Rowan Atkinson managed to give us a hilarious spy parody eight years back with
Johnny English, but should his character really have been
Reborn in a sequel? That's really a matter of opinion, but it's a shame there weren't a few more laughs packed into this one. Atkinson gives it his all, from breaking the movement knob on a chair to being controlled by a secret drug, yet we really seem to have lost the key ingredient that made the original such a hit- the rest of the cast. Dropping Ben Miller's Agent Bough, Natalie Imbruglia's Agent Campbell and John Malkovich's Pascal Savage (although the latter departure was perhaps inevitable) really hits the comedy hard, seeing as Atkinson struggles to maintain chemistry with newcomers like Dominic West and Gillian Anderson. Of course, the plot is typically cheesy, and the movie boasts an opening sequence that feels ripped straight out of a Bond flick, but last time the quality of the comedy and the star-studded cast helped to flesh the feature out, whereas here these elements make it feel rather cheap and lacklustre. It's not terrible by any strech of the imagination- you'll undoubtedly feel like your cash was well spent- yet when we've had
The Hangover: Part II and
The Inbetweeners in the past few months, it's hard not to feel disappointed that a little more effort didn't go into
Johnny English: Reborn. Over and out...
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