmates and his Love Nest- Built-For-5… There’s only one superspy sly enough to take down this dastardly scheme: Derek Flint. Maybe a plot description? A secret society of climate scientists called GALAXY, concerned over the world’s lack of foresight into the matter of mutually assured destruction, manipulate weather across the globe into violent tempests and erupting volcanoes in attempt to disarm the nations of the world.
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How to explain Our Man Flint? You could just watch the near 7-minute trailer below.
Well before the Bond series ever had to start mixing up the formula, spy movies had gotten so plentiful and so predictable that we’d gotten our first spot-on lampoon of the era: Our Man Flint.
Italian spies, lots of those, spies who introduce gravity-defying gadgets without ever using them (think of the budget), spies who were 3 feet tall and that was the gimmick. Everywhere you turned, so long as you wandering around a cheap theatre, you’d see spies. No, studios everywhere scrammed to slap together their own super spy super earners, with results which were mixed to say the least. In the wake of the James Bond shaped meteor at the box office that was Dr. Take a look at the opening minutes of the first sequel Austin turns on the TV, spots that In Like Flint is on, and announces: “Hey, In Like Flint, that’s my favourite movie!” The titular Flint is the pre-modern Powers, and this is the sequel to the much more important film for today’s purposes Our Man Flint.
The Austin Powers series does however owe a lot to a certain predecessor in spy-spoofing, and no, it’s not the Casino Royale spoof. Evil, and everyone in between delight in the pair’s outdated cat and mouse espionage. His International Man of Mystery still does the rounds of popular impressions and a huge audience from the late ‘90s and early 2000’s remembers the films with a great fondness, mostly coming down to the amount of fun everyone involved is having. The wickedly silly spy comedy series of dubious quality, which blasts the bounds of good taste to smithereens, actually shows some restraint compared to the out and out lunacy of spoof movies of the day, but for every pointed parody of a classic secret agent trope expect at least two phallic jokes in return.įor as low brow as Mike Meyers’ series is, it has certainly stood the test of time. Cue Soul Bossa Nova, Austin Powers is due to make landing on Netflix South Africa by the 1st of September.
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