Johnny English - the spy who screwed it up
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| German title | Johnny English - the spy who screwed it up |
| Original title | Johnny English |
| Country of production | USA , UK , France |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Peter Howitt |
| script |
William Davies , Neal Purvis , Robert Wade |
| production |
Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Mark Huffam |
| music |
Howard Goodall , Ed Shearmur |
| camera | Remi Adefarasin |
| cut | Robin Sales |
| occupation | |
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Johnny English - The Spy Who it versiebte is a comedy by Peter Howitt from the year 2003 . The film parodies the James Bond films. The main actor Rowan Atkinson is best known for the comedy series Mr. Bean .
action
Johnny English, a small clerk in the British secret service and only daydreaming himself a star agent, causes the death of star agent Agent One due to wrong codes. At the funeral, at which English and his assistant Bough ensure safety, all remaining agents and candidates are killed in an explosives attack.
After that, the secret service's only remaining agent is the stupid candidate English, who fails on his first assignment, namely to protect the crown jewels that have been brought back to the Tower of London after a restoration . Behind this theft is the Frenchman Pascal Sauvage, who is related to the British royal family. Since Sauvage is a friend of Pegasus, the chief of intelligence, and has restored the crown jewels at his own expense, he enjoys Pegasus' complete confidence. When English has worked a little more into the matter, the group of suspects is reduced to two people: Sauvage and the double agent Lorna Campbell. He confronts Pegasus with his suspicions about Pascal Sauvage, but is rejected by Pegasus and is asked to exclude him from the investigation immediately.
English decides in the course of his "investigation" to break into Pascal's office. He uses the opportunity of a party organized by Sauvage. Unfortunately, his parachute jump leads to the roof of the neighboring, similar-looking city hospital. After Bough picks him up from there, the break-in into Sauvage's office can begin, but they are noticed. In addition, Johnny English swapped his special combat seal rings so that a security guard received a truth serum and Sauvage's henchman Klein and English himself received a muscle relaxant and could barely move. You can still escape to the party hosted by Sauvage when Sauvage is informed of the break-in. Sauvage then informs Pegasus, which in turn suspends English with immediate effect and sets three months' compulsory leave. After that, English is to return to his old post. For English, Sauvage still remains the prime suspect.
Lorna Campbell has been assigned to pursue the case, but does not want to do without English's help. The two agents are able to follow up Sauvage's lead and even find evidence: Sauvage wants to be crowned King of Great Britain and has (by threatening one of her beloved corgis with a gun) blackmailed the Queen to sign a deed of abdication in which she and all of them Family renounce the claim to the throne. Subsequently, Sauvage wants to convert what in his eyes is already uncivilized Great Britain into a huge prison.
On the day of the coronation everything goes as usual until Johnny disrupts the ceremony. Although his revelations in front of a large audience are initially unsuccessful, as a result of some mix-ups, his allegations are all baseless, while Lorna fights unnoticed with Klein, who is supposed to shoot English. But he can at least prove Sauvage's lousy character when he points a pistol at English. After a chain of coincidences, English is crowned in place of Sauvage and the only official act ordered is his arrest. Then he renounces the throne in favor of the original queen. He is returned to active service and knighted by the Queen at his personal request. Sauvage is charged with high treason. At the end, English meets with Lorna in the south of France, but right before the kiss he accidentally activates her ejector seat.
background
Many elements of the film come from the James Bond series: The subtitle of the film, created by the German distributor, is an allusion to the film The Spy Who Loved Me . The secret agent drives, like Bond, an Aston Martin equipped with many extras , he is involved in chases and shootings and storms enemy quarters, even as a parachutist. An attractive woman is also at his side.
Towards the end, English tries to unmask a supposed doppelganger of the Archbishop of Canterbury by tattooing his buttocks by pulling his pants down in front of the cameras. This scene is very similar to the comedy Die Nackte Kanone 2½ .
