Johnny English - especially now!

Movie
German title	Johnny English - especially now
Original title	Johnny English Reborn
Country of production	USA , UK , France
original language	English
Publishing year	2011
length	101 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6 ; JMK 10
Rod
Director	Oliver Parker
script	Hamish McColl , ; William Davies
production	Tim Bevan , ; Eric Fellner , ; Chris Clark , ; Ronaldo Vasconcellos
music	Ilan Eshkeri
camera	Danny Cohen
cut	Guy Bensley
occupation
synchronization
chronology
← Predecessor ; Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It	Successor → ; Johnny English - You only live three times

Johnny English (Original title: Johnny English Reborn ) is a British action comedy directed by Oliver Parker from 2011 . In this film, Rowan Atkinson slips back into the role of MI7 agent Johnny English to fight evil. The film is the sequel to Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It and started in German cinemas on October 6, 2011. The German title alludes to the title of the third Die Hard film, Die Hard: Now all the more .

In May 2017, the sequel Johnny English - You Only Live Three Times was confirmed, which hit theaters in October 2018.

action

After a failed mission to protect the Mozambican president, Johnny English, the former top agent of MI7, retired to a remote Tibetan monastery . When the British secret service learns of the plan to assassinate Chinese Prime Minister Xiang Ping, Pegasus, the new head of MI7, orders English back to London .

She sends him to Hong Kong , where English and his colleague Tucker track down former CIA member Titus Fisher. He tells of a secret criminal organization called Vortex , which consists of three members and whose secret weapon requires a key consisting of three individual parts. Johnny English discovers the first partial key at Fisher's after he was shot by a Chinese killer disguised as a cleaning lady , but an opposing agent escapes with it. After a chase over skyscraper roofs and in the harbor, English can get the key back. On the return flight to England, however, this is stolen again, so that English stands empty-handed in front of his superiors. To make matters worse, he later beats up Pegasus' mother because he mistook her for the Chinese killer.

When English finds out that Vortex was involved in the assassination attempt on the Mozambican president, he is initially not believed. Only behavioral psychologist Kate Summer realizes that he is telling the truth. Through hypnosis she can get him to remember what happened back then. He recalls that the second member of Vortex is Russian Artem Karlenko (aka Sergei Pudovkin) from the KGB . English approaches him on a golf course, but Pudovkin is shot by the Chinese killer. While English tries to fly Pudovkin to the hospital in his helicopter, he confides in English and Tucker that the three Vortex members come from different secret organizations: Titus Fisher from the CIA, himself from the KGB and another member from MI7. Shortly afterwards he dies and English finds the second part of the key to the secret weapon in his trouser pocket.

Tucker suspects that Ambrose, now top agent at MI7 and a former comrade of English, must be Vortex's third man . However, English does not believe him and therefore entrusts the second partial key to Ambrose. Ambrose, who is actually the mole at MI7 and now has the complete key, convinces Pegasus that English himself is the third Vortex member. At the same time, he tells English that Patch Quartermain, MI7's equipment expert, is the third member. English wants to arrest Quartermain, but MI7 agents and the police are now after English to arrest him. He is wounded but is able to take the motorized and tuned wheelchair from Quartermain and flee to Kate after a chase.

Kate, who admires him, takes care of his injury. Eventually, their research reveals that the secret weapon is a drug called timoxeline barbebutenol. This allows the affected person to be controlled for a few minutes before they die from it. This drug is also said to be given to Pegasus when she meets Xiang Ping so that she can kill the Chinese. When Kate is picked up by Ambrose, English realizes that this is actually the third Vortex member. After barely escaping the Chinese killer, he and Tucker make their way to the Swiss fortress Le Bastion, where the meeting is to take place. They get inside through a trick in which English fakes his death, but they are separated and English accidentally takes the drink with the drug. On Ambrose's orders, he knocks down Pegasus and takes on her role in Vortex's scheme to kill Xiang Ping. At the crucial moment, however, he remembers a tip from his old master and manages to defend himself against the drug. Shortly afterwards, Ambrose, who was supposed to receive 500 million US dollars for the murder , is exposed as a mastermind and escapes by cable car. English collapses and threatens to die, but a kiss from Kate revives him and chases Ambrose after him. After a fight with Ambrose in the cable car cabin, English falls into the soft snow and from there shoots a missile into the cabin, killing Ambrose.

In Buckingham Palace , English is said to get back his knighthood , which was taken from him after the failed order in Mozambique. However, the Chinese killer is also in the palace, disguised as Queen Elizabeth II . No sooner has English seen her than he chases after her, overwhelms and beats her. However, the real killer has already been caught and English's victim turns out to be the real queen.

After the credits , you see English preparing a meal for Kate in the kitchen to the sound of In der Bergkönig's hall .

