Mike Myers To Murder Comedy In "Austin Powers 4"

Mike Myers hasn't headlined a live-action comedy since the colossal failure of 2008's The Love Guru. But it's tanking wasn't from a lack of effort. The comedy was heavily promoted including Myers hosting the MTV Movie Awards that served as nothing but an extended commercial thanks to good old-fashioned corporate synergy. Both Paramount and MTV are owned by Viacom. As been the case time and time again, movie-goers just got tired of Myers' routine and decided to spend their money on other comedies that summer like Get Smart, Tropic Thunder, Step Brothers and Pineapple Express.

In an effort it appears to get back into relevancy, Myers is dusting off the thick rims and bad British teeth. That's right, he's closed a deal for Austin Powers 4, reports HitFix.

As fate would have it a few months back, I caught Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me on FX. As opposed to the fifteen year-old me who (like many) couldn't stop laughing and spent the remainder of the summer quoting that sequel, my twenty-seven year-old self kept thinking, "So this was the defintion of comedy for us back in 1999!"

You would think that the box-office failures of the afore-mentioned Love Guru but also Scream 4 would tell Warner Brothers/New Line this is a bad idea. In the case of Scream 4, Dimension thought taking a once-vibrant franchise and one sympatico with the 1990s and bringing it back would result in modern audiences hungering for a return. It didn't. They had moved on to something else.

If this is going to be more of Myers typical schtick we've seen before, except for making fun of Jason Bourne and Daniel Craig's James Bond, I can't think of anything positive to say. The 90's are over people!