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Movie Review for Mr. Bean's Holiday
Movie Review for
Mr. Bean's Holiday
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Mr. Bean's Holiday | | |
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93 Reviews total.
Release date: 8/24/2007
Run length: 88 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Adaptation
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Sequel
Summary:
In his latest misadventure, Mr. Bean--the nearly wordless misfit who seems to be followed by a trail of pratfalls and hijinks--goes on holiday to the French Riviera and becomes ensnared in a European adventure of cinematic proportions. Tired of the dreary, wet London weather, Bean packs up his suitcase and camcorder to head to Cannes for some sun on the beach. But his trip doesn't go as smoothly as he had hoped when the bumbling Bean falls face first into a series of mishaps and fortunate coincidences, far-fetched enough to make his own avant-garde film. Wrongly thought to be both kidnapper and acclaimed filmmaker, he has some serious explaining to do after wreaking havoc across the French countryside and arriving at his vacation spot with a Romanian filmmaker's precocious son and an aspiring actress in tow. Will Bean be arrested by the gendarmes or end up winning the Palme d’Or?
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Kevin Carr
of 7M Pictures (7/0)
Ultimately, if you don't like Mr. Bean, you won't like this film. But fans will laugh themselves ...
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (7/0)
Rowan Atkinson is one of those people who can inspire laugher with a twitch of his eyebrow or a s...
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
The Mr. Bean character is reminiscent of cheap chocolate %u2013 some people love it, others despi...
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
If you've seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean routine, you've seen it all. Any larger do...
By
Marrit Ingman
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
In the final analysis, this Holiday is a so-so late summer diversion, unlikely to reignite Beanma...
By
Christopher Smith
of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/0)
For those who appreciate the power of Bean in brevity, this 'Bean' leads to too much bad gas.
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (7/0)
Clowning around is all in good fun.
By
Michael Phillips
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
...has its moments and passes the time (now there's a low bar) but rarely in freshly funny ways.
By
Peter Rainer
of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
Mr. Bean's Holiday is no Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, but preteens especially might enjoy it.
By
Roger Tennis
of Cinemaclips.com (7/0)
"Mr. Bean's Holiday" is a jolly day at the beach.
By
Jette Kernion
of Cinematical (7/0)
You can only put up with so much shameless mugging.
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (7/0)
If you are as repelled by the previews for movies like Balls of Fury or The Comeback, come give t...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Cole Smithey
of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
In what Rowan Atkinson has called his last feature outing as the childish accidental prankster "M...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
It's an improvement, and even intermittently funny.
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (7/0)
It's a shame that Atkinson has yet to find a feature film to do his character justice.
By
Brian Orndorf
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
It wears thin quickly, making even the 78-minute running time feel like a decade when one is in t...
By
Nick De Semlyen
of Empire Magazine (7/0)
Almost disturbingly unfunny.
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
...Atkinson's goofball grotesquerie never lets up -- right through to the inspired finale...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
Atkinson's amazing physical prowess and impeccable timing help him compare favorably with Chaplin...
By
Rex Roberts
of Film Journal International (7/0)
Amusing, yet not what we expect, or want, in a Bean comedy.
By
Chris Cabin
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
...light but rambunctiously amusing film...
By
Joe Utichi
of FilmFocus (7/0)
The cinematic equivalent of Brussels sprouts; parents will drag their kids to see it whether they...
By
Victoria Alexander
of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
Willem Defoe whores himself out for a vacation in Cannes.
By
Peter Canavese
of Groucho Reviews (6/1)
Atkinson's over-the-top clowning is catnip for the wee ones, but adults will find it an acquired ...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Ross Anthony
of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
Cackles & guffaws are sparse amidst much meandering. Willem Dafoe at Cannes, however, is quite fu...
By
Ray Bennett
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
...plenty of chuckles but few outright laughs...
By
Amy Biancolli
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
Don't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean'...
By
Liz Braun
of Jam! Movies (7/0)
Mostly, Bean mugs and grunts for the camera, and very quickly it all wears thin.
