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* SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously: The second film received some criticism for this. The films present themselves as parodies of Bond films -- all of which (with the exception of the TimothyDalton and Creator/DanielCraig films) are so over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek that the entire genre of "James Bond parody" is completely superfluous.
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The movie is considered an AffectionateParody of the spy movie genre, oftentimes [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on several popular spy tropes, from DisposableLoveInterest characters to the [[MainCharacters protagonist]] being an overwhelmingly [[TheCharmer confident and suave]] {{badass}}. It features a hearty plateful of the RuleOfFunny, [[NoodleImplements a nice smattering of]] {{slapstick}}, at least a gallon jug's worth of GenreSavvy, and even a light pinch of SelfDeprecation. And RowanAtkinson.
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The movie is considered an AffectionateParody of the spy movie genre, oftentimes [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on several popular spy tropes, from DisposableLoveInterest characters to the [[MainCharacters protagonist]] being an overwhelmingly [[TheCharmer confident and suave]] {{badass}}. It features a hearty plateful of the RuleOfFunny, [[NoodleImplements a nice smattering of]] {{slapstick}}, at least a gallon jug's worth of GenreSavvy, and even a light pinch of SelfDeprecation. And RowanAtkinson.
Creator/RowanAtkinson.
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The idea for the movie came from Atkinson's ''Barclaycard'' commercials from the 1990's about the misadventures of a (slightly) more competent, somewhat smug agent Richard Latham who scoffed at his HypercompetentSidekick Boff when the latter invariably solved each problem using his Barclaycard. About the only thing it has in common with the movies is that both characters worked for the fictional [=MI7=] and are played by RowanAtkinson. You can watch them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4kqjLOY7M&feature=related here.]]
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The idea for the movie came from Atkinson's ''Barclaycard'' commercials from the 1990's about the misadventures of a (slightly) more competent, somewhat smug agent Richard Latham who scoffed at his HypercompetentSidekick Boff when the latter invariably solved each problem using his Barclaycard. About the only thing it has in common with the movies is that both characters worked for the fictional [=MI7=] and are played by RowanAtkinson.Creator/RowanAtkinson. You can watch them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4kqjLOY7M&feature=related here.]]
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Johnny had made a fool of himself and didn't have the incriminating DVD; if Sauvage had just stayed calm he would have been crowned king.
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* BoringButPractical: How Johnny [[spoiler:chases down the Chinese assassin while barely breaking a sweat]].
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* DeadlyDodging: Part of Johnny's [[spoiler:effortless curbstomp of a whole group of Chinese assailants]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Blackadder}} Edmund Blackadder]] steals a wheelchair from [[{{Blackadder}} Lord Percy]].
** I guess it makes sense for [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Owen Harper]] to know more about [[spoiler: top-secret drugs]] than the government does...
** I guess it makes sense for [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Owen Harper]] to know more about [[spoiler: top-secret drugs]] than the government does...
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* RecurringElement: [[spoiler:An old Chinese lady assassin who disguises herself as a cleaning lady kills the main members of the terrorist group Vortex. Aside from the attacks on Johnny and Vortex, she is also noticeable for one more little detail: Johnny ends up attacking other old women who he thinks is the assassin. This includes Pegasus' mother and the ''freaking Queen''! And with a serving tray no less!]]
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* RecurringElement: [[spoiler:An An old Chinese lady assassin who disguises herself as a cleaning lady kills the main members of the terrorist group Vortex. Aside from the attacks on Johnny and Vortex, she is also noticeable for one more little detail: Johnny ends up attacking other old women who he thinks is the assassin. This includes Pegasus' mother and the ''freaking Queen''! And with a serving tray no less!]]less!
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* XMeetsY: JamesBond meets MRBean.
MRBean, or perhaps {{Blackadder}} meets TheThinBlueLine.
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** Funnier when you realise the villain from DieAnotherDay is also here, playing the prime minsiter, meaning both the villain and the FemmeFatale are both here playing good guys.
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** I guess it makes sense for [[{{Torchwood}} Owen Harper]] to know more about [[spoiler: top-secret drugs]] than the government does...
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* DungeonBypass: Johnny uses a series of these to pursue a Parkour assassin without breaking a sweat.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Johnny's face undergoes complex spasms every time the screw-up in Mozambique is mentioned.
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* MoodWhiplash: Johnny starts dancing to Cameo's Word Up [[spoiler: ''right in the middle of assassinating the Chinese PM.]]
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** Also a NiceJobFixingItVillain. Johnny had made a fool of himself and didn't have the incriminating DVD; if Sauvage had just stayed calm he would have been crowned king.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: After Johnny's security clearance is revoked.
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* InvisiblePresident: The Queen's face is never shown.
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* HiddenAgendaVillain: The ''actual'' villains of the film have a very straightforward agenda - they accept money in return for killing people. What ''isn't'' very clear is why two of the erstwhile heads of said villainous group have changed their minds about it.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: The ''actual'' villains of the film have a very straightforward agenda - they accept money in return for killing people. What ''isn't'' very clear is why two of the erstwhile heads of said villainous group have changed their minds about it.
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* CuttingTheKnot: Johnny, repeatedly. His Tibetan {{Mentor}} notes that his advantage in combat is his "[[GenreSavvy wisdom]]".
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* DragonTheirFeet: The cleaning-lady.
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* FiveBadBand: The villains of the film appear to form one, even though we aren't told much about them.
