Bean

Plot synopsis:
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well-meaning, but hopelessly clumsy and destructive guard at the Royal National Gallery in London. Attempts by the gallery's board of directors to fire Bean are thwarted by the chairman who, for unspecified reasons, is very fond of him. Desperate to rid themselves of the turmoil Bean unintentionally causes, the board members send him to the United States to represent them at the unveiling of the portrait Whistler's Mother, which has been purchased for $50 million by the Grierson Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Bean's visit has been arranged by the gallery's curator, David Langley (Peter MacNicol) who is being very impressed by the National Gallery's fabricated praise of "Dr. Bean", decides to board him in his house. On his flight to Los Angeles, Bean attempts to amuse a child with air sickness by blowing up his M&Ms bag and popping it to wake up the man in front of him, but without success. After the child throws up into an air sickness bag, Bean takes the bag from him and repeats the bag popping over the man's face, only to splatter him with vomit. He hides from the man upon his arrival to Los Angeles, where he is detained at the airport due to pretending to have a gun. His arrival at David's house is initially met with subtle hostility from David's wife Alison (Pamela Reed), son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence), and daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey). Alison refuses David's request to allow Bean to live with them for two months, and David promises Alison that he will talk to Bean and take him to a hotel after their meeting at the gallery.
Bean's unorthodox arrival at the gallery worries many of David's colleagues, particularly his boss, George Grierson (Harris Yulin), who subtly warns David that he will be responsible for Bean's actions at the unveiling of the painting, but David promises that he can handle Bean, convinced that he is merely a little eccentric. When David takes Bean back to his house, Alison departs for her mother's home, unwilling to live with Bean. With his family gone, David decides to take Bean on a tour of the Los Angeles art galleries. However, Bean decides that he and David should go to Pacific Park instead, but lands in police detainment for the second time after accidentally tampering with the controls of a motion simulator ride, making it go dangerously fast after deeming that his first ride earlier was too slow. This prompts Lieutenant Brutus (Richard Gant), who dealt with Bean at the airport, to make David accountable for Bean, threatening to arrest Bean if he ever steps out of line again.
Following a miserable dinner with Grierson which David had forgotten about, where Bean accidentally blows up the microwave after attempting to cook their Thanksgiving turkey in it, David finally realises that Bean is not a doctor and knows nothing about art. He is obliged to continue with the deception, however, as he has already staked his professional career on Bean's supposed reputation as a noted art scholar. The next day, Whistler's Mother arrives at the Grierson Art Gallery, and Bean is given a few minutes alone to study it, in an effort to keep him out of trouble. While dusting the frame, Bean accidentally sneezes on the painting and wipes it with a handkerchief, not knowing that it is covered in blue ink from a broken pen, and therefore the painting is stained. Terrified, Bean takes it to the caretaker's cupboard to get some agent by which to remove the ink. He uses lacquer thinner, which also dissolves the painted face from the painting. Much to his horror, Bean attempts to patch it up with an extremely unconvincing cartoon face. Upon seeing it, David is also horrified and hides the painting behind its metal security shutters. Fearing that David will lose his job and possibly face criminal proceedings for his vandalism, he and Bean head off to a bar to drown their sorrows.
During the night, Bean hatches his plan to restore Whistler's Mother. He gathers a few items from David's house and makes his way to the Grierson Art Gallery. He distracts the only security guard on duty by putting laxative in his coffee, followed by switching the men's bathroom keys with some other set. He removes the destroyed painting from its frame and replaces it with a poster version of itself, glossing it with an egg and varnish mix to make it appear authentic. At the unveiling of Whistler's Mother the next day, David is overjoyed to see the painting is restored, but expects Bean, who has totally forgotten to come up with a speech, to make a fool of himself on national television when he takes the podium at the press conference. However, Bean's brief but effective off-the-cuff speech regarding the work is both very simple and very deep, cementing the public's perception of him as a scholarly virtuoso. Despite initial doubts, the officials and hierarchy appear to take his words to heart and enjoy the speech. After the unveiling, Brutus finds David and informs him that Jennifer has been involved in a motorcycle accident because she rebelled against David for not getting rid of Bean, and is in intensive care. Bean and David are given a police escort to the hospital to see Jennifer, but Brutus stops on his way to deal with an armed robber, who shoots Brutus in his stomach before being arrested.
