Austin Powers international bodies but is constantly thwarted by Powers, and (to a degree) his own inexperience with life and culture in the 1990s. In "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", Austin and Dr. Evil are awakened after being cryogenically frozen for thirty years. Continuing to incorporate cultural elements of the 1960s and 1970s, "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" feature time travel as a plot device and deliberately overlook inconsistencies. A proposed fourth film, "Austin Powers 4", has reportedly been in development since 2005. Myers himself has stated in interviews that the idea for "Austin
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