DVD Movie Rating for: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

5 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a "Time Machine" to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers' mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil's personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs "Mini-Me". The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either "The Death Star" or "Alan Parson's Project," depending on which name is available.

Dr. Evil returns from space just as British spy Austin Powers learns on his honeymoon that his wife is a fembot in Evil's control. Back on the singles scene, Powers discovers he's impotent because Evil has used a time machine to return to the late 60s and steal his libido. British intelligence also has a time portal, so Powers goes back to 1969 to recapture his mojo and, teaming with agent Felicity Shagwell, to stop another Evil plot to take over the world, this time with a "laser" beamed from the moon. Subplots involve Evil's son Scott's discovery of who his mother is, Evil's affection for a clone one-eighth his size, and the machinations of an obese Scot named Fat Bastard.

DVD Production Details of: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

Starring: Mike Myers, Heather Graham

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen

Studio: New Line Home Entertainment

DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002
DVD Features:
Contains all three Austin Powers films

See individual titles for details

Widescreen anamorphic format

Number of discs: 3

DVD Easter Eggs

Dr Evil's hidden feature page / Credits

From the disc's main menu, go to the special features section. Now, just watch Austin do his little schtick and don't touch anything. After about one minute, Dr. Evil's space ship will come by, leaving the Evil symbol behind. Click on the symbol and you'll be treated to a number of features, including the a 20-minute comedy Central Special.

Scrol down and highlight the new line logo then press enter to see the DVD thanks.

Cast of the movie: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

• 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
• Elizabeth Hurley .... Vanessa Kensington
• Gia Carides .... Robin Spitz Swallows
• Oliver Muirhead .... British Colonel
• George Cheung .... Chinese Teacher (as George Kee Cheung)
• Jeffrey Meng .... Wang
• Muse Watson .... The Klansman
• Scott Cooper .... Bobby

Photo Gallery of the movie: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

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Reviews of the movie: Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

If you don't think Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) is one of the funniest movies of the 1990s, maybe you should be packed into a cryogenic time chamber and sent back to the decade whence you came. Perhaps it was the 1960s--the shagadelic decade when London hipster Austin Powers scored with gorgeous chicks as a fashion photographer by day, crime-fighting international man of mystery by night. Yeah, baby, yeah! But when Powers's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, puts himself into a deep-freeze and travels via time machine to the late 1990s, Powers must follow him and foil Evil's nefarious scheme of global domination. Mike Myers plays dual roles as Powers and Dr. Evil, with Elizabeth Hurley as his present-day sidekick and karate-kicking paramour. A hilarious spoof of '60s spy movies, this colorful comedy actually gets funnier with successive viewings, making it a perfect home video for gloomy days and randy nights. Oh, behave!

"I put the grrr in swinger, baby!" a deliciously randy Powers coos near the beginning of The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), and if the imagination of Austin creator Mike Myers seems to have sagged a bit, his energy surely hasn't. This friendly, go-for-broke sequel finds our man Austin heading back to the '60s to keep perennial nemesis Dr. Evil (Myers again) from blowing up the world--and, more importantly, to get back his mojo, that man-juice that turns Austin into irresistible catnip for women, especially American spygirl Felicity Shagwell (a pretty but vacant Heather Graham). The plot may be irreverent and illogical, the jokes may be bad, and the scenes may run on too long, but it's all delivered sunnily and with tongue firmly in cheek. Myers teams Dr. Evil with a diminutive clone, Mini-Me (Verne J. Troyer), then pulls a hat trick by playing a third character, the obese and disgusting Scottish assassin Fat Bastard.

Despite symptoms of sequelitis, Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) is must-see lunacy for devoted fans of the shagadelic franchise. Unfortunately, the law of diminishing returns is in full effect: for every big-name cameo and raunchy double-entendre, there's an equal share of redundant shtick, juvenile scatology, and pop-cultural spoofery. All is forgiven when the hilarity level is consistently high, and Mike Myers--returning here as randy Brit spy Austin, his nemesis Dr. Evil, the bloated Scottish henchman Fat Bastard, and new Dutch disco-villain Goldmember--thrives by favoring comedic chaos over coherent plotting. Once they've tossed Austin into the disco fever of 1975 (where he's sent to rescue his father, gamely played by Michael Caine), Myers and director Jay Roach seem vaguely adrift with old and new characters, including Verne Troyer's Mini-Me and pop star Beyoncé Knowles as Pam Grier-ish blaxpo-babe Foxxy Cleopatra. A bit tired, perhaps, but Powers hasn't lost his mojo.

Still funny but a lot of recycled gags from the first film
Happily married to Felicity and with Dr Evil gone, Austin settles into the future. However when a fiendish plot to kill Powers fails it is clear that Dr Evil is back. In order to tackle Powers, Dr Evil has invented a time tunnel to go back in time to when Powers was frozen and steal his mojo. Powers must also join the time jumping to reclaim his mojo in order to beat Dr Evil.

This second film sees the approach of `if it ain't broke then don't fix it'. Hence we have a rerun of the same sort of jokes from the first film. However it still manages to be funny and have enough new stuff to feel different. The plot is of course silly – you won't forget it when you leave the cinema, you'll forget it while you're still watching the film! However the jokes are what matters and happily Myers has realised what the best part of the first film was and has given Dr Evil more screen time. He has also created Mini-Me, a tiny clone of Dr Evil who just adds to the laughs. The role of Powers is still funny but he now has less to do. The main addition is Myers in another role – Fat B'stard. This character is pretty unfunny and gross, happily he has relatively little screen time (but he's in the next film too).

Myers is good again as Dr Evil and Powers, however with Fat B'stard he shows that he can't be funny without the material and simply doing a Scottish accent and being fat does not a funny character make. Heather Graham is OK as the sexy girl and Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe etc all return in support roles. They are all OK simply because the material is funny if a little crude or silly.

Overall this may recycle a lot of jokes from the first film, but it still manages to be funny despite having some weak moments. Whether or not the joke can stretch to another film or not remains to be seen but part 2 manages to be funny, mainly because Dr Evil is given a larger role, more screen time and more things to do. Crude, silly but funny.