Due to a mix-up at the hospital, Bean is mistaken for a medical doctor and pushed into an operating theatre containing Brutus, who is shot in the stomach and barely alive. While the other doctors and nurses are distracted, Bean unconventionally retrieves the bullet and eventually rescues Brutus, earning the admiration of his colleagues. Bean is again mistaken for a doctor and this time, David takes him to see Jennifer, who is unconscious. Bean, unsure what to do, attempt to use a defibrillator to bring Jennifer back to life, but accidentally shocks himself and is sent flying across the room and lands on Jennifer in her bed and waking her up in the process. Still not recognising Bean, David and Alison tell him that they will offer him anything. Bean reveals himself and then asks if he can stay with them for another week before returning to London. Though baffled, the Langleys gladly accept. After another week in Los Angeles with the Langleys, for which he gives the family gifts, and explores the city, a bald man shows him his middle finger, bean thinks it is a sign of good luck. So he shows this to everybody. In his flat, Bean, getting ready to bed for the night, turns off the light and looks at the original vandalised Whistler's Mother, which now has pride-of-place on his wall, and shows it to his Teddy before closing his eyes and going to sleep.

Tags: cult, comedy, entertaining

Review:
For those of you who loved watching Mr Bean, this movie doesn't fail to disappoint you.
I saw this last night and laughed my head off, in fact, I think I was laughing more than when I was seeing Johnny English(also starring Atkinson).For those who really love the TV series, a few of the gags have been redone, including the vomit bag joke, the turkey head and the fast ride (the latter is so damn funny).So if you love Rowan Atkinson or love Mr Bean, go see this film!.
Rowan Atkinson's acting is beyond excellent, and all of the other characters are good as well.The only thing I can find to nitpick about this movie is that there is not a very strong plot.
This movie also has a great plot involving Mr. Bean going to L.A. to "baby-sit" Whistler's Mother, a well-known painting who has finally returned to America at last for 2 months after his bosses fire him for not doing his job at the Royal National Gallery.
I would have to say, if you love Rowan Atkinson and Mr. Bean and have never seen this movie before, I'd say WATCH IT!
The young American executive David Langley (Peter MacNicol) assumes that the clumsy Bean is a great authority in Arts, and invites him to stay at his home.
"Bean" is the average but warm-hearted, large screen adventure of Rowan Atkinson's bumbling but strangely likable character.With a smörgåsbord of talent behind this film, there are a few genuine laughs but, sadly, they're few and far between.
It's a case of comedy by numbers and the film never seems to shift gear.The always amusing Peter MacNicol is excellent as the suffering David Langley and provides the perfect foil to Atkinson's Bean.An average comedy movie, it's worth a viewing if there's nothing else on the television..
"Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie"), but unfortunately, this didn't turn out to be nearly as good as the classic TV series, and has disappointed many fans, including me.Mr. Bean works as a caretaker for England's Royal National Gallery, and is one lousy employee (as one would probably assume), constantly sleeping on the job!
Towards the end, I've found the film gets a bit tiring.Overall, I would say "Bean" was not a bad first attempt to bring the world-renowned walking disaster to the silver screen, but hardly a good one, either, they certainly didn't completely pull it off.
A film that sounds like it could go down in the records for possibly the worst movie ever but Rowan Atkinson really nails the role of Mr Bean in this amazing film that will make your sides hurt.
Usually films with slapstick humor fail but the slapstick humor in The Bean Movie makes up for a very funny film and balances it perfectly..
This is one of the greatest comedies of all time.Rowan Atkinson is brilliant and the fact he didn't get at least an Oscar nod is a travesty of unforgivable proportions.How someone can not watch the scene with the 2 way mirror or the bathroom scene and not find that funny is beyond me..