** TheBigBad: [[spoiler: Simon]].
** TheDragon: The assassin cleaning-lady.
** TheEvilGenius: Slater, the local [[spoiler: MindControl drug]] expert.
** TheBrute: The DumbMuscle Chinese martial artist whom Johnny beats with simple pragmatism.
** TheDarkChick: The HoneyTrap who distracted Johnny in Mozambique.
** TheBigBad: [[spoiler: Simon]].
** TheDragon: The assassin cleaning-lady.
** TheEvilGenius: Slater, the local [[spoiler: MindControl drug]] expert.
** TheBrute: The DumbMuscle Chinese martial artist whom Johnny beats with simple pragmatism.
** TheDarkChick: The HoneyTrap who distracted Johnny in Mozambique.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Johnny is initially crippled when [[spoiler:he gets shot by the MI7 agents in the church]], forcing him to [[spoiler:hijack Patch's wheelchair]]. One scene later, he's running around with no apparent disability.
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* {{Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence}}: Johnny asks his guru what happens now he's completed his training. The guru replies that he has been communicating with a higher power -- then reveals the phone he used to talk to Johnny's superiors in London.
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* ChekhovsSkill: In the second movie, [[spoiler:Johnny's training in withstanding {{Groin Attack}}s comes in handy]].
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* DistractedByTheSexy: What happened in Mozambique -- Johnny was sharing a jacuzzi with a bikini-clad HoneyTrap when the president was assassinated.
* {{Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence}}: Johnny asks his guru what happens now he's completed his training. The guru replies that he has been communicating with a higher power -- then reveals the phone he used to talk to Johnny's superiors in London.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: Attempted by Johnny, but it fails due to UnfortunateItemSwap with the [=DVDs=].
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* UnfortunateItemSwap: Playing the DVD on which Sauvage explains his EvilPlan at the coronation would have been [[EngineeredPublicConfession a great way to expose him]]... unfortunately, the [=DVDs=] get mixed up, and the guests are instead treated to Johnny dancing half-naked to "Does Your Mother Know".
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* CastingGag: Rosamund Pike actually ''was'' in a JamesBond movie (''DieAnotherDay'').
** So was Rowan Atkinson, if an unofficail one (''NeverSayNeverAgain'').
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** So was Rowan Atkinson, if an unofficail one(''NeverSayNeverAgain'').(''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'').
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The plot is mainly focused around Johnny's attempts at rescuing Britain from the evil schemes of CorruptCorporateExecutive BigBad [[FrenchJerk Pascal Sauvage]]. Sauvage has set in motion a complex XanatosGambit, starting with the assassinations of all the spies in Britain with [[KickTheDog a bomb planted at a funeral]]. Fortunately, Johnny was a safe distance away, so now he finds himself promoted from a cheap low level agent to DesignatedHero!
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Sauvage manages to alter his evil plans halfway through in an attempt to accommodate Johnny's meddling. [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks He fails]]]].
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Sauvage manages to alter his evil plans EvilPlan halfway through in an attempt to accommodate Johnny's meddling. [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks He fails]]]].
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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Pegasus' cat is named Philby, presumably after Kim Philby who was one of the group of DoubleAgents known as the Cambridge Five.
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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Pegasus' cat is named Philby, presumably after as a TakeThat against Kim Philby who was one member of the group of DoubleAgents [[DoubleAgent double agents]] known as the Cambridge Five.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Patch Quartermain (Tim [[=McInnerny=], Rowan Atkinson's {{Blackadder}} co-star) disappears after his wheelchair is stolen.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Patch Quartermain (Tim[[=McInnerny=], [=McInnerny=], Rowan Atkinson's {{Blackadder}} co-star) disappears after his wheelchair is stolen.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Patch Quartermain (Tim Mc Innerny, Rowan Atkinson's {{Blackadder}} co-star) disappears after his wheelchair is stolen.
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* ActorAllusion: Simon Ambrose [[spoiler:turning out to be a traitor will not be a surprise to fans of [[ThreeHundred 300]].]]
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* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:Upon proving that DeathIsCheap, Johnny takes the whole TookALevelInBadass trope and pushes it to the extreme, proving his true potential.]]
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* CombatPragmatist: Johnny vs. the Chinese assassin. [[spoiler: When the assassin does an incredibly complex series of martial art moves, Johnny stomps on a board, which shoots up and hits him in the groin]]
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Johnny [[spoiler:manages to escape [=MI7=] after he supposedly goes "rogue" using a modified wheelchair. This is against ''every single agent and vehicle the organization has at its disposal''.]]
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->'''Roger:''' Hair colour? \\
'''Johnny English:''' Um... ''([[LineOfSightName glances at a nearby]] [[FruitOfTheLoon bowl of fruit]])'' ...orange.\\
'''Pegasus:''' Orange?\\
'''Johnny English:''' Mmm. And curly. Well, frizzy, actually. Frizzy sort of thing.\\
'''Roger:''' Frizzy.\\
'''Johnny English:''' An eye patch. Broken nose. Very few teeth. Two, I would say the most. And a scar on his cheek in the shape... ''(glances at the fruit again)'' ...of a banana.\\
'''Roger:''' Which cheek?\\
'''Johnny English:''' [[GlasgowGrin Both cheeks. They sort of met in the middle.]]
-->-- Describing the "thief"
[[CharacterTitle Johnny English]] is a film about the eponymous CluelessDetective-style IdiotHero and his semi-ButtMonkey HypercompetentSidekick Bough and their adventures working for [=MI7=]. They form a unique team similar to the StraightManAndWiseGuy, only with levels of competence instead of seriousness. Oftentimes Johnny's juggling act with the IdiotBall gets Bough, himself, or both of them, into troublesome or injurious situations, causing [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] or [[RealityEnsues reality to ensue]].
