Mr. Bean's Holiday

Plot synopsis:
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins a raffle and claims his prize a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a Sony Handycam DCR-HC96, and 200. Bean proceeds to film his trip to the French Riviera beach on the video camera.On the train, Bean buys some coffee. Bean arrives in Paris, France where accidentally taking a taxi from the Gare du Nord railway station to the arch at La Defense in Paris, Bean is forced to make his way on foot with the help of compass, literally walking through Paris (with disastrous effects) towards Gare de Lyon from La Défense to board his next train towards Cannes. He misses his train when his tie gets stuck while trying to buy a sandwich from a vending machine. Discovering that a back-up train won't be leaving for another hour, he has time to try some French food at Le Train Bleu restaurant. Unable to communicate with the waiter in French and misunderstanding his suggestion, he accidentally orders oysters and langoustines, disgusting the taste of oysters. He pours the oysters into a nearby lady's handbag and eats a whole langoustine without removing the shell. He quickly escapes when the lady sees the oysters inside her bag.Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes Film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his camcorder to film his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Emil can get on. Emil told Bean to open the door but there is no button and then helplessly films Emil while running. Emil's son, Stepan Dachevsky (Max Baldry) is left on board by himself. Bean attempts to befriend Stepan, who gets off at the next stop to meet his father. While confronting a threatening stranger who approaches Stepan, Bean accidentally misses the train's departure, losing his bag aboard. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a mobile number which reads 0608080797, but the last two digits are covered by his fingers. Bean and Stepan write down the possible numbers, but their first three attempts of calling Stepan's father prove fruitless. They end up calling a hairdresser, an undertaker, and a two-year-old kid. They board the next train, accidentally leaving Bean's ticket, passport and money behind which results in the duo being forced off the train at the next stop. They ask a lady for money to try and contact Stepan's father, but still, they are unable to reach him. Ironically, they end up contacting a maid who is cleaning Stepan's parents' hotel room. Then, a security camera takes a picture of Bean making a fake evil face. The station master sees Bean and Stepan trying to get money out of some public phones and chases them out of the station, suspecting them as vandals.Feeling hungry and low on money, Bean and Stepan decide to attempt at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro (sung by Rita Streich) and other music and it proves successful. Afterwards, Bean buys two bus tickets to Cannes, and some food to eat on the way, but loses his ticket when it gets caught in the breeze and then snagged in the talon of a chicken, which is subsequently loaded into a farm pick-up. Bean steals a nearby bicycle and follows the pick-up, and passes a bicycle race in the process. When he reaches the farm, he finds a large chicken pen with thousands of chickens and realizes that he'll never find the ticket. As he leaves the farm, he finds the bicycle destroyed by a passing tank. Bean attempts to hitch a ride on a moped, but it wouldn't go since it couldn't hold two people. Ironically, a VW van with Stepan in it passes by when Bean accidentally locks himself in an old outhouse by the side of the road. After almost getting killed by a passing truck when he has managed to move the outhouse out on the road, Bean sets off for a place to settle for the night.Bean wakes up the next morning to see German World War II soldiers attacking a village he was sleeping in. Eventually he realizes that the village that he was in was used as a set for a commercial, which is being directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe). Carson joins Bean as a soldier but it is fired when Carson sees Bean's camera attached on a rifle. When Bean's video camera battery dies, he decides to recharge it, but accidentally blows up the set afterwards, injuring Carson and losing his hat.Hitchhiking, Bean is picked up by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes), whom Bean encountered at the commercial filming, driving the same type of car as Bean. