Rowan Atkinson returns as the bumbling spy Johnny English, but this second helping is weaker than it should be
Reheated, anyway. Rowan Atkinson's Clouseau-Bond spoof is given another go-around, a very broad comedy turn that, like his Mr Bean character, is designed to do well in foreign markets and territories. Atkinson is the notoriously incompetent agent Johnny English, who for years has been living in a Tibetan monastery, achieving comedy transcendental enlightenment and zen acceptance of his career catastrophe since messing up a job in Mozambique. But spy chief Pamela Thornton (Gillian Anderson) brings him in from the cold for a special mission, tackling a dastardly international conspiracy to assassinate the Chinese premier. English finds himself in contact with CIA man Titus Fisher (Richard Schiff), breezy Brit spy Simon Ambrose (Dominic West) and beautiful special agent Kate Sumner, played dead-straight by Rosamund Pike. Many of the gags are good,...
Reheated, anyway. Rowan Atkinson's Clouseau-Bond spoof is given another go-around, a very broad comedy turn that, like his Mr Bean character, is designed to do well in foreign markets and territories. Atkinson is the notoriously incompetent agent Johnny English, who for years has been living in a Tibetan monastery, achieving comedy transcendental enlightenment and zen acceptance of his career catastrophe since messing up a job in Mozambique. But spy chief Pamela Thornton (Gillian Anderson) brings him in from the cold for a special mission, tackling a dastardly international conspiracy to assassinate the Chinese premier. English finds himself in contact with CIA man Titus Fisher (Richard Schiff), breezy Brit spy Simon Ambrose (Dominic West) and beautiful special agent Kate Sumner, played dead-straight by Rosamund Pike. Many of the gags are good,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With Bond still in limbo and a fourth Bourne movie living it up in development Hell, the universe has somehow left a special-agent-shaped hole for Johnny English to fill once more.
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have confirmed that principle photography has begun on Johnny English Reborn, with filming already having taken place at the Studio’s paddock tank and on the Pinewood lot.
Expected to take 13 weeks to film, this second instalment of the comic spy-thriller will see Rowan Atkinson return for more hi-jinx - his character having spent the years since his first adventure honing his unorthodox skills.
With Natalie Imbruglia not expected to return, Reborn will instead co-star Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as the agencies director, Rosamund Pike (, An Education) as a behavioural psychologist and Dominic West (The Wire) as Special Agent Simon Ambrose.
The Working Title produced sequel will be directed by Oliver Parker (St...
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have confirmed that principle photography has begun on Johnny English Reborn, with filming already having taken place at the Studio’s paddock tank and on the Pinewood lot.
Expected to take 13 weeks to film, this second instalment of the comic spy-thriller will see Rowan Atkinson return for more hi-jinx - his character having spent the years since his first adventure honing his unorthodox skills.
With Natalie Imbruglia not expected to return, Reborn will instead co-star Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as the agencies director, Rosamund Pike (, An Education) as a behavioural psychologist and Dominic West (The Wire) as Special Agent Simon Ambrose.
The Working Title produced sequel will be directed by Oliver Parker (St...
- 10/4/2010
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The third Apprentice winner has decided to leave his job with Lord Alan Sugar. Simon Ambrose triumphed in the show in 2007 and has been training to become a surveyor while working at Sugar's real estate company Amsprop. However, Pa reports that he has now chosen to start his own property development firm. "Having completed my studies, I felt it was the right time for me to use the invaluable experience I have gained at Amsprop to start up my own," he said. "I would like to sincerely thank the staff at Amsprop (more)...
- 4/27/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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