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    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

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    It’s swinging 1967. The vicious though childish Dr Evil (Myers) – who has failed to kill his arch-enemy, British secret agent Austin Powers (also Myers) – resolves to escape by means of his cryogenic freezing capsule and come back later.

    austinpowers_032Powers bravely offers to be frozen too, ready to destroy Dr Evil when he returns.

    Fast forward to 1997. Dr Evil thaws out, steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world to ransom.

    Austin Powers, however, is ready for him – debonair, defiant and defrosted – together with his new assistant, Vanessa Kensington (Hurley), whose job is to re-acclimatise Powers to the no-fun Nineties.

    Dr Evil discovers that the Nineties are more about dysfunctional family therapy than world domination and escapes again in his cryogenic capsule.

    austinpowers_033Austin “Shagadelic Baby” Powers is not just a homage to 007. He is also the past-master of little-boy lavatory humour and a walking advertisement for appalling velvet fashion statements, matted hairy chests and Union Jack underpants.

    Austin Powers/Dr Evil
    Mike Myers
    Vanessa Kensington
    Elizabeth Hurley
    Basil Exposition
    Michael York
    Mrs Kensington
    Mimi Rogers
    Number Two
    Robert Wagner
    Scott Evil
    Seth Green
    Alotta Fagina
    Fabiana Udenio
    Frau Farbissina
    Mindy Sterling
    Patty O’Brien
    Paul Dillon
    Commander Gilmour
    Charles Napier
    Radar operator
    Clint Howard
    Quartermaster clerk
    Neil Mullarkey
    Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Director
    Jay Roach

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