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where Carson Clay's new film, in which she makes her debut, is going to be presented. When they stop at a petrol station, Bean finds Stepan in its café. Continuing to drive to Cannes, Bean finds Sabine's cell phone, which gives him an idea to try and contact Stepan's father, but yet again, they still are unable to reach him. They end up calling a man who accidentally drops his phone in a urinal, a man who commits suicide by jumping off a bridge (after he broke up with his lover) and even the waiter from the Le Train Bleu restaurant. When Sabine falls asleep behind the steering wheel that night, Bean takes over the driving but struggles to stay awake himself. The next morning they finally reach Cannes.When Sabine goes into a petrol station to change for the premiere, she watches TV news depicting Bean as Stepan's kidnapper and Sabine as an accomplice. The news anchor also informs that road blocks have been set up all over France, trying to catch them. There were even wanted posters with Bean on them. In order not to get caught before they reach the premiere venue, Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother. They manage to get past the police and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.The three sneak into the premiere of "Playback Time", a shameless vanity production written by, produced by, directed by, and starring Carson himself. From the first few moments, the audience is horribly bored. Sabine tells Bean that her big scene is coming up, but is disappointed to see that her role has been cut from the film. Seeing that Carson uses a similar video camera as him, and hoping to cheer up Sabine, Bean goes to the projection room and plugs his camera into the projector. The ensuing scenes, heavily featuring Sabine and Bean, fit Carson's narration. When Bean, chased by security guards, ends up on stage while his video is being played, Emil sees footage of his son, where the film ends, and claims that Bean has kidnapped him. But just as Bean is about to be arrested (Bean starts to run on the backs of the chairs as Roberto Benigni in the 71st Academy Awards when his film Life Is Beautiful won) Stepan also appears from behind the screen and is finally reunited with his father. The audience gives a standing ovation for what they believe to be part of Carson's movie. Carson's initial anger fades and he embraces Bean and takes credit for the film's success.After the screening, Bean picks up his camera, leaves the building and finally arrives at the beach, encountering many of the other characters including Sabine and Stepan. The film ends with Bean and the whole cast miming Charles Trenet's famous song "La Mer".In a post-credits scene, Bean writes "FIN" on the wet sand using his foot. He films it until the sea washes the words away and the screen cuts to black as his camera's battery dies again.

Tags: cult, cute, entertaining, stupid

Review:
They may not know Rowan's real name, but they know the character.The sad part about this film is that it's absolutely wonderful, and most people in America aren't going to see it because it's rated "PG".
What is so wrong with having a character like Bean, a performance like Atkinson's, that we can't find that part of us that wasn't soured on tasteless "humor" but just absorb and let out a barrel-chested sigh of satisfaction after a hearty laugh from a genuine, clever clean joke or visual gag?We'll go on, with our Jackasses and Scary Movie XII and we'll forget about them five minutes after we've left the theater, but darnit, it's high time a movie like Mr. Bean's Holiday came along.
And I for one would pay money to see this again, even if the American know-it-alls of Hollywood think it's better suited in a death slot in September, to be forgotten, sandwiched between sequel after sequel and the banality of teen slasher flicks acted by twenty-somethings whose genre should have died off years ago.If what Atkinson says is true, that this is the last time Bean will ever appear, then he's gone out on the highest note you could ever bestow on a character so beloved.
I'm not really a big Mr. Bean fan, but I really liked this movie anyway, and I know that most people will too, if they give it a chance.
I think the last time I saw him on screen was in 'Love Actually' (not so-great film but Atkinson was awesome).
Emma de Caunes as Sabine is charming and pretty and child actor Max Baldry as Stepan is impressive (unlike those annoying movie kids who 'beg' the audience to love them when getting on their nerve).
I don't wish to go on and on as Mr bean is a character whom each individual has their own views on, some love him and some hate him however this film, for most fans, is a welcome return to the 'classic' bean we knew in the TV series far less 'americanised' than in the ultimate disaster movie.
It seems that Rowan has taken bean to a new emotional level resembling classic silent artists such as Keaton and at times Chaplin, some scenes seem very reminiscent of "the kid" and help keep peoples attention to the story, not just Beans funny movements, though at times it drags slightly.
In an effort not to give any of the film away and there's little dialogue to quote all I can say is that I enjoyed the film and felt that this is the Bean i saw as a child and Rowans ability to emote with facial expression alone should place him amongst the greats in silent entertainment..
