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Series of action-comedy films written by Mike Myers, who also stars as the title character and several of the villains.
Series of action-comedy films written by and starring Mike Myers, directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema.
The movies are directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema.


The movies parody James Bond, Derek Flint, Jason King, and Matt Helm films, characters, and video games. The parody incorporates a myriad of other elements of popular culture and follows the British spy's heroic quest to bring the villain Doctor Evil to justice.
The Austin Powers series parodies agents following the [[James Bond]] formula. In the first film, ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' (1997), Austin and Dr Evil are awakened in 1997 after being frozen since 1967. To involve elements of the 1960s and 1970s, the second and third movies, ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999) and ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002), also use time travel.  
 
In the first film, ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' (1997), Austin and Dr. Evil are awakened after being frozen for 30 years. Continuing to cultural elements of the 1960s and 1970s, the second and third films, ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999) and ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002), involve time travel as a plot device and deliberately overlook inconsistencies. A fourth movie is in the making.




== Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ==
== Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ==


Mike Myers plays Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, the film co-stars Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, and Michael York. The film costs US$16.5 million and opened on May 2, 1997.
Mike Myers plays the title role and the role of the villain Dr Evil. It cost US$16.5 million and opened on May 2 1997.
It made an impact at the box office, grossing US$53 million from its North American release and about US$68 million worldwide. [sources??]
The movie earned US$53 million at the cinema in North American and about US$68 million worldwide. [2]
 
 
=== Plot ===


In 1967 the British agent Austin Powers wants to arrest his enemy Dr. Evil, in his own nightclub, the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. Dr. Evil can escape, by launching himself in a space rocket hidden in a Bob's Big Boy Statue.
1967: The British spy Austin Powers wants to arrest the criminal Dr Evil, in his own nightclub, the "Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club".  
Austin Powers volunteers to be frozen until Dr. Evil returns.
Dr. Evil is able to escape, he launches himself in a space rocket hidden in a Bob's Big Boy Statue.
Austin Powers volunteers to be frozen until Dr Evil returns.


Thirty years later in 1997 Dr. Evil returns to dominate the world.
1997: Dr. Evil returns, he wants to dominate the world and develops several cunning plans. His henchwoman Frau Farbissina reveals that she had used the semen of Dr Evil to create a son, Scott Evil.
Dr. Evil has several plans to threaten the world for more money, but every plan has already happened during his absence. He falls back on his usual plan, stealing nuclear weapons.
He finds out that his henchwoman Frau Farbissina has used his semen to create a son, Scott Evil, a teenager.
Scott is angry with his father, despite Dr. Evil's attempts to get closer to him through therapy.  


Having experienced that Dr. Evil is back, the British Ministry of Defence unfreezes Powers, to acclimatise him to the year 1997 he gets the help of agent Vanessa Kensington, the daughter of his sidekick in the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington.  
Austin is unfrozen when the British Ministry of Defense realises that Dr Evil is back.
He gets the help of agent Vanessa Kensington, to acclimatise him in the new culture. Vanessa is the daughter of his sidekick in the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington.  


Powers finds out, that his 1960s credo of free love is out of touch with the 1990s, he is unable to turn Vanessa onto his charms.
Austin wants to have sex with Vanessa, but free love and machismo are out.  
Later, the two pose as a married couple in a Las Vegas hotel and meet No. 2's Italian secretary, Alotta Fagina. Powers later breaks into her penthouse suite and discover plans for Dr. Evil's Project Vulcan, which aims to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth's molten core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide.  
They pose as a married couple in a Las Vegas hotel, the meet of No. 2's Italian secretary, [[Alotta Fagina]]. Austin breaks into her suite and discovers Dr Evil's Project Vulcan, where he wants to trigger volcanic eruptions.


