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Bean's Holiday' is a remarkably tame, non-adventurous and utterly benign comic adventure. It is funny once.heck, it's funny twice, however, by the fifth or sixth time of watching Bean's eyes bug out, silly pratfalls, mix-ups of words like merci and gracias, well, it just gets a bit tiresome.Īs most G-rated films are, 'Mr. Bean's Holiday' had been left to the interplay between characters, we may very well be looking at a 'B' range film, a vast improvement over the quite abysmal 'Bean.' Unfortunately, director Steve Bendelack spends far too much time focusing his attention on Atkinson's admittedly uncanny ability to flex those facial muscles in places that a face just shouldn't go. Dafoe's performance may not be brilliant acting, but it is downright funny and clearly the highlight of 'Mr. On the flip side, Dafoe, as an auteur whose nose seems permanently affixed in the air, is clearly enjoying this relatively throwaway role even if it does seem to quietly symbolize the rather frightful decline of a once promising career. Bean and Stepan are, indeed, rather charming together even when their pratfalls do become a bit tiresome and predictable. Bean's Holiday' that work, perhaps moreso due to the pleasant chemistry exhibited between the characters. It would be difficult to deny that there are moments in 'Mr. Rowan Atkinson has fashioned virtually an entire career wrapped around the quirky charm of this bug-eyed, fall-prone man who seems more comparable to Jerry Lewis than Charlie Chaplin when set in the French countryside. Bean's Holiday' is simply more of the same from this once beloved comic character. In no time at all, Bean is off to France and, of course, loses nearly everything he has along the way and, ends up aligned with a young boy, Stepan (Max Baldry), after separating the boy from his father and traveling across the country to the Cannes Film Festival to unite them.Īlong the way, he finds himself in the company of a French actress (Emma de Caunes) and a delightfully pretentious director (Willem Dafoe).ĭespite its rather high aims and obvious nods to cinematic classics, 'Mr.

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Bean's Holiday' picks up with Bean winning a free trip to the South of France in his church raffle. Bean's Holiday' lacks the ingenuity, sincerity and intelligence of both Tati's and Chaplin's films. With shades of Tati's comic masterpiece and even a certain Chaplinesque devotion accompanying its G-rated devotion to physical comedy, 'Mr.

Bean's Holiday' is a surprisingly tolerable film even if it does fall far short of nearly every lofty standard it sets for itself. Said to be the last of Rowan Atkinson's films in the 'Bean' series, 'Mr. Bean's Holiday,' an Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay in 1956. Hulot's Holiday', a far superior 1953 film, 'Mr.

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