What’s Aged the Best?
Connected-sketch structure; Mini-Me–Scott feud
In the discussion (10)
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- The opening credits and between-scene face-making transitions are praised for maintaining pace and coherence between sketches.
- Mojo is praised as an enduring concept and the colorful, larger-budget production design is admired, including the canister's convincing appearance.
- Dr. Evil's combination of Blofeld and a Lorne Michaels impression is praised; Dana Carvey's claim to the impression and the resulting estrangement are discussed, distinguishing comic invention from Myers's ability to build a film around a character.
- Dr. Evil's unexplained oversized nipples are an aged-best choice.
- The sex-scene lead-up with Frau Farbissina is considered weak, but the awkward coffee encounter afterward is praised and suggested as another rewatchable scene.
- Mustafa calling up from below after his injury is praised as a successful repeated gag from the first film.
- Mini-Me humping the laser and his hostile farewell card to Scott are aged-best choices.
- I shall call him Mini-Me is praised as a reusable line, alongside the Mini-Me fight.
- Final aged-best choices split between the unapologetic connected-sketch structure and the Mini-Me–Scott feud; Dr. Evil's nipples are explicitly rejected by the structure voter.
- Lowe and Wagner are proposed as aged-best choices, interrupted by an explicitly speculative and then qualified accusation about Natalie Wood's death; the speakers acknowledge they do not know what happened.