Dr. Evil creates a series of seductive female robots (Fembots) to lure Powers with their charm before killing him. Austin apologizes to Vanessa for the affair with Alotta, he wants to be only with her. The couple infiltrates Dr. Evil's headquarters but are captured by his henchman.
Dr. Evil creates seductive female robots (called Fembots) to seduce and kill Austin.
Dr. Evil makes his requirements to the world, he says that after he receives the money he will proceed with Project Vulcan.  
Vanessa and Austin infiltrate Dr Evil's headquarters but are captured, Dr Evil makes his demands to the world. But, in the end is beaten by Powers and Kensington.  


Austin and Vanessa are placed in a death trap, but they can easily escape. Vanessa goes to get help and Austin destroys the fembots, he performes a striptease to arouse them, their heads explode.
Austin and Vanessa marry, but in their honeymoon they are attacked by Random Task.  
Vanessa returns with British forces.
Austin fights with the assassin and he and Vanessa can return to their balcony to have wild sex.  
Powers finds the doomsday gadget, in the last moment he deactivates it.
They see a bright star and Austin discovers that it is Dr. Evil in his rocket vowing revenge.
After that he finds Dr. Evil in a chamber with Alotta Fagina who is holding Vanessa hostage,
Dr. Evil's henchman Number 2 appears and betrays Dr. Evil by making a deal with Powers.
Dr. Evil kills Number 2 and wants to escape to his rocket setting off the base's self-destruct system. Vanessa and Powers can escape before the building explodes.


Powers and Vanessa marry, but during their honeymoon they are attacked by Random Task.
Powers defeats the assassin and the couple returns to their balcony to have wild sex.
Noticing a rather bright star, Powers pulls out a telescope to discover that it is in fact Dr. Evil's chamber in which he vows revenge.


=== Cast ===
=== Cast ===
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Austin Powers: Mike Myers
Austin Powers (Based - not only - on: James Bond): Mike Myers


Dr. Evil (Based on: Ernst Stavro Blofeld;  Dr. Julius No): Mike Myers
Dr. Evil (Based on: Ernst Stavro Blofeld;  Dr. Julius No): Mike Myers
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Mustafa: Will Ferrell
Mustafa: Will Ferrell


Random Task (Based on: Oddjob): Joe Son
Random Task (Based on: henchman Oddjob from ''Goldfinger''): Joe Son
 
=== Inspiration ===
 
Mike Myers said that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song "The Look of Love" on the radio, which was the theme song in the 1967 version of ''Casino Royale''.
In the movie there are several elements from early James Bond movies included and used for inspiration.
The hairstyle of Austin Powers looks like the hairstyle of Sean Connery
in the movie ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine''.
The setting of the movie is inspired by the 1960s tribute band Ming Tea. [3]
 
== Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ==
 
The title is inspired by the 1977 James Bond film ''The Spy Who Loved Me''.
The movie grossed US$310 million in worldwide sales, it was nominated at the Oscars for best Makeup. [4]
 
 
Dr. Evil returns to earth, this is observed by the NATO.
In his headquarters he is is presented with a little clone of himself: Mini-Me.
His henchman Number 2 survived the fight at the end of the first movie and he shows Dr Evil the profits they have made with a new company called "Starbucks".
Dr Evil is not very impressed and tells that he has a new plan, he has now a time machine.
With the time machine he wants to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin's mojo.
 
Meanwhile Austin is still on his honeymoon with his wife Vanessa, but it is revealed that Vanessa is a fembot.
When she wants to kill Austin she dies, Austin is single again.
 
Dr Evil and Mini-Me go back to 1969 and meet a Scottish guy called Fat Bastard he should steal the mojo from Austin's frozen body at the Ministry of Defence.
 
Austin finds out that his mojo has been stolen when he wants to have sex with one of Dr. Evil's agents.
With the help of the Ministry of Defense Austin goes also back to 1969,
he arrives at a party in London where the CIA agent Felicity Shagwell assists him. Mayhem, confusion, chaos.
 
