Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, the French Austin Powers is back, in OSS 117: Lost in Rio. We saw last saw him in Cairo: Nest of Spies, and liked him a lot.
Now the smugly nationalist, racist, sexist bumbling spy has been sent to Rio to buy a list of French Nazi collaborators from an old Nazi. Once there, he teams up with female Israeli agent. She's pretty sharp, but he can't take her seriously, because, of course, she's a girl, and besides, there's something about Jews...
They run into some Carioca hippies, get lost in the jungle, etc. It ends with a gratitous triple Hitchcock reference: Vertigo, Saboteur, and North by Northwest. Can't hate that.
I felt this sequel was slightly less awesome than the first entry, but can't wait for the next.
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