Plot synopsis
Dr Evil is sentenced to a maximum-security prison for 400 years. However, he kidnaps Austin’s father, Nigel Powers, who is also a British spy, and hides him. Austin visits Dr Evil in prison to ask him where Nigel has been hidden. Dr Evil says the question is not where but when, as he is hidden in time!
Dr Evil will only tell Austin where and when if he can be transferred to a normal prison to be with his beloved Mini Me. Austin agrees and finds his father is being held at Goldmember’s Club 69 in New York City in 1975. Austin Powers travels back in his time-machine car (more like a pimp mobile than a DeLorean) to find his father.
He rescues Nigel, with the help of undercover agent, Foxxy Cleopatra. But Goldmember recaptures Nigel and returns with him to 2002 in Dr Evil’s time machine. Austin and Foxxy return to 2002 in his car, where they discover that Dr Evil has escaped from prison.
He has a new lair close to Japan, where he is planning his next evil operation with Goldmember. Austin and Foxxy go there to save Nigel and also the world!
My comments
Dr Evil’s time machine transports a body through time, whereas Austin Powers’ time machine car carries its occupants through time. The first film of the trilogy dealt with changing the future, and the second with changing the past. This one does not try to change either. It is about using a time machine to hide someone in another time, thus making them harder to find.
Summary of time travel
Dr Evil kidnaps Nigel and hides him in 1975, so he must believe that the timeline will converge whatever changes he makes to the past, so that the present remains unaffected by these actions. The past is therefore open and converges. Since Austin has brought Foxxy with him to 2002, he will now have a different future with her compared to the future he would have had if he had not brought her back, so the future must be open.
Category of time travel
Science fiction: time-travel transporter and also a time-travel vehicle.
Model of time
Open past, open future with a converging timeline.
