Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the film: it may be found in James Wallerstein's "The Cactus Wildcat" (1954) and E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan" (1970).) Daniel Craig, who has portrayed James Bond on screen since 2006, credited the Austin Powers franchise with the relatively serious tone of later Bond films. "We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us," Craig said in a 2014 interview, making it "impossible to do the gags" of earlier Bond films which Austin Powers satirized. "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" received positive reviews. The film received a 70% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 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 posters; one of them asterisked out the middle of the offending word. Other posters had named the film as "Austin Powers 2". According to the "Collins English Dictionary", the use of the word "shag" in the film's title helped to increase the word's