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Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Mr beans holiday ver7.jpg

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Steve Bendelack
Screenplay by
  • Hamish McColl
  • Robin Driscoll
Story by Simon McBurney
Based on Mr. Bean
by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
Produced by
  • Peter Bennett-Jones
  • Tim Bevan
  • Eric Fellner
Starring
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Emma de Caunes
  • Max Baldry
  • Willem Dafoe
Cinematography Baz Irvine
Edited by Tony Cranstoun
Music by Howard Goodall

Production
companies

  • StudioCanal
  • Working Title Films
  • Tiger Aspect Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures[1]

Release dates

  • 30 March 2007 (United Kingdom)
  • 24 August 2007 (United States)

Running time

89 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France[2]
  • United States[2]
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Budget $25 million[3]
Box office $232.2 million[1]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a 2007 comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll, from a story penned by Simon McBurney. Based on the British sitcom series Mr. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, it is a standalone sequel to Bean (1997). The film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe and Karel Roden in supporting roles. In the film, Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for both a kidnapper and an award-winning filmmaker when he travels with both a Russian filmmaker’s son and an aspiring actress in tow.

Produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Tiger Aspect Films, the film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and in the United States on 24 August 2007 by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, though it was generally considered to be an improvement over its predecessor. The film was also a commercial success, having grossed $232.2 million worldwide against a $25 million budget.[4]

Plot[edit]

On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean wins a holiday trip to Cannes, a video camera, and €200 in a raffle. Upon arriving in France, Bean causes chaos while trying French seafood cuisine at Le Train Bleu and asks Russian film director, Emil Duchevsky, to film him boarding his train using his video camera at the Gare de Lyon. However, the two keep doing retakes at Bean’s request until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky’s son, Stepan, onboard and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan bond and get off together at the next station, where Duchevsky’s train passes through the station without stopping; he holds up a sign with a mobile phone number written on it for Stepan to call, but due to inadvertently obscuring the last two digits, Bean unsuccessfully calls the number numerous times. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping, but are ejected as Bean had accidentally left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone booth.

To earn money, Bean busks as a mime/singer and buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean’s ticket gets caught in the wind and onto the foot of a chicken, which is then packed into a farmer’s truck that Bean chases via bicycle to a farm, where he is unable to retrieve his ticket due to the large number of chickens there. Deciding to continue his journey alone on foot, Bean wakes up on a quaint French village under attack from Nazi soldiers, which is revealed to be the set of a yogurt commercial directed by American filmmaker Carson Clay. Bean briefly stars in the commercial as one of the soldiers before being dismissed for showing his video camera in the advert, and accidentally causes the set to explode while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by a Mini identical to his own driven by aspiring actress Sabine, who is on her way to the Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film directed by Carson, Playback Time, is to be presented. The pair stop at a café, where Bean reunites with Stepan and Sabine decides to take him with them, believing Stepan to be Bean’s son. The next morning, the trio arrive in Cannes thanks to Bean driving through the night after Sabine falls asleep.

At a petrol station, Sabine sees on the news that she and Bean are suspected of kidnapping Stepan. In a rush to Playback Time’s premiere which is starting in merely an hour, she decides not to head to the police to clear the misunderstandings and instead has Bean and Stepan disguised as her mother and daughter to avoid detection at the festival. During the premiere, the audience initially showcases disinterest in the film, and Sabine discovers that her role has been cut, prompting Bean to plug his video camera into the projector and replace the film’s visuals with his video diary. The camera’s footage of Bean’s shenanigans surprisingly align well with the film’s narration, and Carson, Sabine and Bean all receive a standing ovation while Stepan is reunited with his parents.

Bean exits through the theatre’s back door and finally arrives at the Cannes beach as desired, where he, Sabine, Stepan, Carson, and a group of other people mime a large musical finale to the song «La Mer».

After the credits, Bean can be seen writing «FIN» in the sand with his foot. As soon as he finishes, the camera runs out of battery.

Cast[edit]

  • Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
  • Emma de Caunes as Sabine
  • Max Baldry as Stepan Duchevsky
  • Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
  • Jean Rochefort as the Maître d’Hôtel
  • Karel Roden as Emil Duchevsky
  • Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
  • Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
  • Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
  • Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
  • Julie Ferrier as The First AD
  • Lily Atkinson as Lily

Production[edit]

Plans for a second Mr. Bean film were first revealed in February 2001, when Rowan Atkinson — who was filming Scooby-Doo at the time — was lured into developing a sequel to Bean (1997), from a script written by Mr. Bean co-creator Richard Curtis that would have followed Mr. Bean heading to Australia under the working title Down Under Bean.[5] No further announcements regarding the film were made until in early 2005.

In March 2005, the film was officially announced, then titled Bean 2, with Simon McBurney, co-founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité theatre company, writing the film’s script.[6] In December of that year, Atkinson announced that he would script the film himself alongside Curtis, though the final screenplay was instead written by Robin Driscoll (a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl, while McBurney wrote the film’s story and served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis.[citation needed]

Principal photography for the film began on 15 May 2006 and took place on location across England and France, particularly during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[7] At that point, the film’s title was changed from Bean 2 to French Bean, and later to Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a reference to the 1953 French comedy film Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, whose title character served as an inspiration to the character of Mr. Bean.[citation needed]

Atkinson reflected in 2022 that since he was neither an athlete nor a cyclist, he found the cycling sequence to be the most difficult thing he had ever done as Mr. Bean.[8]

Deleted scenes[edit]

The film features twelve deleted scenes, all of which are included in the film’s home media releases:

  • On the train, Bean accidentally spills some coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men. He cleans it up by wiping the keyboard with his hands, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the European release of the film has it in place of the vending machine scene.
  • An extended version of Bean’s walk across France where he sees Stepan for the first time looking out a car window.
  • Bean tricks a man to get a train ticket for himself and staying with Stepan on the train.
  • Bean carries Stepan on his back all the way through a French plaza.
  • Bean continues his journey on foot through a large field of sunflowers, which then transitions to the scene where he tries to hitchhike. In an extended version of that scene, he films himself doing silly moves in the middle of the road using his video camera (which is later shown in Carson Clay’s Playback Time in the film’s final cut).
  • Taking place before the scene where he gets picked up by Sabine, Bean performs shadow play on the road.
  • An extended version of Bean’s car ride with Sabine where the latter leaves her Mini emotionally and almost gets run over by a truck after lying down on the road.
  • An extended version of the café scene where Bean mimes his journey to Stepan prior to reuniting with him, which transitions to the scene where Sabine meets Stepan and the group dances at the cafe.
  • Taking place in the scene where Sabine stops at a petrol station to change for the premiere, Bean tricks a man into making the cost of his car’s refueling higher, by immediately getting the fuel nozzle once the man places it back on the gas pumps (unbeknownst to the man) and plugging it into Sabine’s Mini.
  • Taking place during the premiere of Playback Time, Bean enters the projection room, where he falls asleep while sitting down to watch the film. He then leans on the rolling projector’s wheel, causing it to stop and the film to stop rolling, get tangled up and cut, which causes Bean to wake up and try sticking the film back together. After initially succeeding in fixing the film, Bean then accidentally causes the projector to lower down. This is then followed by Carson discovering the film roll accumulating in the projection room and trying to fix the film and lower the projector back up. The damaged film is still seen lying next to the projector in the final cut, though it remains unexplained.
  • The original ending of the film had Bean dancing at the beach with a band, which was replaced by Bean, Sabine, Stepan and the rest of the film’s characters singing «La Mer».

Music[edit]

The film score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series, although the original Mr. Bean theme was unused. In contrast to the series’ use of simple musical repetitions, the film uses a symphonic orchestration, which is a sophisticated score that features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes. The film’s theme song was «Crash» by Matt Willis.

