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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, released in 1999, is the second film in the Austin Powers series. The series began with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and continued in 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 also stars Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Seth Green, Verne Troyer and Mindy Sterling. There are cameo appearances by Tim Robbins, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Jerry Springer and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. The film's title is a play on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
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PlotSpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
. NATO’s monitoring facility observes the return of Dr. Evil and inform British Intelligence. At Dr. Evil’s Seattle headquarters, Dr. Evil is presented with a one eighth-size clone of himself whom he calls Mini-Me. Number 2 also reveals the enormous profits they have made by legitimately investing in a previously unknown start up 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’ mojo thus depriving him of his ability to thwart Dr. Evil’s plans.
Image:Fat bastard APTSWSM.jpg Mike Myers as Fat Bastard Meanwhile back in 1999, Austin is still enjoying his honeymoon with his wife - the former Vanessa Kensington. Unfortunately something goes amiss and it turns out that she is actually one of Dr. Evil’s fembots who attempts to kill Austin but eventually self-destructs. British intelligence warn Austin that one of Dr Evil’s agents is after him and during a photo-shoot the wanton Ivana Humpalot seduces him, but at the critical moment 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 their own time travel device. Austin arrives back at a party in his London pad and with the assistance of a CIA agent Felicity Shagwell, escapes another assassination attempt by two of Dr. Evil’s operatives. However, the two of them are chased by Mustafa, yet another of Dr. Evil's henchmen, and when caught he reveals the existence of a secret volcano lair but is prevented of divulging its location by the intervention of Mini-Me. After examining photographs from the crime scene at the MoD, Austin identifies Fat Bastard as the perpetrator of the theft. Image:Dr Evils volcano lair.jpg Dr. Evils secret volcano lair
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. Austin and Felicity arrive on the island but are apprehended. They are put in a cell with a single guard who is overcome by Felicity’s “charms”. 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. Foiled again, Dr. Evil initiates the self-destruction mechanism of the moon-base and escapes in his rocket, leaving the Austin to try and recover his mojo. He fails, 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. Fat Bastard makes another attempt to assassinate Austin but is foiled by Felicity. Finally, Dr. Evil recovers Mini-Me from space and vows to “get Austin Powers”. During the closing credits, it is revealed on the Jerry Springer show that Scott was not created in a test-tube but is actually the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina. Spoilers end here.
ProductionTitle censorshipWhen 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 North America, where the film was produced, the term is not normally used to refer to sex, and as such is understood simply as a quaint British English expression. 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 sunscreen 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. Singapore briefly forced a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me" ("Shioked" means "treated nicely"). 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". Featured Music
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 "Just the Two of Us". Original Soundtrack tracklisting
The soundtrack sold over 1 million of copies in the USA only (Platinum). After the huge success of this CD, it was decided to release a second soundtrack featuring more music from and inspired by the motion picture, including a remix of "Beautiful Stranger" and the original version of "American Woman". More Music tracklisting
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