Pascal Sauvage evidently justifies his claim to the throne through a relationship to Charles Edward Stuart , since a portrait of him hangs in his office and the family tree, which he shows elsewhere, also bears the names of the respective nobility. Stuart was a descendant of Maria Stuart , the Catholic rival of Elizabeth I , and on behalf of his family the so-called Jacobite uprisings took place in England and Scotland in the 18th century, which were unsuccessful, but in Charles' case led to the fact that Among other things, the traditional Scottish way of life including clans and tartans was banned and actively persecuted by the English.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was carried out by Berliner Synchron GmbH , with Sven Hasper directing the dialogue and writing the dialogue book together with Fritz-Joachim Böhm.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Johnny English | Rowan Atkinson | Lutz Mackensy |
| Pascal Sauvage | John Malkovich | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Lorna Campbell | Natalie Imbruglia | Tanja Geke |
| Angus Bough | Ben Miller | Stefan Krause |
| Pegasus | Tim Pigott-Smith | Christian Rode |
| Dieter Klein | Steve Nicolson | Stefan Fredrich |
| prime minister | Kevin R. McNally | Roland Hemmo |
| Agent One | Greg Wise | Andreas Mueller |
| Archbishop of Canterbury | Oliver Ford Davies | Wolfgang Völz |
| Scottish bishop | James Greene | Reinhard Scheunemann |
| Carlos Vendetta | Douglas McFerran | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Chevenix | Rowland Davies | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Elizabeth II | Irene Hamilton | Bettina Schön |
| Pegasus' secretary | Nina Young | Bianca Krahl |
Trivia
- Robbie Williams sang the theme song A Man for All Seasons .
- Johnny English drives a dark blue Aston Martin DB7 Vantage .
- During Sauvage's coronation, English played a video showing him playing with a rubber duck in the bathtub. The song Does your mother know by ABBA is also playing .
- Contrary to what the film claims, when it aired in the UK there was no longer any death penalty for treason (abolished in 1998).
Sequels
The sequel Johnny English - Now all the more! came to cinemas in Austria and Germany on October 6, 2011. The DVD and Bluray disc for the film was released on February 9, 2012. A third part entitled Johnny English - You Only Live Three Times was released in October 2018.
reception
Financial success
The cost of production was $ 40 million. The film grossed over $ 160 million worldwide.
Reviews
“Turbulent balancing act between action-oriented espionage thriller and black agent film satirical, entertaining especially through its main actor. The weak script of course produces too much idle time, which should be masked with a few fecal-rich wooden hammer gags. "
"If Johnny English is the low point of the series, it is because he lacks any original ideas, and instead the film exposes all that supposed British to the ridicule that has served up countless times."
“What might work as a short film, however, has its lengths as full-length entertainment. Lots of jokes stay lukewarm, some are simply unsavory. "
“Even if the film partly uses genre-related models such as The Naked Gun , you have to admit that it knows how to entertain its audience. All in all, Johnny English offers almost 90 minutes of easy, light entertainment, which is sure to please even those who find uncomfortable "Mr. Bean" warm. "
“He (Rowan Atkinson) had 007 specialists Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (“ The world is not enough ”) do a witty mix of“ Mr. Bean ”,“ Die Nackte Kanone ”- and“ Austin Powers ”slapstick, seasoned with a pinch of“ Black Adder ”malice. [...] It's not always original. But thanks to Atkinson and his famous rubber disc, weird to the point of pain. "
"World-class comedian Atkinson treats the laughing muscles to the point of sore muscles with a constant dose of humor - sometimes hearty and violent, sometimes" very British ". After "Austin Powers" and "The Naked Cannon" a new and mercilessly funny joke. "
Honors
- 2003: Nomination for the British Comedy Award in the category "Best Comedy Film"
- 2003: Nomination for the Audience Award in the category "Best Actor" (Rowan Atkinson)
- 2004: Nomination for the Empire Award in the category "Best British Film"
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
Web links
- Johnny English - The Spy Who it versiebte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Johnny English - The Spy Who it versiebte at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Johnny English - The Spy Who it versiebte at Metacritic (English)
- Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up in the online movie database
- Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 30, 2018 .
- ^ Credits from Johnny English
- ^ Certificate of Release for Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 393 V / DVD).
- ↑ Age designation for Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 19, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.todesstrafe.de/todesstrafenatlas_grossringen.html
- ^ Johnny English Especially now. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; accessed on August 30, 2018 .
- ^ Box Office Mojo
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on epd-film.de
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on rhein-zeitung.de
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on moviemaze.de ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on cinema.de
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on kino.de
- ↑ Johnny English - The spy who screwed it up on fbw-filmbeval.com