Mr. Bean's March to the Sea. This hasn't quite been the great year for movies that I had hoped for, but it has certainly been a very good year for comedies, and "Mr. Bean's Vacation" is the best so far.
This movie homage, and I can it can be argued that it is, to the great Tati films of "Mon Oncle" and "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" is Rowan Atkinson's triumphant farewell to the great character he created.
He plays with a real gusto and his gags are great.Any time he does a gig, that is really funny/ His trip to Cannes is a real gem of laughs - he separates the son of a Russian film maker, he forgets his passport, he loses his money and tickets, he only managed to keep his video camera and make his documentary.
Mr. Bean is not a serious masterpiece of cinema, but he is fresh, upbeat and this longer film is a great insight into a rural France, as well as bigger Paris and glamor Cannes..
Your mom said don't trust strangers but everyone who submitted a comment agrees with me, Mr Bean's holiday is an amazing comedy, a feel good movie, better than any movie so far released this year.
This movie is about the 7th Art and how humor was built within it along the years.Rowan Atkinson managed to express his deepest sympathy for Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Jacques Tati ( bien sûr...
With Mr. Bean, you either love him or you hate him, there is no middle ground, so you should know whether or not this movie will be worth your cash and your time.
I recommend it to anybody who's  looking for a good hearted, funny movie and has enjoyed Mr Beans  adventures before.
Mr. Bean's Holiday is also a very good movie.I have laugh a lot.
The Best Mr. Bean Movie Yet. I just came back from watching Mr. Bean's Holiday a second time and my face still hurts from laughing.
The scenes are hilarious, moving and just a lot of fun for everyone in the family, whether you're 8 or 80 years old.I personally thought they put a lot more fun in the character than in the previous movie when Mr. Bean visited the US.
Go watch the movie, you won't regret it.I was actually sad when I read that this was going to be the last outing of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean.
I enjoyed a lot this movie...it made me lo-ugh for the first time in a long time...Rowan Atkinson does a wonderful performance playing Mr. Bean...The story of the movie is simple:Mr. Bean wins a trip to France...But in reaching France he passes through a lot of adventured, partly of his lack of knowledge of the language...I liked the idea of the movie, the lack of dialogs, made me like more this movie and especially enojy Mr. Bean's gags...Another thing that i liked is the fact that this film is fille with very interesting scenes,very funny and original...The "tie scene" and "doing everything not to fall asleep scene" are in my opinion very original...I awnt to add that the movie also had some sad parts, but this made me appreciate all the more this movie...I gave it a 7 cause it really impressed and changed my day..
I thought it was just terrific!I was looking forward to seeing it in theaters and after that I was stunned by how great and really hilarious it was.Mr.Bean has always been my favorite show ever since I was little and although the jokes in his first movie weren't as funny as the show, this sequel to the first was hilariously brilliant.The story with Mr.Bean's holiday in France,Paris was incredible.Every bit of the scenes with Mr.Bean and a french kid were really funny.I recommend this to fans of Mr.Bean and people who have a strange but great sense of humour with a twist of oddity and mild gross-out weird expressions!.
The film is brilliantly cast and his two principal co-stars are both headed for bigger things: Emma de Caunes is wholesomely sexy with one of the loveliest new faces to grace the screen in a long time, while Bean's foil, the boy on the train, is played to great effect by Preston Nyman, a young stand-up comic who is conspicuously at ease before the lens.
I think you can only take so much of Rowan Atkinson's "Mr. Bean." A newcomer to him (believe-it-or-not), I found him a lot of fun in the first half of the film but, boy, this guy is tough to take in longer dosages.
I wonder if others feel that way?It's weird; the film was entertaining.....but I found myself looking at my watch a lot during the last 20 minutes, hoping it would end.
Quite funny is the scene with Mr. Bean and him sitting on a bench while the kid mimics Mr. Bean's every move.From the TV series, Mr. Bean is a somewhat predictable and sometimes presented as a 2-D type character but pulls it off as a comedy, sometimes better than in other episodes.
