- I remember Mr. Bean being a lot funnier. The TV show was always hysterical and if I recall correctly, the first movie was pretty damn hilarious as well. But this? Not so much. I don’t think I actually laughed until there were about ten minutes left in the film.
- I had no idea Willem Dafoe was in this and, naturally, he was the best part. He played a pretentious twat of a film director who was having his newest masterpiece debuting at the Cannes film festival and the last ten minutes of Mr. Bean’s Holiday is the screening of this film. It’s all these mopey shots of Willem Dafoe (because of course he would write, direct, and star in his own film) on escalators and in industrial landscapes, with a voiceover monologue that contemplates the nature of life and love and despair; which is to say, it’s a completely pretentious asshat of a film and thus it’s completely hysterical. These ten minutes were the only truly funny parts of the movie, which is unfortunate because they come in the last ten minutes.
- I didn’t think it was at all necessary to recycle old Bean jokes, but they seemed to include them for the sake of making the movie longer (I think it’s only 86 minutes or something). The disgusting bit with the oysters was already done when Mr. Bean accidentally ordered steak tar tar in that one episode; we didn’t need to see it again in the same context but with different foodstuffs.
- Save yourself $10 and go see Superbad instead.
Mr Bean’s Holiday
Bad.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two come back together. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love, among other things.