DVD: Johnny English Strikes Back
Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh
Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment
Johnny English, now a school teacher, springs back into action for the third in the spoof spy series.
His new adventure begins when a cyber attack reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the secret service’s last hope.
Called out of retirement, English dives headfirst into action with the mission of finding the mastermind hacker.
The man in question is also taking control of the British traffic control system, resetting traffic lights all over London and causing general pandemonium.
Travelling across Europe in a fuel-heavy Aston Martin with his sidekick Bough, Johnny, as always, leaves a trail of inadvertent destruction in his wake.
As a man with few skills and analogue methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success.
Watch as he burns down a restaurant while attempting to flambé, gets stuck in a suit of armour while trying to hide and uses a missile to smoke a peloton of cyclists out the way to continue with a high-speed chase.
No matter the situation, Johnny rises to the challenge to create the most ridiculous disaster.
But as always, Johnny gets his man, England and the world are once again safe and British intelligence can once again dispatch the real spies to do the real spying. And Johnny can return to school to teach future spies his tricks of the intelligence trade.
Rowen Atkinson is, as always, fabulous as the clueless sleuth and brings the house down with his trademark dry humour.
As sleuth spoofs go, this is definitely one to add to the collection for rainy days.