The movie is considered an AffectionateParody of the spy movie genre, oftentimes [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on several popular spy tropes, from DisposableLoveInterest characters to the [[MainCharacters protagonist]] being an overwhelmingly [[TheCharmer confident and suave]] {{badass}}. It features a hearty plateful of the RuleOfFunny, [[NoodleImplements a nice smattering of]] {{slapstick}}, at least a gallon jug's worth of GenreSavvy, and even a light pinch of SelfDeprecation. And RowanAtkinson.
The plot is mainly focused around Johnny's attempts at rescuing Britain from the evil schemes of CorruptCorporateExecutive BigBad [[FrenchJerk Pascal Sauvage]]. Sauvage has set in motion a complex XanatosGambit, starting with the assassinations of all the spies in Britain with [[KickTheDog a bomb planted at a funeral]]. Fortunately, Johnny was a safe distance away, so now he finds himself promoted from a cheap low level agent to DesignatedHero!
Johnny soon finds himself drawn into Sauvage's scheme and vows to try and stop it, though he doesn't necessarily end up achieving a huge amount in the end via [[SpannerInTheWorks his own personal effort alone]].
A sequel, ''Johnny English Reborn'', was released in 2011.
The idea for the movie came from Atkinson's ''Barclaycard'' commercials from the 1990's about the misadventures of a (slightly) more competent, somewhat smug agent Richard Latham who scoffed at his HypercompetentSidekick Boff when the latter invariably solved each problem using his Barclaycard. About the only thing it has in common with the movies is that both characters worked for the fictional [=MI7=] and are played by RowanAtkinson. You can watch them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4kqjLOY7M&feature=related here.]]
For similar spy parody movie, see ''ThePinkPanther''. For a few with slightly more risque flavor, see ''SpyHard'' and ''AustinPowers''. For a more WorldWarII flavored alternative, see ''Film/TopSecret''.
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* TheAce: Agent One.
* {{Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence}}: Johnny asks his guru what happens now he's completed his training. The guru replies that he has been communicating with a higher power -- then reveals the phone he used to talk to Johnny's superiors in London.
* ActionGirl: Lorna Campbell
* ActorAllusion: Simon Ambrose [[spoiler:turning out to be a traitor will not be a surprise to fans of [[ThreeHundred 300]].]]
* TheAloner: Johnny after he [[spoiler:is kicked off the investigation for awhile and spends time at home, moping about his failures and sinking into a pit of depression.]]
* AlmostKiss: A hilarious one in the first movie when Johnny is yanked out of a plane by his parachute just as he's about to kiss the girl.
* TheApprentice: At least, Johnny likes to think of Bough as his apprentice, showing off tricks or techniques in an attempt to impress him and be a role model for him. Often ends with hilarity.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Johnny gets accidentally crowned King of England after pushing Sauvage out of the way. He then orders Sauvage (who apparently GoesMadFromTheRevelation) to be arrested.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: The stubble kicks in ''fast'' when [[spoiler:Johnny is suspended from duty]].
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: The title character wakes up from being sedated and insists on carrying out his mission infiltrating a posh soiree despite not having fully regained muscle control.
* BrickJoke: After the credits, there's a scene of [[spoiler:Lorna falling into a pool after being ejected from Johnny's car, with a man sitting by the poolside reading a newspaper. The man drops the newspaper to reveal that he is the man Johnny "created" earlier in the movie as an assailant.]]
* CharacterTitle
* ChaseScene
** Johnny and Bough attempt to catch Sauvage's {{Mooks}} after discovering them [[spoiler:attempting to make off with the stolen Crown Jewels]]
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: "As far as I'm concerned, the only thing the French should be allowed to host is an ''invasion''!"
* ChekhovsSkill: In the second movie, [[spoiler:Johnny's training in withstanding {{Groin Attack}}s comes in handy]].
* CommanderContrarian: Pegasus spends a good portion of the movie dismissing Johnny's insistent claims that Sauvage is behind the plot.
* CoolCar: The tricked out spy car that Johnny and Bough drive during the chase scene actually comes armed with a miniature Rocket Launcher... which would have gotten towed had Johnny and Bough not been able to commandeer the tow truck to chase down the mooks (see ChaseScene entry above). The rocket launcher comes in handy when a traffic camera takes a picture of the car (still suspended from the crane arm on the tow truck, incidentally) running a red light, and Johnny promptly blows up the camera.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Johnny occasionally has flashes of skill and competence between his long stints with the IdiotBall.
* DaChief: Pegasus
* DartboardOfHate: Johnny uses one with a picture of Pascal Sauvage after being demoted.
* DistractedByTheSexy: What happened in Mozambique -- Johnny was sharing a jacuzzi with a bikini-clad HoneyTrap when the president was assassinated.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Happens twice to Johnny in the first movie.
* DumbIsGood: Johnny only ever falters in his noble pursuits to save Britain when he gets scolded by his bosses for his screwups. Sauvage never manages to fully intimidate or corrupt him.
* TheEvilPrince: Sauvage's family used to have a legitimate, if distant, claim to the British throne, which he views as taken from him unfairly.
* {{Expy}}: Johnny is an Expy of a character Atkinson played in a series of Barclaycard adverts during the 1990s. The character of Bough was retained from the ads, but played by a different actor.
* FailedASpotCheck: A lot of Johnny's incompetency is linked with this trope. Like not noticing the gaping hole in the middle of the crown jewel room and concluding that if there was one way the thieves couldn't have come from, it was the floor, just before nearly falling in.
* FakeActionPrologue: English is right at the bottom of the secret agent ladder at first, but dreams of being a veritable JamesBond in the beginning.
