Johnny English Movie Review 2003

Johnny English (Atkinson) is a deskbound member of the espionage community who's promoted to active status due to some unfortunate circumstances that he caused. The klutz must then prevent an evil French businessman (Malkovich) from dethroning the Queen and taking over. Anglophiles, fans of Rowan Atkinson, and toilet/slapstick humor lovers will enjoy this stale crumpet, but there's not much here for anyone else Stateside. Atkinson manages to squeeze some laughs from a poor script with his supreme gift for physical comedy, however, and Malkovich gleefully throws himself over the top. Imbruglia, making her feature debut, is game, but doesn't have much to do.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 86 minutes.
Originally from British, United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Spies & Espionage, Genre Spoofs, Great Britain

Screenplay

Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, William Davies

Cast

Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, Kevin McNally, Tim Pigott-Smith, Douglas McFerran, Greg Wise, Oliver Ford Davies

Cinematography

Remi Adefarasin

Director

Peter Howitt

Music

Ed Shearmur

Other

Peter Lindsay, Nick Angel, Robin Sales, Chris Seagers, John Frankish, Jill Taylor

Producer

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Mark Huffam, Universal Pictures, Working Title Productions, StudioCanal, Universal Pictures