Starring: Washington and Frisco

Directed by: Oliver Parker

This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning!

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: The world’s most unlikely master spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) returns to track down international assassins bent on causing world havoc.

Kitty Cameo: In the opening scene, English meets with the Pamela (Gillian Anderson), the head of MI-7. As he walks to the seating area in her high-rise office a ginger tabby cat named Philby is sitting in one of the chairs.

English pushes the cat off the seat.

Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Noticing a draft in the room, English walks over to close the window, not realizing that as he shuts one side the other side knocks the cat off the sill. English looks out the window to see a wood chipper below.

Trying to cover his mistake, English pretends to pick up and pet the cat, cooing, “Nice pussy.” Pamela is impressed, pointing out that Philby usually doesn’t let people pick him up. The ruse works until psychologist Kate (Rosamund Pike) enters carrying Philby in her arms.

The cat does not appear again but there is a Poor Cat Screech as English apparently almost sits on the cat moments later.

Philby was played by a pair of cat actors named Washington and Frisco, trained by Charlotte Wilde (many thanks for identifying your cat actors for us!)

Final Mewsings: If spies are this clumsy, no wonder cats gravitate toward villains!

Many thanks to Mark Murton for letting us know about the cat in this film.

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