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Mr. Bean's
Holiday
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Emma De Caunes, Jean Rochefort
Directed by: Steve Bendelack
Produced
by:
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Peter Bennett-Jones
Written
by:
Robin Driscoll & Hamish McColl (screenplay), Simon McBurney (story)
Distributor: Universal Pictures |
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The first two acts of Mr. Bean’s Holiday are exactly what
a non-fan of Rowan Atkinson’s famous character would expect:
more of the same. Atkinson’s crazy, exaggerated Brit, Mr. Bean,
takes to the screen here in exactly the same manner he did in
the original Bean, getting himself into one series of
misadventures after the next. This time around, Bean has won a
trip by train to Cannes, France. On Bean’s excursion, one
colossal misunderstanding leads to another, and he is falsely
suspected of kidnapping a famous film director’s son. The
premise proves funny enough, but those indifferent to the
protagonist (like myself) won’t find themselves laughing out
loud during the film’s first hour. The outrageous third act,
however, is an absolute riot for all viewers. Pinning the
ridiculous Bean into an outlandish confrontation with a
self-indulgent auteur (played by Willem Dafoe) who is
showing his latest self-important film at the Cannes Film
Festival, the finale is hysterically pitch-perfect. Dafoe
perfectly parodies melodramatic independent filmmakers in his
role, and also plays brilliantly off of the famous mannerisms of
Atkinson’s abstractly-constructed Bean. This wonderful segment
doesn’t quite fully redeem the only occasionally-amusing first
hour of Mr. Bean’s Holiday, but it comes mighty
close. Whatever the picture’s flaws, it certainly ends with a
bang, and deserves to be recommended for this.
-Danny Baldwin,
Bucket Reviews
Review Published
on: 8.28.2007
Screened on:
8.26.2007 at the UltraStar Del Mar Highlands 8 in Del Mar, CA.
Mr Bean's Holiday is rated G and runs
90 minutes.
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