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
Austin Powers in Goldmember "Infinifilm" label, and was re-packed in 2011 as part of the "Austin Powers 3 Film Collection" On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a rating of 54%, based on 183 reviews, with the site's critical consensus reading, "While the narrative structure is messy and doesn't make much sense, the third installment of the "Austin Powers" franchise contains enough inspired bits to entertain". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 62 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Myers was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for the third time, but lost against Daveigh