Johnny English

Johnny English

Mr. Bean meets Mr. Bond in Johnny English, a spy spoof that skewers the genre with Rowan Atkinson's trademark brand of veddy-British slapstick. It's a bit half-baked as a wannabe franchise, but Atkinson's creation of a new screen persona is just promising enough to warrant a sequel, despite critics' complaints that Austin Powers had already exhausted the spy-spoof's potential. Poppycock! Atkinson's gift for physical and, in this case, even verbal humor will surely please his devoted fans, even when a rather tepidly comedic screenplay prevents the British funnyman from reaching new heights of absurdity. As bumbling superspy Johnny English, who gains top-level MI-7 clearance after inadvertently causing a colleague's demise, Atkinson breathes life into gags that are too familiar to earn such an amusing revival. With John Malkovich as a smarmy Frenchman determined to overthrow the British monarchy, and Natalie Imbruglia as Johnny's comely comrade-in-arms, this slight but enjoyable comedy gives Atkinson plenty of opportunity to mug it up as only he can. --Jeff Shannon

Director(s): Peter Howitt
Production: Universal Pictures
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2003
88
$27,972,410
Website
9,389 Views
He knows no fear. He knows no danger. He knows nothing.
Prepare for British Intelligence.
The star of Mr. Bean is now Her Majesty's most trusted agent.
He's the kind of secret agent the Secret Service keeps secret.
When it comes to secret agents, there's the smooth, there's the sophisticated... and there's Johnny English.

Pegasus:
It's an unmitigated disaster, English!

Johnny English:
I couldn't agree more, sir.

Pegasus:
Well, we need to get those jewels back, English, and fast! [English is momentarily distracted by the sight of Pegasus's secretary (who he accidentally tranquilized earlier) scooting past the doors outside in a wheelchair, glaring at him] Now tell me about this assailant. Because when they searched the room later, there was no sign of him.

Johnny English:
[Uncomfortable; the 'assailant' was made up by him to account for him accidentally knocking a man out] Well, the man was clearly a professional. He must have escaped while the Queen was being sedated.

Pegasus:
But he's the only lead we've got, English! We have to find him. [A man with a laptop walks into the room] Oh, come in. This is-this is Roger from Data Support. He'll produce a likeness based on your description. So tell us, what did this man look like?

Johnny English:
Well, he was... big.

Roger:
Hair colour?

Johnny English:
[looks around the room for ideas and spots a fruitbowl] Umm... orange.

Pegasus:
[skeptical] Orange?

Johnny English:
Mmh. And curly. Well, frizzy, actually. Frizzy sort of thing.

Roger [writing down into his laptop] Frizzy.

Johnny English:
An eye patch, broken nose, very few teeth. Two, I would say at the most. And a scar on his cheek... in the shape... of a banana.

Roger:
Which cheek?

Johnny English:
Both cheeks. They sort of met in the middle.

Pegasus:
Are you sure about this, English?

[Pegasus shows him the likeness, accompanied with a scare chord:
it resembles a cross between a toothless pirate and a clown]

Johnny English:
[surprised by made-up appearance] AH! Oh, that's him, sir. An uncanny resemblance. Why, it's just as if he's in the room with us.


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