Movie Review - Johnny English

Another one of the movies which i had a peek at recently was the 2003 Rowan Atkinson starrer Johnny English. Mr Atkinson, being a funny man, is hard to resist. The movie is a spoof on the Bond series.

The Plot:
Johnny English(played by Rowan Atkinson) is a British secret agent of the MI7. He works at the office, and is nothing more than a paper pusher. Once, during the funeral of the topmost agent, where the incharge for security was Johnny English, an explosion occurs, and all the agent die.

But meanwhile, the security of the queen's jewels becomes an issue. The secret service suspects a multi-millionare jail operator Pascal Sauvage - a frenchman , to be behind this. Johnny is posted at the place of exhibit to protect the jewels, but the thieves somehow manage to steal the jewels and escape.

While investigating for the theft, English and his associate reach Pascal's hideout where his men have the Queen jewels. Because of a blunder, the thieves escape with the jewels in a hearse. English and his asscociate Bough chase him, but lose him in the way and track the wrong hearse. When they realise their blunder, they somehow manage to get out of the situation.

Later it comes out that the MI7 was correct, and Pascal is the mastermind behind the theft. He intends to control Britain.

Meanwhile, the MI7 chief discontinues English from the case when English suggests that he suspects Pascal to be the mastermind of the theft. English decides to inspect the office of Sauvage. When they do, they find out about Sauvage's plans to crown himself as the King of England. They meet Special agent Lorna Campbell(played by Natalie Imburglia) of the Interpol who also is tracking Sauvage's activities, but unfortunately they get caught. The MI7 chief discontinues him from the case. This breaks English's confidence.

Pascal's men break into the Buckingham palace, forcefully make the Queen sign a will to crown Sauvage the king, and hide her. Meanwhile, the case gets reassigned to Lorna, and she seeks English's assistance in catching Sauvage. They reach the outskirts of Pascal's secret hideout palace and break in the night before Pascal would be sworn in as the King. There they find out that pascal intends to convert the whole of England into one large jail, but in the process, get caught.

They manage to escape when Bough comes behind tracking them. They escape, and break into the ceremony. There, in a string of events, English tries to expose him, but Sauvage orders him to be thrown away.. Sauvage gets irritated of all the drama, and utters ill things to the British. English escapes the guards, and just before the crown gets placed on sauvage's head, English pushes him and to everyone's surprise, English gets crowned. English immediately understanding the changed situations, orders to arrest Sauvage. People roar in praise of English's order.

The Queen gets restored of her powers. She awards English with a knighthood. English goes on a vacation with Loren, where he makes a blunder which leaves Loren in a pool. The End

Final Take:
The movie is very funny. Rowan Atkinson plays his part wonderfully. Natalie Imburglia suits the role well. Others play their part well.

I watch the movie twice, because it was so funny. Because it mocks the British monarchy and the church,it has been rated much lower than what it deserves. This movie is more funny than most of the Mr Bean movies, which are low on dialogues.

My rating for Johnny English : 4 out of 5.