Johnny English: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 3 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 132 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Delightfully daft.
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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

60

[Atkinson] is like a sketch-comedy troupe rolled into one body.
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Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

63

Rowan Atkinson is a gifted comedian. Too bad Johnny English isn't more befitting his significant talents.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Innocuous, if dumb, fun.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

Johnny English is silly enough, but why can't this clever man make a clever movie?
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Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

Smug with timely zingers like 'The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion,' the movie's recommended strictly for Bush advisers.
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Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

There weren't enough good laughs for me to recommend it to anyone other than the most devoted Beanheads.
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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

42

The wildly successful Austin Powers films are a hard act to follow, and Johnny English feels like a Johnny -come-lately to the same silly party.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

50

Johnny English will delight those who arrive already convinced that they'll laugh uproariously at every slapstick gag and every misused word. But it won't convince the rest of us.
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Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

63

Atkinson carries out his spy-spoof mission with candor and grace, or as much grace as a man can maintain while satirizing the Trainspotting climb up through a soiled potty.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

Johnny English plays like a tired exercise, a spy spoof with no burning desire to be that, or anything else.
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Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

So abominably blah that you'll fall asleep in your popcorn.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

13

A tedium torture test produced with little money and less comic know-how.
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Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

60

Johnny English won't leave you shaken or stirred; it's simply quite likable, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Derek Elley Variety (Top Critic)

An extremely silly but effective enough romp for family auds.
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Megan Lehmann New York Post (Top Critic)

63

A surprisingly gentle, old-fashioned comedy.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

A slight tee-hee of a comedy that, like a bargain wine, induces a wince on first sip but finishes well.
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Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

A hugely redundant spy spoof.
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Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

The best feature based on a TV commercial I've seen all year.
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Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

So much of Johnny English should be funnier than it is.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

Johnny English is a tamer Austin Powers crossed with Get Smart, with very little in the way of effective humor.
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Mark Adams Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

There are few real belly laughs in Johnny English, but there is enough humor to keep an audience smiling for almost 90 minutes.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

50

Mike Myers has worked this material to death.
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Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

A comic actor of genius who raises silliness to an art form, the wonderfully expressive Atkinson makes excellent use of those devastating looks in the spy spoof Johnny English.
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