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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is the second film in the Austin Powers series begun with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
and continued in Austin Powers in Goldmember
. Released in 1999, the film was written by Mike Myers and screenwriter Michael McCullers and stars Myers as the title character.

Taglines:

First, he fought for the Crown. Now he's fighting for the Family Jewels.
I'm Back, Baby!
You Were Expecting Someone Else?
Double-O Behave!
"I'm Coming Again, Baby!" (Australia)
The return of Dr. Evil.
If you see only one movie this summer, see Star Wars. But if you see two movies this summer, see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
The BRITISH Empire Strikes Back!
He's back, he's even bigger and he's up for it!

Plot

Powers' arch-nemesis, Dr. Evil (also played by Myers), travels back in time to the year 1969 to steal Austin's mojo, with the help of Fat Bastard (also played by Myers). The movie also marked the debut of Mini-Me (played by Verne Troyer), Dr. Evil's deranged 1/8-size clone. The film co-stars Heather Graham (as love interest Felicity Shagwell), Seth Green (as Dr. Evil's son, Scott Evil), Rob Lowe (playing the younger, 1969 version of Dr. Evil's henchman "Number 2"), and Michael York (reprising his role as Basil Exposition from the first film).

Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Robert Wagner, Elizabeth Hurley, Jerry Springer, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Kristen Johnston have cameo roles while The Alan Parsons Project is referenced by one of the films pivotal plot devices.

As with the other Austin Powers films, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is a parody of spy movies, particularly the James Bond series of films. Specifically, the film's title was a play on the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me
. Graham's characterisation was based largely on Sharon Tate's similar character, Freya Carlson, in The Wrecking Crew
(1969), a film that also parodied Bond films.

Also keeping in line with the Bond franchise, the film decides to "kill off" Elizabeth Hurley's character Vanessa Kingsington from the first film. Parodying On Her Majesty's Secret Service
, Vanessa is revealed in the opening to be a "Femmebot" from Dr. Evil that proceeds to explode in an attempt to destroy Austin. However, the attempt fails, and Powers is only momentarily dismayed, suddenly realizing: "Wait a tick...that means I'm single again!!!"

The film grossed around US$310 million in worldwide ticket sales; it made more money during its opening weekend than the entire box office gain of its predecessor.

The film continues many running jokes and themes. Scott Evil asks his father why he doesn't use his time machine to kill Austin when he's "sitting on the crapper or something", to which Dr. Evil just rolls his eyes and says no. Mini-Me and Scott also develop a rivalry for Dr. Evil's affections. Scott is finally shown to be the love child of Frau and Dr. Evil.

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