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday served as the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money made from the film going to the telethon’s charity Comic Relief. Prior to the film’s release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch titled Mr. Bean’s Wedding was broadcast on the telethon for Comic Relief on BBC One on 16 March 2007.[9]

The official premiere of the film took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on Sunday, 25 March and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children’s Hospital.[citation needed] Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.[citation needed]

Home media[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday was released on both DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release. Following the 2006-08 high-definition optical disc format war, the film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2010. The film was then released on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 16 April 2019.[10][11][12]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday opened in the United States on 24 August 2007 alongside War and The Nanny Diaries, and grossed $9,889,780 in its opening weekend while playing in 1,714 theaters, with a $5,770 per-theater average and ranking fourth at the box office. The film then closed on 18 October 2007 with a final domestic gross of $33,302,167 and a final international gross of $198,923,741. Culminating in a worldwide total of $232,225,908, the film has become commercially successful considering its $25 million budget.[4][3] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and topped the country’s box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Wild Hogs.[13][14]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Mr. Bean’s Holiday means well, but good intentions can’t withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.»[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.[17]

BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that, «It’s hard to explain the appeal of Mr. Bean. At first glance, he seems to be moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning, window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It’s a testament to Rowan Atkinson’s skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost cuddly.»[18] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a «dim-witted sub-Hulot loner» and said the plot involves Atkinson «getting in touch with his retarded inner child». French also said «the best joke (Bean on an old bike riding faster than a team of professional cyclists) is taken directly from Tati’s Jour de Fete[19] Wendy Ide of The Times gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said «It has long been a mystery to the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret weakness, that Rowan Atkinson’s repellent creation is absolutely massive on the Continent.» Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story and said two scenes are «clumsily borrowed» from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag «was past its sell-by date ten years ago».[20]

Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that the film was full of awfully weak gags, and «In a post-Borat world, surely there’s no place for Bean’s antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?»,[21] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said «the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick pony, starts to show» and his «continual close-up gurning into the camera» becomes tiresome. Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a «B» and said, «Since Mr. Bean rarely speaks a complete sentence, the effect is of watching a silent movie with sound effects. This was also the dramatic ploy of the great French director-performer Jacques Tati, who is clearly the big influence here.»[22] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying «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.» Biancolli said the humour is «all elementally British and more than a touch French. What it isn’t, wasn’t, should never attempt to be, is American. That’s the mistake made by Mel Smith and the ill-advised forces behind 1997’s Bean: The Movie[23]

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote, «Either you’ll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he’ll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he’s hilarious.» Burr also said «There are also a few gags stolen outright from Tati», but concluded «Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.»[24] Tom Long of The Detroit News said, «Watching 90 minutes of this stuff—we’re talking broad, broad comedy here—may seem a bit much, but this film actually picks up steam as it rolls along, becoming ever more absurd.» and also «Mr. Bean offers a refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.»[25]

Suzanne Condie Lambert of The Arizona Republic wrote, «Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games», but also said that «It’s hard to laugh at a character I’m 95 percent sure is autistic.»[26] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 2½ stars out of 4 and said «If you like [the character], you will certainly like Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a 10-years-later sequel to Bean. I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy», and also «Atkinson doesn’t have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot’s Holiday inspired the title). He’s funniest when mugging shamelessly…»[27]

Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that «the disasters instigated by Bean’s haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable» but said that one scene later in the film «is worth sticking around for».[28] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said «If you’ve never been particularly fond of Atkinson’s brand of slapstick, you certainly won’t be converted by this trifle.» and also «If the title sounds familiar, it’s because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish. This version offers a few laughs and an admirable commitment to old-fashioned fun.»[29] Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star gave the film 2 stars and said «If you’ve seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean routine, you’ve seen it all», and «The Nazi stuff is a bit out of place in a G-rated movie. Or any movie, really», later calling Atkinson «a has-Bean».[30] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 1½ stars out of 4 and said «If you’ve been lobotomised or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean’s Holiday is viable comic entertainment» and also, «The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.»[31]

Accolades[edit]

Max Baldry was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 29th Young Artist Awards in 2008.[citation needed] The film was nominated as Comedy or Musical and Best Comedy at the First National Movie Awards in 2007.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)».
  3. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) — Box office / business». imdb.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  4. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ «Bean Down Under For Rowan Atkinson». cinema.com. 7 February 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  6. ^ «Rowan Atkinson to return in Bean 2». Movieweb.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. ^ Shreya, Kumari (2 June 2022). «Where Was Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) Filmed?». The Cinemaholic. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  8. ^ GQ. «From Mr Bean to Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters». YouTube. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  9. ^ «Mr Bean’s Wedding». YouTube.
  10. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  11. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  12. ^ Drawbaugh, Ben (20 February 2008). «Two years of battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray: a retrospective». Engadget.
  13. ^ «Weekend box office 30th March 2007 – 1st April 2007». www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  14. ^ «Weekend box office 6th April 2007 – 8th April 2007». www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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  16. ^ Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved 24 August 2007
  17. ^ «CinemaScore». cinemascore.com.
  18. ^ Paul Arendt (29 March 2007). «BBC – Movies – review – Mr Bean’s Holiday». BBC. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  19. ^ French, Philip (1 April 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Observer. UK. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  20. ^ Wendy Ide (29 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Times. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  21. ^ Steve Rose (30 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  22. ^ Peter Rainer (24 August 2007). «New in theaters». The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  23. ^ Amy Biancolli (23 August 2007). «Savvy satire on filmmaking». Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  24. ^ Ty Burr (24 August 2007). «Clowning around is all in good fun». The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  25. ^ Tom Long (24 August 2007). «Broad comedy hits its marks». The Detroit News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  26. ^ Suzanne Condie Lambert (24 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s Holiday». The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  27. ^ Lawrence Toppman (23 August 2007). «After 12 years, Atkinson’s ‘Bean’ act still child’s play». The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 24 August 2007.[permanent dead link]
  28. ^ Ruthe Stein (24 August 2007). «Look out, France – here comes Mr. Bean». San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  29. ^ Elizabeth Weitzman (24 August 2007). «This Bean dish isn’t for all tastes». New York Daily News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  30. ^ Phil Villarreal (23 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s reverse Midas touch getting old». Arizona Daily Star. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  31. ^ Claudia Puig (23 August 2007). «Humor in ‘Holiday’ isn’t worth a hill of Bean». USA Today. Retrieved 24 August 2007.

External links[edit]

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  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at AllMovie
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Mr beans holiday ver7.jpg

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Steve Bendelack
Screenplay by
  • Hamish McColl
  • Robin Driscoll
Story by Simon McBurney
Based on Mr. Bean
by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
Produced by
  • Peter Bennett-Jones
  • Tim Bevan
  • Eric Fellner
Starring
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Emma de Caunes
  • Max Baldry
  • Willem Dafoe
Cinematography Baz Irvine
Edited by Tony Cranstoun
Music by Howard Goodall

Production
companies

  • StudioCanal
  • Working Title Films
  • Tiger Aspect Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures[1]

Release dates

  • 30 March 2007 (United Kingdom)
  • 24 August 2007 (United States)

Running time

89 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France[2]
  • United States[2]
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Budget $25 million[3]
Box office $232.2 million[1]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a 2007 comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll, from a story penned by Simon McBurney. Based on the British sitcom series Mr. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, it is a standalone sequel to Bean (1997). The film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe and Karel Roden in supporting roles. In the film, Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for both a kidnapper and an award-winning filmmaker when he travels with both a Russian filmmaker’s son and an aspiring actress in tow.

Produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Tiger Aspect Films, the film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and in the United States on 24 August 2007 by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, though it was generally considered to be an improvement over its predecessor. The film was also a commercial success, having grossed $232.2 million worldwide against a $25 million budget.[4]

Plot[edit]

On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean wins a holiday trip to Cannes, a video camera, and €200 in a raffle. Upon arriving in France, Bean causes chaos while trying French seafood cuisine at Le Train Bleu and asks Russian film director, Emil Duchevsky, to film him boarding his train using his video camera at the Gare de Lyon. However, the two keep doing retakes at Bean’s request until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky’s son, Stepan, onboard and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan bond and get off together at the next station, where Duchevsky’s train passes through the station without stopping; he holds up a sign with a mobile phone number written on it for Stepan to call, but due to inadvertently obscuring the last two digits, Bean unsuccessfully calls the number numerous times. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping, but are ejected as Bean had accidentally left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone booth.

