Austin 'Danger' Powers is a 60s hipster secret agent masquerading as a fashion photographer whilst enjoying all that swinging London has to offer. Having failed to assassinate Powers yet again, arch nemesis Dr Evil has himself cryogenically frozen (along with his cat Mr Bigglesworth) and sent into orbit so that he can return at a later date to freely terrorize the planet. Dedicated to the last, Austin follows suit. That later date transpires to be 1997. Dr Evil reappears on the scene, so British Intelligence thaws the only agent they have capable of thwarting Evil's nefarious plans to hold the world to ransom for 1 million dollars.... but a lot has changed in the intervening years, so how will Austin cope with a world where people are no longer having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment? Will he still be sound as a pound?