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Johnny English (Widescreen Edition)

Johnny English (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Johnny English
Review: Johnny English

If you walked into the movies thinking that Johnny English (PG) would be so funny that you would have to leave the room on account that you that you were laughing too loud? Then guess again.

Johnny English is a pretty good movie, but it only made me snicker once. The only funny part is toward the end of the movie. The rest of it I would call an adventure not a comedy.

The movie starts out when all of the agents die in an explosion except for one who goes by, Johnny English. Johnny gets put on the case that agent one was on to.

Johnny attends a party at a building that has the jewels of England stored and locked up inside of it. Soon someone steals the jewels and Johnny is after that guy along with his assistant, Bluff.

Along the way Johnny makes alot of mistakes including capturing the wrong bad guy twice, jumping off a plane and landing on the wrong building, and more. Except all of his mistakes are extremely obvious.

I would probably give this movie two and one-half stars and if I were you I would rent it because Peter Howit's movie is good put it's not oscar star quality.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What u guys thinkin?
Review: This is a great Movie! if u guys didn't like it then **** u!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Funny and Great Movie for the Whole Family
Review: Johnny English is a great movie. It's about a secret agent who's name is Johnny English, who also teams up with a guy called Buff. They are trying to see who stole the queen of englands crown and jewls. They figure out who it was pretty fast and the bad guy wants to become the king of England! it is a great family movie. My only neggative is they didn't do a good job of rating it. This movie is rated PG and it should be rated PG13 at least because at the end you see someones private for about 20 seconds. Other then that it's a great family movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Comes Up A Little Short
Review: As I watched JOHNNY ENGLISH, I was constantly reminded of the Peter Sellers' Pink Panther movies. Unfortunately, JOHNNY ENGLISH suffered from the comparison. The style and feel is quite similar, and Rowan Atkinson is a funny guy, but many of the gags looked vaguely familiar. When Johnny was practicing his karate moves, I kept expecting Kato to jump out from hiding. Of course, he never did. Much of the movie is like that, and it suffered from the comparison.

JOHNNY ENGLISH also needed more of a plot. The professional reviewer above describes it as "tepid", and I agree. It's supposed to be a spoof, so it can get away with being something of a cliche, but despite some creative gags, the plot just doesn't go far. In fact, it would have helped if some of the deleted scenes had been left in. The movie's not very long, so it's not as if they wouldn't fit. For example, the quick shot of John Malkovich's position in the royal family tree is much more meaningful if the scenes that show him bumping off other distant family members is left in. So is his lethal elevator.

JOHNNY ENGLISH has some funny moments, but Atkinson's character comes across as a poor man's version of Inspector Clouseau. This is a comparison that Atkinson should try to avoid. Not that I didn't enjoy this film. I did. But it isn't good enough to rise above a mediocre three stars, nor did I enjoy it enough to want to watch it several times. That, in my book, makes it worth renting, but not purchasing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Incredible!
Review: Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English is an absolutely incredible combination. The movie is hilarious, and has most of the spectators in hysterics by the end. After swallowing the overdramatic "Die Another Day", this spy movie is a funny relief.
The sense of humor is not obscene or vulgar. It is more refined than "Meet the Parents" and hence I recommend this to anyone who likes a good laugh.
The characters are fantastic, the music is great, and the plot is the best of them all. Have fun watching!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Difficulties with DVD playback
Review: Tried playing this DVD on an older Hitachi DVD player and on my computer. It was a 'no go' right from the start. Playback froze up on the DVD player and jumped around on the computer. I suppose this is the result of some brain-dead anti-piracy feature. Rowan Atkinson could play the role of the Universal exec who thought that up!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Johnny English - Blasphemy scene
Review: I found this movie very offensive, they wrote in "Jesus is coming, look busy" with black marker over the dirty buttcrack of some guy. I couldn't watch this movie after that, and I turned it off. I wouldn't recommend it for any Christian to watch.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It was disappointing.
Review: Rowan Atkinson is hilarous as Mr. Bean. I could not stop laughing when I watched "The Rat Race". I was in the mood to laugh so I rented this movie. After 20 minutes, I stopped watching it. I found it to stupid. The scene at the gravesight was to ridiculous for words. After seeing the scene with Rowan trying to investigate how the thieves got away with the jewelry was just plain dumb. I could not waste any more of my time watching this movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: DOESN'T PASS THE SMELL TEST
Review: There's a reason this movie bombed at the box office. It stinks. Mr. Bean has a go at playing Bond in this mildly amusing spy spoof. After having (...)erotic dreams about being Agent One, Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) indirectly kills Agent One by providing faulty entry codes for one of his missions. Later, at Agent One's funeral, the rest of the agents are blown into oblivion when Bean allows a bomb to slip into the funeral in Agent One's coffin.

From there the film deteriorates into Bean's bumbling attempts to recover the stolen Royal Crown Jewels. Few laughs and if you're watching too late at night you'll be fighting the impulse to fall asleep. Not too offensive for the kiddies, though.

Save your money.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Is it perfect? No. Is it funny? Bloody right!
Review: This film reminds me a little of Pink Panther, a little of Don Knotts, and lots of Bean. It's silly humor at the highest. There are jokes for all, though some won't like them all. A few of the jokes were in the gutter which will offend the easily offended. But Bond (the series this parodies) would offend those people as well, so I doubt they're going to be seeking out Johnny English. The DVD is fine. It looks great, sounds great, and has a few nice extras. I always like deleted scenes, but this would have been a perfect film to have a blooper real. All in all...well worth the $. Especially considering it makes for a wonderful party film, no one saw it at the theater, it's really funny, and you could make a drinking game. Start with a drink every time English falls down or every time Malkovich says "English" with his silly accent.


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