I’ve always known him as Mr. Bean and not Rowan Atkinson. In this movie, Mr. Bean wins the Church raffle prize trip to France and of course, as it is Mr. Bean, the whole plan twist and turns. At the onset of his journey - at the train station, he asked for a man (Karel Roden) to shoot him with his camcorder but somehow messed up the situation in such a way that the man was left behind and separated from his son.
His whole holiday turns into an ordeal trying to re-unite the son to his father - he even got filmed on the sets of self-centric director/actor/producer/financer Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe) which eventually sets the importance of his camcorder and the video at the end. Watch out for his video camcorder shots - that’s going to be one of the pivotal steer-factor of the movie plot.
However, besides the usual smart and rubbery facial expressions of Mr. Bean, the movie tends to be not that humorous, it looks mundane and rather crappy at times. We seem to have seen all the fun earlier and nothing is anew. Nonetheless, on the overall this is a watch-able movie, I was tempted to see it as I had nothing much better to do today. I should have waited for the DVD instead. Well, now that I have seen this sweet comedy movie, my feeling is that the DVD is not worth the buy. If you have kids, this movie should do just fine else, it won’t be funny for any grown-ups.
This one and half hour movie seem to have missed that shot when Mr. Bean destroys a man’s laptop inside the train which we saw in the trailer? I think they left it for the DVD.
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