Austin Powers love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style. The films poke fun at the outrageous plots, rampant sexual innuendo, and two dimensional stock characters associated with 1960s spy films, as well as the cliché of the ultra suave super spy. Contrary to the handsome, super smooth leading men of the James Bond genre, Austin Powers is not conventionally attractive (he is especially known for his bad teeth), although female characters seem to find him irresistible. The general theme of the films is that the arch villain Dr. Evil plots to extort large sums of money from governments or
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