Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and over $67 million worldwide. The film spawned two sequels, "" (1999) and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002), with Myers repeatedly mentioning the possibility of a fourth film over the years (as of 2018). In 1967, British spy Austin Powers thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket and cryogenically freezes himself. Powers volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil returns in the future. Thirty years later, in 1997, Dr. Evil returns to discover his henchman Number 2 has developed Virtucon, the legitimate front of
Gag name names of Bond girls, such as "Honey Rider" from "Dr. No", "Bibi Dahl" from "For Your Eyes Only", "Holly Goodhead" from "Moonraker", "Xenia Onatopp" from "GoldenEye", "Chu Mei" (chew me) from "The Man with the Golden Gun", "Plenty O'Toole" from "Diamonds Are Forever" and, most famously, "Pussy Galore" from "Goldfinger". This is parodied in the "Austin Powers" series of spoofs on the spy genre; "" features a villain named "Alotta Fagina", who must repeat her name several times because Austin misunderstands it. In Monty Python's "Life of Brian", there is an extensive use of Dog Latin as a tool for