Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Jay Roach

Writers (WGA):

Mike Myers (written by) &
Michael McCullers (written by) ...

Release Date:

11 June 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

First, he fought for the Crown. Now he's fighting for the Family Jewels.

Plot:

Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 60's and steal Austin Powers's mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

Plot Keywords:

Moon | Time Machine | Clone | Laser | Gun

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 16 wins & 26 nominations

Cast

Mike Myers	...	Austin Powers / Dr. Evil / Fat Bastard
Heather Graham	...	Felicity Shagwell
Michael York	...	Basil Exposition
Robert Wagner	...	Number Two
Rob Lowe	...	Young Number Two
Seth Green	...	Scott Evil
Mindy Sterling	...	Frau Farbissina
Verne Troyer	...	Mini-Me (as Verne J. Troyer)
Elizabeth Hurley	...	Vanessa
Gia Carides	...	Robin Swallows
Oliver Muirhead	...	British Colonel
George Cheung	...	Chinese Teacher (as George Kee Cheung)
Jeffrey Meng	...	Chinese Student
Muse Watson	...	Klansman
Scott Cooper	...	Klansman's Son - Bobby

Also Known As:

Austin Powers 2 (USA) (working title)
Austin Powers 2: It's Shagging Time (USA) (working title)
Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (USA) (video title)
It's Shagging Time (USA) (working title)
The Return of Dr. Evil (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual innuendo and crude humor.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX | SDDS | DTS-ES

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:12 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Netherlands:6 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Malaysia:(Banned) | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (NO. 36759) | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

After completing the initial filming, the rocket/"Johnson" scenes did so well with test audiences that they went back and filmed more of such scenes.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Felicity is looking at clothes in the street and Austin parks the car, the car moves in reference to the pedestrian walkway from scene to scene.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, was frozen in 1967 and defrosted in the Nineties to battle his nemesis, Dr. Evil. After foiling his archenemy's plan to send a nuclear warhead to the center of the earth, Austin banished Dr. Evil to the cold recesses of space and settled down with his new wife, Vanessa, to live happily ever after. Or so he thought...

Movie Connections:

Featured in 2007 MTV Movie Awards (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Beautiful Stranger

Worth seeing maybe three times?

Filled with gags, this movie only stalled twice--far less than I expected. (the first movie seemed to stall endlessly).

Mike Myers does a great job in separating the characters in the movie. His dialects were right on--IMPRESSIVE. Dr. E has got some depth now, and is certainly more likeable than AP himself this time. Yeah, yeah, Liz Hurley was great, but Heather Graham is breathtakingly beautiful--I didn't hear any complaints from the men in watching her dance in a fishnet dress. Her eyes. . . sigh.

Many creative and great comedy sequences in the movie. A few of the thousand gags won't be gotten by people under 24--hey, I didn't even get all of em. Also, there were about 2-3 bits that just didn't work for me, including an under choreographed dance sequence with Bacharach and Costello singing in the background.

The post movie verdicts? After my viewing, there was much discussion among friends afterwards (continuing into today) of "did you get that joke" or "see that little sign?" In other words, this is the kind of movie that one has to see more than once to fully appreciate, so I expect this will do really well in the box office.

If you like AP1, definitely go see this one. It's much better. If you don't like this kind of campy humor and don't have much a pop culture IQ, you might be mystified by this brand of humor.