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The Austin Powers series is a series of comedy films from 1997 to present that is written and produced by and stars Mike Myers as the title character, directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema. The films mainly spoof the James Bond, Derek Flint, Jason King and Matt Helm franchises, incorporate a myriad of other elements of popular culture and follow the British spy's attempts to bring the villain Doctor Evil to justice.
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Austin Powers (Mike Myers) may be a super-suave international man of mystery, but at heart he's just a neglected lad with unresolved issues. Austin's quest to win paternal respect is complicated by the fact that his father is Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), the most revered and sublimely shagadelic British spy of all time. read more
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Mike Myers himself has stated in interviews that the idea for Austin Powers came to him one night while driving home from hockey practice. Hearing the song The Look of Love by Burt Bacharach on his car radio, he wondered "Where have all the swingers gone?", and conceived the character who would become Austin Powers. The first phrase he thought the character might say was "Do I make you horny?" which later did indeed become a catch phrase for the character.
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The story in a nutshell: as Austin Powers is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for finally capturing Dr. Evil, his moment of triumph is shattered as his father, Nigel Powers (Michael Caine) is a no-show. Shortly thereafter, Austin finds out that his father has been kidnapped by the nefarious Dutch madman Goldmember (Mike Myers). He makes a quick trip back to 1975 and the New York disco Studio 69 in order to save Dad. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil is plotting to bring Goldmember into the present in order to use his cold fusion invention to crash a solid gold asteroid into the polar ice caps, thereby causing a world-wide flood, unless his demands for lots of money are met. In the past, Austin runs into Foxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé Knowles), a jilted ex-flame, fails to rescue his father and encounters the very, very demented Goldmember. Everyone wisely returns to the present and the plots and father and son stories play out from there.
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was the first of the very popular Austin Powers films. While, very profitable, the Austin Powers sequels would prove to be even more profitable as the film found a wider and wider audience through video distribution. The films are spoofs of James Bond and other spy films fused with numerous fish out of water elements. These clever pairings makes the films original and distinct. The brainchild of Mike Myers, the one without the ax, stars as the title character and ... wrote the screenplay. Without Myers there would simply not have been an Austin Powers franchise.
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From the same whacked out imagination responsible for Wayne's World, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is a frequently hilarious comedy that revels in outrageous color schemes in true '60s fashion. The movie is all Mike Myers. He plays Austin Powers as well as Austin's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, a double role in the tradition of comic greats Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness. In addition, Myers wrote and produced the movie. This means Austin Powers is an unrelenting silly movie that revels in its own goofiness.
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