JOHNNY ENGLISH: REBORN, PG ( 1 hr & 42 )

where:  UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA

when:  Friday, October 21st, 2011
show:  2:40 p.m.

costs:  $9:00 Ticket + $5.75 Zap Pack = $14.75

auditorium:  6

seat:  5th row, 10th column

synopsis/overview:  A disgraced British Special Agent, Johnny English ( Rowan Atkinson ), goes into seclusion at a remote monastery.  But an assassination plot against the Chinese Premier calls him, with his dubious spying skills and misplaced confidence, back to active duty.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) "Make hard what is soft"; 2.) "Master, am I ready"; 3.) Toshiba British Intelligence; 4.) "Good Pussy"; 5.) "Toy cupboard"; 6.) "Chinese man with spectacles"; 7.) Key; 8.) "Look at what I found"; 9.) "With age comes wisdom"; 10.) Fight; 11.) Susan; 12.) Briefcase; 13.) "She's my mother"; 14.) Kitchen; 15.) Playroom; 16.) "I don't leak"; 17.) "Fireworks"; 18.) "Mr. Pussykin"; 19.) Golf; 20.) Helicopter ride; 21.) Song; 22.) KGB, CIA, MI-7; 23.) Meeting with the Prime Minister; 24.) The 3rd man; 25.) Men's room; 26.) Bingo; 27.) At the church; 28.) Wheelchair chase; 29.) Pants; 30.) Timoxeline Barbebutenol; 31.) "I prefer mortal"; 32.) Garbage chute; 33.) Sidekick's bedroom; 34.) Garage door cut-out; 35.) Traffic cameras flashing; 36.) Alarm; 37.) Body bag; 38.) "Refreshment"; 39.) "Completely horrible"; 40.) Banana; 41.) Lipstick; 42.) "Do your dance"; 43.) "Almost there"; 44.) "Never question a senior agent in the field"; 45.) Snow cable car fight; 46.) Umbrella; 47.) The wrong one; and 48.) Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits.

favorite scenes:  I liked the Susan scene.

I liked the Helicopter Trimming The Trees scene.

I liked the Meeting With The Prime Minister scene.

I liked the Men's Room scene.

I liked the Garage Door Cut-Out scene.

I liked the Traffic Cameras Flashing scene.

I liked the Body Bag scene.

I liked the stupidly-funny Lipstick scene.

I liked the Snow Cable Car Fight scene.

audience reaction:  The audience liked this movie.

recommendation:  I liked this "silly-fun" movie, too.  Go see this movie if you're into Spy Spoof Comedies.

spoiler alert!   Why was the briefcase not locked?  Why couldn't he tell that the female assassin was wearing a different blouse?  Why didn't anybody at the parking lot notice the helicopter on top of the ambulance?  Why didn't the German Shepherd dog hear them?

fyi:  I like Rosamund Pike's exotic Eurasian Look--she's one hot mama!  And how she was able to kiss Rowan Atkinson--lucky bastard--is a fine testament to her acting skills.  Hey! she didn't barf---I would have, if I were her.

If Hollywood ever wants to make a good and funny Spy Spoof movie, all they need to do is team-up Austin Powers with Johnny English.  I'd love to see that happen!  So would a bunch of you out there, I'm pretty sure of it.

word of advice:  Never over-estimate the incompetence of an incompetent man.  ( You read this HERE FIRST--a Cine-Man original! )

tidbits:  Last night, I had a hard time meditating and doing my Zhunti Mantra because of what I read in the news earlier in the day about those poor zoo animals in Zanesville, Ohio, that had to be hunted down and killed because their owner, Terry Thompson, let them loose.  Every now and then, I would get disturbing thoughts about it while I was in mantric meditation.  And, each time, I would ask God to ease my troubled mind.  Overall, it was not a productive time for me to meditate and/or do my mantra work. 

From now on, instead of  trying to keep to a fixed meditation/mantra schedule, I should first gauge my mind to assess its spiritual state.  Otherwise, the time that I will be spending  in meditation and/or mantric work will just be time wasted.

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I am supposed to be on vacation this week but I got called-in to work today because an emergency situation in my department left it a person short.

Some man was extremely rude to one of my female co-workers.  I really don't know the details.  And said person became confrontational with another man as I passed by on my way out the door.  But I really did not have my curiosity get the better hold on me as I was in a hurry to leave and did not want to miss the opening scenes of this movie at a theatre which is over 25 miles away from where I work.  ( And this movie just started as I entered the auditorium.  Talk about perfect timing. )

I will try and find out tomorrow whether or not a fight broke out at work.

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I've been meaning to do something different for a long ( I'm talking Years ) time:  Since I spend so much time surfing the 'Net and blogging, I am left with little time to do my Sound Wave Meditation on CDs.  Yesterday, I loaded my meditation CDs to my computer's music library.  I reasoned that I can listen to my meditation CDs as I blog.  Well, I finally did it!  Even as I write this, I am listening to a meditation CD.  Unfortunately, though ...  I was supposed to listen to the 6th Chakra meditation CD ( the next session in my Chakra-a-day meditation ), but I used the 1st Chakra meditation CD by mistake!  Oh, well.  I guess that it was meant to be.