To earn money, Bean busks as a mime/singer and buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean’s ticket gets caught in the wind and onto the foot of a chicken, which is then packed into a farmer’s truck that Bean chases via bicycle to a farm, where he is unable to retrieve his ticket due to the large number of chickens there. Deciding to continue his journey alone on foot, Bean wakes up on a quaint French village under attack from Nazi soldiers, which is revealed to be the set of a yogurt commercial directed by American filmmaker Carson Clay. Bean briefly stars in the commercial as one of the soldiers before being dismissed for showing his video camera in the advert, and accidentally causes the set to explode while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by a Mini identical to his own driven by aspiring actress Sabine, who is on her way to the Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film directed by Carson, Playback Time, is to be presented. The pair stop at a café, where Bean reunites with Stepan and Sabine decides to take him with them, believing Stepan to be Bean’s son. The next morning, the trio arrive in Cannes thanks to Bean driving through the night after Sabine falls asleep.

At a petrol station, Sabine sees on the news that she and Bean are suspected of kidnapping Stepan. In a rush to Playback Time’s premiere which is starting in merely an hour, she decides not to head to the police to clear the misunderstandings and instead has Bean and Stepan disguised as her mother and daughter to avoid detection at the festival. During the premiere, the audience initially showcases disinterest in the film, and Sabine discovers that her role has been cut, prompting Bean to plug his video camera into the projector and replace the film’s visuals with his video diary. The camera’s footage of Bean’s shenanigans surprisingly align well with the film’s narration, and Carson, Sabine and Bean all receive a standing ovation while Stepan is reunited with his parents.

Bean exits through the theatre’s back door and finally arrives at the Cannes beach as desired, where he, Sabine, Stepan, Carson, and a group of other people mime a large musical finale to the song «La Mer».

After the credits, Bean can be seen writing «FIN» in the sand with his foot. As soon as he finishes, the camera runs out of battery.

Cast[edit]

  • Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
  • Emma de Caunes as Sabine
  • Max Baldry as Stepan Duchevsky
  • Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
  • Jean Rochefort as the Maître d’Hôtel
  • Karel Roden as Emil Duchevsky
  • Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
  • Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
  • Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
  • Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
  • Julie Ferrier as The First AD
  • Lily Atkinson as Lily

Production[edit]

Plans for a second Mr. Bean film were first revealed in February 2001, when Rowan Atkinson — who was filming Scooby-Doo at the time — was lured into developing a sequel to Bean (1997), from a script written by Mr. Bean co-creator Richard Curtis that would have followed Mr. Bean heading to Australia under the working title Down Under Bean.[5] No further announcements regarding the film were made until in early 2005.

In March 2005, the film was officially announced, then titled Bean 2, with Simon McBurney, co-founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité theatre company, writing the film’s script.[6] In December of that year, Atkinson announced that he would script the film himself alongside Curtis, though the final screenplay was instead written by Robin Driscoll (a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl, while McBurney wrote the film’s story and served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis.[citation needed]

Principal photography for the film began on 15 May 2006 and took place on location across England and France, particularly during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[7] At that point, the film’s title was changed from Bean 2 to French Bean, and later to Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a reference to the 1953 French comedy film Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, whose title character served as an inspiration to the character of Mr. Bean.[citation needed]

Atkinson reflected in 2022 that since he was neither an athlete nor a cyclist, he found the cycling sequence to be the most difficult thing he had ever done as Mr. Bean.[8]

Deleted scenes[edit]

The film features twelve deleted scenes, all of which are included in the film’s home media releases:

  • On the train, Bean accidentally spills some coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men. He cleans it up by wiping the keyboard with his hands, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the European release of the film has it in place of the vending machine scene.
  • An extended version of Bean’s walk across France where he sees Stepan for the first time looking out a car window.
  • Bean tricks a man to get a train ticket for himself and staying with Stepan on the train.
  • Bean carries Stepan on his back all the way through a French plaza.
  • Bean continues his journey on foot through a large field of sunflowers, which then transitions to the scene where he tries to hitchhike. In an extended version of that scene, he films himself doing silly moves in the middle of the road using his video camera (which is later shown in Carson Clay’s Playback Time in the film’s final cut).
  • Taking place before the scene where he gets picked up by Sabine, Bean performs shadow play on the road.
  • An extended version of Bean’s car ride with Sabine where the latter leaves her Mini emotionally and almost gets run over by a truck after lying down on the road.
  • An extended version of the café scene where Bean mimes his journey to Stepan prior to reuniting with him, which transitions to the scene where Sabine meets Stepan and the group dances at the cafe.
  • Taking place in the scene where Sabine stops at a petrol station to change for the premiere, Bean tricks a man into making the cost of his car’s refueling higher, by immediately getting the fuel nozzle once the man places it back on the gas pumps (unbeknownst to the man) and plugging it into Sabine’s Mini.
  • Taking place during the premiere of Playback Time, Bean enters the projection room, where he falls asleep while sitting down to watch the film. He then leans on the rolling projector’s wheel, causing it to stop and the film to stop rolling, get tangled up and cut, which causes Bean to wake up and try sticking the film back together. After initially succeeding in fixing the film, Bean then accidentally causes the projector to lower down. This is then followed by Carson discovering the film roll accumulating in the projection room and trying to fix the film and lower the projector back up. The damaged film is still seen lying next to the projector in the final cut, though it remains unexplained.
  • The original ending of the film had Bean dancing at the beach with a band, which was replaced by Bean, Sabine, Stepan and the rest of the film’s characters singing «La Mer».

Music[edit]

The film score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series, although the original Mr. Bean theme was unused. In contrast to the series’ use of simple musical repetitions, the film uses a symphonic orchestration, which is a sophisticated score that features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes. The film’s theme song was «Crash» by Matt Willis.

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday served as the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money made from the film going to the telethon’s charity Comic Relief. Prior to the film’s release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch titled Mr. Bean’s Wedding was broadcast on the telethon for Comic Relief on BBC One on 16 March 2007.[9]

The official premiere of the film took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on Sunday, 25 March and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children’s Hospital.[citation needed] Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.[citation needed]

Home media[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday was released on both DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release. Following the 2006-08 high-definition optical disc format war, the film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2010. The film was then released on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 16 April 2019.[10][11][12]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday opened in the United States on 24 August 2007 alongside War and The Nanny Diaries, and grossed $9,889,780 in its opening weekend while playing in 1,714 theaters, with a $5,770 per-theater average and ranking fourth at the box office. The film then closed on 18 October 2007 with a final domestic gross of $33,302,167 and a final international gross of $198,923,741. Culminating in a worldwide total of $232,225,908, the film has become commercially successful considering its $25 million budget.[4][3] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and topped the country’s box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Wild Hogs.[13][14]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Mr. Bean’s Holiday means well, but good intentions can’t withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.»[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.[17]

BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that, «It’s hard to explain the appeal of Mr. Bean. At first glance, he seems to be moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning, window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It’s a testament to Rowan Atkinson’s skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost cuddly.»[18] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a «dim-witted sub-Hulot loner» and said the plot involves Atkinson «getting in touch with his retarded inner child». French also said «the best joke (Bean on an old bike riding faster than a team of professional cyclists) is taken directly from Tati’s Jour de Fete[19] Wendy Ide of The Times gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said «It has long been a mystery to the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret weakness, that Rowan Atkinson’s repellent creation is absolutely massive on the Continent.» Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story and said two scenes are «clumsily borrowed» from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag «was past its sell-by date ten years ago».[20]

Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that the film was full of awfully weak gags, and «In a post-Borat world, surely there’s no place for Bean’s antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?»,[21] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said «the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick pony, starts to show» and his «continual close-up gurning into the camera» becomes tiresome. Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a «B» and said, «Since Mr. Bean rarely speaks a complete sentence, the effect is of watching a silent movie with sound effects. This was also the dramatic ploy of the great French director-performer Jacques Tati, who is clearly the big influence here.»[22] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying «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.» Biancolli said the humour is «all elementally British and more than a touch French. What it isn’t, wasn’t, should never attempt to be, is American. That’s the mistake made by Mel Smith and the ill-advised forces behind 1997’s Bean: The Movie[23]

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote, «Either you’ll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he’ll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he’s hilarious.» Burr also said «There are also a few gags stolen outright from Tati», but concluded «Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.»[24] Tom Long of The Detroit News said, «Watching 90 minutes of this stuff—we’re talking broad, broad comedy here—may seem a bit much, but this film actually picks up steam as it rolls along, becoming ever more absurd.» and also «Mr. Bean offers a refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.»[25]

Suzanne Condie Lambert of The Arizona Republic wrote, «Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games», but also said that «It’s hard to laugh at a character I’m 95 percent sure is autistic.»[26] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 2½ stars out of 4 and said «If you like [the character], you will certainly like Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a 10-years-later sequel to Bean. I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy», and also «Atkinson doesn’t have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot’s Holiday inspired the title). He’s funniest when mugging shamelessly…»[27]

Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that «the disasters instigated by Bean’s haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable» but said that one scene later in the film «is worth sticking around for».[28] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said «If you’ve never been particularly fond of Atkinson’s brand of slapstick, you certainly won’t be converted by this trifle.» and also «If the title sounds familiar, it’s because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish. This version offers a few laughs and an admirable commitment to old-fashioned fun.»[29] Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star gave the film 2 stars and said «If you’ve seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean routine, you’ve seen it all», and «The Nazi stuff is a bit out of place in a G-rated movie. Or any movie, really», later calling Atkinson «a has-Bean».[30] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 1½ stars out of 4 and said «If you’ve been lobotomised or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean’s Holiday is viable comic entertainment» and also, «The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.»[31]

Accolades[edit]

Max Baldry was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 29th Young Artist Awards in 2008.[citation needed] The film was nominated as Comedy or Musical and Best Comedy at the First National Movie Awards in 2007.[citation needed]

References[edit]

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  6. ^ «Rowan Atkinson to return in Bean 2». Movieweb.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. ^ Shreya, Kumari (2 June 2022). «Where Was Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) Filmed?». The Cinemaholic. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  8. ^ GQ. «From Mr Bean to Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters». YouTube. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
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  12. ^ Drawbaugh, Ben (20 February 2008). «Two years of battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray: a retrospective». Engadget.
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  19. ^ French, Philip (1 April 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Observer. UK. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  20. ^ Wendy Ide (29 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Times. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  21. ^ Steve Rose (30 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  22. ^ Peter Rainer (24 August 2007). «New in theaters». The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  23. ^ Amy Biancolli (23 August 2007). «Savvy satire on filmmaking». Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  24. ^ Ty Burr (24 August 2007). «Clowning around is all in good fun». The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  25. ^ Tom Long (24 August 2007). «Broad comedy hits its marks». The Detroit News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  26. ^ Suzanne Condie Lambert (24 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s Holiday». The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  27. ^ Lawrence Toppman (23 August 2007). «After 12 years, Atkinson’s ‘Bean’ act still child’s play». The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 24 August 2007.[permanent dead link]
  28. ^ Ruthe Stein (24 August 2007). «Look out, France – here comes Mr. Bean». San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  29. ^ Elizabeth Weitzman (24 August 2007). «This Bean dish isn’t for all tastes». New York Daily News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  30. ^ Phil Villarreal (23 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s reverse Midas touch getting old». Arizona Daily Star. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  31. ^ Claudia Puig (23 August 2007). «Humor in ‘Holiday’ isn’t worth a hill of Bean». USA Today. Retrieved 24 August 2007.

External links[edit]

  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at IMDb
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at AllMovie
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Box Office Mojo

Роуэн Аткинсон

Роуэн Аткинсон. Фото: Bettina Strenske / Globallookpress.com

Вечеринку звезды сериала «Мистер Бин» Роуэна Аткинсона приняли за российское вторжение. Об этом сообщает Daily Mail.

Уточняется, что актер устроил мероприятие в честь дня рождения своей возлюбленной Луизы Форд. Праздник в районе Котсуолдс на юго-западе Англии сопровождался шумными фейерверками и напугал местных жителей. Соседи пожаловались, что из-за громких звуков некоторые собаки убежали из дома, а кошки испытали стресс.

По словам нескольких жителей района, из-за вечеринки они подумали, что Россия решила напасть на Великобританию. В связи с тем, что Аткинсон арендовал для праздника целый спа-отель Lucknam Park, они призвали провести расследование — на территории гостиницы проживают 30 лошадей, которых тоже могли травмировать фейерверки.

«На самом деле сначала это звучало так, будто взрываются бомбы, но потом стали слышны звуки фейерверков, и все стало понятно. Звучит довольно неприятно, но я действительно подумала, когда это началось: «О боже, русские здесь». Это было так громко», — сказала одна из жительниц Коутсолдса по имени Шарлин.

Водитель такси Стив также пожаловался на шум. По его словам, внуки проснулись в слезах, так как подумали, что их дом бомбят. Мужчина призвал Аткинсона «не терроризировать район».

«Русские идут!»: шумную вечеринку Мистера Бина британцы приняли за вторжение России и испугались

Актёр кино устроил для своей подруги в честь её дня рождения праздник с салютами и музыкой. Услышав грохот, соседи подумали, что им конец.

"Русские идут!": шумную вечеринку Мистера Бина британцы приняли за вторжение России и испугались

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Курьезный случай произошел на днях в Великобритании. Актер Роуэн Аткинсон, известный российскому зрителю по главной роли в сериале «Мистер Бин», решил порадовать свою возлюбленную и в честь ее 40-летнего юбилея организовал шумную пирушку. Громыхали салюты, шампанское лилось рекой. Всем присутствующим было весело, а вот жителей городка, в котором происходило действо, обуяла паника.

Аткинскон с Луизой Форд, в честь которой была устроена вечеринка

Аткинскон с Луизой Форд, в честь которой была устроена вечеринка

Источник:

«На самом деле сначала это звучало так, будто взрываются бомбы, но потом стали слышны звуки фейерверков, и все стало понятно. Звучит довольно неприятно, но я действительно подумала, когда это началось: “О боже, русские здесь”. Это было так громко», — поделилась пережитым кошмаром жительница Коутсолдса по имени Шарлин. И она оказалась не одна, кто на время поверил в приход российской армии.

Lucknam Park

Lucknam Park

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Некоторые горожане жаловались, что в тот вечер пострадали и животные: собаки прятались по укромным местам, коты нервничали.Для этого праздника Аткинсон арендовал целый спа-отель Lucknam Park — на его территории проживают 30 лошадей. И теперь местные жители требуют провести расследование и наказать актера за полученный стресс.

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Mr. Bean’s Holiday
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by Steve Bendelack
Screenplay by
  • Hamish McColl
  • Robin Driscoll
Story by Simon McBurney
Based on Mr. Bean
by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
Produced by
  • Peter Bennett-Jones
  • Tim Bevan
  • Eric Fellner
Starring
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Emma de Caunes
  • Max Baldry
  • Willem Dafoe
Cinematography Baz Irvine
Edited by Tony Cranstoun
Music by Howard Goodall

Production
companies

  • StudioCanal
  • Working Title Films
  • Tiger Aspect Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures[1]

Release dates

  • 30 March 2007 (United Kingdom)
  • 24 August 2007 (United States)

Running time

89 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France[2]
  • United States[2]
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Budget $25 million[3]
Box office $232.2 million[1]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a 2007 comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll, from a story penned by Simon McBurney. Based on the British sitcom series Mr. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, it is a standalone sequel to Bean (1997). The film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe and Karel Roden in supporting roles. In the film, Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for both a kidnapper and an award-winning filmmaker when he travels with both a Russian filmmaker’s son and an aspiring actress in tow.

Produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Tiger Aspect Films, the film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and in the United States on 24 August 2007 by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, though it was generally considered to be an improvement over its predecessor. The film was also a commercial success, having grossed $232.2 million worldwide against a $25 million budget.[4]

Plot[edit]

On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean wins a holiday trip to Cannes, a video camera, and €200 in a raffle. Upon arriving in France, Bean causes chaos while trying French seafood cuisine at Le Train Bleu and asks Russian film director, Emil Duchevsky, to film him boarding his train using his video camera at the Gare de Lyon. However, the two keep doing retakes at Bean’s request until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky’s son, Stepan, onboard and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan bond and get off together at the next station, where Duchevsky’s train passes through the station without stopping; he holds up a sign with a mobile phone number written on it for Stepan to call, but due to inadvertently obscuring the last two digits, Bean unsuccessfully calls the number numerous times. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping, but are ejected as Bean had accidentally left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone booth.

To earn money, Bean busks as a mime/singer and buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean’s ticket gets caught in the wind and onto the foot of a chicken, which is then packed into a farmer’s truck that Bean chases via bicycle to a farm, where he is unable to retrieve his ticket due to the large number of chickens there. Deciding to continue his journey alone on foot, Bean wakes up on a quaint French village under attack from Nazi soldiers, which is revealed to be the set of a yogurt commercial directed by American filmmaker Carson Clay. Bean briefly stars in the commercial as one of the soldiers before being dismissed for showing his video camera in the advert, and accidentally causes the set to explode while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by a Mini identical to his own driven by aspiring actress Sabine, who is on her way to the Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film directed by Carson, Playback Time, is to be presented. The pair stop at a café, where Bean reunites with Stepan and Sabine decides to take him with them, believing Stepan to be Bean’s son. The next morning, the trio arrive in Cannes thanks to Bean driving through the night after Sabine falls asleep.

At a petrol station, Sabine sees on the news that she and Bean are suspected of kidnapping Stepan. In a rush to Playback Time’s premiere which is starting in merely an hour, she decides not to head to the police to clear the misunderstandings and instead has Bean and Stepan disguised as her mother and daughter to avoid detection at the festival. During the premiere, the audience initially showcases disinterest in the film, and Sabine discovers that her role has been cut, prompting Bean to plug his video camera into the projector and replace the film’s visuals with his video diary. The camera’s footage of Bean’s shenanigans surprisingly align well with the film’s narration, and Carson, Sabine and Bean all receive a standing ovation while Stepan is reunited with his parents.

Bean exits through the theatre’s back door and finally arrives at the Cannes beach as desired, where he, Sabine, Stepan, Carson, and a group of other people mime a large musical finale to the song «La Mer».

After the credits, Bean can be seen writing «FIN» in the sand with his foot. As soon as he finishes, the camera runs out of battery.

Cast[edit]

  • Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
  • Emma de Caunes as Sabine
  • Max Baldry as Stepan Duchevsky
  • Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
  • Jean Rochefort as the Maître d’Hôtel
  • Karel Roden as Emil Duchevsky
  • Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
  • Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
  • Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
  • Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
  • Julie Ferrier as The First AD
  • Lily Atkinson as Lily

Production[edit]

Plans for a second Mr. Bean film were first revealed in February 2001, when Rowan Atkinson — who was filming Scooby-Doo at the time — was lured into developing a sequel to Bean (1997), from a script written by Mr. Bean co-creator Richard Curtis that would have followed Mr. Bean heading to Australia under the working title Down Under Bean.[5] No further announcements regarding the film were made until in early 2005.

In March 2005, the film was officially announced, then titled Bean 2, with Simon McBurney, co-founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité theatre company, writing the film’s script.[6] In December of that year, Atkinson announced that he would script the film himself alongside Curtis, though the final screenplay was instead written by Robin Driscoll (a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl, while McBurney wrote the film’s story and served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis.[citation needed]

Principal photography for the film began on 15 May 2006 and took place on location across England and France, particularly during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[7] At that point, the film’s title was changed from Bean 2 to French Bean, and later to Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a reference to the 1953 French comedy film Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, whose title character served as an inspiration to the character of Mr. Bean.[citation needed]

Atkinson reflected in 2022 that since he was neither an athlete nor a cyclist, he found the cycling sequence to be the most difficult thing he had ever done as Mr. Bean.[8]

Deleted scenes[edit]

The film features twelve deleted scenes, all of which are included in the film’s home media releases:

  • On the train, Bean accidentally spills some coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men. He cleans it up by wiping the keyboard with his hands, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the European release of the film has it in place of the vending machine scene.
  • An extended version of Bean’s walk across France where he sees Stepan for the first time looking out a car window.
  • Bean tricks a man to get a train ticket for himself and staying with Stepan on the train.
  • Bean carries Stepan on his back all the way through a French plaza.
  • Bean continues his journey on foot through a large field of sunflowers, which then transitions to the scene where he tries to hitchhike. In an extended version of that scene, he films himself doing silly moves in the middle of the road using his video camera (which is later shown in Carson Clay’s Playback Time in the film’s final cut).
  • Taking place before the scene where he gets picked up by Sabine, Bean performs shadow play on the road.
  • An extended version of Bean’s car ride with Sabine where the latter leaves her Mini emotionally and almost gets run over by a truck after lying down on the road.
  • An extended version of the café scene where Bean mimes his journey to Stepan prior to reuniting with him, which transitions to the scene where Sabine meets Stepan and the group dances at the cafe.
  • Taking place in the scene where Sabine stops at a petrol station to change for the premiere, Bean tricks a man into making the cost of his car’s refueling higher, by immediately getting the fuel nozzle once the man places it back on the gas pumps (unbeknownst to the man) and plugging it into Sabine’s Mini.
  • Taking place during the premiere of Playback Time, Bean enters the projection room, where he falls asleep while sitting down to watch the film. He then leans on the rolling projector’s wheel, causing it to stop and the film to stop rolling, get tangled up and cut, which causes Bean to wake up and try sticking the film back together. After initially succeeding in fixing the film, Bean then accidentally causes the projector to lower down. This is then followed by Carson discovering the film roll accumulating in the projection room and trying to fix the film and lower the projector back up. The damaged film is still seen lying next to the projector in the final cut, though it remains unexplained.
  • The original ending of the film had Bean dancing at the beach with a band, which was replaced by Bean, Sabine, Stepan and the rest of the film’s characters singing «La Mer».

Music[edit]

The film score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series, although the original Mr. Bean theme was unused. In contrast to the series’ use of simple musical repetitions, the film uses a symphonic orchestration, which is a sophisticated score that features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes. The film’s theme song was «Crash» by Matt Willis.

