An average movie

Honestly, I didn’t like much ‘Johnny English’ but, at least, it was miles better than the dreadful ‘Bean’ so I was rather willing to give this sequel a chance. Personally, I wonder if really anyone was asking for another installment but I guess that Rowan Atkinson still has a strong fan-base. Anyway, it was not bad and even slightly better than the previous installment but it was still nothing brilliant whatsoever. I mean, sometimes they got it right and it was a nice parody of James Bond but it never lasted long enough and then you always had some very underwhelming joke(s) ruining the whole effect. It is like the wheelchair thingy for example, it did look pretty awesome at first but it went along for just way too long and at some point, you just wish they moved towards something else. Furthermore, I thought that Rosamund Pike was just completely wasted here. I mean, she seems to be quite talented but she seems to always pick up the wrong parts and she didn’t belong in a comedy/parody like this one. Eventually, this whole thing about Rowan Atkinson portraying a loser spy agent was just too similar to Peter Sellers’s Inspecteur Clouseau but Atkinson never managed to really convince me in this character. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really awful, it was still pretty damned average and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10