I hate Mr. Bean, I hated this movie. He’s an annoying, creepy, leering, sweaty, unfunny character, and ten seconds would be too much and this movie’s like 90 minutes.
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08/27/07
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Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:14
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Mr. Bean's Holiday means well, but good intentions can't withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $32,553,210
Synopsis: The hopelessly daft but delightful Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is back in this jovial comedy. This time he wins a trip to the Cannes Film Festival and havoc ensues to such an extent that he may never... [More]
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort, William Dafoe
Director: Steve Bendelack
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Reviews for Mr. Bean's Holiday
Top CriticAtkinson's Mr. Bean, a man of few words, carries their memory in his rubbery bones. When it comes to knowing where he came from, he's got the beat.
08/24/07
Top CriticFor younger audiences, Mr. Bean's Holiday will be a pleasure, and of course, Bean addicts will, as always, be happy to see Atkinson's alter ego return to the big screen.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.
08/24/07
Top CriticBean seems to lament how some filmmakers have forgotten that film is foremost a medium of mass entertainment. The great sadness is that without uttering much of anything, is a few jokes short of making a very good point.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe Wikipedia page on gurning lists Atkinson right behind Jim Carrey as one of the world's leading practitioners of grotesque face-making. And this is his ghastly masterpiece.
08/24/07
Top CriticAn only intermittently funny sequel that finally livens up in the last third. But that part -- a hilarious putdown of the pretension at the Cannes Film Festival -- is worth sticking around for.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe film's Harold Lloyd-inspired slapstick may be infantile, but it has an innocent sensibility that is a nice counterbalance to the equally childish but prurient American Pie flicks.
08/24/07
Top CriticFor a silly kids movie about an accident-prone man on a trip to the beach, Mr. Bean's Holiday is actually quite mean-spirited and pretentious.
08/24/07
Top CriticMr. Bean's Holiday picks up steam when it finally arrives in Cannes just in time to wreak yet more havoc at the big film festival, but getting there is pretty tedious. A little of the wildly mugging Atkinson goes a long way.
08/24/07
Top CriticIf you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be converted by this trifle.
08/24/07
Top CriticDon't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean's Holiday is quite savvy about filmmaking, landing a few blows for satire.
08/24/07
Top CriticA refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.
08/24/07
Top CriticA throwback to silent movie clowns.
08/24/07
Top CriticSomewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.
08/24/07
Top CriticRowan Atkinson continues a tradition that in the right hands never gets stale: comic pantomime.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe humour in Mr. Bean's Holiday, more chucklesome than uproarious, doesn't feel particularly contemporary. It has the kind of simplicity that's most likely to appeal to either the old or young.
08/24/07
Top CriticMr. Bean's Holiday doesn't try for too much, but in the crass and noisy theme park that is children's entertainment, it's as refreshing as icewater on a summer day.
08/23/07
Top CriticToo often in Mr. Bean's Holiday, you get the feeling Rowan Atkinson and his collaborators confused the notion of 'building a gag slowly' with 'forgetting to build one at all'.
08/23/07
Top CriticDirector Bendelack and writer-producer McBurney aim for the comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati, relying heavily on sight gags and their star's pratfalls and facial contortions, but they vititate the comic payoffs by allowing scenes to run too long.
08/23/07
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