Austin Powers in Goldmember

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Austin Powers in Goldmember
The theatrical Poster of Austin Powers in Goldmember.
Directed by	Jay Roach
Produced by	Toby Emmerich Richard Brener John S. Lyons Eric McLeod Demi Moore Mike Myers Jennifer Todd Suzanne Todd
Written by	Mike Myers Michael McCullers
Starring	Mike Myers Beyoncé Knowles Seth Green Michael York Robert Wagner Michael Caine Verne Troyer
Music by	George S. Clinton Quincy Jones (song "Soul Bossa Nova")
Cinematography	Peter Deming
Editing by	Greg Hayden Jon Poll
Distributed by	New Line Cinema (USA) Entertainment Film Distributors (UK)
Release date(s)	July 26, 2002
Running time	94 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Preceded by	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
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Austin Powers in Goldmember, released in 2002, is the third and final film of the Austin Powers series starring Mike Myers in the title role. The movie was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember and Fat Bastard. The movie co-stars Beyoncé Knowles, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Michael York, Verne Troyer and Michael Caine. There are a number of cameo appearances including Fred Savage, Britney Spears, Quincy Jones, Katie Couric and The Osbournes.

In a self-parody of the Austin Powers series, there is a film within the film. Austin Powers is featured in a bio-pic called Austinpussy directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as Austin Powers, Gwyneth Paltrow as Dixie Normous, Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me, and John Travolta as Goldmember.

Goldmember is a loose parody of the James Bond movie Goldfinger and sold about $288 million in movie tickets worldwide.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Plot 3 Production 3.1 Characters 3.2 Featured Music 3.2.1 Original Soundtrack listing 3.3 Naming concerns 3.4 Austinpussy 3.5 Filming locations 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Cast

• Mike Myers as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Goldmember and Fat Bastard

• Beyoncé Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra

• Michael York as Basil Exposition

• Robert Wagner as Number Two

• Seth Green as Scott Evil

• Verne Troyer as Mini-Me

• Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina

• Michael Caine as Nigel Powers

• Clint Howard as Radar Operator Johnson

• Fred Savage as Number Three (The Mole)

• SGC Belfry Ted Nude-Gent as Mr. Bigglesworth

• Diane Mizota as Fook Mi

• Carrie Ann Inaba as Fook Yu

• Aaron Himelstein as schoolboy Austin Powers

• Josh Zuckerman as schoolboy Dr. Evil

• Eddie Adams as schoolboy Basil Exposition

• Evan Farmer as schoolboy Number Two

• Rob Lowe as young Number Two

• Michael McDonald as Royal Guard

• Neil Mullarkey as physician

• Jeanette Charles as Queen Elizabeth

[edit] Plot

The year is 2002. In his new underground lair behind the famous Hollywood sign Dr. Evil outlines his latest evil plan. Using a time-machine he will go back to 1975 and bring back a Dutchman, Johan van der Smut (alias Goldmember), who had developed a cold fusion unit for a tractor beam. He intends to use the tractor beam to pull a golden meteor into the Earth to strike and melt the polar ice-caps and cause global flooding. However, the plot is discovered by the British Secret Service and Austin leads an assault team to arrest Dr. Evil and place him in a maximum security prison.

Austin is knighted for his services but is disappointed when his father (the famous super-spy Nigel Powers) fails to attend the investiture. However, he later learns that his father was kidnapped from his yacht and that some of the crew have had their genitals painted with gold. In search of answers, Austin visits the imprisoned Dr. Evil, who tells him that the insane Goldmember is behind the abduction and on condition that he is transferred to a normal prison, reveals that he is in 1975.

Travelling back to 1975, Austin infiltrates Goldmember's roller disco club and begins the search. Austin meets up with Foxxy Cleopatra - an old flame and FBI agent - who is working undercover in the club. Austin locates his father but before they can escape they are delivered into Goldmember’s inner sanctum. Goldmember abducts Nigel to 2002 in Dr. Evil’s time machine. Austin and Foxxy give chase in the MoD’s time-travel device.

Back in 2002, Frau Farbissina visits Dr. Evil is in his normal prison and tells him that his son, Scott, wants to take over the family business and has started becoming evil to the point of losing his hair. By way of a kiss, Frau passes a key to Dr. Evil. The other prisoners are encouraged to start a riot which distracts the guards and permits Dr. Evil and Mini-Me to escape.

A British Intelligence mole in Dr. Evil’s organisation informs Austin that Dr. Evil has moved to a new lair somewhere near Tokyo, Japan. Austin and Foxxy fly to Tokyo where they are informed that Dr. Evil's henchman, Fat Bastard , is wrestling at the Asahi Sumo Arena. Slipping into the changing rooms, Austin confronts Fat Bastard and manages to subdue him after a botched wire-assisted jump. Fat Bastard confesses that a Japanese businessman, Mr. Roboto, is making some sort of contraption for Dr. Evil.

