Mr. Bean meets Mr. Bond in Johnny English, a spy spoof that skewers the genre with Rowan Atkinson’s trademark brand of veddy-British slapstick. It’s a bit half-baked as a wannabe franchise, but Atkinson’s creation of a new screen persona is just promising enough to warrant a sequel, despite critics’ complaints that Austin Powers had already exhausted the spy-spoof’s potential. Poppycock! Atkinson’s gift for physical and, in this case, even verbal humor will surely please his devoted fans, even when a rather tepidly comedic screenplay prevents the British funnyman from reaching new heights of absurdity. As bumbling superspy Johnny English, who gains top-level MI-7 clearance after inadvertently causing a colleague’s demise, Atkinson breathes life into gags that are too familiar to earn such an amusing revival. With John Malkovich as a smarmy Frenchman determined to overthrow the British monarchy, and Natalie Imbruglia as Johnny’s comely comrade-in-arms, this slight but enjoyable comedy gives Atkinson plenty of opportunity to mug it up as only he can. –Jeff Shannon

DVD:  AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Company: Universal Studios  (2004-01-13)
ISBN: 078327419X
List Price: $9.99
Amazon Price: $3.76
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On April 27 2007 the Associated Press reported that the Caterpillar Corporation of Peoria, IL had been the victim of massive identity theft. The theft came in the form a stolen laptop containing employee information. Caterpillar employs over 90,000 people worldwide. All of them, in that instant, became potential victims of massive Identity Theft. The potential cost of that Identity Theft could be in the millions of dollars. The result? On the day the theft was announced Caterpillar’s shares rose 76 cents on the NYSE.
Depending on which source one listens to the number of incidents of Identity Theft range from 100 million to over 300 million every year0 and the problem is increasing. Now, the previous sentence is filled with qualifiers, uncertainties and suppositions… and that is part of the problem. It is almost impossible to determine the severity of the problem of Identity Theft. One of the major difficulties in determining the severity of the problem is that a significant number of incidents of Identity Theft, some experts say even the majority, goes unreported.
What is needed is an identity Theft Scorecard. This Identity Theft Scorecard would be a tool that could be used to develop a series of Identity […]

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