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Trailer: Johnny English Sequel Renamed, May God Help Us All

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (12)

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Why, you may ask, is there a sequel to Johnny English, the 2003 Rowan Atkinson spy comedy that didn’t even break $30 million at the box office? Well, because it made $160 million worldwide, demonstrating that — in rare cases — the rest of the world is as dumb as the United States when it comes to indiscriminate taste. (It’s also the same reason there were sequels to Mr. Bean and Nanny McPhee. I guess they’re better than Kevin James family comedies?)

Anyway, there’s a trailer. I’m not suggesting you watch it, although it is embedded below. In fact, I’m warning against it. Move on with your lives. Go to the next post. See if you can loop a string up one nostril and down the other. Or better yet! Tie a piece of gum to string, swallow the gum, and see if you can pull the gum back up! Anything other than pressing play on this trailer.

Failure to heed this warning may result in catastrophic head injury.










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Comments

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?
Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you could brush your teeth with it.

Atkinson may do whatever he pleases. the entire Blackadder oeuvre earns that bastard anything he wants, especially if it comes with a fat paycheck

Posted by: idleprimate at April 8, 2011 11:09 AM

Same beginning as "Ace Ventura 2"?

That's a paddlin'.

Posted by: Paul Southworth at April 8, 2011 11:17 AM

I dont think you can brush your teeth with a cunning. Floss maybe... but what would the British know about oral hygiene?

Posted by: logan at April 8, 2011 11:19 AM

Damn you, McNulty.

Posted by: TSF at April 8, 2011 11:26 AM

Damn you, Dana Scully,

@ Paul Southword: and Hot Shots Part Deux.

Posted by: Zirze at April 8, 2011 11:32 AM

Yeah. The various series of Blackadder buy Atkinson a lot of goodwill with me, but this...this...this is pushing it.

"I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me I'm best."

Oh Edmund.

Posted by: Groundloop at April 8, 2011 12:02 PM

"I think it's obvious that Captain Blackadder has been disregarding orders with a breathtaking impertinence."
"I don't care if he's been rogering the Duke of York with a prizewinning leek! He! Shot! My! PIGEON!!!"

*ahem* I would put forward that Rowan Atkinson is only at his best with a good supporting cast. Add Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson or Tim McInnerny and you'll do alright. In their absence... eh.

But hey, if Mister Atkinson wants to raise money for a new Maclaren, who am I to argue?

Posted by: Wintermute at April 8, 2011 2:54 PM

"The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own herd."

I'm going to learn embroider, then stitch this in big-ass characters on a banner of such a size as can be seen from space and drape it over the roof of my house.

Just to let the aliens out there know what they're dealing with on this planet.

Posted by: Zirze at April 8, 2011 5:26 PM

I had the extreme misfortune of seeing the original movie, and NOTHING he's done can possibly excuse that kind of excremental film-making. I wish I'd had a string and gum then to keep me occupied.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at April 8, 2011 9:38 PM

it's not fair to bring in Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. they turn everything to gold in their wake. but no one throws a withering gaze like Mr. Atkinson.

Posted by: idleprimate at April 9, 2011 11:11 AM

Umm....

*ahem*

Mr. Bean's Holiday is not a terrible movie. Willem Dafoe is pretty funny in it.

Feel free to ignore this comment.

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Posted by: Kenneth at April 19, 2011 2:05 PM