Johnny English Reborn (2011) Movie Review

Johnny English Reborn (2011) Review

Hello guys and welcome back to Movie Talks with Tudor! God, I really need to change that title. Sorry, got off track a bit there. So, this review is about the second Johnny English movie because tonight, I am going to see the third one with a review to be posted later in the night.

So, what I can say is that the second one it's a bit of an improvement over the first one, which was not that memorable to begin with. The humor is kinda the same, full of old spoof type of comedy that we have seen before in others, mainly in the Austin Powers franchise, which brings me to say that this series maybe tried to evoque the style of that trilogy but with notable lower results. I will not lie, I had some good laughs as well, more than with the first and Atkinson is still funny but, unfortunately, his humor is kinda dried out. There are some characters that are introduced with no information or some exposition of any kind, with no mention of those characters in the first movie. And others that, with no explanation, are missing or replaced. There is a big time line gap between the two movies but they gloss over that fairly quickly, with no mention of how English got a bit more competent in this than before. Also, there are some similarities with the second Ace Ventura movie or maybe it was just me. 6.5/10

Overall, it's a bit better but not very much. The tired gags make the movie predictable and unoriginal. Let's hope the third one is going to be a bit different. Until then, take care and keep on reviewing!