Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me acceptability, reducing its shock value and giving it a more jocular, relaxed connotation. Singapore considered a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me" ("shiok" means "to feel good"). The movie's soundtrack contains the 1999 hit "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna. The song won a Grammy Award in 2000. Mike Myers appears as Austin Powers in the video, directed by Brett Ratner. Dr. Evil also sings a parody of Will Smith's popular 1997 cover of the Grover Washington Jr. classic "Just the Two of Us", referring in this case to his clone Mini-Me. The film's soundtrack had a rating of three
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 60 reviews, with an average rating on 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus read, "A light and goofy comedy which provides laughs, largely due to performances and screenwriting by Myers". The movie debuted at No.2 at the box office with US$9.5 million. Time Out New York critic Andrew Johnston (critic) observed: "The film's greatest asset is its gentle tone: rejecting the smug cynicism of "Naked Gun-"style parodies, it never loses the earnest naivete of the psychedelic era." Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (or simply Austin Powers) is a 1997 American comedy film directed by