Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me


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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jay Roach
Produced by Mike Myers
Demi Moore
Jennifer Todd
Suzanne Todd
Written by Mike Myers
Michael McCullers
Starring Mike Myers
Heather Graham
Michael York
Robert Wagner
Rob Lowe
Music by George S. Clinton
Cinematography Ueli Steiger
Editing by Debra Neil-Fisher
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) June 11, 1999
Running time 95 min.
Country United States
Language English
German
Budget $33 million
Gross revenue $312,016,858
Preceded by International Man of Mystery
Followed by Goldmember

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second film in the Austin Powers series, released in 1999. The series began with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and continued with Austin Powers in Goldmember. The film was directed by Jay Roach, co-written by Mike Myers and screenwriter Michael McCullers, and once again stars Myers as the title character. Myers also plays Dr. Evil and Fat Bastard.

The film's title is a play on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and contains plot elements from James Bond films Diamonds Are Forever (Laser Gun Plot and Cloning) , You Only Live Twice (Secret Volcano Base) , Moonraker (Outer Space Ventures), The Man With The Golden Gun (Mini Me based on character Nick Nack from Bond film mentioned) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (opening sequence in which Vanessa Kensington dies).

The film grossed around US$310 million in worldwide ticket sales, making more money during its opening weekend than the entire box office proceeds of its predecessor.

Contents

Plot

Mini Me

NATO’s monitoring facility observes the return of Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) and informs British intelligence. At Dr. Evil’s Seattle headquarters, Dr. Evil is presented with a one-eighth-size clone of himself (Verne Troyer) whom he calls Mini-Me. Number Two (Robert Wagner), who survived his incineration towards the end of the previous film, also reveals the enormous profits they have made by legitimately investing in a previously unknown startup company called "Starbucks". However, Dr. Evil is unimpressed and unveils his latest evil plan—he has developed a time machine to go back to the sixties and steal Austin Powers’ (also Mike Myers) mojo, a fluid inside his body that's the source of Austin's skills and his sexual prowess, as opposed to just killing him when he can't protect himself like his son Scott suggests. Meanwhile, back in 1999, Austin is still enjoying his honeymoon with his wife—the former Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley). Unfortunately, something goes amiss, and it turns out that she is actually one of Dr. Evil’s kamikaze fembots who attempts to kill Austin, but eventually self-destructs. He grieves breifly, but then proceeds to the lobby naked and celebrates being single again.


Dr. Evil and Mini-Me go back to 1969 and meet up with a younger Number Two (Rob Lowe) and (a not-so-young) Frau Farbissina (Mindy Sterling). A disgruntled “Scottish Guard” with unusual eating habits called Fat Bastard (again, Mike Myers) has been hired to extract Austin’s mojo from his frozen body at the Ministry of Defence Cryo Chamber.


British intelligence warns Austin that one of Dr Evil’s agents is after him, and during a photo shoot the wanton Ivana Humpalot (Kristen Johnston) seduces him, but at the last moment she admits to her orders and claims he is too sexy. They then proceed to have sex in her bed. Unfortunately they do not get far before he discovers that he has lost his mojo.

The MOD learns that Dr. Evil has developed a time machine and sends Austin back to 1969 with its own time travel device, in a convertible Volkswagen New Beetle painted with 60's LSD-themed colours. Austin arrives back at a party in his London pad and with the assistance of a CIA agent, Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), escapes another assassination attempt by two of Dr. Evil’s operatives. However, the two of them are chased by Mustafa (Will Ferrell), yet another of Dr. Evil's henchmen, and when caught he reveals the existence of a secret volcano lair (due to an inability to withhold the answer should he be asked the exact same question three times in a row), but is prevented from divulging its location by the intervention of Mini-Me. After examining photographs from the crime scene at MOD headquarters, Austin identifies Fat Bastard as the perpetrator of the theft.

At Dr. Evil’s secret volcano lair, Fat Bastard arrives with Austin’s mojo. Dr. Evil drinks some of it and engages in some “private time” with Frau Farbissina. This results in an awkward “sometime after” situation when Frau reveals that she is “late.” However, at the same moment Scott Evil arrives through the time portal. Dr. Evil announces his latest plan: to hold the United States — and the whole world — ransom by threatening to destroy Washington D.C., and then additional major cities each hour, using a giant laser on the moon.

Mike Myers as Fat Bastard

In London, Austin and Felicity get to know each other, but he has to reject her advances owing to the loss of his mojo. Under MOD instructions to implant a homing device, Felicity seduces Fat Bastard. Unfortunately, it is left in a public toilet, but a stool sample from the scene reveals traces of a rare vegetable that only grows on one Caribbean island.

Rob Lowe as Number 2 (1969)

Austin and Felicity arrive on the island but are apprehended. They are put in a cell with a single guard who is overcome by the fact that Felicity shows off her breasts, upon which the mesmerized guard falls into a pool of lava. Dr. Evil and Mini-Me leave for the moon to install the giant laser and are followed by Austin and Felicity, who hitch a ride on Apollo 11. In Dr. Evil’s moon base, Austin battles with Mini-Me, whom he eventually flushes into space.

As Austin confronts Dr. Evil, the giant laser is fired, but Austin manages to divert it and save Washington D.C., although Felicity is killed by poison gas. However, using Dr. Evil’s time portal Austin travels back ten minutes and meets up with himself to save both the world and Felicity.