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was carried out by Berliner Synchron GmbH , with Sven Hasper directing the dialogue and writing the dialogue book.

role	actor	Voice actor
Johnny English	Rowan Atkinson	Lutz Mackensy
Pamela Thornton (Pegasus)	Gillian Anderson	Franziska Pigulla
Kate Sumner	Rosamund Pike	Ranja Bonalana
Agent Colin Tucker	Daniel Kaluuya	Nico Sablik
Simon Ambrose	Dominic West	Johannes Berenz
Patch Quartermain	Tim McInnerny	Jörg Hengstler
Karlenko / Pudovkin	Mark Ivanir	Waléra Kanishcheff
Titus Fisher	Richard Schiff	Thomas Hailer
prime minister	Stephen Campbell Moore	Bernd Vollbrecht
Chief Monk Ting Wang	Togo Igawa	Uli Krohm
Madeleine	Joséphine de La Baume	Katharina Spiering
Slater	Burn Gorman	Björn Schalla
Killer cleaning lady	Spades Sen Lim	Max Korsch
Shirley	Isla Blair	Sonja German
Derek	Rupert Vansittart	Frank Ciazynski
Foreign minister	Andrew Woodall	Viktor Neumann

production

The Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé V16 from Johnny English

Universal Pictures announced on April 8, 2010 that it would make a sequel to Johnny English, The Spy Who Broke It . For this, the first filming began on September 11, 2010 based on the script by Hamish McColl in Cannon Street in central London . With further productions from September 13th at Brocket Hall ( Hertfordshire ) and later in Hawley Woods ( Hampshire ), Macau and Hong Kong . Filming ended in December 2010 after almost 13 weeks of work in London.

reception

Financial success

With a production cost of $ 45 million, the film grossed about $ 160 million worldwide.

Reviews

According to the Rotten Tomatoes film website , 40% of the 15 film reviews examined gave a positive rating . On the Metacritic website , the film received an average rating of 46 out of 100 based on 20 reviews.

“Continuation of the agent film satirical 'Johnny English - The Spy Who Sifted It' (2002/03) about British comedian Rowan Atkinson, which has lost its comedy with its attempt to give the subject more 'realism'. In addition, only pale minor characters are put to the side of the weird hero. "

- Lexicon of international film

“'Johnny English - Right Now' suffers from a terrifying lack of humor. The film is best in the scenes reminiscent of the 'Mr. Pick up on the old Bean slapstick, but gags of this kind are distributed sparingly. The suspicion arises that the Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde tried director Oliver Parker ('The Portrait of Dorian Gray') deliberately reduced the riot-oriented Atkinson comedy to a minimum. As it is, his film is neither Bean nor Bond. [...] Conclusion: Rowan Atkinson steps on the humor brake in his second James Bond parody, which reduces the fun. "

- Cinema

“Anyone who wants to be in a good mood for an hour and a half should definitely go to this film. Most of the gags are very good and, above all, correctly set. The brisk but fairly simple storyline is solid, believable and not over-engineered. Rowan Atkinson plays his character through a second time in a stylish manner and is supported by other great actors. The film is a must for Bean fans anyway. And the waiting for the real secret agents is shortened so pleasantly. "

- moviemaze.de

“Nothing new in Atkinson's spy film parody: In the well-known slapstick manner, the lanky comedian pokes fun at a genre that has often enough proven his ability to ironic. [...] Only in a few details does the parody, directed by Oliver Parker, develop a certain originality. For example, the idea that the British secret service was sponsored by a Japanese high-tech company - with the slogan 'We spy for you!' But smiling a few times is not enough. Unfortunately, the comedy brand Atkinson has slowly outlived itself. "

- Daily mirror

“Between cool Britishness, typical agent film inventory and bondage action, Atkinson typically opens up a comedic field of tension: While the other participants around him react either completely seriously or strangely irritated, he meanders with the rubber facial expressions to be expected and well-known Beaners Foolishness like a spy alien through this environment. Meanwhile, the most important mission remains unfulfilled this time as well: Despite all the slapstick efforts, clumsiness and facial derangements, 'Johnny English - Now even more' is definitely not amusing at all. Instead, it works as consistently uncomfortable as its predecessor and with an accumulation of severely paralyzing gags on the agent genre, which is already parodied to death in countless films. "

- fluter.de

“Oliver Parker, who, due to his background ('Othello', 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray') would not necessarily have been the first choice for an action comedy, nonetheless turns out to be in the staging of the 'loud' passages Saddle-proof, while his flair for character drawing and acting comes into its own in the quieter tones - for example, with 'The X-Files' legend Gillian Anderson as the dust-dry MI7 boss Pegasus, ex-Bond girl (!) Rosamund Pike as a friendly hypnosis specialist and Daniel Kuluuya as Johnny's pitiful partner Tucker, who not only reminds of Jackie Chan's 'Rush Hour' sidekick Chris Tucker because of his role name. Through their play, they bring out the performance of Mr. Atkinson, who, as always, is particularly good when he lets his face play without a dialogue. "

- kino.de

“The focus is again primarily on the performance of Rowan Atkinson. Unfortunately, this is precisely where the main problem of the film arises. Atkinson earned his world fame as Mr. Bean through his body-hugging humor, which is strongly reminiscent of slapstick classics such as Buster Keaton. In particular, his pronounced facial expressions, his so-called rubber face, enabled him to create a very specific situation comedy that lived solely from the wordless representation. On the other hand, the role of the idiot Johnny English with the obligatory action escapades gives Atkinson hardly any room for his sophisticated and nuanced representational skills. "

- Critic.de

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.

Trivia

Structure of Timoxeline Barbebutenol

Ben Miller can be seen as Bough in the extras on the DVD and BluRay disc . However, the director did not want to include this scene in the finished film because it only occurs in this one scene and viewers would wonder why it does not appear more often. In addition, English, like Bough, is an "old school agent", so a much younger actor was hired as English's partner for the film.

Timoxeline Barbebutenol is a recurring part of the film. It is a fictional drug that leads to hypnosis and complete obedience to the command of the person to whom the drug was administered before sudden cardiac arrest occurs after a short period of time. The CIA allegedly developed the drug and allegedly destroyed it before the events of the film. The attack on the Mozambican president was carried out with her. The molecular structure is identical to pentobarbital .