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"If they do this, they should go into why Mike Myers had to do the movie in the first place.\n \nBack in 2000, Universal planned to make a movie based on the \"Sprockets\" sketch from \"Saturday Night Live,\" where David Hasselhoff would kidnap Dieter's monkey because he was annoyed that they were becoming more popular than him in Germany. One day, Myers came in and basically said that the script was terrible, and because he had such high standards for his audience*, he was shutting down the movie. Fun fact: The screenplay Myers was dissatisfied with was one he had written.\n \nUniversal then sued Myers for $3.8 million (the cost they had spent on pre-production). After a countersuit and months of wrangling, a deal was reached where Myers would have to star in another Universal movie. This is the one they did.\n \nSo if you watch this movie, as the jokes about dirty hoes and acronyms that spell out SHIT are thrown about in an ostensible kid's film, just remember that the movie exists mainly because Mike Myers thought another script he had written was apparently worse.\n \n* I'm still trying to figure out how having high standards for your audience would let you release a movie as puerile as \"Goldmember.\"\n"
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