* FakeNationality
** In the first movie we have an American as a Frenchman (John Malkovich) and an Australian as an English damsel (Natalie Imbruglia).
* FeigningIntelligence: Johnny does this the entire movie, especially to impress Bough and Lorna.
* TheFool / IdiotHero
* FrenchJerk: Sauvage's thick accent reminds one of this in every scene he appears in.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent
** Johnny accidentally paralyzes a secretary, and talks to her unaware boss while she's being taken out of his office, and Johnny, of course, can see everything and ''does everything possible to make the guy not turn around''. When next we see her, she's in a wheelchair, and pauses to glare at him.
** The sequel uses this as well, except replace "tranquilizing your boss's secretary" with ''[[spoiler:nearly]] killing your boss's cat''.
* GroinAttack
** How Lorna finally takes out Sauvage's sniper henchman at the climax of the first movie.
** See BallsOfSteel for the sequel.
* HypercompetentSidekick
** Poor Bough embodies this trope, with a little smattering of ButtMonkey.
* IdiotBall: Johnny seems to be the exclusive carrier, though sometimes other characters take turns.
* IMeantToDoThat: He covers up his bungles with one of these more than once.
* InHarmsWay / FearlessFool: At several points in the movie Johnny brags about being fearless in the face of danger, and acts on these boasts a fair few times as well.
* JohnnyMcCoolname: Guess who?
* LatexPerfection: Sauvage's Plan A involved [[spoiler:creating a fake Archbishop of Canterbury to crown him king using a very fancy looking mask]].
* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:Upon proving that DeathIsCheap, Johnny takes the whole TookALevelInBadass trope and pushes it to the extreme, proving his true potential.]]
* LivingCrashpad: The title character falls on his flunky while investigating the hole in the floor of the crown jewel room.
* MickeyMousing
* MistakenForServant: Pascal Sauvage is mistaken for one.
* {{Mundangerous}}: Forget being shot by the BigBad or a {{Mook}}, Johnny hurts himself with sheer clumsiness more than his foes manage to hurt him.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: "May all your daughters be born with three bottoms." (BilingualBonus: the actual translation is "born with tiny penises", though.)
* NonActorVehicle: Lorna Campbell is played by [[FakeNationality Australian singer]] Natalie Imbruglia, who was mostly unknown as an actress aside from a stint in ''{{Neighbours}}''.
* NotSoHarmless
** There's a brief scene towards the end where Lorna attacks Johnny to galvanize him. He displays considerably more hand to hand skill than you'd really think he should.
** ''Reborn'' plays this straight, as Johnny shows more hand-to-hand combat prowess throughout the movie.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Johnny briefly pretends (thanks to the quick thinking of Bough) to have escaped from a mental asylum after interrupting a funeral thinking that the crown jewels were in the coffin. [[spoiler: [[TheFunInFuneral It was real.]]]]
* PrivateDefective: Johnny embodies this.
* RightBehindMe: "Allow me to introduce myself. Pascal Sauvage, ''jumped-up Frenchman.''"
** The sequel has a RightInFrontOfMe when Johnny fails to recognise the Prime Minister who's seated right next to him. When the PM politely points out his error, Johnny sarcastically comments, "Yeah, right. In your dreams!" A deleted scene has him mistaking Pegasus for his old friends' SexySecretary.
* RuleOfFunny: Both movies are essentially fueled by this. There are some pretty serious plot holes, like "How would stolen crown jewels help Sauvage get crowned king?" or "Wouldn't a fake Archbishop of Canterbury be discovered really quickly?" But they're both necessary as setups to some pretty hilarious jokes.
* StealthPun: The string music (a [[RearrangeTheSong cover of the main theme]]) in the scene at Pascal's building? Provided by the string quartet Bond.
* ToiletHumor: Johnny infiltrating Sauvage's castle via a primitive sewer line... and the [[CoveredInGunge result.]]
* TemptingFate: "You are now entering the most secure place in the whole of England." *Cue explosion*
* TheUnintelligible: Johnny after he accidentally injects himself with muscle relaxant and his facial muscles slowly stop responding. The villain, similarly injected with the relaxant, manages to understand what he is saying. HilarityEnsues.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sauvage stays cool when Johnny interrupts his coronation, knowing that he has no evidence against him. When he swings down and gets the crown away from him, he pulls a gun.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Sauvage manages to alter his evil plans halfway through in an attempt to accommodate Johnny's meddling. [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks He fails]]]].
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[[folder:''Johnny English Reborn'']]
* TheAce: Simon Ambrose. [[spoiler:Unfortunately the former is killed thanks to an oversight on Johnny's part and the latter turns out to be a double agent]].
* ActingUnnatural: When Tucker confronts the mole [[spoiler:Ambrose]] at gunpoint in front of Johnny in a washroom, when an unsuspecting old man walks right in. This basically leads to the mole drying his hands, Tucker washing his hands and Johnny ''taking the same whiz'' continuously until he leaves.
* AwesomeYetPractical: When Johnny English chases after a [[spoiler:Chinese assassin]]. The moves he uses are hilarious.
** His opponent climbs over a fence. Johnny opens the door.
** His opponent climbs over an obstacle using flashy jumps. Johnny uses a ladder.
** His opponent jumps across a gap and onto a building. Johnny uses a crane carrying a load of bricks to send himself across.
** His opponent scales scaffolding to get down. Johnny uses the lift.
* BallsOfSteel: Johnny after undergoing training at a Tibetan monastery. [[BrickJoke It proves]] [[ChekhovsSkill important later.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Johnny [[spoiler:manages to escape [=MI7=] after he supposedly goes "rogue" using a modified wheelchair. This is against ''every single agent and vehicle the organization has at its disposal''.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Tucker.
