Johnny English (DVD 2003) 84 mins

There has been films based on books, video games, theme parks, and even songs but Johnny English is the only one based on Advert. Taking it's inspiration from the Barclaycard commericials, which starred Rowan Atkinson as a hapless MI6 Agent, this full length film is a cross between James Bond spoof and Mr Bean. Johnny ( a pen pusher who dreams of a life in her majesty's secret service) is given a mission to protect the crown jewels after a bomb kills all of MI6's existing spies. Unfortunately, they are stolen from right under their noses by evil industralist, Pascal Sauvage ( a ridiculously accented John Malkovich) who is intent on seizing the British throne and turning the UK into the biggest prison colony in the world. Thus follows comic set-piece after set-piece, including a hilarous car chase and the obligatory breaking into the evil genius lair sequence, in which English, ably assisted by his much more intelligent subordinate Bough ( a brilliantly patient Ben Miller) tries to recover the jewels, stops Sauvage's nefarious scheme, prove to his superiors  that he is not completely insane and get a girl, here an Interpol agent played by the brilliant Natalie Imbruglia.

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