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2003 spy comedy film

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Johnny English
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Peter Howitt
Written by	Neal Purvis Robert Wade William Davies
Produced by	Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Mark Huffam
Starring	Rowan Atkinson Natalie Imbruglia Ben Miller John Malkovich
Cinematography	Remi Adefarasin
Edited past	Robin Sales
Music by	Edward Shearmur
Production companies	StudioCanal Working Title Films
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (International) Mars Distribution (French republic)[ane]
Release dates	11 April 2003 (2003-04-11) (United Kingdom) 18 July 2003 (2003-07-18) (United States)
Running time	88 minutes[2]
Countries	United Kingdom[3] France U.s.[iv]
Language	English
Budget	$40 1000000[two]
Box office	$160.five one thousand thousand[2]

Johnny English (taglined in some countries as "Little Brother of James Bail") is a 2003 spy comedy film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and William Davies. It is a British-French venture produced by StudioCanal and Working Title Films, and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Starring Rowan Atkinson in the championship role, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller and John Malkovich, it is the first instalment of the Johnny English motion-picture show series and serves as a parody and homage to the spy genre, mainly the James Bond film series, as well as Atkinson'due south Mr. Bean character. The character is also related to Atkinson's bumbling spy character from a series of adverts in the United Kingdom for Barclaycard in the 1990s.

Released theatrically in the United States on xviii July 2003, the film met with mixed reviews from critics but was commercially successful and grossed $160 meg worldwide against a budget of $40 one thousand thousand.^[two] The film was released in the United Kingdom on xi April 2003 and topped the country's box office for the side by side 3 weekends, before being overtaken by X2.^{[5] [six] [seven]} It was followed by 2 sequels, Johnny English Reborn (2011) and Johnny English Strikes Again (2018).

Plot [edit]

Johnny English is a kindhearted but clumsy MI7 employee who dreams of becoming the acme and most trusted agent. After Agent Ane dies in a submarine accident unknowingly caused past English due to faulty access hatch codes, the remaining agents are killed past a bombing at Agent One's funeral once more due to English'due south incompetence by ii criminals working for a yet unrevealed villain, leaving English the lone surviving agent capable of finishing Agent One's mission.

Assigned to thwart a plot to steal the newly restored Crown Jewels in an consequence hosted past French prison owner Pascal Sauvage, English meets the mysterious Lorna Campbell at the jewels' unveiling at the Tower of London. During a sudden coma, the jewels are stolen. In the aftermath, English language accidentally knocks out the deputy head of security and pretends to fight an imaginary "assailant" to encompass his mistakes; he makes up a false description of the suspect to MI7 head Pegasus.

English and his assistant Angus Bough discover the jewels were removed via a hole dug beneath their display case. Following the tunnel, they confront the High german thieves Dieter Klein and Klaus Vendetta, who escape from their hideout in a hearse. After pursuing the wrong hearse, English gatecrashes a funeral and Bough pretends that he is an escaped lunatic in order to get him out of the situation.

Sauvage, who is revealed to be Klein and Vendetta's employer, informs the thieves that he bugged English's flat, and instructs them to take him eliminated. English and Bough relay their findings to Pegasus, who finds their claims absurd and warns English language against getting Sauvage involved. In a car park, English and Bough are attacked by Vendetta, who escapes after English mistakenly attacks Bough. English again encounters Campbell in a YO! Sushi eatery, recognising her pink motorcycle. Having seen her at 2 crime scenes, English's suspicions deepen when her records cannot be found on any government figurer.

English and Bough parachute into Sauvage's headquarters, but English language mistakenly lands on an identical tower, the Metropolis Infirmary. Reaching the correct building, the two larn that Sauvage, a descendant of Charles Edward Stuart, plans to make himself king, using an impostor to impersonate the Archbishop of Canterbury. English observes that the false Archbishop has a tattoo on his bottom maxim Jesus is coming — look busy. Campbell arrives, revealing herself to be an Interpol agent tracking Sauvage. With evidence of Sauvage's involvement, English crashes a reception hosted by Sauvage but is suspended past Pegasus for his clumsy actions.

With English having exposed his plans, Sauvage scraps his programme to apply the fake Archbishop and instead sends his minions to blackmail Queen Elizabeth II into abdicating her throne by threatening her corgis, causing the entire line of succession to be swept clean for Sauvage to go king. Campbell, now placed in charge of the assignment by Pegasus, visits English and convinces him to travel with her to Sauvage's French château to investigate. Eavesdropping on Sauvage's coming together with internationally renowned criminals, English and Campbell acquire he plans to transform all of mainland United kingdom into the globe's biggest prison house. The agents' cover is diddled when English accidentally activates a microphone; he attempts to steal an incriminating DVD, simply unknowingly takes the incorrect disc, before the two agents are taken prisoner.

