Mr. Bean's Holiday

[Jules]

I still can't make up my mind on whether to watch this film or not. I will probably end up watching it for my sincere love of Mr. Bean. Oh, how I used to watch in rapture at those 1990s Mr. Bean episodes! How they used to make me roar with laughter ...

Will this movie deliver? The last Bean-centred movie (Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie [1997]) was considered a disappointment from the critics' point of view. I have a foreboding feeling that this film will also fall into many a film critic's little black book of brainless comedies with flatulence jokes.

What do you guys think?

[Jules]

http://www.samoviemag.co.za/reviews/mrbean2.html

And there is something charming about the way in which Mr. Bean's Holiday not only revives a dead art form (the silent era comedy) but also manages to get by without one single fart joke or the sort of vulgarity that marks most modern Hollywood “comedies” nowadays.

Good.

[PixarFan2006]

I will give this a rental when it comes out. I've always kind of liked Mr. Bean.

[Escapay]

Watched this tonight on one of the HBO channels, and it's easily one of the best comedies I've seen in recent years. It's got such universal humor (and good clean "no vulgarity here like Julian and the guy he quoted said" humor!) and everything all seems to fit together perfectly. I especially loved the end, where (to me at least) it became the anti-movie, by showing an audience that anyone can be a filmmaker, and that in some rare cases, anyone can be better than a "real" filmmaker. There's a lot of heart to the whole thing, and I know it'll be a favorite for years to come.

9.5/10

Albert

[2099net]

I think I must be one of the few people who liked Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie. Like a lot of concepts made for TV, I don't think Mr Bean works over longer periods. Heck, even the TV series was split into smaller "sketches" rather than one episode-long narrative.

I loved the extra stuff that Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie added to the pot. It was quite moving in places.

At the time I thought Mr Bean's Holiday was a "disaster", but I can look back on it a little more fondly now. But I feel the non-verbal nature of the film wasn't suited for the extended run time of a movie though. Also, while its been a good few years since the last Mr Bean TV outing, it all seemed somewhat familiar and unoriginal. I did love Defoe's director though - I would have loved to have seen more of him, and have him have more interaction with Mr Bean.