Meanwhile at Dr Evil's lair: Fat Bastard has brought the stolen mojo. Scott Evil arrives. Dr Evil has a new cunning plan: he wants to destroy Washington D.C. and then he wants to destroy other important cities with a laser from the moon.
 
Felicity and Austin find Dr No's lair on a Caribbean island. At the same time Mini-Me and Dr Evil want to install the laser on the moon.
Austin and Felicity follow them because they hitch a ride on Apollo 11.
 
Showdown in outer space. Austin can rescue the world but Felicity is killed.
To rescue both Austin travels back in time for 10 minutes after killing of Dr. Evil.
So Felicity is alive and the world is saved, but Dr. Evil can escape in his rocket. The bottle with Austin's mojo smashes on the floor, but Felicity tells him that he has done all these things without his mojo.
 
 
=== Cast ===
 
Austin Powers: Mike Myers
 
Dr Evil: Mike Myers
 
Basil Exposition (Based on: Aristotle's ''Poetics''): Michael York


==== Inspiration ====
Vanessa Kensington: Elizabeth Hurley


Mike Myers said that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song "The Look of Love" on the radio, which was the theme song of Ursula Andress' character, Vesper Lynd, in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. Not only Casino Royale, but elements from all the early James Bond movies are used for inspiration including:
Felicity Shagwell: Heather Graham


Dr. No
Frau Farbissina (Based on: Rosa Klebb; Irma Bunt): Mindy Sterling
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
Casino Royale
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever


Mike Myers said that the hairstyle of Austin Powers is inspired by Sean Connery's,
Mini-Me: Verne Troyer
further the character and the movie is inspired by the movie "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine"
and the TV series "Adam Adamant Lives!"
The setting is inspired by the 1960s rock band Ming Tea, much of the film was improvised.


== Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ==
Number 2 (Based on: Emilio Largo): Robert Wagner
 
Scott Evil: Seth Green
 
Fat Bastard (based on the aging Sean Connery): Mike Myers
 
Mustafa: Will Ferrell
 
=== Problems ===
 
The title was controversial, because the word ''shag'' means ''to have sexual intercourse''. So the title was changed to ''Austin Powers: 2'' and the movie was not advertised during school holidays.[5]
 
In Singapore the title has been changed into ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shioked Me'' (Shioked = treated nicely) [6]. In China the movie was called ''The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot''. Other countries only changed the title to show also a sexual reference, so the Norwegian title was ''Spionen som spermet meg'' that means ''The Spy Who Ejaculated on Me'', in Germany the title was ''Spion in geheimer Missionarsstellung'', with these changes the sexual content of the title was preserved in the language of the country.
 
== Austin Powers in Goldmember ==


Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second movie of the Austin Powers movie trilogy from 1999. The film is also directed by Jay Roach and co-written by Mike Myers.
As a parody of the Austin Powers trilogy there is a film in the film. The movie is called ''Austinpussy'' (parodying the James Bond movie ''Octopussy'') supposedly directed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise plays Austin.
Like in the first movie Myers plays the main character Austin Powers, Dr. Evil and Fat Bastard.
The title is inspired by the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" and contains plot elements from other James Bond movies.


The movie grossed US$310 million in worldwide sales, it was nominated at the Oscars for best Makeup.
The movie took US$296.6 million from ticket sale worldwide. [6]


=== Plot ===
=== Plot ===


The NATO observes the return of Dr. Evil and informs British intelligence.
2002: Dr. Evil has a new lair behind the Hollywood sign, he publishes his latest plan to his followers.
In Dr. Evil's Seattle headquarter he is presented with a little clone of himself, he calls him
He wants to travel back in time to 1975 to bring back Johan van der Smut, also called "Goldmember".
Mini-Me.  
Goldmember developed a cold fusion unit for a tractor beam, the project is called Preparation H by Dr Evil.
His henchman Number 2 survived the end of the first movie shows him the profits they have made with a new company called "Starbucks".
With the tractor beam Dr Evil wants to pull a meteor into the orbit to destroy the polar caps and destroy the world.
But Dr. Evil is unimpressed and he has a new plan, he has developed a "time machine".
So he wants to go back to the sixties and steal Austin Powers’ mojo, a fluid inside his testicles which is the source of Austin's incredible sexual prowess and appeal.


