How Many Austin Powers Movies Are There?

The Austin Powers series is three theatrical films and no spin-offs, released in the United States between 1997 and 2002. Jay Roach directed every one, and Mike Myers stars in all of them as the British spy Austin Powers and the villain Dr. Evil, plus extra roles as the sequels pile on. If you want a viewing sequence, the Austin Powers movies in order page covers it, and the Austin Powers movies hub gathers everything else.

The full list is Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). Release order and story order are the same, so there is no chronological puzzle to solve, and the three together make the Austin Powers trilogy.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach, reached US theaters on May 2, 1997, and runs 89 minutes. Austin, a British spy from 1967, is thawed in 1997 to stop Dr. Evil, who has found that his lieutenant Number Two turned the company Virtucon into a legitimate business and who demands $100 billion from the world anyway. The film also introduces Dr. Evil's teenage son Scott, who wants nothing to do with his father. It cost $16.5 million to make and earned about $68 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. An AV Club oral history describes effects that look cheap because of the budget, which is exactly what you would expect from a production this lean.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me followed in the US in June 1999 and runs 95 minutes. Dr. Evil travels back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo, and Austin follows with help from the American agent Felicity Shagwell, played by Heather Graham. This is where Verne Troyer arrives as Mini-Me, a small clone of Dr. Evil, and where Myers adds Fat Bastard to his list of roles. The budget doubled to $33 million, and the film earned about $314 million worldwide, the biggest result of the three.

Austin Powers in Goldmember arrived on July 26, 2002, with a 94 minute runtime and the largest budget at $63 million. Austin travels to 1975 to rescue his father, Nigel Powers, played by Michael Caine, and teams up with Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyoncé, while Dr. Evil plots with the title villain to pull a meteor toward Earth with a tractor beam. Box Office Mojo credits it with about $297 million worldwide. The film also drew an objection before release, when MGM and Danjaq challenged the Goldmember title, according to UPI.

The trilogy earned about $678 million worldwide, using Box Office Mojo figures, and the money tells a clear story about how the series grew. The first film was a modest $16.5 million production with visibly thrifty effects. The second more than doubled that budget to $33 million and became the series high at about $314 million. The third nearly doubled the budget again to $63 million, yet earned about $297 million worldwide, so it did not top the middle film. Goldmember did edge The Spy Who Shagged Me domestically, $213 million against $206 million. For the full breakdown, see Austin Powers box office.

The structure is also worth comparing. Each sequel keeps the thaw-and-pursue setup of the first film but moves the chase to a new decade: 1997, then 1969, then 1975. In my opinion, that time travel hook is what lets the series reuse Dr. Evil's plans without repeating a single location, though where each film lands in quality is a matter of taste, and Austin Powers movies ranked handles it.

The series is a send-up of the spy films of James Bond, and Austin Powers bond parody lists the specific targets.

A fourth film is in development, but nothing official has been announced. On June 16, 2026, Mike Myers answered "Yes" on Trevor Noah's World Cup Watch Party when a fan asked whether Austin Powers 4 will happen, according to NME. He gave no details on timing, story, cast, crew or studio, and there is no greenlight, studio announcement or release date. A 2016 report of a Myers deal for a fourth film did not lead to a production either. Current status lives on the Austin Powers 4 page, and the Austin Powers cast page shows who has appeared across the three films so far.

For now, the count stays at three. If you are new to the series, start with the first film and let the sequels build on it, then check where to watch Austin Powers to see which services carry each one.