Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imburgia, Ben Miller, John Malkovitch, directed by Paul Howitt
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| Johnny English(2003): 2 Stars Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imburgia, Ben Miller, John Malkovitch, directed by Paul Howitt |
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| I hate to say it but this movie would have been easier to enjoy if we hadn�t been recently flooded with James Bond spoofs in the form of the Austin Powers trilogy. Still, Jonny English becomes pretty unique within the bumbling spy genre when it doesn�t try to mock everything in sight and insert as much bathroom humor as they can fit into every minute. Rowan Atkinson plays the title character, a third-rate spy who comes to power when everyone else is killed in an explosion he accidentally caused, Ben Miller plays cinematic history�s most overqualified sidekick, Natalie Imburgia exhibits a playful sense of humor as the steaming love interest, and John Malkovitch�s performance as the villain is choked up in an annoyingly thick French accent. The humor, revolving around English�s stupidity, gets to be repetitive and the film makes the mistake of caring too much about a plot not worth caring about. | |||||