Bough rescues English and Campbell, and the three race to stop Sauvage's coronation. English crashes the coronation and discovers that the Archbishop is 18-carat, post-obit a stint in which he exposes the Archbishop'south bare lesser in the erroneous assumption that it would comport the tattoo he had observed earlier. Undeterred, English orders Bough to play the incriminating DVD, merely to detect information technology is bugged footage of himself lip-syncing to ABBA'due south "Does Your Mother Know" in his underclothes. Sneaking away, English language swings in to steal St Edward'southward Crown from the Archbishop. Sauvage attempts to kill English language, who drops the crown. However, English language falls from the wire, lands on the throne, knocking Sauvage off and is crowned instead. In his kickoff and but act as king, English has Sauvage arrested and restores the Queen to the throne, merely requesting a knighthood every bit a reward.

Sauvage is awaiting trial for high treason, while English and Campbell drive to southern French republic. English accidentally ejects Campbell from his machine whilst attempting to osculation her, causing her to land in a swimming pool where Bough and a human matching the description of the "assailant" are on holiday.

Bandage [edit]

• Rowan Atkinson equally Johnny English
• Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna Campbell, an INTERPOL agent
• Ben Miller as Angus Bough, English's partner in the field
• John Malkovich every bit Pascal Sauvage, a French prison owner and descendant of James II
• Oliver Ford Davies equally the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Tim Pigott-Smith equally Pegasus, the head of MI7
• Kevin McNally as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Douglas McFerran as Klaus Vendetta, i of Sauvage'south minions
• Steve Nicolson every bit Dieter Klein, one of Sauvage's minions
• Tasha de Vasconcelos as the Exotic Woman in English's daydream
• Greg Wise equally Agent One, MI7's top agent whose expiry English is unknowingly responsible for
• Terence Harvey equally the Funeral Officer at Amanuensis Ane's funeral
• Nina Young every bit Pegasus' Secretary
• Rowland Davies as Sir Anthony Chevenix, Head of Royal Security
• Philippa Fordham every bit the Snobby Woman, whom English harasses at the Tower of London ceremony
• Prunella Scales as Queen Elizabeth Ii
• Tim Berrington as Roger, an MI7 agent who helps discover the identity of the "assaulter" at the Tower of London
• Simon Bernstein equally the Assailant, who English makes up to comprehend his fault
• Martin Lawton as the Hearse Commuter at the funeral English mistakenly crashes
• Neville Phillips equally the Priest at the funeral English mistakenly crashes
• Takuya Matsumoto as the Sushi Waiter
• Peter Tenn every bit the Sushi Bar Customer
• Sam Beazley every bit the Elderly Man at the Hospital
• Kevin Moore equally the Doctor
• Faruk Pruti as the Truth Serum Guard
• Marc Danbury as the Guard that holds Bough at gunpoint in Sauvage's role
• Jack Raymond as the French Reception Waiter
• Jenny Galloway every bit the Foreign Secretarial assistant
• Chris Tarrant as the Radio Journalist at Sauvage's coronation
• James Greene every bit the Scottish Bishop at Sauvage's coronation
• Clive Graham every bit the Welsh Bishop at Sauvage's coronation
• Trevor McDonald as the Newsreader, who reveals Sauvage's fate

Additionally, the film's manager Peter Howitt played a cameo in the film, equally the man Bender threatens to play the DVD at Sauvage'southward coronation.

Production [edit]

In March 2000, before the release of Maybe Baby, Atkinson signed up to star equally a spoof 007, with the news becoming official.^[8]

In July 2002, Johnny English primary photography commenced. The film shot for fourteen weeks, filming at Shepperton Studios, on location in London and St. Albans, and finally setting down in Monte Carlo for 2 days to complete filming the final scene.^[9] In September 2002, information technology was announced that Natalie Imbruglia would star alongside Atkinson.^[10]

The grapheme of Johnny English language himself is based on a similar grapheme called Richard Latham, who Atkinson played in a series of British television adverts for Barclaycard.^[11] The character of Bough (pronounced 'Boff') was retained from the adverts though some other actor, Henry Naylor, played the part in the ads. Some of the gags from the adverts made information technology into the motion picture, including English incorrectly identifying a waiter, and inadvertently shooting himself with a tranquilliser ballpoint pen.

Filming locations [edit]

• Some scenes were filmed at Canary Wharf in London—indeed, the motion picture duplicates the unmarried real belfry into ii identical ones (albeit on the real site) for the fictional London Hospital and Sauvage's headquarters at 1 Canada Square.
• The scenes set up in Westminster Abbey were filmed in St. Albans Abbey:^[12] though this connexion is solely unsaid through the dialogue—for this footage is never intercut with footage of the existent abbey'south exterior. The interior (with the televisual screen hiding the St Albans organ) is conspicuously St Albans. The choir singing in the coronation scene is St Albans Cathedral Choir.
• Both the exteriors and interiors in the opening credits sequence scene are in Mentmore Towers.^[13]
• The exterior and interior of MI7's headquarters which English enters at the outset is Freemasons' Hall, London,^[12] which is also used every bit Thames Business firm (the MI5 headquarters) in Spooks.
• The scenes where Johnny English language drives into Dover, Kent along the A20 road (with Dover Castle in the background) and and then enters the Port of Dover (with a "Dover Ferry Terminal" sign, Dover's Athol Terrace and the White Cliffs of Dover in the background) to grab a ferry to French republic, were all shot on location.^[14]
• The exterior of Sauvage'southward French château is actually the castle atop St Michael's Mountain in Cornwall.^[12]
• The scenes in Brompton Cemetery were filmed there.^[12]

