Johnny English Strikes Again
(2018)His licence... renewed. His intelligence... restricted.
Rowan Atkinson returns to save the world, for the third time, as secret agent buffoon Johnny English. When a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, English is the secret service’s last hope. Called out of retirement, and with few skills and analogue methods, he must overcome the challenges of modern technology to track down the hacker.
-
Directed by David Kerr (TV's 'That Mitchell and Webb Look')
Starring Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Miller, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacy, Miranda Hennessy, David Mumeni, Samantha Russell
Written by Robert Wade, Rowan Atkinson
Out Now (On-Demand,
DVD or Blu-Ray)
On Demand, DVD & Blu-Ray
Available from 6 providers
Flicks Review
The Peoples' Reviews
Reviewed & Rated by
Your rating & review
Rate / Review this movieRate and/or review
Johnny English Strikes Again
BY PercyM superstar
It has glimmers of (actual) comedic moments, but fails to deliver any form of originality or connection whilst relying mainly on the talents of Atkinson.
BY adeej superstar
BY mmm123 wannabe
Johnny English is such a horrible person - he takes the credit away from others and really is completely incompetent. Difficult to watch the film as it was so cringy. I did laugh really hard during the restaurant scene with the lobster though.
Showing 3 of 3 reviews. See all reviews
The Press Reviews
Try as he might, Rowan Atkinson's slapstick pratfalls and rubbery expressions can't stretch over the feature's brazen attempt to rehash past glories. Full Review
Screenwriter William Davies has to tread carefully, not pushing the implicit conservatism too far: English is skeptical about women in the military, for instance, but eventually learns to move with the times. Full Review
The pace is brisk, the jokes make up for in quantity what they lack in quality and the film never resorts to sleaze or meanness to earn its laughs. Knock yourself out. Full Review
BY Adam Fresco Flicks Writer
If you liked the first two, here’s another. If you didn’t, well you should know better by now. This being the third instalment in the kids' comedy spy-spoof series says a lot for the enduring engagement of family-friendly slapstick.There’s little new here that Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau didn’t trip over in The Pink Panther, or Leslie Nielsen didn’t knock down in The Naked Gun, but the script sticks to the slapstick schtick.... More
As the titular agent, Rowan Atkinson again brings Johnny English a puffed-up and wholly misplaced sense of confidence, despite his character’s innate clumsiness and woefully inadequate skills. Far less cuddly and sweet than Mr Bean, Atkinson imbues his spy with oodles of comic arrogance but third time around the tropes have become clichés, and the pratfalls and misunderstandings predictable and uninspired.
The most fun for grown-ups comes in the form of Emma Thompson playing the Prime Minister as, in what passes for a plot, Johnny English is forced out of retirement to hunt down a hacker who has revealed the identities of every undercover agent in the British Secret Service–leaving Johnny their worst best hope.
Director David Kerr keeps it fast-paced fun, with the jokes piling up and the physical comedy crashing down in an instantly forgettable franchise finale. Yet, Atkinson and his fellow cast go at it with an admirable energy, and there’s plenty of innocent fun and giggles to be had for young ones happy to laugh at the self-important adults slipping, tripping and falling over themselves to be funny.Hide
Care to comment?