Johnny English
Dir: Peter Howitt
2003
**
Johnny English is for all intents and purposes an extended Barclay Card television advert circa 1994 or thereabouts. It's not bad as it goes but Rowan Atkinson is funnier than this. Give me Blackadder over Mr. Bean any day of the week. I think what people from outside the UK don't realise is that he was doing this kind of stuff years before the films and so to us they just come across as out of date poor copies of old material, which is exactly what they are. This is essentially Mr. Bean does Bond. The car chase annoyed me in particular, I'm sure anyone else with the slightest of geographical knowledge of London will feel the same.