Back in 1999 Austin Powers is still enjoying his honeymoon with his wife Vanessa Kensington,
After disclosing his plan Dr Evil is attacked and arrested by Austin Powers and the British Secret Service.
by a random it turns out that Vanessa is one of Dr. Evil's fembots.
Austin is knighted for his services, but when his father the famous spy Nigel Powers (played by Michael Caine, who used to star in the ''Harry-Palmer'' series) does not turn up at the event, he is disappointed.
She wants to kill Austin after being malfunctioned by Austin's T.V. remote, but eventually self-destructs. A ahort time he is sad, but than he goes to the lobby naked and celebrates his new single life.


Meanwhile Dr. Evil and Mini-Me go back to 1969 and meet a younger Number 2 and Frau Farbissina,
The Oedipal drama continues when Austin finds out that his father has been kidnapped by Goldmember. So Austin travels back to 1975 and infiltrates Goldmember's roller disco club "Studio 69". Great to-ing and fro-ing in time and space ensue.  
an irish guy called Fat Bastard (Mike Myers) should extract the mojo from Austin frozen body at the Ministry of Defence Cryo Chamber.


Austin is warned that one of Dr. Evil's agents his after him, during a photo shoot the sexy Ivana Humpalot seduces him, but she confesses to her orders and that he is too sexy for her to go through with killing him. They want to have sex in his bed, but he then discovers that he has lost his mojo and is now impotent.
Meanwhile in 2002: Dr. Evil and Mini-Me can escape out of prison.


The Ministry of Defense find out that Dr. Evil has a time machine, so they send Austin back to 1969 in his own time machine, a Volkswagen New Beetle painted with 1960 colours.
The plot thickens, but lacks some Oriental flavours. Hence, Austin, Foxxy and half the world's villains meet again in Tokyo, where - after further to-ing and fro-ing - everyone faces the final showdown.  
Austin arrives at a party in London the CIA agent Felicity Shagwell assists him,
Austin wants to shoot Dr Evil, but Nigel Exposition appears and reveals that Dr Evil and Austin are brothers. They were separated when they were toddlers, because their mother was killed, so Dr Evil was found and raised by Belgians.
they can escape Dr. Evil's assassins. But they are chased by Mustafa, another Dr. Evil henchman, he reveals that there is another secret volcano lair. Mustafa cant tell where the lair is, because
Austin and Dr Evil embrace, but Goldmember tries to start the tractor beam.  
Mini-Me shoots him in the neck.
After that Mustafa falls off a cliff, but he is still alive. Mustafa asks Austin for help, he ignores him. At the headquarter of the Ministry of Defense Austin finds out, that Fat Bastard has stolen his mojo.


In Dr. Evil's secret lair Fat Bastard arrives with the stolen mojo, Dr. Evil drinks it and needs then some private time with Frau Farbissina. After a little time Frau Farbissina reveals that she maybe is pregnant, meanwhile Scott Dr. Evil's son arrives through the time machine.
Now they know that they're brothers Austin and Dr Evil work together, they reverse the polarity of the tractor beam and destroy the meteor and save the world.
Dr. Evil explain his new plan, he wants to destroy Wahington D.C and he wants to destroy other main cities every hour with a laser on the moon.
The brothers can arrest Goldmember, he turns to the camera and - lo and behold! - it's John Travolta! In a final post-modern frame break we are back to the action movie ''Austinpussy'', directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise as Austin, Kevin Spacey as Dr Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me and John Travolta as Goldmember.


