The third opens with a fake Austin Powers movie filled with these. The second has among others, two for the Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption (and the third has another lampshading how this joke is a repeat). The first had two (Christian Slater and Rob Lowe) cut in North America but present everywhere else.
Two movies later (again) the list above appears.
The series was known for its Acting for Two, as Mike Myers played four major characters: Austin Dr. ( Word of God has also acknowledged this, but they don't make such a big deal of it because modern audiences are more likely to have heard of James Bond.) Lampshade Hanging is everywhere, and forget Leaning on the Fourth Wall, Austin dances on top of it. As a finishing touch, Austin's florid sense of dress (perfectly at home in Las Vegas, but hard on the eyes elsewhere) was based on Jason King. The three films are parodies of the Spy Drama genre, particularly Harry Palmer and James Bond, to the point that the second and third movie titles are direct spoofs of James Bond movie titles and the first is literally just a common description of James Bond himself. Evil finds his evil syndicate completely overshadowed by Starbucks.
When they are duly thawed, thirty years later, both characters find themselves woefully outdated: Austin is a walking punchline from the swinging sixties, while Dr. Evil cryogenically freezes himself and launches into space, Austin (believing himself the only one capable of battling this menace) has himself frozen as well to await the day that Dr. Evil, who is obsessed with taking over the world and whose plans Austin consistently foils. A spy comedy movie trilogy about a temporally displaced British Ministry of Defence agent, Austin Powers, and his archnemesis, Dr.