* BoringButPractical: How Johnny [[spoiler:chases down the Chinese assassin while barely breaking a sweat]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: The bodyguard of the president of Mozambique, and Johnny English himself, under the influence of a mind-control drug. Johnny recovers.]]
* CastingGag: Rosamund Pike actually ''was'' in a JamesBond movie (''DieAnotherDay'').
** So was Rowan Atkinson, if an unofficail one (''NeverSayNeverAgain'').
* ChaseScene: Johnny chasing the [[spoiler:Chinese assassin]].
* CoolCar: The Rolls-Royce Phantom that is given to Johnny upon his return to [=MI7=].
** Even cooler -- that car is owned by Rowan Atkinson in real life. (Sans rocket launcher, regrettably)
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In a bit of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], this movie shows Johnny as a very competent secret agent (aside from the occasional update that he missed while training in Tibet for five years, such as who the Prime Minister is or the fact that [=MI7=] is now sponsored by a phone company) with ''just a few'' moments of IdiotBall.
* CunningLinguist: Johnny speaks eight languages, including Mandarin -- the only problem is he [[FunWithSubtitles doesn't speak it well]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: People actually die, the stakes are higher, and while there is still comedy, the whole backdrop gives it that serious feeling.
** Well actually, even the first one had deaths in it if you include all the agents except English dying in an explosion offscreen at the beginning. This one is barely more serious as it pretty much features comedy throughout the entire film.
* DeadlyDodging: Part of Johnny's [[spoiler:effortless curbstomp of a whole group of Chinese assailants]].
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: At the end of the movie, our hero blows up the villain in a big explosion; his LoveInterest sees this and sighs, "Oh, Johnny!"
* EvilOldFolks: The killer cleaner woman. She tries to kill Johnny English [[spoiler: thrice]].
* FailureToSaveMurder: Johnny English is blamed for the murder of Mozambique's president. Of course, he was supposed to be guarding him at the time... [[spoiler:But who could have predicted that his own bodyguard would be mind-controlled to assassinate him?]]
* FakeNationality: Johnny, already distressed at seeing [=MI7=] outsourced to Toshiba, might have flipped if he knew his superior was played by an American (Gillian Anderson).
* HeroStoleMyBike: Johnny in the motorised wheelchair [[spoiler:after getting set up by the actual traitor Ambrose, and shot in the leg by [=MI7=], then forced to jack his crippled friend's ride.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Blackadder}} Edmund Blackadder]] steals a wheelchair from [[{{Blackadder}} Lord Percy]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: Tucker follows Bough in this department, though not all the time. He displays in some scenes more competence then English, such as correctly pointing the right person to English, only for English to go to the wrong person; identifying the bulletproof umbrella as actually being a rocket launcher, and figuring out that Ambrose was the double agent. But in other scenes, he's even more incompetent than English. Talking on the phone to his mum, and not noticing that a sniper was meters away from him, about to kill their only lead, multiple times letting a enemy agent simply run past him before calling to English, rather then try and stop the agent himself.
* LegacyCharacter: Pegasus. While this movie provides a {{Gender Flip}} for the character, both Pegasuses have the same function in both movies.
* LineOfSightName: Twice. When Johnny tries to bluff his way into a golf game with one of the antagonists, and [[spoiler:Ambrose trying to bluff his way out of being exposed as a traitor.]]
* MistakenIdentity: Johnny English mistakes [[spoiler:Pegasus' mother and the Queen of England for an assassin. HilarityEnsues.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Simon Ambrose.]]
* OhCrap: Johnny has one when [[spoiler:he realizes he just drank a glass of wine laced with the mind-controlling drugs]].
* RecurringElement: [[spoiler:An old Chinese lady assassin who disguises herself as a cleaning lady kills the main members of the terrorist group Vortex. Aside from the attacks on Johnny and Vortex, she is also noticeable for one more little detail: Johnny ends up attacking other old women who he thinks is the assassin. This includes Pegasus' mother and the ''freaking Queen''! And with a serving tray no less!]]
* RewindReplayRepeat: Kate checks CCTV footage recorded before an assassination, revealing an important clue.
* SpoilerTitle: This movie features [[spoiler:Johnny cheating death after accidentally drinking the mind-control device that kills its victims. In the process, he is "reborn" by a kiss from Kate.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Johnny. The training with Tibetan monks paid off rather well.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Everyone in this movie [[CombatPragmatist fights pragmatically]].
* TwitchyEye: Whenever Mozambique is mentioned.
* UnderTheTruck: Johnny pulls one off on a motorised wheelchair.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Patch Quartermain (Tim Mc Innerny, Rowan Atkinson's {{Blackadder}} co-star) disappears after his wheelchair is stolen.
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[[caption-width-right:223:[[MemeticMutation King Johnny is not amused.]]]]
->'''Roger:''' Hair colour? \\
'''Johnny English:''' Um... ''([[LineOfSightName glances at a nearby]] [[FruitOfTheLoon bowl of fruit]])'' ...orange.\\
'''Pegasus:''' Orange?\\
'''Johnny English:''' Mmm. And curly. Well, frizzy, actually. Frizzy sort of thing.\\
'''Roger:''' Frizzy.\\
'''Johnny English:''' An eye patch. Broken nose. Very few teeth. Two, I would say the most. And a scar on his cheek in the shape... ''(glances at the fruit again)'' ...of a banana.\\
'''Roger:''' Which cheek?\\
'''Johnny English:''' [[GlasgowGrin Both cheeks. They sort of met in the middle.]]
