AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY is the first in the comic series starring this bodacious 1960s spy played by the hilarious Mike Myers. Decked out in the gaudiest mod attire--ruffled shirts, tight-fitting candy-colored suits, horn-rimmed glasses, and prosthetic teeth--Austin Powers is anything but subtle. His near-constant exclamations of "Groovy, Baby," accompanied an uncandid flash of his flirtatious smile, only add to his wonderfully exaggerated hipster persona. Plotwise, Austin Powers and his enemy Dr. Evil (also played by Myers) awake from 30 years of frozen, cryogenic sleep to find themselves in the year 1997. A conniving Dr. Evil plots a reign of terror and mass destruction, but finds that his ideas and methods are a bit out of date. Our hero encounters a similar dilemma, realizing that he is definitely behind the times. A series of well-meaning though bumbling efforts to thwart the insidious Dr. Evil keep Austin Powers and his devastatingly beautiful partner Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley) hard at work as they travel from London to Las Vegas. With this tongue-in-cheek send-up of James Bond spy films and 1960s cliches, director Jay Roach compliments Myers' over-the-top performance with a lighthearted soundtrack, fun photography, and amusingly retro sets.
Theatrical release date: May 2, 1997.
AUSTIN POWERS includes a series of cameos: Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri (both of tv's Saturday Night Live), Carrie Fisher (who played Princess Leia in STAR WARS), Susanna Hoffs (who was in the band The Bangles, and is married to director Roach), and Christian Slater and Matthew Sweet (who play security guards).
The costumes for the fashion shoot sequence actually mimic the costumes worn for a shoot in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 BLOW-UP.
Austin Powers's phone uses the same ring as the phone in OUR MAN FLINT, the 1966 spy film starring James Coburn.
Excerpt: "It's Doctor Evil actually. I didn't spend four years at Evil Medical School to be called Mister Evil thank you very much."
"Austin Powers, Danger is my middle name."
"It's not my bag baby!"
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.00
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround - French
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Mike Myers - Star
2. Jay Roach - Director
Deleted Scenes
Alternate Ending
Film Highlights/Clips
Bonus Feature/Short - 1. MUSIC TO SHAG TO
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
Filmographies - 1. Cast & Crew
Production Notes
Distributor Notes: It's a smashing shagadelic party as Mike Myers (Wayne's World 1 & 2, So I Married an Axe Murderer) and Elizabeth Hurley (Dangerous Ground) star in a non-stop, hilarious comedy adventure. Frozen in the 60's, secret agent Austin Powers (Myers) is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr. Evil. With his sexy sidekick Ms. Kensington (Hurley), Austin must stop Dr. Evil's outrageous plot to control the world. But first, this time-warped swinger must get hip quick and discover that there's no free love in the 90's! An all-star supporting cast including Michael York, Robert Wagner, Mimi Rogers and Carrie Fisher make Austin Powers a wacky, far-out trip you won't forget.
Source: Warner Home Video
Cameo
Burt Bacharach: Songwriter
Cameo
Tom Arnold: Star, ROSEANNE (1988)
Cameo
Will Ferrell: Actor, ELF/MELINDA AND MELINDA
Director of Photography
Peter Deming: American Director Of Photography
Production Designer
Cynthia Charette:
Costume Designer
Deena Appel: Costume Designer, THE LAKE HOUSE (2006)
Review 1:
"...A welcome return to form for [Myers]..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.37-8 09/01/1997
Review 2:
"...Mr. Myers turns his own fondness for Austin into an easily acquired taste....AUSTIN POWERS mixes movie parody with culture shock..."
Source: New York Times
p.C7 05/02/1997
Review 3:
"...Engagingly daft....You can giggle at the sheer joy Mike Myers takes in making himself as grotesque as possible....No one does it better than Myers..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.56-7 05/09/1997
Review 4:
"...A funny movie that only gets funnier the more familiar you are with the James Bond movies....What is best is the puppy-dog earnestness and enthusiasm that Myers brings to his role..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.33 05/02/1997
Review 5:
"Myers threw us all a frickin' bone when he created Austin's pinky-gesturing, lip-pursing, Mr. Bigglesworth-stroking nemesis."
Source: Premiere
p.66 04/01/2004
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