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a movie that offers intermittent laughs and some funny sequences, yet does...
By
Beth Accomando
of KPBS.org (7/0)
Watching Atkinson pantomime an opera aria or engage in simple sight gags serves as a reminder of ...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Luke Y. Thompson
of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
It turns out to be far better than you’d imagine, especially with Willem Dafoe cheesing things up...
By
Prairie Miller
of Long Island Press (7/0)
The master of many faces and a bountiful bag of body language tricks where words exist as mere se...
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
The shtick has gotten old.
By
Mary-Liz Shaw
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
Atkinson's physical comedy is so finely honed that there are moments when his timing is almost ba...
By
Colin Covert
of Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/0)
Mr. Bean's Holiday doesn't try for too much, but in the crass and noisy theme park that is childr...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
Not only are the physical gags clever, they're refreshing to see in a day when this kind of caref...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Marty Mapes
of Movie Habit (7/0)
Excellent entertainment, and for fans of the show, it's absolutely essential
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
As a character who doesn't play on your sympathies, Bean somehow seems less tiresome, less deman...
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (6/1)
The episodes become all the more repetitive and wearying when stretched to feature length.
By
Elizabeth Weitzman
of New York Daily News (7/0)
If you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be c...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (7/0)
Adults will begin yawning after their first 10 minutes with the klutzy Mr. Bean...
By
Andy Webster
of New York Times (7/0)
The kids at my screening loved it.
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Gene Seymour
of Newsday (7/0)
Things break, food is inappropriately disposed of and a silly man in a brown suit makes bug-eyed ...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
Given its sense of quiet and penchant for harmless slapstick, a breath of fresh air in today's se...
By
Amelie Gillette
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
Mr. Bean's Holiday is a very cute movie. Unfortunately, cute is rarely funny.
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
If Brit comic Rowan Atkinson really is retiring his greatest creation, he's certainly kissing him...
By
Jason Ferguson
of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
A painfully unfunny series of redundant and half-measured physical gags are strung together like ...
By
Fiore Mastracci
of Outtakes With Fiore (7/0)
Atkinson, even when he's being family-friendly, outshines anything Sandler,Farrell, or others of ...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Bill Gibron
of PopMatters (7/0)
A great deal of silent era slapstick has only grown better with age. The exploits of Mr. Bean hav...
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (7/0)
Bean and Carson are less different than they are the same, both self-centered and naïve, sad and ...
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
I wasn't a fan of his first film, but darned if I didn't enjoy the ride in "Mr. Bean's Holiday."
By
Timothy Knight
of Reel.com (7/0)
A breezily funny showcase for the rubbery-faced Atkinson's signature character, a near-mute buffo...
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
Rowan Atkinson's operatic lip-synching in 'Mr. Bean's Holiday' is one of the funniest things I've...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
At its best, Mr. Bean's Holiday is amusing. At its worst, it's tedious.
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
James O'Ehley
of SA Movie & DVD Magazine (7/0)
While Mr. Bean's buffoonery and incessant mugging may grate on adult sensibilities, the truth is ...
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (7/0)
Atkinson's Mr. Bean, a man of few words, carries their memory in his rubbery bones. When it comes...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
[Atkinson & Co.] engineer some clever and humorous bits of Bean's mime and slapstick suitable for...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
Atkinson is tireless, and a bit tiring. His facial contortions, weird grunts and malaprop moves a...
By
Ruthe Stein
of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
An only intermittently funny sequel that finally livens up in the last third. But that part -- a ...
By
Ruthe Stein
of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
...an only intermittently funny sequel that finally livens up in the last third.
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
...it's mercifully short (87 minutes), the French scenery is pleasant, a handful of the routines ...
By
Ted Fry
of Seattle Times (7/0)
The trifling delights of Mr. Bean's Holiday come to a thundering crescendo during the movie's las...
By
Nick Schager
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
Delivers more of the same awful mugging and simplistic pratfalls that have endeared the character...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
The movie's pure good will can only carry it so far, and by the third act it has already exhauste...
