From CHUD, "Last spring, word went out about a Mike Myers project that would have the notorious ham playing an Indian self—help guru named Pitka who spouted all sorts of wackiness as advice. The character originated during the making of the second Austin Powers movie, and Myers has kept it on the backburner ever since, doing stage shows in character here and there to fine tune it. I can’t imagine there being that much to it, though. Do a “funny” accent, pepper your “advice” with toilet humor, and repeat if desired. There. Now I’m a top-shelf comic genius too.The film’s kind of been in drydock as Myers and Paramount sought somebody with the cinematic vision to be able to tell camera operators to keep rolling as Myers improvised take after take. Tricky stuff, that. The search for that most rare of individuals is now over as Marco Schnabel has stepped in the director’s chair. While he's got a thin resume as of yet, he’s got a long running association with Myers as he crewed on the first two Austin Powers movies and stepped up as second unit director for the last one.
Paramount’s looking for this to be a major release for 2008, and there’s little reason to doubt that it will be. Myers is one of the safest comedy bets around these days, and he stays out of the public eye enough between films to make sure people don’t get sick of him. And as long as there are accents left for him to try, we’ll be seeing more of these types of flicks. Take it and like it. Or not."
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Sounds like the type of character that would be funny for a 5 minute SNL skit but very annoying over a 90 minute movie.
It's amazing how poorly Mike Myers movies age. Wayne's World is nothing short of excruciating and Austin Powers is well on it's way to embarrassing. Part of the problem is when you see people imitating his characters. Picture a soccer mom saying the following:
"I liked it... not!"
"One MILLION Dollars!"
"Yeah baby, yeah!"
One time I was going to a Halloween party and I was waiting for the elevator to come down and two couples walked shortly after each other; one guy was Austin Powers and the other guy was Tony Montana.
I love Halloween and I love costumes but I hate when people think it's funny to constantly act like the people they're dressed as. These two guys saw each other and busted into a horrible, horrible routine of "yeah baby"s and "say hechllo to my leettle friend" and all that crap. I stood with my face to the elevator door and pressed that button again and again.
Ha ha! Great story. JPX had a similar adventure, being stuck in line behind one guy talking in a Yoda voice to another guy speaking like Elvis. I wasn't there but I wanted to punch them both.
While I'm telling JPX stories, here's one that always made me chuckle: So JPX was running late for a job interview on the 10th floor of the hospital and when he got in the elevator, a retarded man greeted him and proclaimed "One-two-three-four-five!" and hit all the buttons. JPX smiled politely to the caretaker but was fuming on the inside.
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