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Movies that feel like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

If you loved Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, the closest films we have are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004) and Manitou's Shoe (2001). All three share Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.

🍅 54% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jay Roachwittyplayfulepicgrittyawe

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) · Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 60%6.7adventure · comedy · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: android

The difference: Without the same grit

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

Common ground: space marine

The difference: Lighter on grit

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
6.7western · comedy · adventure

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans further into western

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%6.4crime · comedy · adventure

Both land scale and grit at once

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%7.7adventure · comedy · crime

Comedy built on wit, twice over

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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Spaceballs
1987 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 53%7.1comedy · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: laser gun

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

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Save the Green Planet!
2003 · dir. Jang Joon-hwan
🍅 89%7.1comedy · science fiction · crime

The same preoccupation in both: saving the world

A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.

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Men in Black
1997 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 91%7.3action · adventure · comedy

One thread runs through both: undercover

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Taxi 2
2000 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
6.5action · comedy · adventure

Playful adventure in both cases

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Men in Black II
2002 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 38%6.2action · comedy · science fiction

One thread runs through both: space marine

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

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Taxi
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
7action · comedy · crime

Epic crime, and it commits to that

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%5.9comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: undercover

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.

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