Makes you want to be there.There's a couple of predictable scenes or so it seems, but with a twist that ends most unexpectedly; there is never a dull moment.Seems like this film has been given the thumbs down by some critics but maybe they're just negative people, made their minds up before seeing it, didn't actually see it or just plain hate Mr. Bean, regardless.Could it be because some of these critics are too much like Mr. Bean in their real lives?
After watching the new Mr.bean film with low expectations i can safely saw it really enjoyed it.
Over the years Rowan Atkinson has perfected Mr Bean and makes playing that role seem like a walk in the park.
This movie throws up many, many laugh out loud moments but does not stray far from the story and it keeps on track and moves along at a nice pace.Overall this movie is a warm hearted, feel good movie which is certainly worth a watch if you enjoyed any previous Mr Bean shows/movies.8/10.
I really like the movie, but I am a fan of the character Atkinson portrays so well and also of the original television series from Britain which ran sporadically in the late-1980s and early-1990s.
I just finished watching this on my computer and i have to tell you, I LOVED THIS MOVIE, who else could have a film with probably all of 15 lines of English in it and make it superb unlike other remakes they kept the character the same, (a goofy, silly man who gets into wacky blunders and always gets out of it.
If you liked the TV series and the first Bean movie, you will most definitely enjoy this one.
As a viewer who doesn't laugh at funny faces, cheap clichés and grimasse, the things Rowan Atkinson is know for in his cult Bean TV series.
You can watch the new Bean like a Jacques Tati movie, like Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Louis de Funes comedy.
It's more like a feel-good movie, with Bean getting himself into trouble and out of it, with consequences for others!
And all this humor concludes in a bizarre ending that signals Bean's farewell to the world (as this is his last performance as Bean ).The supporting cast actors are quite enjoyable; the child actor playing the missing boy is not annoying like most child actors nowadays, the female actress who brings along Bean and the boy to Cannes in her mini-cooper which is exactly identical to Bean's, minus the padlock, and Dafoe, which we will always remember as The Green Goblin in the first Spider-Man movie, plays an overzealous filmmaker, who plans to shock the audiences at the film festival with his latest project.
The TV series is good and funny but the film is a complete time pass, it's like your watching someone's home video when they were away on holiday.
For my opinion its just another average comedy, perhaps more suitable for children, not much laughs, just another average movie, I really expected much more from Rowan Atkinson.
If u r looking for a movie to see with your kids u might like it, but if you expect to see mister bean from the TV show don't bother to watch it cause u won't find him there..
I have great respect and empathy towards Rowan because I had heard that he had passed through several phases of depressions (I don't know whether it is true or not!) due to professional failures after "Mr.Bean" series got over.This second movie of Mr.Bean is about Mr.Bean winning a trip from London to Paris to Cannes and his journey to Cannes beach where he will spend his holiday.
It is difficult to create a good humor here, since all comedy is getting on the level of sign language.I think that the movie with similar plot - "Vacation" with Chevy Chase - was much funnier than "Mr. Bean's Holiday".I gave this movie 4 stars, just because of Mr. Bean's incredible mimics..
It's true that he took advantage of this a long time ago to create a character named Mr. Bean; it's also true that he was born to play this creature and that no other will ever be able to do it.My little cousin watches Atkinson's series about the same character, so he went to watch the film.
As Bean himself with his camera, the director's shots are disinterested and don't seem premeditated in a good way, which leaves the viewer a clear idea that the picture doesn't take itself too seriously and makes the experience much more enjoyable.There are a couple of moments which could have been spared and two or three times where the rhythm decays completely, but when it gets back on track the audience breaks into a constant laugh.
Robin Driscoll, Simon McBurney and Hamish McColl wrote the screenplay; but it would have been the same if they hadn't done anything, because there are not many spoken words in the movie.In fact, Atkinson, who is the main attraction, doesn't say more than thirty words in the whole film and frankly, that is just what makes "Mr. Bean's Holiday" a good movie and Mr. Atkinson's performance a great piece of work.