Dr. Evil’s new lair is a submarine lurking in Tokyo Bay. Goldmember tells Dr. Evil that they have the ultimate insurance policy in Austin Power’s father. Mini-Me escorts Nigel to his cell but he starts to subvert Mini-Me. Later, Scott present his father with a pair of sharks with laser beams attached to their heads. Overjoyed, Dr. Evil professes his love for his son and seats Scott at his right hand, displacing Mini-Me, who leaves dejected.

Austin and Foxxy meet with Mr. Roboto who pleads ignorance about Nigel’s whereabouts. Unconvinced by his denial, Austin and Foxxy infiltrate Roboto's factory where the command unit for the tractor beam is being loaded in Goldmember's car. Roboto hands Goldmember a golden key which is needed to activate the beam. Foxxy confronts Goldmember, but Nigel is about to have an 'unfortunate smelting accident' and Goldmember escapes as Nigel is being rescued. They chase Goldmember through Tokyo, but he reaches the safety of Dr. Evil's sub which departs before they can apprehend him. Austin and Nigel dispute the course of action but cannot agree and go their separate ways.

In Austin’s hotel, the Mole has arranged the defection of Mini-Me. Austin, Foxxy and Mini-Me (now an Austin Mini) use Nigel's spy car in submarine mode to reach Dr. Evil’s lair and gain entry. Foxxy splits up from Austin and Mini-Me, and they begin to search the sub.

In the control room, Dr. Evil threatens the World Organization with a global flood. To prove he isn't bluffing he uses the tractor beam to pull a satellite out of orbit. Following the successful trial of the beam, Roboto demands a bonus which Dr. Evil refuses. Becoming more evil, Scott takes over and disposes of Roboto in the shark tank.

Adopting a disguise Austin and Mini-Me are waylaid by the medical officer but obtain a plan of the vessel. Rumbled by the MO, Mini-Me escapes and meets up with Foxxy while Austin is taken to the control room.

Dr. Evil offers to show Austin his plan before killing him, but the activation key is missing. Foxxy and Mini-Me enter with guns and the missing key. Austin now threatens Dr. Evil at gunpoint, but his father intervenes and reveals that Dr. Evil and Austin are brothers, separated an early age during an assassination attempt. The three are reconciled but Scott interrupts, angry that now he's finally become evil his father is turning good. Declaring that he hates them all, he vows revenge and leaves.

However, Goldmember intends to complete the destruction of the world. Although Foxxy throws the activation key into the shark tank Goldmember has a spare. As Goldmember begins to activate the tractor beam, Dr. Evil reverses the polarity of the cold fusion unit which electrocutes Goldmember and destroys the meteor.

Alone in Dr. Evil's Hollywood lair, a completely bald, maniacal Scott declares that he will get Austin Powers.

[edit] Production

[edit] Characters

Austin Powers (Mike Myers), having conquered the '90s and the '60s, travels back to the 1970s and teams up with his nemesis Dr. Evil (also played by Myers) to thwart a new villain, Goldmember (Myers once again). Myers also plays Fat Bastard for the second time, this time parodying the kind of "wire fight" seen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film also stars Beyoncé Knowles as Foxxy Cleopatra (parodying a blaxploitation movie heroine), Michael York reprising the role of Basil Exposition, Verne Troyer in his second appearance as Mini-Me, and Michael Caine as Austin's father Nigel Powers (compare the appearance of Indiana Jones's father in his third movie). The Film also introduced a new character named Number 3 A.K.A. the Mole. The actor Clint Howard plays a radar operator in all three movies.

Three actors who appeared in the earlier movies play different characters in Goldmember. Rob Lowe who played the friend of a dead guard in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery reprises his role as a younger Number 2 from The Spy Who Shagged Me. While Neil Mullarkey (quartermaster clerk in International Man Of Mystery) and Eric Winzenried (army private soldier in The Spy Who Shagged Me) appear as as the Physician and Henchman Sailor in the Sick Bay.

[edit] Featured Music

The song "Hey Goldmember" is a parody of 3 disco songs formed into a medley; "Get Down Tonight", "Shake Your Booty" and "That's The Way (I Like It)" all by KC and the Sunshine Band.

