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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Johnny English is silly enough, but why can't this clever man make a clever movie? Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: There's a lot of entertainment, especially for families, in Johnny English. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Johnny English, despite its contemporary-sounding anti-French cracks, could easily have been made 20 years ago. Might have seemed better, and more fresh, if it had. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [A] completely unnecessary and nearly chuckle-free spy movie spoof ... Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Johnny English may well be too specifically British, and too slight, to connect strongly with audiences, but it's a pleasant enough diversion. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: So abominably blah that you'll fall asleep in your popcorn. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: [Atkinson] is like a sketch-comedy troupe rolled into one body. Read more
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Inept and painfully unfunny. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A comic actor of genius who raises silliness to an art form, the wonderfully expressive Atkinson makes excellent use of those devastating looks in the spy spoof Johnny English. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The wildly successful Austin Powers films are a hard act to follow, and Johnny English feels like a Johnny -come-lately to the same silly party. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Atkinson carries out his spy-spoof mission with candor and grace, or as much grace as a man can maintain while satirizing the Trainspotting climb up through a soiled potty. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Delightfully daft. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The best feature based on a TV commercial I've seen all year. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Johnny English will delight those who arrive already convinced that they'll laugh uproariously at every slapstick gag and every misused word. But it won't convince the rest of us. Read more
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: A funny summer frolic. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's all safe, predictable stuff -- so predictable that the only people who won't have things figured out 10 minutes into the film are those who left after five. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There weren't enough good laughs for me to recommend it to anyone other than the most devoted Beanheads. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Johnny English is a tamer Austin Powers crossed with Get Smart, with very little in the way of effective humor. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Johnny English plays like a tired exercise, a spy spoof with no burning desire to be that, or anything else. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The spy-spoof genre is old hat ... but Atkinson is such an inventive, endearing clown that one doesn't mind. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A tedium torture test produced with little money and less comic know-how. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: A hugely redundant spy spoof. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Rowan Atkinson is a gifted comedian. Too bad Johnny English isn't more befitting his significant talents. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Smug with timely zingers like 'The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion,' the movie's recommended strictly for Bush advisers. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Innocuous, if dumb, fun. Read more