Stars: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers, Robert Wagner, Elya Baskin, Seth Green, Clint Howard, Steve Monroe, Charles Napier, Fabiana Udenio, Brian George, Joe Son, Donna W. Scott, Paul Dillon, Will Ferrell, Charles Napier, Seth Green, Robin Gammell, Monet Mazur, Afifi Alaouie, Cheryl Bartel, Mark Bringleson, Patrick Bristow, Ted Kairys, Tyde Kierny, Cynthia Lamontagne, Cindy Margolis, Heather Jae Marie, Jim McMullan, Vince Melocchi, Barbara Ann Moore, Neil Mullarkey, Laura Payne-Gabriel, Joann Richter, Carlton Lee Russell, Anastasia Nicole Sakelaris, Sara Smith, Mindy Sterling, Lea Sullivan, Larry Thomas, Chekesha Van Putten, Kay Wade, Daniel Weaver, Carrie Fisher, Rob Lowe, Tom Arnold, Tom Arnold, Burt Bacharach

Director: Jay Roach

Summary: Austin Powers a 60s spy and his girlfriend Vanessa are back to save the world from a terrible villain.

The dastardly doings of Dr. Evil lead to his escape into outer space and the cryogenic freezing of superagent Austin Powers. Thirty years later Dr. Evil returns to earth to bring about terror and mass destruction but finds his ideas and methods a bit out of date. So too does our hero who upon being thawed out, finds he's a bit behind the times as well. Well meaning and bumbling efforts to thwart the insidious Dr. Evil keep Austin and his devastatingly beautiful partner Vanessa busy from London to Las Vegas. Freedom in the '90s, baby! A hilarious send up of James Bond spy films and 1960's schtick.

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If you don't think Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery(1997) is one of the funniest movies of the 1990s, maybe you should be packed into a cryogenic time chamber and sent back to the decade whence you came. Perhaps it was the 1960s - the shagadelic decade when London hipster Austin Powers scored with gorgeous chicks as a fashion photographer by day, crime-fighting international man of mystery by night. Yeah, baby, yeah! But when Powers's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, puts himself into a deepfreeze and travels via time machine to the late 1990s, Powers must follow him and foil Evil's nefarious scheme of global domination. Mike Myers plays dual roles as Powers and Dr. Evil, with Elizabeth Hurley as his present-day sidekick and karate-kicking paramour. A hilarious spoof of '60s spy movies, this colourful comedy actually gets funnier with successive viewings, making it a perfect home video for gloomy days and randy nights. Oh, behave!

"I put the grrr in swinger, baby!" a deliciously randy Powers coos near the beginning of The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999), and if the imagination of Austin creator Mike Myers seems to have sagged a bit, his energy surely hasn't. This friendly, go-for-broke sequel finds our man Austin heading back to the '60s to keep perennial nemesis Dr. Evil (Myers again) from blowing up the world - and, more importantly, to get back his mojo, that man-juice that turns Austin into irresistible catnip for women, especially American spygirl Felicity Shagwell (a pretty but vacant Heather Graham). The plot may be irreverent and illogical, the jokes may be bad, and the scenes may run on too long, but it's all delivered sunnily and with tongue firmly in cheek. Myers teams Dr. Evil with a diminutive clone, Mini-Me (Verne J. Troyer), then pulls a hat trick by playing a third character, the obese and disgusting Scottish assassin Fat Bastard.

Despite symptoms of sequelitis, Austin Powers in Goldmember(2002) is must-see lunacy for devoted fans of the shagadelic franchise. Unfortunately, the law of diminishing returns is in full effect: for every big-name cameo and raunchy double-entendre, there's an equal share of redundant shtick, juvenile scatology, and pop-cultural spoofery. All is forgiven when the hilarity level is consistently high, and Mike Myers -returning here as randy Brit spy Austin, his nemesis Dr. Evil, the bloated Scottish henchman Fat Bastard, and new Dutch disco-villain Goldmember - thrives by favouring comedic chaos over coherent plotting. Once they've tossed Austin into the disco fever of 1975 (where he's sent to rescue his father, gamely played by Michael Caine), Myers and director Jay Roach seem vaguely adrift with old and new characters, including Verne Troyer's Mini-Me and pop star Beyoncé Knowles as Pam Grier-ish blaxpo-babe Foxxy Cleopatra. A bit tired, perhaps, but Powers hasn't lost his mojo.

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Two Alternative Endings, Directors Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Cameo Menu, Original Theatrical Trailer, Cast Biographies, Filmographies, Interactive Moving Menus
Year:	1997
Release Date:	July 19, 2004
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P 8929 D V D
Keywords:	Man, Comedy, General, International, Mystery, Powers, Austin
Genre:	Comedy