Mr. Bean's Holiday
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Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
What critics thought
Mr. Bean's Holiday landed in genuinely divided territory: fans of Atkinson's physical comedy found enough charm and old-fashioned simplicity to justify the trip, while skeptics felt the one-joke character couldn't sustain ninety minutes without the gags turning repetitive and the whole enterprise looking like a thin Tati imitation. The Jacques Tati comparison was inescapable — nearly every critic invoked it, but where some saw affectionate homage, others saw pale imitation or outright theft.
“Don't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean's Holiday is quite savvy about filmmaking, landing a few blows for satire.”
Amy Biancolli·Houston Chronicle
“Either you'll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he'll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he's hilarious.”
Ty Burr·The Boston Globe
“In a post-Borat world, surely there's no place for Bean's antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?”
Steve Rose·The Guardian
“If you've been lobotomized or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean's Holiday is viable comic entertainment”
Claudia Puig·USA Today
“I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy”
Lawrence Toppman·The Charlotte Observer
Genres
Family, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Steve BendelackDirector
Rowan AtkinsonMr. Bean
Willem DafoeCarson Clay
Maxim BaldryStepan
Karel RodenEmil
Emma de CaunesSabine
Steve PembertonVicar
Jean RochefortMaître d'hôtel
Michel WinogradoffPyrotechnician
Julie FournierEmil's Wife
Julie FerrierFirst AD
Howard GoodallComposer
Robin DriscollWriter
Hamish McCollWriter
Simon McBurneyWriterMr. Bean's Holiday
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
What critics thought
Mr. Bean's Holiday landed in genuinely divided territory: fans of Atkinson's physical comedy found enough charm and old-fashioned simplicity to justify the trip, while skeptics felt the one-joke character couldn't sustain ninety minutes without the gags turning repetitive and the whole enterprise looking like a thin Tati imitation. The Jacques Tati comparison was inescapable — nearly every critic invoked it, but where some saw affectionate homage, others saw pale imitation or outright theft.
“Don't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean's Holiday is quite savvy about filmmaking, landing a few blows for satire.”
Amy Biancolli·Houston Chronicle
“Either you'll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he'll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he's hilarious.”
Ty Burr·The Boston Globe
“In a post-Borat world, surely there's no place for Bean's antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?”
Steve Rose·The Guardian
“If you've been lobotomized or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean's Holiday is viable comic entertainment”
Claudia Puig·USA Today
“I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy”
Lawrence Toppman·The Charlotte Observer
Genres
Family, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Steve BendelackDirectorRowan AtkinsonMr. BeanWillem DafoeCarson ClayMaxim BaldryStepanKarel RodenEmilEmma de CaunesSabineSteve PembertonVicarJean RochefortMaître d'hôtelMichel WinogradoffPyrotechnicianJulie FournierEmil's WifeJulie FerrierFirst ADHoward GoodallComposerRobin DriscollWriterHamish McCollWriterSimon McBurneyWriterStream
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