Johnny English Reborn (2011)
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Gillian Anderson
Synopsis:
Disgraced MI7 agent English is brought back from the wilderness to gather evidence concerning a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier. He uncovers a triangular organisation linked to the very fiasco that brought about his dismissal.
Review:
Again the character's flukish successes and unflinching audacity are balanced by gaffes and ineptitude, and again his bungling agent is aided by a more astute sidekick and expert glamorous female colleague. The mix as before, then, though it is all a bit strained this time, typified by its attempt to trump the Archbishop of Canterbury profanation of the first film with the lèse-majesté of this one. There is a nice sequence parodying the free-running pursuit of such as Casino Royale, with Atkinson ambling through a Hong Kong tenement, taking the lift, etc. while never losing his adversary. Cheerful, undemanding entertainment, superior to a thousand American spoofs of the Scary Movie fraternity.
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Gillian Anderson
Synopsis:
Disgraced MI7 agent English is brought back from the wilderness to gather evidence concerning a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier. He uncovers a triangular organisation linked to the very fiasco that brought about his dismissal.
Review:
Again the character's flukish successes and unflinching audacity are balanced by gaffes and ineptitude, and again his bungling agent is aided by a more astute sidekick and expert glamorous female colleague. The mix as before, then, though it is all a bit strained this time, typified by its attempt to trump the Archbishop of Canterbury profanation of the first film with the lèse-majesté of this one. There is a nice sequence parodying the free-running pursuit of such as Casino Royale, with Atkinson ambling through a Hong Kong tenement, taking the lift, etc. while never losing his adversary. Cheerful, undemanding entertainment, superior to a thousand American spoofs of the Scary Movie fraternity.
Country: US/FR/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Gillian Anderson
Synopsis:
Disgraced MI7 agent English is brought back from the wilderness to gather evidence concerning a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier. He uncovers a triangular organisation linked to the very fiasco that brought about his dismissal.
Review:
Again the character's flukish successes and unflinching audacity are balanced by gaffes and ineptitude, and again his bungling agent is aided by a more astute sidekick and expert glamorous female colleague. The mix as before, then, though it is all a bit strained this time, typified by its attempt to trump the Archbishop of Canterbury profanation of the first film with the lèse-majesté of this one. There is a nice sequence parodying the free-running pursuit of such as Casino Royale, with Atkinson ambling through a Hong Kong tenement, taking the lift, etc. while never losing his adversary. Cheerful, undemanding entertainment, superior to a thousand American spoofs of the Scary Movie fraternity.