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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997
English
USA, Germany
Profile of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery can be described as exciting, humorous, and witty. The plot revolves around an uninhibited rivalry, a goofy hero, and secret agents. Its comic aspect comes from slapstick humor and silly humor. Its main genres are comedy and parody. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. The storytelling is fast paced. It is located in Las Vegas. It takes place in the 1990s. The soundtrack is pop. It has received attention for being a blockbuster and an award winner. It is well suited for a date night and teens. Note that it involves brief nudity.
Summary of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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 Evil plots a reign of terror and mass destruction, but finds that his ideas and methods are a bit out of date.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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 2 May 1997 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
Cast and Crew
as Austin Powers / Dr. Evil
as Vanessa Kensington
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Austin Powers sounded like a silly idea, but it turns out to be one of the best comedies of the year.
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- by: Mick LaSalle
Variety
Definitely lives up to its promise of being smashing, groovy, baby.
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- by: Leonard Klady
Users Reviews
Alternating effortlessly between gray-toothed lady's man Austin Powers and neurotic Nehru-jacketed Dr. Evil, Mike Meyers sends up three decades worth of Bond movies with bits like an unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism and a father-son...
- 22.March.2009
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- by: thattherepaul
- thattherepaul rated this movie
10/10Must See
funny as hell, nothing but fun.
- 31.August.2008
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- by: Noa
- Noa rated this movie8/10Great
