Sometimes the comedy of The Pentaverate lives up to those ambitious visuals, often with structural or meta jokes, like the silly Irons intros, or a running gag that is, hands down, the finest comedy work of Maria Menounos’ career. ... The Pentaverate is more wistful than scatalogical when it comes to its satire, though.

It is a sweet, silly, charmingly harmless thing – and funny, if you like that sort of thing, or if you are scrabbling around for any succour you can find. You could do better; you could do worse.

The Pentaverate could have been good, but that would have required restraint and revision, neither of which are on display in a show that is simultaneously overindulgent and toothless.

This is a Myers show, and it offers all the comfort and eye-rolling fatigue you’d expect from that, regardless of what year it is. That’s the resilience of juvenile humor: It never ages.

Every time “The Pentaverate” feels like it's developing a rhythm, it goes on a tangent to fill space—typically one that shows off the fact that this show is allowed to be very R-rated on Netflix. It’s like a stand-up set that has some good material surrounded by 45 minutes of filler.

A tiresome compendium of half-formed characters, weak social commentary and so many groan-worthy penis and poop jokes that it’s difficult to believe the headliner was once Hollywood’s top funnyman. ... You’ve got a slog that, no matter its brief runtime, wildly overstays its welcome.

The Pentaverate is a cavalcade of toilet humour that deserves nothing more than to be flushed away. Groovy, baby. Not.

Austin Powers films are also rated in the 50's on Metacritic. You either love that type of humor or hate it. I happen to find it genius and critics apparently don't. Oh well, I guess they don't laugh as often.

Consistently hilarious! A much better satire of the greed and politics dooming the planet than Don't Look Up. Mike Myers is back in his element and doing comedy worthy of his '90s hits. Longtime fans will love this! It's missing a strong antagonist and urgent mission up-front, as well as a young, sexy hero, so I get why people don't like it. But people ****.

Silly with a few surprisingly funny gags and a couple poignant bits. Feels like they could have cut some stuff and make it a tighter and better 4 episode series but then, Myers never seems to want to always use every bit possible.

It's a bit all over the place in style and humour, and it's like Mike Myers threw a bunch of ideas at the wall to see what would stick, but that's not uncharacteristic. Suffice to say if you're really missing some Austin Powers style humour it's worth a watch.