Johnny English Reborn (4/10)

When the main character who is also the hero is stupid, then everyone else around him has to be even more stupid in order for a hero movie to work.

I just realised watching stupidity after stupidity unfold onscreen that it must be so difficult to write a stupid character as the hero of the movie. And even worse was that the other actors all had to act in characters that were more stupid than the main character.

And since Johnny English was that stupid, the most stupid character in this movie was his new sidekick, played by Daniel Kaluuya. Otherwise English could never have been the hero of the story.

For the first time I can appreciate how difficult a movie this must be to produce.

I have actualy forgtten what Rowan Atkinson was all about. I recently saw moments of an episode of Mr. Bean on the plane flying back from Singapore. And when I watched this movie, every movement and expresion Johnny English made, reminded me so much of Mr. Bean. Atkinson apparently still fell back onto what was familiar, and what a disappointment that was.

But what I couldn't stand was how stupid the whole thing was. There have been many stupid movies before. And none of them had to sink this low to garner laughs. Some were actually fantastic and brilliant like Tropic Thunder or the recent Horrible Bosses.

I really don't see the need to throw out all, and I do mean all in this case, logic out the window. I felt like I had to dumb down myself if I were to enjoy this movie to its fullest. And that would have been just stupid on my part.

Needless to say, I wasn't laughing when the whole cinema erupted in guffaws. And I was trying to stifle my laughter when the whole cinema was queit.