Austin and Felicity arrive in Dr.Evil's "Death Star"

Foiled again, Dr. Evil initiates the self-destruction mechanism of the moon base and escapes in his rocket after throwing the bottle of Austin's mojo in the air. He fails to catch it and it crashes on the floor, destroyed, but Felicity points out that all the things he has done show that he never really lost it in the first place. With seconds to spare they escape through the time portal to 1999.

The giant laser is fired

Fat Bastard makes another attempt to assassinate Austin, but is kicked in the crotch by Felicity. Finally, Dr. Evil recovers Mini-Me from space and once again vows to "get" Austin Powers.

Later, on Jerry Springer Scott (Seth Green) learns he was not created in a test tube but is actually the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina.

There are two Austins in 1999 as both Austins escaped Dr. Evil's moon base using the time machine, Austin #1 finds Felicity sleeping with Austin #2.

Cast

Production

Title censorship

When the film was released, the title proved quite controversial in the United Kingdom, where the word shag is used to refer to sexual intercourse.

In the UK, two sets of TV adverts for the film existed, pre- and post-watershed. The former was designed to air during daytime hours and only gave part of the title, (Austin Powers: The Spy Who—), before cutting off with one of a range of slightly suggestive scenes from the film, such as Austin squeezing out the contents of a massage oil bottle. The post watershed adverts, aired later in the evening, gave the full title. There were also two variations of the movie posters; one of them asterisked out the middle of the offending word or had named the film as Austin Powers 2.

Singapore briefly forced a title change to The Spy Who Shioked Me (shioked means “treated nicely”). In Finland the film was called Agentti joka tuuppasi minua (The spy who bumped me), in China The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot. The Italian version was titled La spia che ci provava, which can be roughly translated as The spy who tried to seduce, but in a slightly ruder way.

Not all countries translated the title into something less raunchy. The Norwegian title of the movie is Spionen som spermet meg, which is a slightly dirtier way of saying “The Spy Who Ejaculated on Me”.

Jerry Springer Show segment

One scene features a fictional episode of The Jerry Springer Show, entitled "My father is evil and he wants to take over the world." Among the guests are a neo-Nazi with a white power skinhead son, a Ku Klux Klan member and his stereotypical redneck son, and Scott Evil. Jerry surprises Scott when Dr. Evil appears on the show. Scott asks him why he left, and Dr. Evil remarks that his son is not quite evil enough. The Klan member calls Scott a freak and Scott challenges him to a fight. Dr. Evil calms Scott down and then attacks him, with Steve Wilkos and security guards holding him back. The fight turns into a riot and calms down when Jerry calms Dr. Evil down, reminding him it's only a show. Then he tells security "get this jerk out of here" causing Dr. Evil to attack Springer. That results in a fistfight and Springer biting Dr. Evil in the leg. The show ends with Dr. Evil holding a globe up, yelling "The World is Mine", then throwing the globe onto the floor. At the end of the movie, there is a follow-up to the scene, in which it is revealed that Frau Farbissina is Scott's mother, and that the story about him being a test tube baby was a lie. They hug each other and Springer delivers his trademark final thought.

Soundtrack

More Music From And Inspired By Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
More Music From And Inspired By Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me cover
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released June 1, 1999 (original soundtrack)
October 26, 1999
Genre Movie Soundtrack
Length 45:20
Label Maverick, Warner Bros.
Professional reviews
Austin Powers series chronology
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
(1997)		 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
(1999)		 Austin Powers In Goldmember
(2002)

The movie's soundtrack contains the 1999 smash hit "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna. The song won a Grammy in 2000. Mike Myers appears as Austin Powers in the video, directed by Brett Ratner.

Dr. Evil also sings a parody of Will Smith's popular 1997 cover of the Bill Withers classic "Just the Two of Us", referring in this case to his clone Mini-Me.

Track listing

  1. "Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna
  2. "My Generation" - The Who (live)
  3. "Draggin' the Line" - R.E.M.
  4. "American Woman" - The Guess Who
  5. "Word Up" - Melanie B - credited as "Melanie G (aka Scary Spice)"
  6. "Just The Two Of Us" - Dr. Evil (Dr. Evil mix)
  7. "Espionage" - Green Day
  8. "Time of the Season" - Big Blue Missile/Scott Weiland
  9. "Buggin'" - The Flaming Lips
  10. "Alright" - The Lucy Nation
  11. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" - Burt Bacharach/Elvis Costello
  12. "Soul Bossa Nova (Dim's Space-A-Nova)" - Quincy Jones & His Orchestra

The soundtrack sold over 1 million copies in the USA. It was certified Platinum. A second soundtrack was also released, entitled More Music From the Motion Picture.

More Music track listing

  1. "Austin Meets Felicity" - Film Dialogue
  2. "Am I Sexy?" - Lords of Acid
  3. "I'm a Believer" - The Monkees
  4. "Magic Carpet Ride" - Steppenwolf
  5. "American Woman" - The Guess Who
  6. "Get The Girl" - The Bangles
  7. "Bachelord Pad" (FPM Edit) - Fantastic Plastic Machine
  8. "Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
  9. "Crash!" - Propellerheads
  10. "Time of the Season" - The Zombies
  11. "Dr. Evil" - They Might be Giants
  12. "The Austin Powers Sagaphonic Medley" - George S. Clinton
  13. "Beautiful Stranger" (Calderone Radio Mix) - Madonna

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Preceded by
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace		 Box office number-one films of 1999 (USA)
June 13, 1999		 Succeeded by
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) • Mystery, Alaska (1999) • Meet the Parents (2000) • Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) • Meet the Fockers (2004)






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