Influenced by 1966 British television series 'Adam Adamant Lives!' & original created by Mike Myers for the faux 1960s rock band 'Ming Tea' that Myers started with musicians Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs following his Saturday Night Live stint in the early 1990s. The character found its way into movie production in early 1995. Parodying the James Bond & Harry Palmer's films of the late 1960s & early 1970s; this 1997 comedy tells the story of a swinging era British spy named Austin Powers (Mike Myers) having to cryogenically freeze himself in order to fight his nemesis Dr. Evil (Also played by Myers) sometime in the future. Hilarity arises when both men return in the late 1990s to find out that times has change and with that, their old ways of life. Teaming with fellow secret agent, Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), Austin must now find out what Dr. Evil's next nefarious plan, while getting use to modern society norms. Without spoiling the movie too much, this spy genre flick from director Jay Roach got some mojo! Surprisingly most of the jokes in this flick still hold up to me. However, some of the deep followers of political correctness culture might think overwise. They will find the motion picture highly offensive and dated. It doesn't help that a then unknown convicted felon who torture women star in this movie as henchman Random Task. Even a joke about blackmailing the Royal family about an affair could be seen today as bad taste due to Princess Diana death later that year. Regardless, of all the controversial, this flick concept was much better than the film's two sequels 1999 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me' and 2002 'Austin Powers in Goldmember' where the movie's highly clichés annoying overused sexual crude and gross out toilet dialogue and visuals humor are much worst. At least, this movie's jokes aren't much of a turn off like the homing device scene or the Jerry Springer sequence in the sequel. I can't stand those. As for this movie, there are plenty of memorable moments, I truly love. My favorite happens to be Dr. Evil's therapist speech. Myers's acting as Dr. Evil is top notch with Myers as Austin being secondary alright and decent. I don't care if he stole the impression from fellow SNL castmate Dana Carvey. Any moment with the antagonist was truly an entertaining watch even if most of them felt like an out of place sketch comedy skit rather than part of the overall movie. After all, the film does feel like one with the intercut with the random dancing sequences between scenes often showing female dancers in bikini's and psychedelic artwork over their bodies like the television show 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' (1967-1973). It can seem a bit jarring; much like the opening musical movie which is a random direct reference to The Beatles 1964's flick 'A Hard Day's Night' that has nothing to do with the rest of the moment. Nevertheless, overall those scenes feature here fits better than some of the other random sequences that modern home release videos edited back in. While somewhat funny, the theatrical version moment with the steamroller and the unnamed guard played by Michael McDonald was just enough time with its overly long gag. The added sequence with his wife and son reacting to his death kinda overdone it. Don't get me wrong that deeply disturbing and dark moment was still funny, but it would work better if shown in the after credits. Thank goodness, most DVDs have that moment back as a deleted scene along with the other security guard sequence and the two lightboat endings. Since most of the film's best dialogue like Dr. Evil's trying to quiet Scott (Seth Green) was improvise, hopefully one day we can see all the alternated takes or bloopers. Nevertheless, just don't worth this movie on television. Many of the jokes are censored or cut on broadcast TV. Despite where you watch it, the movie did make some of then-unknown comedians into bigger stars. One such example is Will Ferrell. His bit as the very injury Mustafa was downright unforgettable. He would later reprise his role in the sequels. As for the rest of the supporting cast. Robert Wagner, Clint Howard, Michael York and Mindy Sterling has their moments to shine. Even Elizabeth Hurley and Fabiana Udenio found themselves with a lot more depth than most love interests get in these types of spy movies. However, I hate what they did to Hurley's character in the sequel. That was awful and doesn't make sense with what happen in this movie. Plus, it was weird to see Austin not care about what happen to her. As for the cameos. I found Carrie Fischer and Tom Arnold great in the small roles they were given. Then there is costume design. For a very low budget movie, it had some very impressive wardrobes. I'm deeply surprise that this comedy wasn't nomination in that department at the 70th Academy Awards. It had a chance of winning. As for the music. "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones was given new life. Before this movie, I never knew that this song was from an old Canadian game show called 'Definition' from the 1970s. The rest of the soundtrack by composter George Clinton was just as groovy baby! Overall: A fourth film entitled 'For Your Thighs Only' was announced in 2005 but so far, nothing has come of it yet. It doesn't help that Myers had two cinematic failures since then. The death of Verne Troyer's in 2018 from an alcohol poisoning makes this even less likely. But maybe one day it will come. Until then, we always have this movie to laugh at. It's one flick worth watching for sure.