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Goldmember: Unfunniest character in the series?


Wow, did Mike miss with this one. Making him Dutch has some comedic potential with the accent, but when you hear him say "you are toight" for the third time, you realize it wasn't funny the first time.

The rollerskating and contortions do nothing for me. The plates do nothing for me. Saving his peeling skin in a box is just disgusting, and not funny at all.

Also, since the film is named for him, I think it's a mistake that they spend so much time on Dr Evil, and Goldmember is almost an afterthought. Arguably they could even have ditched Dr Evil except for a cameo and made it solely Austin vs the new villain. As it turns out, that might have made the film ten times worse since there's nothing remotely funny about the Goldmember character.

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The movie is not so bad, but yeah this character stays in memory as very bad. Too tasteless. Even fat bastard is funny. Not Goldmember

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the skin box is comedic genius

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its true his character wasn't all that funny...nor memorable. his overly stretchy legs was a pretty funny running joke and his overly dramatic long "Dooooooooooos"...

say what you will, but his "theme song" in the 70s club by Beyonce kicks a$$!!!

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I find the fact the movie is named for him but he's not in it much actually funny in itself. The character himself isn't too funny but I like how people react to him. One of the best laughs for me is Dr. Evil rolling his chair to him and saying "how about no..." I do laugh at the first scene of him roller skating.

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"I find the fact the movie is named for him but"

What does this mean? You find a fact?

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Making him Dutch is ok but then at least learn to speak with a Dutch accent instead of a someting that sounded more like a German accent.

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I couldn't care less about Goldmember and Foxxy Cleopatra! Worst characters in the entire series.

Break the rules and in a couple of years you will have a hell of a story to tell.

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