[edit] Original Soundtrack listing

1. "Work It Out" - Beyonce Knowles
2. "Miss You (Dr. Dre Remix 2002)" - The Rolling Stones
3. "Boys (Co-ed Remix)" - Britney Spears featuring Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D.
4. "Groove Me" - Angie Stone
5. "Shining Star" - Earth Wind & Fire
6. "Hey Goldmember" - Foxxy Cleopatra
7. "Ain't No Mystery" - Smash Mouth
8. "Evil Woman" - Soul Hooligan featuring Diana King
9. "1975" - Paul Oakenfold
10. "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem - Dr. Evil Remix)" - Dr. Evil
11. "Daddy Wasn't There" - Ming Tea featuring Austin Powers
12. "Alfie (What's It All About, Austin?)" - Susanna Hoffs

[edit] Naming concerns

The title of the film Goldmember led to legal action being taken by MGM, the distributors of the James Bond film franchise, that briefly led to the film's title being removed from promotional material and trailers. The dispute was quickly resolved and the film title remained unchanged, on the provision that the film would include trailers in its cinema release for the then-upcoming James Bond film Die Another Day.

[edit] Austinpussy

• The name of the film-within-a-film, Austinpussy, was a candidate for the title of the second film .^{[citation needed]} Eventually, it was given to the title of the film-in-a-film, due to the mature nature of the word (though ironically the second film's new title is considered equally vulgar in the United Kingdom). Austinpussy is a word-play on the Bond film Octopussy.
• Steven Spielberg's cameo is arguably an in-joke reference to the fact that Spielberg had always wanted to direct a James Bond movie.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Filming locations

The following is a list of known locations during the filming of Austin Powers in Goldmember.

• Moab, Utah (Austinpussy sequence)

[edit] Trivia

• The film is more closely related to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, which features a Japanese corporation creating products for the criminal organization SPECTRE, than it is to Goldfinger.

• The name Goldmember may actually stem from a caustic remark that originated when James Bond-author Ian Fleming named the villain for his novel Goldfinger borrowing it from his neighbor, architect Ernő Goldfinger, to whom the character bore some resemblance. Erno Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when the book was published, prompting Fleming to suggest renaming the character "Goldprick", but eventually settled out of court in return for his costs, six copies of the book, and an agreement that the characters' first name Auric would always be used.

• While one of the catches is that Goldmember comes from the Netherlands; he actually speaks German, not Dutch. However, he has a Dutch accent(hence, his saying [in said accent] "izn't dat veird!?". See Johann van der Smut for more information on Goldmember's speech patterns.

• Although Michael Caine and Michael York have both appeared in over 100 British and American films since the 1960s, this is their first and only film together. However, they do not share a scene.

• One of Austin's many catchphrases ("I am a sexy bitch!") is censored in the film (I am a sexy beast!"), and said only once.

• Nigel Powers' MINI is a clear reference to a previous Michael Caine film, The Italian Job, in which the getaway cars are classic Minis.

• The idea to pull a golden meteor to earth was most likely inspired by the Jules Verne book, The Chase of the Golden Meteor in which a similar event occurs.

• The footage of a younger Nigel Powers during the flashback scene is from actor Michael Caine's film Hurry Sundown (1967).

• Mike Myers has said that his glasses in all three films are meant to look like those worn by Michael Caine in The IPCRESS File (1965), so Caine took the original glasses (model "Teviot 74" by UK Optical) to the set and wore them as Nigel.

• The scene where Austin in talking to Foxxy "through" the Nathan Lane character was first done in the movie Caccia alla volpe (1966) (a.k.a. After the Fox) with Peter Sellers. In that movie, the Peter Sellers character spoke to the Akim Tamiroff character "through" the beautiful Maria Grazia Buccella character.

• Goldmember's heavy Dutch accent being misunderstood by many of the other characters may be a reference to Gert Fröbe himself having to be dubbed over in Goldfinger due to his own heavy accent.

• At the end of the Austin Powers movie sequence in the beginning of the film, Danny DeVito makes a cameo as Mini-Me and fires a machine gun wildly into the air. The gun is, appropriately enough, an FN Minimi.

• The names of the Japanese twins, Fook Mi and Fook Yu, are not romanized correctly; the more correct spelling (using Hepburn romanization) would be "Fuku Mi" and "Fuku Yu" (the term sailor fuku also being a style of schoolgirls' uniform which the girls wear). However, a deleted scene indicates that the two girls are actually American, and that they made up these names without knowing Japanese.

• Assuming that Nigel Powers has not undergone time-travel until being kidnapped by Goldmember, he would be much older than he is portrayed as by 68 year old Michael Caine. If his son Austin graduated "the Academy" in 1958 then his father would be over 80 in 2002.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Austin Powers 3: Goldmember at the Internet Movie Database
• Austin Powers in Goldmember at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Nitpickers Site