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday served as the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money made from the film going to the telethon’s charity Comic Relief. Prior to the film’s release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch titled Mr. Bean’s Wedding was broadcast on the telethon for Comic Relief on BBC One on 16 March 2007.[9]

The official premiere of the film took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on Sunday, 25 March and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children’s Hospital.[citation needed] Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.[citation needed]

Home media[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday was released on both DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release. Following the 2006-08 high-definition optical disc format war, the film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2010. The film was then released on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 16 April 2019.[10][11][12]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday opened in the United States on 24 August 2007 alongside War and The Nanny Diaries, and grossed $9,889,780 in its opening weekend while playing in 1,714 theaters, with a $5,770 per-theater average and ranking fourth at the box office. The film then closed on 18 October 2007 with a final domestic gross of $33,302,167 and a final international gross of $198,923,741. Culminating in a worldwide total of $232,225,908, the film has become commercially successful considering its $25 million budget.[4][3] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and topped the country’s box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Wild Hogs.[13][14]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Mr. Bean’s Holiday means well, but good intentions can’t withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.»[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.[17]

BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that, «It’s hard to explain the appeal of Mr. Bean. At first glance, he seems to be moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning, window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It’s a testament to Rowan Atkinson’s skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost cuddly.»[18] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a «dim-witted sub-Hulot loner» and said the plot involves Atkinson «getting in touch with his retarded inner child». French also said «the best joke (Bean on an old bike riding faster than a team of professional cyclists) is taken directly from Tati’s Jour de Fete[19] Wendy Ide of The Times gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said «It has long been a mystery to the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret weakness, that Rowan Atkinson’s repellent creation is absolutely massive on the Continent.» Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story and said two scenes are «clumsily borrowed» from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag «was past its sell-by date ten years ago».[20]

Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that the film was full of awfully weak gags, and «In a post-Borat world, surely there’s no place for Bean’s antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?»,[21] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said «the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick pony, starts to show» and his «continual close-up gurning into the camera» becomes tiresome. Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a «B» and said, «Since Mr. Bean rarely speaks a complete sentence, the effect is of watching a silent movie with sound effects. This was also the dramatic ploy of the great French director-performer Jacques Tati, who is clearly the big influence here.»[22] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying «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.» Biancolli said the humour is «all elementally British and more than a touch French. What it isn’t, wasn’t, should never attempt to be, is American. That’s the mistake made by Mel Smith and the ill-advised forces behind 1997’s Bean: The Movie[23]

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote, «Either you’ll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he’ll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he’s hilarious.» Burr also said «There are also a few gags stolen outright from Tati», but concluded «Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.»[24] Tom Long of The Detroit News said, «Watching 90 minutes of this stuff—we’re talking broad, broad comedy here—may seem a bit much, but this film actually picks up steam as it rolls along, becoming ever more absurd.» and also «Mr. Bean offers a refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.»[25]

Suzanne Condie Lambert of The Arizona Republic wrote, «Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games», but also said that «It’s hard to laugh at a character I’m 95 percent sure is autistic.»[26] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 2½ stars out of 4 and said «If you like [the character], you will certainly like Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a 10-years-later sequel to Bean. I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy», and also «Atkinson doesn’t have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot’s Holiday inspired the title). He’s funniest when mugging shamelessly…»[27]

Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that «the disasters instigated by Bean’s haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable» but said that one scene later in the film «is worth sticking around for».[28] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said «If you’ve never been particularly fond of Atkinson’s brand of slapstick, you certainly won’t be converted by this trifle.» and also «If the title sounds familiar, it’s because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish. This version offers a few laughs and an admirable commitment to old-fashioned fun.»[29] Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star gave the film 2 stars and said «If you’ve seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean routine, you’ve seen it all», and «The Nazi stuff is a bit out of place in a G-rated movie. Or any movie, really», later calling Atkinson «a has-Bean».[30] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 1½ stars out of 4 and said «If you’ve been lobotomised or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean’s Holiday is viable comic entertainment» and also, «The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.»[31]

Accolades[edit]

Max Baldry was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 29th Young Artist Awards in 2008.[citation needed] The film was nominated as Comedy or Musical and Best Comedy at the First National Movie Awards in 2007.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)».
  3. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) — Box office / business». imdb.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  4. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ «Bean Down Under For Rowan Atkinson». cinema.com. 7 February 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  6. ^ «Rowan Atkinson to return in Bean 2». Movieweb.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. ^ Shreya, Kumari (2 June 2022). «Where Was Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) Filmed?». The Cinemaholic. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  8. ^ GQ. «From Mr Bean to Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters». YouTube. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  9. ^ «Mr Bean’s Wedding». YouTube.
  10. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  11. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  12. ^ Drawbaugh, Ben (20 February 2008). «Two years of battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray: a retrospective». Engadget.
  13. ^ «Weekend box office 30th March 2007 – 1st April 2007». www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  14. ^ «Weekend box office 6th April 2007 – 8th April 2007». www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  15. ^ Mr. Bean’s Holiday – Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 24 August 2007
  16. ^ Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved 24 August 2007
  17. ^ «CinemaScore». cinemascore.com.
  18. ^ Paul Arendt (29 March 2007). «BBC – Movies – review – Mr Bean’s Holiday». BBC. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  19. ^ French, Philip (1 April 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Observer. UK. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  20. ^ Wendy Ide (29 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Times. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  21. ^ Steve Rose (30 March 2007). «Mr Bean’s Holiday». The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  22. ^ Peter Rainer (24 August 2007). «New in theaters». The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  23. ^ Amy Biancolli (23 August 2007). «Savvy satire on filmmaking». Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  24. ^ Ty Burr (24 August 2007). «Clowning around is all in good fun». The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  25. ^ Tom Long (24 August 2007). «Broad comedy hits its marks». The Detroit News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  26. ^ Suzanne Condie Lambert (24 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s Holiday». The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  27. ^ Lawrence Toppman (23 August 2007). «After 12 years, Atkinson’s ‘Bean’ act still child’s play». The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 24 August 2007.[permanent dead link]
  28. ^ Ruthe Stein (24 August 2007). «Look out, France – here comes Mr. Bean». San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  29. ^ Elizabeth Weitzman (24 August 2007). «This Bean dish isn’t for all tastes». New York Daily News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  30. ^ Phil Villarreal (23 August 2007). «Mr. Bean’s reverse Midas touch getting old». Arizona Daily Star. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  31. ^ Claudia Puig (23 August 2007). «Humor in ‘Holiday’ isn’t worth a hill of Bean». USA Today. Retrieved 24 August 2007.

External links[edit]

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Mr beans holiday ver7.jpg

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Steve Bendelack
Screenplay by
  • Hamish McColl
  • Robin Driscoll
Story by Simon McBurney
Based on Mr. Bean
by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
Produced by
  • Peter Bennett-Jones
  • Tim Bevan
  • Eric Fellner
Starring
  • Rowan Atkinson
  • Emma de Caunes
  • Max Baldry
  • Willem Dafoe
Cinematography Baz Irvine
Edited by Tony Cranstoun
Music by Howard Goodall

Production
companies

  • StudioCanal
  • Working Title Films
  • Tiger Aspect Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures[1]

Release dates

  • 30 March 2007 (United Kingdom)
  • 24 August 2007 (United States)

Running time

89 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France[2]
  • United States[2]
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Budget $25 million[3]
Box office $232.2 million[1]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a 2007 comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll, from a story penned by Simon McBurney. Based on the British sitcom series Mr. Bean created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, it is a standalone sequel to Bean (1997). The film stars Atkinson in the title role, with Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe and Karel Roden in supporting roles. In the film, Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes, France, but on his way there, he is mistaken for both a kidnapper and an award-winning filmmaker when he travels with both a Russian filmmaker’s son and an aspiring actress in tow.

Produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Tiger Aspect Films, the film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and in the United States on 24 August 2007 by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, though it was generally considered to be an improvement over its predecessor. The film was also a commercial success, having grossed $232.2 million worldwide against a $25 million budget.[4]

Plot[edit]

On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean wins a holiday trip to Cannes, a video camera, and €200 in a raffle. Upon arriving in France, Bean causes chaos while trying French seafood cuisine at Le Train Bleu and asks Russian film director, Emil Duchevsky, to film him boarding his train using his video camera at the Gare de Lyon. However, the two keep doing retakes at Bean’s request until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky’s son, Stepan, onboard and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan bond and get off together at the next station, where Duchevsky’s train passes through the station without stopping; he holds up a sign with a mobile phone number written on it for Stepan to call, but due to inadvertently obscuring the last two digits, Bean unsuccessfully calls the number numerous times. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping, but are ejected as Bean had accidentally left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone booth.

