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Doesn't fit the trope since the "perfectly good" content was completely removed from the movie instead of being hinted at but not elaborated on enough.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin-off of ''Film/AustinPowers'' (Pitka was originally intended to be another one of the many roles Myers played in the ''Austin Powers'' films). The idea of continuing the story of a beloved movie series would intrigue most audiences. Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.[[note]]This was apparently the result of a very literal StockFootageFailure -- the film-makers had intended to also represent Dion using stock footage, but found out late in the day that the footage didn't match up properly, and between having no money for reshoots and an ongoing writers' strike, they couldn't retool the scene to remove her.[[/note]]
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** For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.[[note]]This was apparently the result of a very literal StockFootageFailure -- the film-makers had intended to also represent Dion using stock footage, but found out late in the day that the footage didn't match up properly, and between having no money for reshoots and an ongoing writers' strike, they couldn't retool the scene to remove her.[[/note]]
** For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.[[note]]This was apparently the result of a very literal StockFootageFailure -- the film-makers had intended to also represent Dion using stock footage, but found out late in the day that the footage didn't match up properly, and between having no money for reshoots and an ongoing writers' strike, they couldn't retool the scene to remove her.[[/note]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: At the time, the idea of Creator/JessicaAlba (then best known for her MsFanservice roles) running any enterprise bigger than a lemonade stand was treated as a case of WTHCastingAgency by critics. Alba had the last laugh when she went on to co-found the organic/non-toxic household/beauty products business The Honest Company, currently valued at over a billion and a half dollars, far bigger than the hockey team her character manages in this film.
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* HilariousInHindsight: At the time, the idea of Creator/JessicaAlba (then best known for her MsFanservice roles) running any enterprise bigger than a lemonade stand was treated as a case of WTHCastingAgency QuestionableCasting by critics. Alba had the last laugh when she went on to co-found the organic/non-toxic household/beauty products business The Honest Company, currently valued at over a billion and a half dollars, far bigger than the hockey team her character manages in this film.
* QuestionableCasting: Creator/BenKingsley playing a character that mocks Hindu gurus and most Indian people would probably be offended by is pretty insane considering he won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as the title role in ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''. Made worse by the fact that [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn Kingsley himself is of Indian descent]].
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* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/BenKingsley playing a character that mocks Hindu gurus and most Indian people would probably be offended by is pretty insane considering he won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as the title role in ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''. Made worse by the fact that [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn Kingsley himself is of Indian descent]].
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** It should also go without saying that compositing a grown Mike Myer's head onto a little boy's body looks as horrifying as it sounds.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.[[note]]This was apparently the result of a very literal StockFootageFailure -- the film-makers had intended to also represent Dion using stock footage, but found out late in the day that the footage didn't match up properly, and between having no money for reshoots and an ongoing writers' strike, they couldn't retool the scene to remove her.[[/note]]
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* MisBlamed: For all of the film's faults, one that can't be dumped at the feet of Mike Myers is the awkward InfoDump from Jay Kell and Trent Lueders that opens the main storyline. Creator/StephenColbert and Creator/JimGaffigan were cast in the roles after the 2007-08 Writer's Guild of America strike had begun, so all that Myers could do was write down a list of the major backstory points and hope that Colbert and Gaffigan could improvise something that got the required exposition across.
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* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Not only did the film come in for criticism for blatantly recycling jokes and plot beats from the ''Film/AustinPowers'' films, many critics pointed out that its reliance on over-the-top visual jokes and gross-out humor had become a heavily outdated approach by 2008 -- likely a result of its lengthy gestation period, with Mike Myers having been planning the film since at least the start of the 2000s, when this type of humor was the standard approach for big-screen comedies -- and made no concessions to the smarter and more naturalistic direction that the genre had been moving in since ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' three years prior.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* UncannyValley: Adult Creator/MikeMyers' head being slapped on a child's body with [[SpecialEffectsFailure dodgy CGI]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin-off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well-liked comedies ever (Pitka was originally intended to be another one of the many roles Myers played in the ''Austin Powers'' films). The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin-off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well-liked comedies ever ''Film/AustinPowers'' (Pitka was originally intended to be another one of the many roles Myers played in the ''Austin Powers'' films). The idea of continuing the story of that film a beloved movie series would intrigue most audiences. Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: For all of the film's many celebrity cameos, "Music/CelineDion" is represented by only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well liked comedies ever. The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin off spin-off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well liked well-liked comedies ever.ever (Pitka was originally intended to be another one of the many roles Myers played in the ''Austin Powers'' films). The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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Not played for drama, and not funny, so it's not Narm.
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* {{Narm}}: "Music/CelineDion" only being seen in the distance, making it obvious they couldn't actually get her in the movie but still refused to drop the gag. It stands out all the more compared with the more successful (even if not entirely perfect) attempt at representing Creator/OprahWinfrey via stock footage and a voice impersonator.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well liked comedies ever. The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Inst we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well liked comedies ever. The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Inst Instead we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was originally going to be a spin off of ''Film/AustinPowers'', one of the most well liked comedies ever. The idea of continuing the story of that film would intrigue most audiences. Inst we got what is considered one of the worst films ever made.