Unfortunately for them, the heads of the gallery are more interested in using this as an opportunity to rid themselves of their most inept and detested employee Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) passing him off as an expert and sending him across the pond to the care of Dr Langley (Peter MacNicol.) Intently interested in Bean and what he's got to say, the poor man and his family have no idea what they have just let themselves in for as disaster and calamity ensue before the big day of the unveiling.Mr Bean the series certainly enjoyed a huge following over here but I'm surprised it sustained a big enough following to warrant such a big budget production as this.
If you've watched the Mr Bean show, you know Rowan Atkinson has talent.
On the other hand, the film does look great, so is the soundtrack, the physical comedy is laugh-out-loud-funny, Peter MacNicol is good in his conventional role and Rowan Atkinson is brilliant as Mr Bean.
With this here big screen debut for Mr Bean the timing was right, American audiences got something new to have a look at and Britain got an extended TV episode before the joke wore thin.
Bean is a genius but are they far from the truth.Bean doesn't know anything about art.In LA Bean stays at David Langley's (Peter MacNimol) house.David's family doesn't like at all a weird man sleeping in their house.Where ever Bean goes is a disaster.So the painting really isn't in safe when mr.
I just don't see how anyone was able to take a character as funny as Mr. Bean, nor an actor as funny as Rowan Atkinson, and make such a terrible, terrible movie.
A good Mr. Bean movie would have been a Jacques Tati-like flick, with little dialogue and faith in the character's visual humor.
An extended episode of the UK TV series created by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, with added sentimentality for American audiences.Some excellent episodes, but ultimately -like Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler- your appreciation of this film depends on whether you love the rubber-faced antics of Rowan Atkinson's creation or hate them.
When Rowan Atkinson was the focus of a scene, the movie is great.
Silly comedy has British art gallery guard Bean coming to Los Angelos as an art expert, although he knows so little about art that he thinks Leonardo Da Vinci is a basketball player.
Atkinson's first attempt to bring his TV character to the big screen is rather disappointing due to a lame script that relies on sophomoric situations for forced laughs.
The main charm of the Mr. Bean TV series was that the action of each episode took place within a ten-minute time-frame, reducing the risk of making the character's deeds too extravagant or unrealistic.
Shame, because the first half of the movie may not be a comedy classic, but it is nonetheless very funny.The premise of the whole thing is Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) has mysteriously managed to get a job at the National Gallery in London.
As long as he is around, L.A. is no longer a safe place to go.Like many other comedies featuring stupid people, Bean: The Movie has no hidden message or subtext for the audience to detect; its sole purpose is to entertain, and as long as it stays within the main storyline it succeeds.
What Bean does in that context may appear excessively surreal to some, but thanks to Atkinson, who believes in the character and treats him like a normal person, making the performance transcend pantomime, the gags are consistently funny and, in their own way, believable.
As for the supporting cast, MacNicol does a decent job (although his character's belief that Bean might actually be able to do good things becomes less convincing as the story proceeds), while the only real "big name", Burt Reynolds, is given a cameo that can have been great on paper, but sadly doesn't allow him to do much on screen.So, genius or rubbish?
I'd say somewhere in between: watching Bean won't affect the viewer's life in any significant way, but the film is fun enough to justify a look on a boring afternoon..
Portraying the title character (Rowan Atkinson) getting called to Los Angeles for the unveiling of "Whistler's Mother" and wreaking havoc, the movie is basically an excuse for a series of gags.
** 1/2Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, and Pamela Reed.Mr. Bean, the famous UK character, has his own movie.
A masterclass in comedic acting; it says something when almost the entire movie is made up of those laugh-out-loud scenes you'd recall to your friends later-and every one was thanks to Atkinson's bumbling (yet oddly brilliant) Bean.
I have to say that the movie was classic, though the plot is too adventurous, Mr.Bean was force to be a scholar for the upcoming painting "Whistler's Mother" , as usual, some disaster will defintely happen if Bean was around.
