Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery


Austin Powers International Man of Mystery is a 1997 American spy action comedy film and the first installment of the Austin Powers series. It was directed by Jay Roach and written by Mike Myers, who also starred as both the titular character Austin Powers and main antagonist Dr. Evil, Powers archenemy. The film costars Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Seth Green and Michael York. The film also includes appearances by Will Ferrell, Mimi Rogers, Carrie Fisher, Tom Arnold, Rob Lowe, Christian Slater, Cheri Oteri, Neil Mullarkey and Burt Bacharach.

In 1967, British spy Austin Powers Mike Myers attempts to assassinate his nemesis, Dr. Evil also Mike Myers, in his own nightclub the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. Dr. Evil escapes by launching himself in a space rocket disguised as a Big Boy statue and cryogenically freezing himself, to return at a time when free love no longer reigned and greed and corruption ruled again. Austin volunteers to be put into cryostasis to be revived when Dr. Evil returns.Thirty years later in 1997, Dr. Evil returns with new plans for world domination, and kills his henchman Mustafa Will Ferrell for making his Dr. Evil cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, go bald in the unfreezing process. The fire doesnt kill Mustafa, but he gets shot twice. Dr. Evil discovers his henchman NumberRobert Wagner has transformed Evils empire into Virtucon, a multibillion dollar enterprise. Though already wealthy, Dr. Evil proposes several plans to threaten the world for more money. However, he finds that each of them have already been done during his absence. He ultimately falls back on his old plan to steal nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage, and is advised to seek one hundred billion dollars revised upward, on the advice of his employees, from his 1960s notion that one million dollars constitutes a worlddominating sum. Later, he also discovers that henchwoman Frau Farbissina Mindy Sterling used a sample of Evils semen just a couple of years after his cryostasis to artificially create his son, Scott Evil Seth Green, now a Generation X young adult. Scott is resentful of his father, despite Dr. Evils attempts to get closer to him through therapy. ........

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