Perfectly timed to ride the hip London Swings Again thang, Mike Myers' British superagent Austin Powers is the comic creation of the year - a snaggle-toothed, horn-rimmed dandy straight out of '60s Soho, who wakes in 1997 to find the world has moved on. Velvet suits and flappy cravats are no longer the epitome of cool, women like Liz Hurley think twice before jumping into bed with chest-wigged goofballs, and it's hard to be a sex symbol when you've got a dentist's nightmare for a gob. Thus this supremely self-regarding '60s trendsetter is suddenly the least with-it man on the planet - and everyone knows it but him.
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