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
People with video cameras can be truly annoying to travel with, but you wouldn't mind the home mo...
By
Tony Wong
of Toronto Star (7/0)
Bean seems to lament how some filmmakers have forgotten that film is foremost a medium of mass en...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
The real culprit is Atkinson's grotesque mugging and lazy pratfalls, combined with the misguided ...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (7/0)
At times, the inordinately long pieces offer so little comic payoff that they feel unnervingly an...
By
Derek Elley
of Variety (7/0)
Pic's film-buffy slant, with a finale at the Cannes Film Festival, won't mean much to the ankle-b...
By
Stephen Hunter
of Washington Post (7/0)
Do you Bean? If you do Bean, rejoice. Bean is back. If you don't Bean, here's a chance to start. ...
By
Andy Webster
of New York Times (6/5) Login Required (Login Required)
Rowan Atkinson continues a tradition that in the right hands never gets stale: comic pantomime.
By
Suzanne Condie Lambert
of Arizona Republic (6/1) No reference
Among the pluses: Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendl...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
David Germain
of Associated Press (5/2) No reference
While Mr. Bean's Holiday is hardly a memorable vacation, Atkinson proves an agreeably silly tour ...
By
Paul Arendt
of BBC (3/4) No reference
Parents who sat stony-faced through the original Bean are in for a surprise: from an adult perspe...
By
Wade Major
of Boxoffice Magazine (6/1) No reference
One of the year’s most enjoyable surprises.
By
Andrea Gronvall
of Chicago Reader (6/1) No reference
Director Bendelack and writer-producer McBurney aim for the comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati, ...
By
Bill Zwecker
of Chicago Sun-Times (6/1) No reference
For younger audiences, Mr. Bean's Holiday will be a pleasure, and of course, Bean addicts will, a...
By
Michael Phillips
of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
Too often in Mr. Bean's Holiday, you get the feeling Rowan Atkinson and his collaborators confuse...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Pablo Villaca
of Cinema em Cena (6/1) No reference
Infelizmente, as confusões provocadas pelo personagem raramente se revelam engraçadas, levando-no...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
A half-hour of this nonsense would be fine. An hour is a bit much. Nearly an hour and a half is a...
By
Scott Von Doviak
of Fort Worth Star-Telegram (6/1) No reference
The time has come for Mr. Bean's retirement.
By
Steve Rose
of Guardian [UK] (3/4) No reference
There are innumerable set pieces, most of which take an awfully long time to deliver an awfully w...
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (6/1) No reference
little more than a string of sketches stitched together to form something close to a feature film...
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (6/1) No reference
Anyone wanting a family-friendly flick with lots of goofy facial expressions and mugging for the ...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Lisa Rose
of Newark Star-Ledger (6/1) No reference
For a silly kids movie about an accident-prone man on a trip to the beach, Mr. Bean's Holiday is ...
By
Philip French
of Observer [UK] (3/4) No reference
Raises many hackles (but few laughs). ...The best joke is taken directly from Tati's Jour de Fete...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (3/4) No reference
What could have been a series of big and bigger set pieces instead flows smoothly from each corny...
By
Stuart McGurk
of thelondonpaper (3/4) No reference
Taking on a more European sensibility, Bean seems to have gone back to the drawing board, and co...
By
Wendy Ide
of Times [UK] (3/4) No reference
The jokes are weak. There’s a complacency to the comedy that suggests that nobody could be bother...
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (3/4) No reference
A clever concept, inventive script and wondrously whimsical execution makes Mr Bean's Holiday a c...
Reviews of Mr. Bean's Holiday
By
Matthew Turner
of ViewLondon (4/3) No reference
Enjoyable, surprisingly sweet comedy, which softens the edges of the Bean character and aims for ...
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (6/1) Not Reachable
Writers Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll wring comedy from Atkinson's angular body.
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (6/1) Not Reachable
Mr. Bean's Holiday is sporadically funny.
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