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While Atkinson carries the film, benefits from a cast that plays it completely straight.
The story follows Johnny English, an inept but well-meaning MI7 office worker who dreams of becoming a field agent. After a series of catastrophic mishaps leads to the death of Agent One and the assassination of all other British spies, English remains the agency's only option. Johnny English 2003
: The character was originally developed for a series of Barclaycard commercials in the 1990s, where Atkinson played a bungling spy named Richard Latham . While Atkinson carries the film, benefits from a
Two decades later, the film holds up because it understands the one rule of comedy: heroes are boring, failures are forever. Johnny English didn't save the world because he was strong or smart; he saved it because everyone else was dead and he was too stubborn to quit. : The character was originally developed for a
: Rowan Atkinson performed many of his own physical stunts to ensure the physical comedy felt authentic. Key Cast & Characters