9 Movies So Annoying They Lose You In The First 60 Seconds
8. Vanessa Was Actually A Robot All Along - The Spy Who Shagged Me
Sticking with those movies that only decide to frustrate their audience in the wake of a seemingly innocent enough prologue, the follow-up to the first outing for Mike Myer's Austin Powers opted to render the prior comedy flick's romantic core completely useless in record time.
Hot on the heels of spoofing Star Wars with an opening crawl that already teased the incoming p*ss-take of a swerve and Dr. Evil re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the recently married secret agent can be found enjoying his honeymoon with wife Vanessa Kensington.
Yet, this happily ever after is also very quickly terminated, as within about a minute it soon becomes apparent that Elizabeth Hurley's character was actually a Fem-bot - last seen in the prior entry - all along!
Within 60 seconds of picking back up where fans last left Austin, Vanessa has already glitched and squeezed a bottle of champagne into oblivion with her bare hands. And these first flickers of robo-chaos are soon followed up by the new Mrs. Powers quickly being revealed to have been controlled by Dr. Evil this whole time, before her head explodes in a bid to kill Austin, naturally.
Once the wave of shocked chuckles subside, however, the fact the entire previous film's development of Powers as a character is quickly undone in order to unleash him as a single James Bond-esque bachelor again, while appropriate for a 007 spoof, did leave many feeling a little cheated early on into The Spy Who Shagged Me.