There is a line in Austin Powers: Goldmember where Ozzy Osbourne - playing himself - says, "They're using all the same f***** jokes from the last Austin Powers movie!" And they do, in the shagedelic spy's latest adventure. This time around, Austin Powers (Mike Myers) has hit the big time: the movie's Bond-style opening features Tom Cruise playing Austin, Gwyneth Paltrow as spy sidekick Dixie Normous and Steven Spielberg as himself in the creation of a movie about Austin's life. Austin meets Britney Spears, then slays her after she reveals herself to be a Femme-bot. And Austin is knighted after finally capturing Dr. Evil (also Mike Myers), who is promptly thrown behind bars.

But not all is well in Austin's world: he feels as though he cannot live up to the legend of his father, spy extraordinaire Nigel Powers - leading to the memorable Austin Powers solo, "Daddy Wasn't There," with such original lyrics as "to take me to the fair, to change my underwear." Still, when Daddy is kidnapped by the evil Goldmember - who, as you might expect, does have gold replacing his "meat and two veg" -Austin goes to the rescue. First, in a scene drawn straight from "Silence of the Lambs," he takes his clues from Dr. Evil in an isolation cell.

Then he travels back in time to 1975 to Goldmember's Studio 69, where he teams up with Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles, in an enormous Afro) to track down his father, recapture the escaped Dr. Evil and stop Goldmember from creating a mass global flood by redirecting a gold meteorite - a task which requires bringing Foxxy back to the future. The storyline romps through all the usual rude jokes, though the formula may be growing a bit tired - this movie somehow lacks some of the energy of its predecessors. It does have a bizarre ending, with a faint whiff of the original Star Wars trilogy. And, judging by the movie's reception, some of the magic must still be intact.