Johnny English Reborn Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
"English Reborn" isn't terrible and is certainly seriously harmless...But it does remind one of the glorious past and the potential Atkinson never realized in his movies, even the hit ones.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Examiner.com
What the film really needed was an injection of comedy that plays to Atkinson's strengths. He's a funny guy, but this material just isn't worthy of him.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
7M Pictures
Austin Powers, this is not, and I suppose that's what most people would have been expecting when they saw it.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Ebert Presents At The Movies
It's really the directing in this film that really fouls it all up.
Cinemaclips.com
With a nod to Mr. Bean, Johnny English Reborn delivers comedy in any language.
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| Original Score: 3/5
jackiekcooper.com
If you like Rowan Atkinson you will like the movie; if you don't then you won't. I am in the anti-Atkinson camp.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Top CriticAtkinson revives the comic secret agent that he first introduced in a series of TV ads in the UK, but this thin script gives him nothing remotely like a rebirth.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Creative Loafing
It does contain almost enough laughs to make it worth the ticket price. Falling a tad short, I would suggest adding it to the Netflix queue instead.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Three Movie Buffs
The under-12s in the theater seemed to enjoy it immensely.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
East Bay Express
He's priceless, no matter how many Mr. Bean episodes he's made.
KC Active
To be fair, it's a shade better than the dreary movie that preceded it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Johnny English Reborn is funny enough to make you laugh and plausible enough, in an exploding-umbrella type of way, to make you care.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Jam! Movies
Other than being family-friendly, Johnny English Reborn has only a handful of chuckles to recommend it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
BrianOrndorf.com
Reborn is more of a spiritual title. Everything else in this silly but draggy comedy is pure rehash.
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| Original Score: C+
Screen It!
While I wouldn't recommend paying full admission price, you could do worse flipping past it on a rainy Saturday afternoon at home while looking for family entertainment. (Movie Review for Parents also available)
Movies.com
Just a reasonably steady stream of closed-mouth chuckles over comic incidents designed for that laziest little compartment of your brain.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Movies.com
Especially considering the meandering storylines of today's uninspired remakes and sequels, this movie is keenly focused on what it's trying to do.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At gunpoint I might confess to smiling when English pummeled the Queen of England with a tea tray, but the babysitters for the target audience will know that his best bits are burgled from Austin Powers.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
It would seem to appeal mostly to hard-core fans of the "Mr. Bean'' star and children who laugh at the sight of men being repeatedly kicked in the groin.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Joke after joke falls painfully flat. Stay home and introduce your kids to Mr. Bean, instead.
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| Original Score: 1/5