-->-- Describing the "thief"
[[CharacterTitle Johnny English]] is a film about the eponymous CluelessDetective-style IdiotHero and his semi-ButtMonkey HypercompetentSidekick Bough and their adventures working for [=MI7=]. They form a unique team similar to the StraightManAndWiseGuy, only with levels of competence instead of seriousness. Oftentimes Johnny's juggling act with the IdiotBall gets Bough, himself, or both of them, into troublesome or injurious situations, causing [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] or [[RealityEnsues reality to ensue]].
The movie is considered an AffectionateParody of the spy movie genre, oftentimes [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on several popular spy tropes, from DisposableLoveInterest characters to the [[MainCharacters protagonist]] being an overwhelmingly [[TheCharmer confident and suave]] {{badass}}. It features a hearty plateful of the RuleOfFunny, [[NoodleImplements a nice smattering of]] {{slapstick}}, at least a gallon jug's worth of GenreSavvy, and even a light pinch of SelfDeprecation. And RowanAtkinson.
The plot is mainly focused around Johnny's attempts at rescuing Britain from the evil schemes of CorruptCorporateExecutive BigBad [[FrenchJerk Pascal Sauvage]]. Sauvage has set in motion a complex XanatosGambit, starting with the assassinations of all the spies in Britain with [[KickTheDog a bomb planted at a funeral]]. Fortunately, Johnny was a safe distance away, so now he finds himself promoted from a cheap low level agent to DesignatedHero!
Johnny soon finds himself drawn into Sauvage's scheme and vows to try and stop it, though he doesn't necessarily end up achieving a huge amount in the end via [[SpannerInTheWorks his own personal effort alone]].
A sequel, ''Johnny English Reborn'', was released in 2011.
The idea for the movie came from Atkinson's ''Barclaycard'' commercials from the 1990's about the misadventures of a (slightly) more competent, somewhat smug agent Richard Latham who scoffed at his HypercompetentSidekick Boff when the latter invariably solved each problem using his Barclaycard. About the only thing it has in common with the movies is that both characters worked for the fictional [=MI7=] and are played by RowanAtkinson. You can watch them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4kqjLOY7M&feature=related here.]]
For similar spy parody movie, see ''ThePinkPanther''. For a few with slightly more risque flavor, see ''SpyHard'' and ''AustinPowers''. For a more WorldWarII flavored alternative, see ''Film/TopSecret''.
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[[folder:''Johnny English'']]
* TheAce: Agent One.
* {{Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence}}: Johnny asks his guru what happens now he's completed his training. The guru replies that he has been communicating with a higher power -- then reveals the phone he used to talk to Johnny's superiors in London.
* ActionGirl: Lorna Campbell
* ActorAllusion: Simon Ambrose [[spoiler:turning out to be a traitor will not be a surprise to fans of [[ThreeHundred 300]].]]
* TheAloner: Johnny after he [[spoiler:is kicked off the investigation for awhile and spends time at home, moping about his failures and sinking into a pit of depression.]]
* AlmostKiss: A hilarious one in the first movie when Johnny is yanked out of a plane by his parachute just as he's about to kiss the girl.
* TheApprentice: At least, Johnny likes to think of Bough as his apprentice, showing off tricks or techniques in an attempt to impress him and be a role model for him. Often ends with hilarity.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Johnny gets accidentally crowned King of England after pushing Sauvage out of the way. He then orders Sauvage (who apparently GoesMadFromTheRevelation) to be arrested.]]
* BeardOfSorrow: The stubble kicks in ''fast'' when [[spoiler:Johnny is suspended from duty]].
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: The title character wakes up from being sedated and insists on carrying out his mission infiltrating a posh soiree despite not having fully regained muscle control.
* BrickJoke: After the credits, there's a scene of [[spoiler:Lorna falling into a pool after being ejected from Johnny's car, with a man sitting by the poolside reading a newspaper. The man drops the newspaper to reveal that he is the man Johnny "created" earlier in the movie as an assailant.]]
* CharacterTitle
* ChaseScene
** Johnny and Bough attempt to catch Sauvage's {{Mooks}} after discovering them [[spoiler:attempting to make off with the stolen Crown Jewels]]
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: "As far as I'm concerned, the only thing the French should be allowed to host is an ''invasion''!"
* ChekhovsSkill: In the second movie, [[spoiler:Johnny's training in withstanding {{Groin Attack}}s comes in handy]].
* CommanderContrarian: Pegasus spends a good portion of the movie dismissing Johnny's insistent claims that Sauvage is behind the plot.
* CoolCar: The tricked out spy car that Johnny and Bough drive during the chase scene actually comes armed with a miniature Rocket Launcher... which would have gotten towed had Johnny and Bough not been able to commandeer the tow truck to chase down the mooks (see ChaseScene entry above). The rocket launcher comes in handy when a traffic camera takes a picture of the car (still suspended from the crane arm on the tow truck, incidentally) running a red light, and Johnny promptly blows up the camera.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Johnny occasionally has flashes of skill and competence between his long stints with the IdiotBall.
* DaChief: Pegasus
* DartboardOfHate: Johnny uses one with a picture of Pascal Sauvage after being demoted.
* DistractedByTheSexy: What happened in Mozambique -- Johnny was sharing a jacuzzi with a bikini-clad HoneyTrap when the president was assassinated.
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Happens twice to Johnny in the first movie.
* DumbIsGood: Johnny only ever falters in his noble pursuits to save Britain when he gets scolded by his bosses for his screwups. Sauvage never manages to fully intimidate or corrupt him.
