Austin Powers

Series of action-comedy films written by Mike Myers, who also stars some roles in the three movies. The movies are directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema.

In the movies agent movies are parodised and several elements of modern culture are mixed. Mostly James Bond is parodised, many characters in Austin Powers based on these movies and novels.

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 elemnts of the 1960s and 1970s, the second and third movies, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), dealing with time travel.

A fourth movie is in the making.[1]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

It is the first movie of the Austin Powers film series, Mike Myers plays the title role and the role of the villain Dr. Evil It costs 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]

Plot

1967: The British spy Austin Powers wants to arrest thecriminal 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. He has several plans to threaten the world for more money, but every plan has happened while he was in space. So, he decides to go back to his usual plan, stealing nuclear weapons. His henchwoman Frau Farbissina revealed that she had used the semen of Dr. Evil to create a son, Scott Evil.

Austin is unfreezed when the British Ministry of Defense experiences 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 his attitude of free love from the 1960s is out. They pose as a marriad couple in a Las Vegas hotel, the meet No. 2's Italian secreatry, 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 infiltrates Dr. Evil's headquarters but are captured, Dr. Evil makes his requirements to the world, he says that after he receives the money he will proceed with his plans.

Austin and Vanessa can escape, Vanessa goes to get help and Austin destroys the fembots with a striptease because of that their heads explode. Vanessa returns with British forces and Austin can prevent Dr. Evil's plan. Vanessa is hold in a chamber by Dr. Evil, Number 2 appears and makes a deal with Austin. But Number 2 is killed by Dr. Evil, he can escape in his rocket and starts the self-desctoying system of the base. Vanessa and Austin can escape before the building explodes.

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 discover 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: Oddjob): Joe Son

Inspiration

Mike Myers said that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song "The Look of Love" in the radio, which was the theme song in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. In the movie 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 rock band Ming Tea. [3]

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

It is the second movie of the Austin Powers movie trilogy from 1999. The film is like the first one directed by Jay Roach and co-written by Mike Myers. The title is inspired by the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and is inspired by 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. [4]

Plot

Dr. Evil returns to earth, this is observed by the NATO. In his district in Seattle he is is presented with a little clone of himself, he calls him 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, this is a fluid in Autin's testicles that makes him so sexual.

Meanwhile Austin is still in his honeymoon with his wife Vanessa, but through an accident it is revealed that Vanessa is a fembot. When she wants to kill Austin she died, Austin is sad but after a short time he celebrates his new single life.

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 is 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 into 1969, he arrives at a party in London where the CIA agent Felicity Shagwell assists him. They are chased by Mustafa, he is a henchman from Dr. Evil and he tells them, that there is another lair in a volcano. He is not able to tell them where the lair is, because Mini-Me shoots him in the neck. At the Ministry of Defense Austin reveals that Fat Bastard has stolen his mojo.

Fat Bastard brings the mojo to Dr. Evil's lair, Dr. Evil's son arrives through the time machine and so Dr. Evil tells them his new plan, he wants to destroy Washington D.C and then he wants to destroy other important cities with a laser from the moon.

The Ministry of Defense wants to know where Fat Bastard is and so they want to implant a homing device into Fat Bastard. Felicity seduces him and so she can implant it into his buttocks. Through an accident it comes aotu that the volcano lair is on an Caribbean island.

Felicity and Austin are arrested when the arrive on the island, but Felicity can free them. At the same time Mini-Me and Dr. Evil want to install the laser on the moon. 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.

When Austin and Dr. Evil meet, Austin can choose if he want to save the world or Felicity. Felicity tells Austin to save the world, Austin can rescue the world but Felicity is killed. To rescue both, the world and Felicity, Austin travels back in time for 10 minutes after killing Dr. Evil. So Felicity is alive and the world is save, but also Dr. Evil is alive and he can escape in his rocket. The bottle with Austin's mojo smashes on the floor, but Felicity tells him that he has done all this things without his mojo.

They use the time machine to go into 1999, there Fat Bastard tries again to kill Austin. Felicity knocks him off with kicking him into the "Mommy and Daddy Button", after that Austin and Felicity have a party. Dr. Evil can save Mini-Me from space and he swears revenge on Austin.

At the end of the movie Austin returns to his flat, where Felicity have sex with another man. But he discovers that it was the past Austin, he says that he and Austin are the same person and so it is no cheating. He forgives her and he discovers that he has his mojo back, so the two Austins want to seduce Felicity.

Cast

Austin Powers: Mike Myers

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

Basil Exposition (Based on: M; Major Boothroyd/Q.): 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: Mike Myers

Mustafa: Will Ferrell

Censorship

With the release of the film title in the United Kingdom the title was controversial, because the word "shag" stand for sexual negotiations. So the film title was only called as "Austin Powers: 2" and the movie was not advertised during school hollidays.[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 this few changes the sexual content of the title was preserved in the language of the country.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Third movie from the Austin Powers film series. The film is directed by Jay Roach and co-written by Mike Myers, like in the first two movies he plays several roles in the movie.

As a parody of the Austin Powers trilogy there is a film in the film. The movie called Austinpussy (like the James Bond movie Octopussy) is 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 newest 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 Earth to destroy the polar caps and destroy the world.

After telling 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 dissapointed.

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 villainies 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. He pulls his pants off and reveals his golden genitals as a second key for 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 (Based - not only - on: James Bond): Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

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 (making fun of an ungraciously aging Sean Connery): Mike Myers

Goldmember (Based on: Auric Goldfinger): Mike Myers

References

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