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With: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Jean Rochefort, Karel Roden, Max Baldry
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Written by: Robin Driscoll, Hamish McColl, based on a story by Simon McBurney
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Directed by: Steve Bendelack
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MPAA Rating: G
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Running Time: 86
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Date: 03/22/2007
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Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Bean Trip
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis' amusing 1990 TV series "Mr. Bean" reversed Atkinson's snide, loquacious "Blackadder" character and turned him into a nearly speechless buffoon, a distant cousin to Chaplin's Tramp or Tati's Mr. Hulot. The 1997 Bean stretched his brief vignettes into a thin, exasperating, three-act feature film. Its new sequel is more clearly divided into individual sections, independent of plot, and keeps intact the character's murmuring non-dialogue. It's an improvement, and even intermittently funny. In rainy London, Mr. Bean wins a trip to the South of France, and runs into all kinds of trouble while getting there. He eventually tries to help reunite a lost Russian boy with his father. Willem Dafoe co-stars as a pretentious American filmmaker at Cannes. DVD Details: Universal's Region 1 DVD comes with 24 minutes of deleted scenes, and three behind-the-scenes featurettes, "French Beans," (11 minutes), "Bean in Cannes" (6 minutes) and "The Human Bean" (6 minutes). Strangely, for a G-rated kids' film, it's not a particularly kid-friendly DVD.
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