* TheEvilPrince: Sauvage's family used to have a legitimate, if distant, claim to the British throne, which he views as taken from him unfairly.
* {{Expy}}: Johnny is an Expy of a character Atkinson played in a series of Barclaycard adverts during the 1990s. The character of Bough was retained from the ads, but played by a different actor.
* FailedASpotCheck: A lot of Johnny's incompetency is linked with this trope. Like not noticing the gaping hole in the middle of the crown jewel room and concluding that if there was one way the thieves couldn't have come from, it was the floor, just before nearly falling in.
* FakeActionPrologue: English is right at the bottom of the secret agent ladder at first, but dreams of being a veritable JamesBond in the beginning.
* FakeNationality
** In the first movie we have an American as a Frenchman (John Malkovich) and an Australian as an English damsel (Natalie Imbruglia).
* FeigningIntelligence: Johnny does this the entire movie, especially to impress Bough and Lorna.
* TheFool / IdiotHero
* FrenchJerk: Sauvage's thick accent reminds one of this in every scene he appears in.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent
** Johnny accidentally paralyzes a secretary, and talks to her unaware boss while she's being taken out of his office, and Johnny, of course, can see everything and ''does everything possible to make the guy not turn around''. When next we see her, she's in a wheelchair, and pauses to glare at him.
** The sequel uses this as well, except replace "tranquilizing your boss's secretary" with ''[[spoiler:nearly]] killing your boss's cat''.
* GroinAttack
** How Lorna finally takes out Sauvage's sniper henchman at the climax of the first movie.
** See BallsOfSteel for the sequel.
* HypercompetentSidekick
** Poor Bough embodies this trope, with a little smattering of ButtMonkey.
* IdiotBall: Johnny seems to be the exclusive carrier, though sometimes other characters take turns.
* IMeantToDoThat: He covers up his bungles with one of these more than once.
* InHarmsWay / FearlessFool: At several points in the movie Johnny brags about being fearless in the face of danger, and acts on these boasts a fair few times as well.
* JohnnyMcCoolname: Guess who?
* LatexPerfection: Sauvage's Plan A involved [[spoiler:creating a fake Archbishop of Canterbury to crown him king using a very fancy looking mask]].
* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:Upon proving that DeathIsCheap, Johnny takes the whole TookALevelInBadass trope and pushes it to the extreme, proving his true potential.]]
* LivingCrashpad: The title character falls on his flunky while investigating the hole in the floor of the crown jewel room.
* MickeyMousing
* MistakenForServant: Pascal Sauvage is mistaken for one.
* {{Mundangerous}}: Forget being shot by the BigBad or a {{Mook}}, Johnny hurts himself with sheer clumsiness more than his foes manage to hurt him.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: "May all your daughters be born with three bottoms." (BilingualBonus: the actual translation is "born with tiny penises", though.)
* NonActorVehicle: Lorna Campbell is played by [[FakeNationality Australian singer]] Natalie Imbruglia, who was mostly unknown as an actress aside from a stint in ''{{Neighbours}}''.
* NotSoHarmless
** There's a brief scene towards the end where Lorna attacks Johnny to galvanize him. He displays considerably more hand to hand skill than you'd really think he should.
** ''Reborn'' plays this straight, as Johnny shows more hand-to-hand combat prowess throughout the movie.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Johnny briefly pretends (thanks to the quick thinking of Bough) to have escaped from a mental asylum after interrupting a funeral thinking that the crown jewels were in the coffin. [[spoiler: [[TheFunInFuneral It was real.]]]]
* PrivateDefective: Johnny embodies this.
* RightBehindMe: "Allow me to introduce myself. Pascal Sauvage, ''jumped-up Frenchman.''"
** The sequel has a RightInFrontOfMe when Johnny fails to recognise the Prime Minister who's seated right next to him. When the PM politely points out his error, Johnny sarcastically comments, "Yeah, right. In your dreams!" A deleted scene has him mistaking Pegasus for his old friends' SexySecretary.
* RuleOfFunny: Both movies are essentially fueled by this. There are some pretty serious plot holes, like "How would stolen crown jewels help Sauvage get crowned king?" or "Wouldn't a fake Archbishop of Canterbury be discovered really quickly?" But they're both necessary as setups to some pretty hilarious jokes.
* StealthPun: The string music (a [[RearrangeTheSong cover of the main theme]]) in the scene at Pascal's building? Provided by the string quartet Bond.
* ToiletHumor: Johnny infiltrating Sauvage's castle via a primitive sewer line... and the [[CoveredInGunge result.]]
* TemptingFate: "You are now entering the most secure place in the whole of England." *Cue explosion*
* TheUnintelligible: Johnny after he accidentally injects himself with muscle relaxant and his facial muscles slowly stop responding. The villain, similarly injected with the relaxant, manages to understand what he is saying. HilarityEnsues.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sauvage stays cool when Johnny interrupts his coronation, knowing that he has no evidence against him. When he swings down and gets the crown away from him, he pulls a gun.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Sauvage manages to alter his evil plans halfway through in an attempt to accommodate Johnny's meddling. [[spoiler:[[SpannerInTheWorks He fails]]]].
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[[folder:''Johnny English Reborn'']]
* TheAce: Simon Ambrose. [[spoiler:Unfortunately the former is killed thanks to an oversight on Johnny's part and the latter turns out to be a double agent]].
* ActingUnnatural: When Tucker confronts the mole [[spoiler:Ambrose]] at gunpoint in front of Johnny in a washroom, when an unsuspecting old man walks right in. This basically leads to the mole drying his hands, Tucker washing his hands and Johnny ''taking the same whiz'' continuously until he leaves.
