Not stirred by 'Johnny English Reborn'

'Johnny English Repackaged' might be a more fitting title for Oliver Parker’s belated sequel to the 2003 comedy, which poked gentle fun at the image of British spies as debonair gents with a licence to kill.

Aside from the casting of rising star Daniel Kaluuya as Johnny’s sidekick and a prominent role for a voice-controlled Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe V16, 'Johnny English Reborn' could have been shot directly after the original film and left to gather dust on a shelf marked 'Straight To DVD Some Day'.