The Best and Worst Mike Myers Movies and How to Watch Them

Canadian actor/director/screenwriter/multi-slasher Mike Myers first gained fame on Saturday Night Live, but it’s his 30-year film career that’s made him a star. Not even counting his voice work in the Shrek cinematic universe, Myers has made over a dozen movies that you could easily quote lines from without thinking (all together now: “Yeah, baby!”). We’re looking back on some of our favorite Mike Myers movies (as well as a couple we’re still trying to forget—hey, they can’t all be gems).

The best Mike Myers movies

We’ll keep it to the best of the best since, like we said, there are a lot of Mike Myers movies. Spoiler: the 90s were good to your boy, the aughts, not so much.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

The two sequels have their moments, but the first Austin Powers movie is a comedy classic that not even Myers himself could ever top. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery gave us the character’s perfectly ridiculous origin story (swingin’ ’60s spy is cryogenically frozen and then revived in the ’90s), the best Bond girl who was never actually a Bond girl (Elizabeth Hurley), and a kooky cadre of villains (including Dr. Evil, also Myers). Shagadelic!

Where to watch Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

It was a box office bomb when it was released, but So I Married an Axe Murderer has since become a cult comedy favorite. Myers plays Charlie, a San Francisco beat poet who inadvertently falls for a woman (Nancy Travis) who may or may not be a serial killer. Between Myers’s ludicrous coffeehouse poetry, Travis’s coolly subtle vibe, and Anthony LaPaglia’s hilarious Serpico obsession, So I Married an Axe Murderer is a scattershot flick that works.

Where to watch So I Married an Axe Murderer

Wayne’s World 2 (1993)

You thought it was going to be the original Wayne’s World movie? Surprise: Wayne’s World 2 takes Myers and costar Dana Carvey’s rock-dudes schtick to the excessive extreme with unlikely star cameos (including Christopher Walken, Charlton Heston, and Kim Basinger), a Fyre Festival-level mega-concert (“Waynestock”), and Aerosmith insisting on playing a lame new song instead of a classic hit (what, no “Walk This Way”?). We’re not worthy, indeed.

Where to watch Wayne’s World 2

The worst of Mike Myers movies

Again, the Shrek Cinematic Universe aside, the aughts were rough, and the 2010s were sparse for Mike Myers. But you be the judge of whether or not these Myers movies are so bad they’re good.

The Love Guru (2008)

Guru Pitka (Myers), the second-biggest guru in the world after Deepak Chopra (who also appears as himself) is hired to coach the Toronto Maple Leafs out of a slump and toward the Stanley Cup. Huh? Hinduism appropriation aside, The Love Guru was a commercial and critical failure that many a star soiled their name in (including Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Stephen Colbert, and even Kayne West). Somehow, Myers survived it.

Where to watch The Love Guru (2008)

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Since Myers gave Queen a ’90s career boost by featuring their song “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Wayne’s World, it was only fair to throw him a bit part in the band’s Bohemian Rhapsody biopic. Unfortunately, Myers’s performance as a record company suit is one of the only bright spots in this overblown, terribly acted (including inexplicable Oscar winner Rami Malek), and historically inaccurate trainwreck. Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t as awful as The Love Guru, but it’s shockingly close.

Where to watch Bohemian Rhapsody

View from the Top (2003)

With an all-star comedic cast featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Rob Lowe, and others in addition to Myers, you’d think that View from the Top stands a pretty good chance of being a bonafide yuck fest, but you’d be wrong. Myers’s costar Paltrow has called View from the Top “the worst movie ever,” a not-minor indictment from an actor whose filmography includes Shallow Hal and Iron Man 2. Ouch.

Where to watch View from the Top

Every Mike Myers movie in order

Over four decades, Mike Myers has acted in 24 feature films. From the obscure (anyone remember Pete’s Meteor?) to the mega hits (the first three Shrek movies), Myers has been a polarizing comedic figure. Still, enough time has passed that the world is probably ready for another Austin Powers film (if Beyoncé’s Foxxy Cleopatra returns and Fat Bastard kicks rocks).