he year is 1967. Dentally challenged British gentleman spy
Austin Powers and his nemesis Dr. Evil have faced each other many times during
the decade. As Dr. Evilˇs henchmen have failed to dispose of Austin, he makes
his own assassination attempt in a swinging London nightclub. Austin foils the
attempt and Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket disguised as a Bobˇs Big Boy
statue, where he places himself in a cryogenic freezing chamber to return
sometime in the future. In return, Austin volunteers to have himself placed in
cryostasis in case his services are needed in the future.

Dr. Evil returns thirty years later in 1997 with new evil
plans for world domination and reunites with his associates, Number Two and Frau
Farbissina. During Dr. Evilˇs absence, Number Two has developed ¨Virtucon〃,
the legitimate face of Dr. Evilˇs empire, into a multi-billion-dollar
enterprise, but Dr. Evil prefers to follow illegitimate methods. However,
following his thirty-year absence, Dr. Evilˇs plans to (a) blackmail the
British Royal Family by fabricating an extramarital affair involving Prince
Charles which would lead to divorce or (b) punch holes in the ozone layer using
lasers to cause an increase in skin cancer are both rejected by Number Two as
already having occurred. Frustrated, he decides to ¨do what we always do:
hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage.〃 It is only after Dr.
Evil suggests a ransom of $1 million that ...