* AwesomeYetPractical: When Johnny English chases after a [[spoiler:Chinese assassin]]. The moves he uses are hilarious.
** His opponent climbs over a fence. Johnny opens the door.
** His opponent climbs over an obstacle using flashy jumps. Johnny uses a ladder.
** His opponent jumps across a gap and onto a building. Johnny uses a crane carrying a load of bricks to send himself across.
** His opponent scales scaffolding to get down. Johnny uses the lift.
* BallsOfSteel: Johnny after undergoing training at a Tibetan monastery. [[BrickJoke It proves]] [[ChekhovsSkill important later.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Johnny [[spoiler:manages to escape [=MI7=] after he supposedly goes "rogue" using a modified wheelchair. This is against ''every single agent and vehicle the organization has at its disposal''.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Tucker.
* BoringButPractical: How Johnny [[spoiler:chases down the Chinese assassin while barely breaking a sweat]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: The bodyguard of the president of Mozambique, and Johnny English himself, under the influence of a mind-control drug. Johnny recovers.]]
* CastingGag: Rosamund Pike actually ''was'' in a JamesBond movie (''DieAnotherDay'').
** So was Rowan Atkinson, if an unofficail one (''NeverSayNeverAgain'').
* ChaseScene: Johnny chasing the [[spoiler:Chinese assassin]].
* CoolCar: The Rolls-Royce Phantom that is given to Johnny upon his return to [=MI7=].
** Even cooler -- that car is owned by Rowan Atkinson in real life. (Sans rocket launcher, regrettably)
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In a bit of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], this movie shows Johnny as a very competent secret agent (aside from the occasional update that he missed while training in Tibet for five years, such as who the Prime Minister is or the fact that [=MI7=] is now sponsored by a phone company) with ''just a few'' moments of IdiotBall.
* CunningLinguist: Johnny speaks eight languages, including Mandarin -- the only problem is he [[FunWithSubtitles doesn't speak it well]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: People actually die, the stakes are higher, and while there is still comedy, the whole backdrop gives it that serious feeling.
** Well actually, even the first one had deaths in it if you include all the agents except English dying in an explosion offscreen at the beginning. This one is barely more serious as it pretty much features comedy throughout the entire film.
* DeadlyDodging: Part of Johnny's [[spoiler:effortless curbstomp of a whole group of Chinese assailants]].
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: At the end of the movie, our hero blows up the villain in a big explosion; his LoveInterest sees this and sighs, "Oh, Johnny!"
* EvilOldFolks: The killer cleaner woman. She tries to kill Johnny English [[spoiler: thrice]].
* FailureToSaveMurder: Johnny English is blamed for the murder of Mozambique's president. Of course, he was supposed to be guarding him at the time... [[spoiler:But who could have predicted that his own bodyguard would be mind-controlled to assassinate him?]]
* FakeNationality: Johnny, already distressed at seeing [=MI7=] outsourced to Toshiba, might have flipped if he knew his superior was played by an American (Gillian Anderson).
* HeroStoleMyBike: Johnny in the motorised wheelchair [[spoiler:after getting set up by the actual traitor Ambrose, and shot in the leg by [=MI7=], then forced to jack his crippled friend's ride.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Blackadder}} Edmund Blackadder]] steals a wheelchair from [[{{Blackadder}} Lord Percy]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: Tucker follows Bough in this department, though not all the time. He displays in some scenes more competence then English, such as correctly pointing the right person to English, only for English to go to the wrong person; identifying the bulletproof umbrella as actually being a rocket launcher, and figuring out that Ambrose was the double agent. But in other scenes, he's even more incompetent than English. Talking on the phone to his mum, and not noticing that a sniper was meters away from him, about to kill their only lead, multiple times letting a enemy agent simply run past him before calling to English, rather then try and stop the agent himself.
* LegacyCharacter: Pegasus. While this movie provides a {{Gender Flip}} for the character, both Pegasuses have the same function in both movies.
* LineOfSightName: Twice. When Johnny tries to bluff his way into a golf game with one of the antagonists, and [[spoiler:Ambrose trying to bluff his way out of being exposed as a traitor.]]
* MistakenIdentity: Johnny English mistakes [[spoiler:Pegasus' mother and the Queen of England for an assassin. HilarityEnsues.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Simon Ambrose.]]
* OhCrap: Johnny has one when [[spoiler:he realizes he just drank a glass of wine laced with the mind-controlling drugs]].
* RecurringElement: [[spoiler:An old Chinese lady assassin who disguises herself as a cleaning lady kills the main members of the terrorist group Vortex. Aside from the attacks on Johnny and Vortex, she is also noticeable for one more little detail: Johnny ends up attacking other old women who he thinks is the assassin. This includes Pegasus' mother and the ''freaking Queen''! And with a serving tray no less!]]
* RewindReplayRepeat: Kate checks CCTV footage recorded before an assassination, revealing an important clue.
* SpoilerTitle: This movie features [[spoiler:Johnny cheating death after accidentally drinking the mind-control device that kills its victims. In the process, he is "reborn" by a kiss from Kate.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Johnny. The training with Tibetan monks paid off rather well.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Everyone in this movie [[CombatPragmatist fights pragmatically]].
* TwitchyEye: Whenever Mozambique is mentioned.
* UnderTheTruck: Johnny pulls one off on a motorised wheelchair.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Patch Quartermain (Tim Mc Innerny, Rowan Atkinson's {{Blackadder}} co-star) disappears after his wheelchair is stolen.
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