Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

A 1960′s hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy into the 1990′s where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.

• Director:Jay Roach
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime
• Runtime:91 minutes

Cast

Mike Myers : Austin Powers / Dr. Evil
Elizabeth Hurley: Vanessa Kensington
Michael York : Basil Exposition
Mimi Rogers : Mrs. Kensington
Robert Wagner : Number Two

In 1967, British gentleman spy Austin Powers attempts to assassinate his nemesis, Dr. Evil, in his own nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes by launching himself in space rocket disguised as a Bob’s Big Boy statue, and cryogenically freezing himself. Powers 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, discovering his henchman Number 2 has continued Evil’s empire into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Though already wealthy, Dr. Evil proposes several plans to threaten the world for more money, but finds each of them have happened naturally during his absence; he ultimately falls back on his usual plan—”hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage”. When Dr. Evil suggests a ransom of $1 million, his henchmen point out the inflation in the last thirty years, and instead seeks one hundred billion dollars. Later, Dr. Evil also discovers that Frau Farbissina has used a sample of Evil’s semen to artificially create his son, Scott Evil, now a Generation X teenager. Scott is resentful of his father, despite Dr. Evil’s attempts to get closer to him.

Having learned of Dr. Evil’s return, the British Ministry of Defense unfreezes Powers, acclimating him to the year 1997 with the help of agent Vanessa Kensington, the daughter of his sidekick in the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington. Powers quickly finds his free love credo of the 1960′s to be out of touch with the 1990′s, and is unable to turn Vanessa onto his charms. The two pose as a married couple in a Las Vegas hotel. Powers meets Number Two’s “Italian confidential private secretary”, Alotta Fagina, and breaks into her penthouse suite. There, he discovers plans for Dr. Evil’s “Project Vulcan”, which aims to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth’s molten core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide. Dr. Evil, learning that Powers is back and on his trail, creates a series of fembots that will lure Powers to lower his defenses with their charm before killing him.

Discovering that Virtucon offers tourist tours of its facilities, Powers and Kensington infiltrate Dr. Evil’s headquarters but are captured by his henchmen, Random Task. After Dr. Evil makes his demands to the world, and revealing that even after receiving the money, he will still proceed with Project Vulcan, he places Powers and Kensington in a death trap that they easily escape from. Powers instructs Kensington to go for help, while he struggles to escape from the fembots, eventually able to overcome their lure and defeating them. As Kensington leads a raid of the lair with British forces, Powers finds the doomsday device and deactivates it at the last moment. Kensington is captured by Dr. Evil and Fagina, holding her hostage when Powers arrives. As they standoff, Number Two appears, and offers to make a deal with Powers after having his success in convention business in Virtucon disrupted by Dr. Evil. Dr. Evil apparently kills Number Two and makes his escape back to his space rocket, setting off the base’s self-destruct system. Powers and Kensington escape in time in Powers’ “shaguar” as the lair is destroyed in a nuclear explosion. Read more

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