In London Felicity want to have sex with Austin, but he fends her off because of his lost mojo.
=== Cast ===
The Ministry of Defense wants to implant a homing device into Fat Bastard, Felicity seduces him
and he allows her to put it in his buttocks.
He forces it out of his bowels into a public toilet, a stool sample reveals traces of a rare vegetable that only grows on one carribean island.


Felicity and Austin arrive on the island, but they get arrested immediately.
Austin Powers: Mike Myers
Felicity shows her breasts to the guard of there cell and so they come free, at this time Dr. Evil and Mini-Me leave off to the moon to install the laser.
Austin and Felicity can follow them because they hitch a ride on Apollo 11, in the moon base Austin battles with Mini-Me, at the end of the fight Austin flushes Mini-Me into space.


Dr. Evil gives Austin a chance when the met, he can choose Felicity or the world.
Dr. Evil: Mike Myers
Felicity is locked into a chamber with gas, she tells Austin to save the world.
Austin can rescue the world by beating Frau Farbissina, but Felicity is killed in the chamber.
He chases Dr. Evil and kill him, but before this Dr. Evil tells him that he could use the time machine to rescue Felicity. Austin travels back in time for 10 minutes, he can save the world and felicity, but also Dr. Evil is alive again.
Dr. Evil destroys the moon base and escapes in his rocket, after throwing the bottle with Austin's mojo in the air. The bottle crashes on the floor, Austin is depressed but Felicity shows Austin that all the things he has done show that he never lost his mojo.
They can escape through the time portal back to 1999.


Back in London, Fat Bastard makes another attemp to kill Austin, Felicity fends him off by asking him if he is happy, after a little emotional moment Felicity kicks him into the "Mommy and Daddy Button".
Fat Bastard: Mike Myers
After that Austin and Felicity have a party with many other people.
Dr. Evil recovers Mini-Me from space, he vows that he will get Austin.


Later, Scott is in the Jerry Springer Show, there he learns that he was not created in a tubeand is actually the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina.
Goldmember (Based on: Auric Goldfinger): Mike Myers


At the end of the movie Austin returns to is flat, there Felicity have sex with another man.
Basil Exposition: Michael York
But he discovers that it was the past Austin, he claims that he and Austin are the same person ans so it is no cheating. He forgives her and he discovers that he has his mojo back, so the two Austins make their move on Felicity.


Foxxy Cleopatra (Based on: Rosie Carver and all the great disco queens of the 1970s): Beyonce Knowles


==== Cast ====
Nigel Powers (based on his starring roles as Harry Palmer and Charlie Croker from ''The Italian Job''): Michael Caine


Austin Powers (Based on: James Bond)                                              - Mike Myers
Frau Farbissina: Mindy Sterling


Dr. Evil (Based on: Ernst Stavro Blofeld; Dr. Julius No)                          - Mike Myers
Mini-Me: Verne Troyer


Basil Exposition (Based on: M; Major Boothroyd/Q.)                                - Michael York
Number 2: Robert Wagner


Vanessa Kensington (Based on: Tracy Bond; Holly Goodhead; Sylvia Trench)          - Elizabeth Hurley
Scott Evil: Seth Green


Felicity Shagwell (Based on: Tiffany Case)                                        - Heather Graham


Frau Farbissina (Based on: Rosa Klebb; Irma Bunt)                                  - Mindy Sterling
== References ==


Mini-Me  (Based on: Nick Nack & Surgical Alteration Procedures to Blofeld)        - Verne Troyer
L. Gouls, ''Shagadelically Speaking: The Words and World of Austin Powers'', New York 1999


Number 2 (Based on: Emilio Largo)                                                  - Robert Wagner
M. Myers, ''Austin Powers: How to be an International Man of Mystery'', New York 1999


Scott Evil (Based on: James Suzuki (novels))                                      - Seth Green
''Austin Powers: Internation Man of Mystery'' at the IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/]


Fat Bastard                                                                        - Mike Myers
''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' at the IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145660/]


Mustafa (Based on: Gobina)                                                        - Will Ferrell
''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' at the IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295178/]


===== Censorship =====


When the film was released in the United Kingdom the title proved controversial, because the word "shag" is used fpr sexual intercourse.