To earn money, Bean busks as a mime/singer and buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean’s ticket gets caught in the wind and onto the foot of a chicken, which is then packed into a farmer’s truck that Bean chases via bicycle to a farm, where he is unable to retrieve his ticket due to the large number of chickens there. Deciding to continue his journey alone on foot, Bean wakes up on a quaint French village under attack from Nazi soldiers, which is revealed to be the set of a yogurt commercial directed by American filmmaker Carson Clay. Bean briefly stars in the commercial as one of the soldiers before being dismissed for showing his video camera in the advert, and accidentally causes the set to explode while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by a Mini identical to his own driven by aspiring actress Sabine, who is on her way to the Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film directed by Carson, Playback Time, is to be presented. The pair stop at a café, where Bean reunites with Stepan and Sabine decides to take him with them, believing Stepan to be Bean’s son. The next morning, the trio arrive in Cannes thanks to Bean driving through the night after Sabine falls asleep.

At a petrol station, Sabine sees on the news that she and Bean are suspected of kidnapping Stepan. In a rush to Playback Time’s premiere which is starting in merely an hour, she decides not to head to the police to clear the misunderstandings and instead has Bean and Stepan disguised as her mother and daughter to avoid detection at the festival. During the premiere, the audience initially showcases disinterest in the film, and Sabine discovers that her role has been cut, prompting Bean to plug his video camera into the projector and replace the film’s visuals with his video diary. The camera’s footage of Bean’s shenanigans surprisingly align well with the film’s narration, and Carson, Sabine and Bean all receive a standing ovation while Stepan is reunited with his parents.

Bean exits through the theatre’s back door and finally arrives at the Cannes beach as desired, where he, Sabine, Stepan, Carson, and a group of other people mime a large musical finale to the song «La Mer».

After the credits, Bean can be seen writing «FIN» in the sand with his foot. As soon as he finishes, the camera runs out of battery.

Cast[edit]

  • Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
  • Emma de Caunes as Sabine
  • Max Baldry as Stepan Duchevsky
  • Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
  • Jean Rochefort as the Maître d’Hôtel
  • Karel Roden as Emil Duchevsky
  • Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
  • Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
  • Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
  • Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
  • Julie Ferrier as The First AD
  • Lily Atkinson as Lily

Production[edit]

Plans for a second Mr. Bean film were first revealed in February 2001, when Rowan Atkinson — who was filming Scooby-Doo at the time — was lured into developing a sequel to Bean (1997), from a script written by Mr. Bean co-creator Richard Curtis that would have followed Mr. Bean heading to Australia under the working title Down Under Bean.[5] No further announcements regarding the film were made until in early 2005.

In March 2005, the film was officially announced, then titled Bean 2, with Simon McBurney, co-founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité theatre company, writing the film’s script.[6] In December of that year, Atkinson announced that he would script the film himself alongside Curtis, though the final screenplay was instead written by Robin Driscoll (a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl, while McBurney wrote the film’s story and served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis.[citation needed]

Principal photography for the film began on 15 May 2006 and took place on location across England and France, particularly during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[7] At that point, the film’s title was changed from Bean 2 to French Bean, and later to Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a reference to the 1953 French comedy film Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, whose title character served as an inspiration to the character of Mr. Bean.[citation needed]

Atkinson reflected in 2022 that since he was neither an athlete nor a cyclist, he found the cycling sequence to be the most difficult thing he had ever done as Mr. Bean.[8]

Deleted scenes[edit]

The film features twelve deleted scenes, all of which are included in the film’s home media releases:

  • On the train, Bean accidentally spills some coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men. He cleans it up by wiping the keyboard with his hands, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the European release of the film has it in place of the vending machine scene.
  • An extended version of Bean’s walk across France where he sees Stepan for the first time looking out a car window.
  • Bean tricks a man to get a train ticket for himself and staying with Stepan on the train.
  • Bean carries Stepan on his back all the way through a French plaza.
  • Bean continues his journey on foot through a large field of sunflowers, which then transitions to the scene where he tries to hitchhike. In an extended version of that scene, he films himself doing silly moves in the middle of the road using his video camera (which is later shown in Carson Clay’s Playback Time in the film’s final cut).
  • Taking place before the scene where he gets picked up by Sabine, Bean performs shadow play on the road.
  • An extended version of Bean’s car ride with Sabine where the latter leaves her Mini emotionally and almost gets run over by a truck after lying down on the road.
  • An extended version of the café scene where Bean mimes his journey to Stepan prior to reuniting with him, which transitions to the scene where Sabine meets Stepan and the group dances at the cafe.
  • Taking place in the scene where Sabine stops at a petrol station to change for the premiere, Bean tricks a man into making the cost of his car’s refueling higher, by immediately getting the fuel nozzle once the man places it back on the gas pumps (unbeknownst to the man) and plugging it into Sabine’s Mini.
  • Taking place during the premiere of Playback Time, Bean enters the projection room, where he falls asleep while sitting down to watch the film. He then leans on the rolling projector’s wheel, causing it to stop and the film to stop rolling, get tangled up and cut, which causes Bean to wake up and try sticking the film back together. After initially succeeding in fixing the film, Bean then accidentally causes the projector to lower down. This is then followed by Carson discovering the film roll accumulating in the projection room and trying to fix the film and lower the projector back up. The damaged film is still seen lying next to the projector in the final cut, though it remains unexplained.
  • The original ending of the film had Bean dancing at the beach with a band, which was replaced by Bean, Sabine, Stepan and the rest of the film’s characters singing «La Mer».

Music[edit]

The film score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series, although the original Mr. Bean theme was unused. In contrast to the series’ use of simple musical repetitions, the film uses a symphonic orchestration, which is a sophisticated score that features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes. The film’s theme song was «Crash» by Matt Willis.

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday served as the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money made from the film going to the telethon’s charity Comic Relief. Prior to the film’s release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch titled Mr. Bean’s Wedding was broadcast on the telethon for Comic Relief on BBC One on 16 March 2007.[9]

The official premiere of the film took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on Sunday, 25 March and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children’s Hospital.[citation needed] Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.[citation needed]

Home media[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday was released on both DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release. Following the 2006-08 high-definition optical disc format war, the film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2010. The film was then released on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 16 April 2019.[10][11][12]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Mr. Bean’s Holiday opened in the United States on 24 August 2007 alongside War and The Nanny Diaries, and grossed $9,889,780 in its opening weekend while playing in 1,714 theaters, with a $5,770 per-theater average and ranking fourth at the box office. The film then closed on 18 October 2007 with a final domestic gross of $33,302,167 and a final international gross of $198,923,741. Culminating in a worldwide total of $232,225,908, the film has become commercially successful considering its $25 million budget.[4][3] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and topped the country’s box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Wild Hogs.[13][14]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5.40/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, «Mr. Bean’s Holiday means well, but good intentions can’t withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.»[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».[16] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.[17]

BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that, «It’s hard to explain the appeal of Mr. Bean. At first glance, he seems to be moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning, window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It’s a testament to Rowan Atkinson’s skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost cuddly.»[18] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a «dim-witted sub-Hulot loner» and said the plot involves Atkinson «getting in touch with his retarded inner child». French also said «the best joke (Bean on an old bike riding faster than a team of professional cyclists) is taken directly from Tati’s Jour de Fete[19] Wendy Ide of The Times gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said «It has long been a mystery to the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret weakness, that Rowan Atkinson’s repellent creation is absolutely massive on the Continent.» Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story and said two scenes are «clumsily borrowed» from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag «was past its sell-by date ten years ago».[20]

Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, saying that the film was full of awfully weak gags, and «In a post-Borat world, surely there’s no place for Bean’s antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?»,[21] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said «the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick pony, starts to show» and his «continual close-up gurning into the camera» becomes tiresome. Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a «B» and said, «Since Mr. Bean rarely speaks a complete sentence, the effect is of watching a silent movie with sound effects. This was also the dramatic ploy of the great French director-performer Jacques Tati, who is clearly the big influence here.»[22] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying «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.» Biancolli said the humour is «all elementally British and more than a touch French. What it isn’t, wasn’t, should never attempt to be, is American. That’s the mistake made by Mel Smith and the ill-advised forces behind 1997’s Bean: The Movie[23]

