OMG: Austin is back from the dead

I’m not talking about the state’s capital city, although I have come to realize that if I wanted to return to the city I knew and loved in the 1960s, I would have to move to San Marcos.

No, the Austin I’m referring to here is Austin Powers. In news that positively excites some folks (although not I), Mike Meyers has agreed to star in the fourth installment of the series and the first since 2002.

I must admit I did like the first Austin Powers movie. However, the concept that made the first film work — a 1960s character thrust into the 1990s — was almost completely ignored in the second two films.

We’ll just have to wait and see if the script writers botch this one, too, or return to the format that made the first film a success.