The TV gave only parts of the title (Austin Powers: The Spy Who-) before cutting off the spot with a range of scenes from the movie.
Spots aired later gave the whole title, there also had been two different posters one showed the full title and the other one showed only the title "Austin Powers 2".


In Singapore the title was changed into Austin Powers: "The Spy Who Shioked Me" (Shioked = treated nicely), in Finland the movie was called "The Spy who bumped me", in China the movie was called "The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot".
=== Link References: ===


Not every country changed the title into a less raunchy title. The Norwegian title was "Spionen som spermet meg" that means "The Spy Who Ejaculated on Me", in Germany the title was "Spion in geheimer Missionarsstellung".


== Austin Powers in Goldmember ==
[1] Link: [http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/exclusive-mike-myers-is-signed-sealed-delivered-and-austin-powers-4-is-coming]
seen on: 16. 06. 2012


Austin Powers in Goldmember is the third movie from the Austin Powers film series, it is a 202 spy comedy film.
[2] Link: [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=austinpowers.htm]
The film is directed by Jay Roach and co-written by  Mike Myers, he also plays the title role.
seen on: 15. 06. 2012


As a self parody of the movies there is a film in the film. Austin is featured in a movie called "Austinpussy" (a parody of the James Bond movie "Octopussy")directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as Austin.
[3] Link: [http://www.digitalhit.com/cr/mikemyers/]
seen on: 16. 06. 2012
[4] Link: [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=austinpowers2.htm]
seen on: 15. 06. 2012


The movie took US$296.6 million from ticket sale worldwide.
[7] Link: [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Austin+Powers%3A+The+spy+who+censored+me.-a060418400]
seen on: 15. 06. 2012
[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cinema+uses+power+to+censor+film+title.-a060234927]
seen on 16. 06. 2012


=== Plot ===
[6] Link: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=110&dat=19990621&id=B9ILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0FUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4610,8768698]
seen on: 16. 06. 2012


In 2002 Dr. Evil has a new lair behind the Hollywood sign, he tells his newest plan
[7] Link: [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=austinpowers3.htm]
seen on: 15. 06. 2012

Latest revision as of 17:46, 15 December 2021

Series of action-comedy films written by and starring Mike Myers, directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema.

The Austin Powers series parodies agents following the James Bond formula. In the first film, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin and Dr Evil are awakened in 1997 after being frozen since 1967. To involve elements of the 1960s and 1970s, the second and third movies, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), also use time travel.


Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Mike Myers plays the title role and the role of the villain Dr Evil. It cost US$16.5 million and opened on May 2 1997. The movie earned US$53 million at the cinema in North American and about US$68 million worldwide. [2]

1967: The British spy Austin Powers wants to arrest the criminal Dr Evil, in his own nightclub, the "Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club". Dr. Evil is able to escape, he launches himself in a space rocket hidden in a Bob's Big Boy Statue. Austin Powers volunteers to be frozen until Dr Evil returns.

1997: Dr. Evil returns, he wants to dominate the world and develops several cunning plans. His henchwoman Frau Farbissina reveals that she had used the semen of Dr Evil to create a son, Scott Evil.

Austin is unfrozen when the British Ministry of Defense realises that Dr Evil is back. He gets the help of agent Vanessa Kensington, to acclimatise him in the new culture. Vanessa is the daughter of his sidekick in the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington.

Austin wants to have sex with Vanessa, but free love and machismo are out. They pose as a married couple in a Las Vegas hotel, the meet of No. 2's Italian secretary, Alotta Fagina. Austin breaks into her suite and discovers Dr Evil's Project Vulcan, where he wants to trigger volcanic eruptions.

Dr. Evil creates seductive female robots (called Fembots) to seduce and kill Austin. Vanessa and Austin infiltrate Dr Evil's headquarters but are captured, Dr Evil makes his demands to the world. But, in the end is beaten by Powers and Kensington.

