The trailer promised a fun Austin Powers romp for grown-ups , but the actual film falls far short, delivering a rather mundane and mostly flat comedy/spoof. The wafer-thin plot offers the excuse for a parade of stereotyped one-note characterisations, with Depp's Mordecai wearing thin very quickly, Paltrow trying hard to twinkle with little material and perhaps Paul Bettany coming off best as Mortdecai's thuggish sexually-rampant sidekick who delivers some good comic beats. Some slapstick gags work, a lot of the running time barely registers above desperate provincial amateur farce, and then there are patches where humour simply evaporates all together. Disappointing.
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