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Johnny English Reborn
Few if any major release films have succeeded at being more British than Johnny English Reborn. And for those of you that still have memories of the less than inspired first take on this James Bond parody, this latest version is a marked improvement.

Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the bumbling super sleuth of the film’s title character and is joined this time around by the always lovely American born Gillian Anderson, she of X-Files fame. The jokes that follow the basic template of the Bond films are very understated and rely on Atkinson’s psychical comic talents quite heavily.

The preposterous gadgetry provides a lot of the film’s most obvious laughs while the storyline, very basic as it is holds the rest of the film together, just. It involves a treat to world peace, as is always the case and lots of double crosses and skulduggery.

In a break from most of the Bond films, Reborn doesn’t open with a wild action sequence and thus takes a while to warm up the audience. The end results are more amusing experience than hilarious laugh fest but by film’s end it does its best to win you over. The success of this however is rather heavily dependent on your love of all things British.
Rob Hudson
www.johnnyenglishreborn.com


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