Austin and Vanessa marry, but in their honeymoon they are attacked by Random Task. Austin fights with the assassin and he and Vanessa can return to their balcony to have wild sex. They see a bright star and Austin discovers that it is Dr. Evil in his rocket vowing revenge.


Cast

Austin Powers (Based - not only - on: James Bond): Mike Myers

Dr. Evil (Based on: Ernst Stavro Blofeld; Dr. Julius No): Mike Myers

Vanessa Kensington (Based on: Tracy Bond; Holly Goodhead; Sylvia Trench): Elizabeth Hurley

Basil Exposition (Based on: M; Major Boothroyd): Michael York

Marie Kensington (Based on: Emma Peel from the Avengers): Mimi Rogers

Commander Gilmour: Charles Napier

General Borschevsky (Based on: General Gogol): Elya Baskin

Frau Farbissina ((Based on: Rosa Klebb; Irma Bunt): Mindy Sterling

Number 2 (Based on: Emilio Largo): Robert Wagner

Scott Evil: Seth Green

Alotta Fagina (Based on: Pussy Galore; Fiona Volpe and every evil Bond girl): Fabiana Udenio

Mustafa: Will Ferrell

Random Task (Based on: henchman Oddjob from Goldfinger): Joe Son

Inspiration

Mike Myers said that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song "The Look of Love" on the radio, which was the theme song in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. In the movie there are several elements from early James Bond movies included and used for inspiration. The hairstyle of Austin Powers looks like the hairstyle of Sean Connery in the movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. The setting of the movie is inspired by the 1960s tribute band Ming Tea. [3]

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The title is inspired by the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The movie grossed US$310 million in worldwide sales, it was nominated at the Oscars for best Makeup. [4]


Dr. Evil returns to earth, this is observed by the NATO. In his headquarters he is is presented with a little clone of himself: Mini-Me.

His henchman Number 2 survived the fight at the end of the first movie and he shows Dr Evil the profits they have made with a new company called "Starbucks". Dr Evil is not very impressed and tells that he has a new plan, he has now a time machine. With the time machine he wants to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin's mojo.

Meanwhile Austin is still on his honeymoon with his wife Vanessa, but it is revealed that Vanessa is a fembot. When she wants to kill Austin she dies, Austin is single again.

Dr Evil and Mini-Me go back to 1969 and meet a Scottish guy called Fat Bastard he should steal the mojo from Austin's frozen body at the Ministry of Defence.

Austin finds out that his mojo has been stolen when he wants to have sex with one of Dr. Evil's agents. With the help of the Ministry of Defense Austin goes also back to 1969, he arrives at a party in London where the CIA agent Felicity Shagwell assists him. Mayhem, confusion, chaos.

Meanwhile at Dr Evil's lair: Fat Bastard has brought the stolen mojo. Scott Evil arrives. Dr Evil has a new cunning plan: he wants to destroy Washington D.C. and then he wants to destroy other important cities with a laser from the moon.

Felicity and Austin find Dr No's lair on a Caribbean island. At the same time Mini-Me and Dr Evil want to install the laser on the moon. Austin and Felicity follow them because they hitch a ride on Apollo 11.

Showdown in outer space. Austin can rescue the world but Felicity is killed. To rescue both Austin travels back in time for 10 minutes after killing of Dr. Evil. So Felicity is alive and the world is saved, but Dr. Evil can escape in his rocket. The bottle with Austin's mojo smashes on the floor, but Felicity tells him that he has done all these things without his mojo.