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe wrote, «Either you’ll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he’ll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he’s hilarious.» Burr also said «There are also a few gags stolen outright from Tati», but concluded «Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.»[24] Tom Long of The Detroit News said, «Watching 90 minutes of this stuff—we’re talking broad, broad comedy here—may seem a bit much, but this film actually picks up steam as it rolls along, becoming ever more absurd.» and also «Mr. Bean offers a refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.»[25]

Suzanne Condie Lambert of The Arizona Republic wrote, «Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games», but also said that «It’s hard to laugh at a character I’m 95 percent sure is autistic.»[26] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 2½ stars out of 4 and said «If you like [the character], you will certainly like Mr. Bean’s Holiday, a 10-years-later sequel to Bean. I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy», and also «Atkinson doesn’t have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot’s Holiday inspired the title). He’s funniest when mugging shamelessly…»[27]

Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that «the disasters instigated by Bean’s haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable» but said that one scene later in the film «is worth sticking around for».[28] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said «If you’ve never been particularly fond of Atkinson’s brand of slapstick, you certainly won’t be converted by this trifle.» and also «If the title sounds familiar, it’s because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish. This version offers a few laughs and an admirable commitment to old-fashioned fun.»[29] Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star gave the film 2 stars and said «If you’ve seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean routine, you’ve seen it all», and «The Nazi stuff is a bit out of place in a G-rated movie. Or any movie, really», later calling Atkinson «a has-Bean».[30] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 1½ stars out of 4 and said «If you’ve been lobotomised or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean’s Holiday is viable comic entertainment» and also, «The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.»[31]

Accolades[edit]

Max Baldry was nominated for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 29th Young Artist Awards in 2008.[citation needed] The film was nominated as Comedy or Musical and Best Comedy at the First National Movie Awards in 2007.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b «Mr Bean’s Holiday (2007)».
  3. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) — Box office / business». imdb.com. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  4. ^ a b «Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)». Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ «Bean Down Under For Rowan Atkinson». cinema.com. 7 February 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  6. ^ «Rowan Atkinson to return in Bean 2». Movieweb.com. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. ^ Shreya, Kumari (2 June 2022). «Where Was Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) Filmed?». The Cinemaholic. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  8. ^ GQ. «From Mr Bean to Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters». YouTube. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  9. ^ «Mr Bean’s Wedding». YouTube.
  10. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  11. ^ «Mr. Bean’s Holiday Blu-ray». Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
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  • Mr. Bean’s Holiday at Box Office Mojo

Мистер Бин – ребенок в теле взрослого, создающий хаос даже там, где появляется его тень, дебютировал на экранах подданных Ее Величества 1 января 1990 года. Герой настолько полюбился зрителям по всему миру, что Мистер Бин стал в некотором роде частью «мягкой силы», с помощью которой Британская империя открывает многие двери.

В опросе Британского совета 2014 года на тему великих современных британцев Мистер Бин опередил по популярности принцессу Диану, сэра Пола Маккартни и Чарли Чаплина!

«Для островного менталитета, где детство многие годы не рассматривалось как важный отрезок жизни, а детей по прежнему называют «IT», – именно Мистер Бин стал олицетворением наивного, чистого, доброго ребенка, которого здесь не очень хотят слышать, но который сидит в каждом и рвется на свободу»

Татьяна Рыклина

психолог и психотерапевт

С момента создания этого 14-серийного сериала его показали в 200 странах. На YouTube количество просмотров зарисовок про незадачливого британца в твидовом пиджаке и красном галстуке, которому с трудом даются даже самые простые вещи, превысило 6,5 млрд. А число фолловеров на «Фейсбуке» перешло барьер в 98 млн (это больше, чем у Джастина Бибера и Леди Гаги).

В свою очередь актер Роуэн Аткинсон, который создал героя и исполнил его роль в одноименном сериале, получил телевизионную награду «Золотая роза» и искреннюю любовь зрителей со всего мира. 

Это кафе получило название в честь Мистера Бина

Это кафе получило название в честь Мистера Бина

Неудивительно поэтому, что в честь 30-летия со дня рождения Мистера Бина ритейлеры и правообладатели выпустили целый фейерверк сувениров.

Вот, например, сувенирная монета. На одной стороне – Елизавета II, на другой – Мистер Бин. Монета имеет номинал пять островных долларов: ее отчеканили Острова Кука (самоуправляемое государственное образование в свободной ассоциации с Новой Зеландией, которая является частью Содружества).

Монета диаметром 38,61 мм выполнена из серебра 999-й пробы и весит одну унцию. На ней изображен как сам Роуэн Аткинсон в роли Мистера Бина, так и его карикатурный двойник из одноименного мультфильма, дебютировавшего в 2002-м. Изображения выполнены в цвете. Всего выпущено 3000 монет. Цена монеты – 95 фунтов.

Желтый Mini Бина – узнаваемый атрибут сериала

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Желтый Mini Бина – узнаваемый атрибут сериала

«Мистер Бин» стал глобальным хитом с самого начала, – говорит Кэтрин Сениор, исполнительный продюсер бренда «Мистер Бин» в компании-правообладателе Banijay. – Во-первых, потому что в этом фильме практичес­ки нет диалога и герой понятен всем. Во-вторых, потому что Мистер Бин – это ребенок в теле взрослого, а дети по всему миру ведут себя одинаково. Это очень простой юмор, и люди не устают смеяться над одними и теми же шутками, что отлично работает в социальных медиа, потому что пользователи смотрят один и тот же ролик или делятся одной и той же шуткой снова и снова. «Британскость» Бина – это его машина, его дом и другие чисто британские атрибуты. Я занимаюсь лицензированием этого бренда с 1997 года, работаю со всеми странами, культурами и их интерпретацией Бина. Моя задача – следить за тем, чтобы месседж бренда всегда был одинаков: «Мистер Бин» – это очень дружелюбный, безопасный семейный бренд с богатым наследием». 

В свою очередь Banijay, которая владеет правами на мультипликационную версию «Мистера Бина», также решила усилить узнаваемость бренда и к его 30-летию подписала контракт с компанией Teespring о выпуске лимитированной коллекции плюшевых медведей – копий Тедди, любимого мишки Бина.

В ноябре планируется спецвыпуск игрушечной копии автомобиля Mini с Мистером Бином внутри. Настоящий же автомобиль Бина хранится в National Motor Museum and Collections Centre в Хэмпшире.

«Мишка Мистера Бина – это практически отдельный персонаж, – объясняет психолог и психотерапевт Татьяна Рыклина. – Для зрителя это, возможно, просто игрушка, но для Мистера Бина это единственное живое существо, с которым он взаимодействует на человеческом уровне. Через эту нелепую игрушку мы видим Мистера Бина как человека способного на взаимоотношения. Важно, что для островного менталитета, где детство многие годы не рассматривалось как важный отрезок жизни, а детей по прежнему называют «IT», – именно Мистер Бин стал олицетворением наивного, чистого, доброго ребенка, которого здесь не очень хотят слышать, но который сидит в каждом и рвется на свободу».

Поведение Мистера Бина в целом является олицетворением всего глубоко подавленного в английском менталитете и через юмор и пародию выходящего наружу. Поэтому так легко себя с ним идентифицировать и любить его, даже если в мире взрослых он совсем не привлекателен. Но зато он позволяет каждому зрителю соприкоснуться с детской частью себя, которую достаточно сильно не принимают, не любят и не хвалят в английском обществе».

Сувенирная ложка с изображением «юбиляра»

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Сувенирная ложка с изображением «юбиляра»

Что же касается еще одного узнаваемого атрибута нашего героя – машины Mini (1977 British Leyland Mini 1000, Mark 4), то ее игрушечная копия, выпущенная компанией Corgi к 30-летию героя, украсила полки сувенирных магазинов и сайтов по всему миру.

В ноябре планируется спецвыпуск сборной модели авто компанией Mini с Мистером Бином внутри. Настоящий же автомобиль Бина хранится в National Motor Museum and Collections Centre в Хэмпшире. 

И, наконец, компания Winning Moves выпустила популярную семейную британскую карточную игру – тоже с дизайном на тему Мистера Бина.   

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