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Average Rating:5.5/10
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:30-03-2007
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
Bean 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.
The trifling delights of Mr. Bean's Holiday come to a thundering crescendo during the movie's last 10 minutes in a sequence which almost reaches the enchanting heights of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday.
It's mercifully short (87 minutes), the French scenery is pleasant, a handful of the routines are hilarious and -- with its G rating -- you can definitely bring the kids.
The 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.
An 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.
Atkinson is tireless, and a bit tiring. His facial contortions, weird grunts and malaprop moves almost never rest, and his holiday trip to Cannes from Paris is a twit's marathon.
A breezily funny showcase for the rubbery-faced Atkinson's signature character, a near-mute buffoon partly inspired by the similar antics of Jacques Tati.
little more than a string of sketches stitched together to form something close to a feature film. But that shouldn't bother those who like solid slapstick, which 'Holiday' provides in abundance.
The 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.
For 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.
Mr. 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.
If you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be converted by this trifle.
Mostly, Bean mugs and grunts for the camera, and very quickly it all wears thin.
Don'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.
A refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.
A throwback to silent movie clowns.
A half-hour of this nonsense would be fine. An hour is a bit much. Nearly an hour and a half is an endurance test.
Writers Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll wring comedy from Atkinson's angular body.
One of the year’s most enjoyable surprises.
Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.
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