Peter MacNicol is saddled with the thankless role of gallery curator who comes to believe Mr. Bean is Dr. Bean, an art expert based on a communiqu from the London museum. By sending him offer to California, Bean's superiors hope to lose the hapless guard for at least a few weeks. Once set loose in California, Bean wreaks his own patented brand of havoc on everything he touches. The cast of BEAN also features John Mills, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin and Burt Reynolds. The cropped presentation is actually full frame and very similar in appearance to the Letterboxed edition.
Color saturation is quite good on the DVD and the image reproduces with crisp detail.
Digital compression artifacts could be detected in a couple of spots, if one was looking for them. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack has a good mix for the subject matter, but there were instances where hiss was detectable in the surround channels. Otherwise, the track sounds fine, with the songs and music getting a boost from the Dolby Digital encoding. Other soundtrack options include a matrixed Dolby Surround track and a French language track.