Rowan Atkinson's Mr Bean first burst into mainstream TV prominence in this part of the world sometime in the early 90s, where half hour episodes containing skits of that famous character cut through all boundaries with its humour - by not having Mr Bean speak (or speak minimally, and when it doesn't matter), and set in simple, identifiable premises, he's able to reach out to all, regardless of language.It's been sometime since new material came out, and the TV episodes have been relegated help past time in waiting areas of clinics or government offices.
Compared to recent American Comedies that consist of an endless series of explosions and fart jokes (when they're not burping), this British Film is a delight.Although much of the film may be a bit slow for American tastes, the pace is well considered and the leisurely segments only make the manic episodes all the more enjoyable.Like the Disney Hit "Meet the Robinsons", much of the movie doesn't seem to make sense, until the ending when everything comes together in a brilliant, laugh-out-loud conclusion.A MUST SEE !!.
If anyone has seen the TV episodes of Mr Bean and not liked it please don't be worried, this film is on a completely different level and a million times
So, if your trying to decide a good family comedy watch Mr. Bean's holiday!
I think Bean is a polarising figure, and you're either going to like the films anyway or you won't even bother watching.
Mr bean is genius and i just love everything he does and all the silly expressions he makes it does depend on your humor but, i think the storyline is fun too and its just so silly that you have to laugh (or giggle at least) i hope another Mr bean movie comes out soon because it really is funnier than any of the other new comedies i've seen that just don't get it i suggest you watch this if you like Mr bean, because hes in it of course but also if you don't know the character that well it might not be the same everyone in the movie is great and its just a chirpy movie that is fun to watch i give it a 10/10 :).
Rowan Atkinson has cited Tati as a major influence for the Mr. Bean character and has even pointed out this film specifically as his masterpiece.
Knowing this going into Mr. Bean's Holiday, I assumed the film would entail Rowan Atkinson performing Jacques Tati beat by beat.
"Mr Bean's Holiday" is a very funny film, and one that is very clearly (and probably very self-awarely) in the tradition of much of what was produced by the great silent feature comedians such as Buster Keaton.
One of things things the movie does best is create a balance between the precarious and absurd plot that spins out from Bean's series of travelling predicaments and his eventual accidental abduction of a famous director's son, and some very nice comedy set pieces, which give Rowan Atkinson a chance really to display his character in its element -- Mr. Bean trapped in an outhouse, forced to wrangle with intimidated raw seafood in a fancy restaurant, or busking by pantomiming to a stolen speaker from a CD salesman.
A nice film to watch for admiring Jean Rochefort,Williem Dafoe,Emma de Caunes, Rowan "Mr.Bean" Atkinson and self made V.I.P pass.
not because it was more funny than some of the trashy, simple sex and toilet humor comedy we witness in today's theaters, it was because Mr. Atkinson, a comedy legend, was portraying the character the whole world knows and loves to see.Mr. bean enters a raffle and wins a trip to Cannes, France (topless beaches!
I really like Rowan Atkinson since I saw him in Johnny English and I always saw the previews for Mr. Bean and thought they were funny but this movie was just funny and a real delight.
Mr. Bean's Holiday is a great family movie.
This movie is worse than "The Ring Thing", which was of similar filming and acting quality, but had one big advantage: it did not take itself seriously.Especially in the second half, I laughed a lot in sheer disbelief: How could someone dare to release this crap?If you would like to watch a similar, but way better, comedy about shooting a film with no budget, and have the same low expectations in action, special effects, production values as necessary for "Mr. Bean's Holiday", I wholeheartedly recommend "Bowfinger"..
The jokes are funny, I laughed a lot of times during the film.
While some of the story is predictable, generic and again too thin for the running time, Mr Bean's Holiday is better than the first movie but like Bean it isn't a patch on the series.