Try to see "The Party" with Peter Sellers, along with "Bean," you'll see from where the inspiration for the painting "Whistler's Mother"(Peter Sellers scene in the bathroom after he succeeds finally to pee...) I love Rowan Atkinson, he is a great comic actor.
Anyway, "Bean" it's another very good comedy, and, along with Rowan Atkinson's very special comic performance, there are a few other great acting testimonies by Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Burt Reynolds.
Directed by Mel Smith, the comedy was awarded twice in the year of the release: it won Bogey Awards and the Golden Screen, in Germany.The plot is introduced by Mr. Bean being fired from the London Gallery, where he worked as a caretaker, and sent to Los Angeles to work for a smaller art gallery.
I love the 'Mr Bean' TV series and the 'Ultimate Disaster' movie is just as entertaining.
My main concern was the transition to the big screen and whether Bean would be as effective as a long movie, but it definitely does work and the transition is seamless.Rowan Atkinson is a comedy genius and never fails to amuse, no matter how many times you've seen or watched Bean for.
If there's one thing I preferred about the TV series over the movie, it would be that Bean hardly ever talks and relies a lot more on facial expressions and gestures.
The board of the Royal National Gallery in London wants to fire caretaker Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) but the chairman defends him.
Rowan Atkinson allegedly dislikes this movie because it failed to capture the spirit of the "Mr. Bean" TV-series.
Bean is a good movie with a decent storyline and a very good comedic cast.It certainly isn't the comedy gold that the television series is but it's still very enjoyable and you will laugh out loud a lot.My biggest problem was that Mr Bean spoke too much in this movie, he's suppose to be a silent character who myth say a few words every now and again,but in this he actually has full lines and even a while speech at one stage.Rowan Atkinson did do his best as Mr Bean and delivered plenty of solid laughs and I really liked Peter MacNicol as well as the voice of reason.The movie is very different to the television series and fans will definitely be disappointed,but if you really enjoy watching Rowan Atkinson play Mr Bean in any aspect then you should definitely check out Bean.
In my eyes it doesn't translate well to the screen but this is certainly worth a watch.The plot of this movie is that Mr Bean (of ALL people!) is asked to present a speech on Whistler's portrait of his mother in America.
We all know that doing a film based on a TV series isn't always such a great idea too, but here "Bean" absolutely pulls it off.
Watching all the fantastic deleted scenes devastates me that they didn't include them in."Bean" is one hilarious sequence after another, with actually a surprisingly great plot and some nice character development on the Langley family.
Rowan Atkinson also puts on another faultless performance as the character, and whilst the film isn't exactly perfect, it's still an absolutely hilarious and entertaining farce that flies by.
I couldn't believe when I saw the review that this movie was rated at a mere 5.9!!!!!.....I am a BIG fan of the Mr. Bean TV series and if you have seen it, you will know that Rowan Atkinson pulls off a splendid performance in each and every episode.As it is said for Tom and Jerry, it can be rightly said for Mr. Bean that action speaks louder than words.....Each and every Bean episode is filled with hilarity and Atkinson manages to do all that just be speaking a handful of words which is not the case with many modern day comedy shows where a lot of dialogs are needed.My suggestion is that if you are looking for a really nice movie with a lot of laughs and no complicated dialogs, RENT THIS ONE!!!!....It will be much more fun if you see if with someone who likes to laugh!!.....Mr. Bean ROCKS!!!......
I'm a big fan of Rowan Atkinson and he does a great job in this movie.
So if you're a fan of Rowan Atkinson and you are looking to sit down and watch a funny movie this movie is definitely for you..
Bean the movie is a great movie, simply because of the presence of Rowan Atkinson in his secondary familiar character other than Blackadder.I enjoyed the movie because I am a huge fan of anything Bean, and own every live DVD based on him.
