I t also spoofed the entire James Bond series, which enjoyed it's Golden Age in the 1960's. Mike Myers even managed to fit in some mild denunciation of 60's free love and drug abuse, as he finds monogamy to be quite swingin'. One memorable scene has Powers going down a checklist of rock star friends from the sixties, who, by 1997, have all perished from drug abuse or alcoholism. It was impossible to see Mike Myers leer at the camera in the first film without bursting into laughter. At least it was for me.
Satire takes a very distant second to low-brow humour, and moralizing disappears entirely.
The new love interest, a comely vixen named Felicity Shagwell, can't wait to get in bed with Austin Powers. Dr. Evil is less the characterature of eeeevil and more goofy. Many of the jokes from the first film are repeated in the second just in case we didn't get them the first time. Yet they all seem to fall flat, wedged as they are between the continuous stream of adolescent jokes. If you are the kind of person that giggles hysterically whenever someone you know goes to the bathroom, or simply cannot live a single day without telling disgusting jokes designed to horrify and sicken your coworkers, this movie is most definitely for you.