Cast

Austin Powers: Mike Myers

Dr Evil: Mike Myers

Basil Exposition (Based on: Aristotle's Poetics): Michael York

Vanessa Kensington: Elizabeth Hurley

Felicity Shagwell: Heather Graham

Frau Farbissina (Based on: Rosa Klebb; Irma Bunt): Mindy Sterling

Mini-Me: Verne Troyer

Number 2 (Based on: Emilio Largo): Robert Wagner

Scott Evil: Seth Green

Fat Bastard (based on the aging Sean Connery): Mike Myers

Mustafa: Will Ferrell

Problems

The title was controversial, because the word shag means to have sexual intercourse. So the title was changed to Austin Powers: 2 and the movie was not advertised during school holidays.[5]

In Singapore the title has been changed into Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shioked Me (Shioked = treated nicely) [6]. In China the movie was called The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot. Other countries only changed the title to show also a sexual reference, so the Norwegian title was Spionen som spermet meg that means The Spy Who Ejaculated on Me, in Germany the title was Spion in geheimer Missionarsstellung, with these changes the sexual content of the title was preserved in the language of the country.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

As a parody of the Austin Powers trilogy there is a film in the film. The movie is called Austinpussy (parodying the James Bond movie Octopussy) supposedly directed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise plays Austin.

The movie took US$296.6 million from ticket sale worldwide. [6]

Plot

2002: Dr. Evil has a new lair behind the Hollywood sign, he publishes his latest plan to his followers. He wants to travel back in time to 1975 to bring back Johan van der Smut, also called "Goldmember". Goldmember developed a cold fusion unit for a tractor beam, the project is called Preparation H by Dr Evil. With the tractor beam Dr Evil wants to pull a meteor into the orbit to destroy the polar caps and destroy the world.

After disclosing his plan Dr Evil is attacked and arrested by Austin Powers and the British Secret Service. Austin is knighted for his services, but when his father the famous spy Nigel Powers (played by Michael Caine, who used to star in the Harry-Palmer series) does not turn up at the event, he is disappointed.

The Oedipal drama continues when Austin finds out that his father has been kidnapped by Goldmember. So Austin travels back to 1975 and infiltrates Goldmember's roller disco club "Studio 69". Great to-ing and fro-ing in time and space ensue.

Meanwhile in 2002: Dr. Evil and Mini-Me can escape out of prison.

The plot thickens, but lacks some Oriental flavours. Hence, Austin, Foxxy and half the world's villains meet again in Tokyo, where - after further to-ing and fro-ing - everyone faces the final showdown. Austin wants to shoot Dr Evil, but Nigel Exposition appears and reveals that Dr Evil and Austin are brothers. They were separated when they were toddlers, because their mother was killed, so Dr Evil was found and raised by Belgians. Austin and Dr Evil embrace, but Goldmember tries to start the tractor beam.

Now they know that they're brothers Austin and Dr Evil work together, they reverse the polarity of the tractor beam and destroy the meteor and save the world. The brothers can arrest Goldmember, he turns to the camera and - lo and behold! - it's John Travolta! In a final post-modern frame break we are back to the action movie Austinpussy, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise as Austin, Kevin Spacey as Dr Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me and John Travolta as Goldmember.

Cast

Austin Powers: Mike Myers

Dr. Evil: Mike Myers

Fat Bastard: Mike Myers

Goldmember (Based on: Auric Goldfinger): Mike Myers

Basil Exposition: Michael York

Foxxy Cleopatra (Based on: Rosie Carver and all the great disco queens of the 1970s): Beyonce Knowles

Nigel Powers (based on his starring roles as Harry Palmer and Charlie Croker from The Italian Job): Michael Caine

Frau Farbissina: Mindy Sterling

Mini-Me: Verne Troyer

Number 2: Robert Wagner

Scott Evil: Seth Green


References

L. Gouls, Shagadelically Speaking: The Words and World of Austin Powers, New York 1999

M. Myers, Austin Powers: How to be an International Man of Mystery, New York 1999

Austin Powers: Internation Man of Mystery at the IMDb: [1]

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me at the IMDb: [2]

Austin Powers in Goldmember at the IMDb: [3]



Link References:

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[7] Link: [11] seen on: 15. 06. 2012

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