Bean is a typically odd product of British humour and Rowan Atkinson shows with the character of Bean that he is a great actor- he can go from the sophisticated Blackadder material to the sillier and stranger Bean without batting an eyelid.Those who are familiar with the series will recognise a couple of jokes in the film- without giving anything away- turkeys.Still, the jokes are still funny and are tweaked to keep them fresh.Bean will keep kids and adults alike amused with the pure insanity of it all.
If you're looking for the kind of movie, that you can just sit at home, and not have to think for two hour, but rather continually laugh...than this is the right movie to rent.Bean, originally a t.v. series in the U.K., is a delightful, clean and completely enjoyable film that you can watch with the whole family, and everyone will laugh.It's really too complicated to explain Bean.
Peter MacNicol and Rowan Atkinson both acted well together and separately had their own comedic attributes that made this film what it is.
I've always loved a good comedy and got what I wanted when I saw this movie.
I love this goddamn comical movie because Bean was more insecure, he caused more trouble at the Langleys' house, and when he had to present the Whistler's Mother painting in the Los Angeles Art Museum, he wasn't really secure and he had the same, funny voice as his normal character, Mr. Bean in the television series.
To illustrate what I've just written, just remember the scene where Peter MacNicol shows himself much more worried about being fired, his wife leaving him or his daughter become a prostitute, rather than about art (which he tells us he dedicated his life to), upon knowing Atkinson had ruined the original "Whistler's Mother".Bottom-line: a must for everyone who enjoys watching fine non-politically correct humor associated to a super clown-like nonsense performance..
You can't get much better than Rowan Atkinson in a comedy movie.
Rowan Atkinson does a good performance as Bean and he is even better on the big screen, rather than on the small screen.
A definite must for all Bean fans - and a great rental if you like slap-stick comedy..
The movie Bean, is mainly a compilation of the best skits from the short shows on BBC set into a crazy plot.Rowan Atkinson does an excellent job with his character and is probably one of the best physical comedians I've seen.I suggest that you see both the short episodes from the BBC and the movie..
Bean's gift for mime is superb; he is great at movement comedy...He's a British Pee Wee Herman, in a way, and the film has some very funny sight gag moments...the only downside is Alison Langley, the annoying wife of Mr. Langley; she's constantly threatening to leave him/lock him out for little apparent reason.
After a long season of Mr Bean, you get to know his character and personality so well that when you watch the movie, you get a sense that you have been cheated out of the real Mr Bean.
Most of the antics and comic acts in the movie does not ring true for the Mr Bean that most of us from watching TV know.
Bean, the movie takes one of the most renowned British comedians, Rowan Atkinson, in one of his most famous roles, which is subjected to the most imaginative and hilarious situations on T.V, yet is recycled into a mesh of previously used props, and pressed into a (yawn) boring plot.
The film tries to have an underlying serious story to it while poking fun at Rowan Atkinson's character.
I love Mr. Bean, his amusing antics and the stupid things he gets up to.I have just seen this movie for the 2nd time and I have to say that it is rather good overall.Though this film is English made it has a classic American feel to the whole thing, maybe this is the reason it was 'so' popular and successful during 1997.I just 'hope' that the development teams make a sequel and really soon!8/10.
Atkinson's BBC show, "Mr. Bean" on which the film was based, was humorous, but it was sketch comedy which rarely translates into a good film.
Bean: A good Family Movie but needs improvement in many cases..
Rowan Atkinson delivers the goods as usual, but I can't stop thinking about MacNicol's performance: it was as brilliant a characterization of a "straight man" as I've ever seen.
This U.S. film adaptation of the popular British TV series has Rowan Atkinson reprising his TV role as the hapless and inept Mr. Bean.
The plot has to do with some American art collectors purchasing a famous painting and the curators sending their guard (Atkinson) along for the ride passing him off as an "art expert." Mr. Bean never has any idea exactly what's going on most of the time and spends most of the film predictably but hilariously embarrassing himself and others (though naturally never realizing it).
Atkinson is a great actor, and he carries the film to be a fine comedy, but I still think the TV-shows of Mr.Bean was much better!