Reception [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 33% based on 122 reviews with an average rating of 4.eight/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A tame spy spoof that elicits infrequent chuckles."^[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie an boilerplate form of "B" on an A+ to F calibration.^[17]

Soundtrack [edit]

All tracks were written past Edward Shearmur and performed by London Metropolitan Orchestra unless otherwise noted.

1. "A Human for All Seasons" (Hans Zimmer, Robbie Williams) – Robbie Williams
2. "Theme from Johnny English" (Howard Goodall)
3. "Russian Affairs"
4. "A Man of Sophistication"
5. "Kismet" (Written by Gay-Yee Westerhoff) – Bail
6. "Truck Chase"
7. "The Only Ones" – Moloko
8. "Parachute Drib"
9. "Pascal's Evil Programme"
10. "Theme from Johnny English (Salsa Version)" (Howard Goodall) – Bail
11. "Off the Instance"
12. "Cafe Conversation"
13. "Into Pascal's Lair"
14. "Zadok the Priest" – Handel
15. "Does Your Mother Know" – ABBA
16. "For England"
17. "Riviera Highway"
18. "Amanuensis No. 1"

Home media [edit]

Johnny English was released on VHS on 11 August 2003 and on DVD on 11 January 2004.^[eighteen] A DVD re-release, entitled Johnny English: Fully Loaded Edition, was released on xix September 2011, including bonus fabric about its sequel Johnny English Reborn. ^[19]

The film was released on Blu-ray on 28 February 2012,^[twenty] along with its sequel Johnny English Reborn. The film was released on Netflix in February 2016.^[21]

Sequels [edit]

A sequel, titled Johnny English Reborn, was released in October 2011. In September 2010, filming for the sequel began, vii years after the release of the original, and concluded in March 2011. The film follows Johnny English, now training in Asia after beingness disgraced in an earlier mission, equally he attempts to foil a plot to electrocute the Chinese Premier, while a mole is establish in "MI7" and English has to bargain with existence framed.

In May 2017, it was appear that pre-production had begun on a third motion-picture show titled, Johnny English Strikes Again, which was released on 5 October 2018.

Come across also [edit]

• Outline of James Bond
• List of British films of 2003
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, a 1997 comedy film similarly lampooning the spy genre

References [edit]

1. ^ "Motion-picture show #20314: Johnny English". Lumiere . Retrieved xi April 2021.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Johnny English (2003)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 13 Jan 2009.
3. ^ Lemire, Christy (21 October 2011). "Picture review: 'Johnny English' fires wildly, but by and large misses comic targets". Deseret News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 22 October 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
4. ^ "Johnny English (2003)". BFI . Retrieved 23 October 2021.
5. ^ "Weekend box part 11th April 2003 - 13th April 2003". 25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
6. ^ "Weekend box role 18th April 2003 - 20th April 2003". 25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved xxx December 2016.
7. ^ "Weekend box office 25th April 2003 - 27th April 2003". 25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
8. ^ "Rowan Atkinson to star as spoof 007". The Guardian. two March 2000. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
9. ^ "Johnny English - Production Notes". contactmusic.com. Retrieved nine February 2016.
10. ^ "Natalie Imbruglia Takes on Hollywood". movie theater.com. 20 September 2002. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
11. ^ Stuart Heritage (13 April 2011). "Johnny English Reborn: I spy with my niggling eye …". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 October 2011.
12. ^ ^{a b c d} "Johnny English (2003)". British Film Locations. 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
13. ^ "Johnny English filming locations". UK Onscreen. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
14. ^ Kent Moving-picture show Part. "Kent Film Part Johnny English Film Focus".
15. ^ "Johnny English Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 12 August 2010.
16. ^ "Johnny English language Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic . Retrieved 20 Nov 2011.
17. ^ "Dwelling house". CinemaScore . Retrieved 28 February 2022.
18. ^ Johnny English (2003) , retrieved fifteen November 2018
19. ^ Johnny English - Fully Loaded Edition [DVD] , retrieved 1 February 2022
20. ^ "DVDs Release Dates - Latest Info on New DVD Releases". DVDs Release Dates . Retrieved fifteen November 2018.
21. ^ MaFt.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, Johnny English (2003) on Netflix United states :: New On Netflix U.s. , retrieved 15 November 2018

External links [edit]

• Johnny English at IMDb
• Johnny English at AllMovie

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