Johnny English Strikes Again

 

Johnny English Strikes Again 2018

• Director: David Kerr
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Adam James, cameos by Michael Gambon and Charles Dance
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Rowan Atkinson – Mr Bean’s Holiday, Johnny English 1&2, Keeping Mum, Love Actually, Black Adder, Mr Bean, Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Ben Miller – What We Did on Our Holiday, Doctor Who, Primeval, John English
• Olga Kurylenko – Quantum of Solace, Paris je t’aime
• Emma Thompson – Effie Gray, Last Christmas, The Children Act, Alone in Berlin, The Love Punch, Beautiful Creatures, Harry Potter, Nanny McPhee, Stranger than Fiction, Angels in America, Love Actually, Wit, The Winter Guest, Sense and Sensibility, In the Name of the Father, The Remans of the Day, Much Ado about Nothing, Peter’s Friends, Howards End, Dead Again, Impromptu, Henry V, Fortunes of War, Tutti-Frutti
• Adam James – Much Ado about Nothing, Doctor Who, Hustle, Last Chance Harvey, Bonekickers, Cold Lazarus
• Why? The other two.
• Seen:  18 September 2022      

       With Emma Thompson as Prime Minister this is bound to have some class.

       When a cyberattack reveals the identities of all the British Secret Service’s agents Johnny English is summoned out of retirement as a teacher (who secretly teaches the kids espionage) to discover the villain.

       Of course, it’s silly, that’s it’s raison d’etre. Atkinson is still unsurpassable in hilarious nonsense and the spoofs on spy movies and high tech are funny.

       Let’s not get too serious here, nobody expects, or wants, dreary, intellectual, pretentious Ingmar Bergman here.

       I’m laughing out loud. 

3 ½ * of 5