Bean (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 90 minuten
Alternative title: The Ultimate Disaster Movie
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Mel Smith
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol and Pamela Reed
IMDb score:
6,5 (117.748)
Releasedate: 3 July 1997
Bean plot
"One Man. One Masterpiece. One Very Big Mistake."
Bean works in a British museum, and his bosses want to fire him because he always sleeps during work hours. However, he is sent to America, to a small museum in Los Angeles to be precise, where he has to do the presentation of a new painting. However, he knows nothing about this…
Actors and actresses
Mr. Bean
David Langley
Alison Langley
Jennifer Langley
Kevin Langley
George Grierson
General Newton
Lieutenant Brutus
Detective Butler
Walter Merchandise
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87737 messages
- 13162 votes
Okay for once.
I saw this movie once, but didn't remember too much about it. Seen the series in the past, but that too is too long ago to draw a real parallel. I don't think the level differs too much between the two, but I could be wrong about that.
The problem with this Bean is that the film lasts 90 minutes, while the plot only offers 75 minutes of material. After 75 minutes, the film is also completed and an extensive sketch is pasted in the hospital. However, it has no relevance within the film itself.
Besides Bean as a character, there is not much to experience. Poor actors have to assist him, the direction is saltless and the American setting doesn't do the British too much good either. Fortunately, the film revolves entirely around Atkinson's character. It still works fine, after all kinds of sketches, a one-dimensional like Bean within a film is no longer the most fascinating, but every now and then there is something to laugh about.
So it's a bit of a comedy. Because it was so long ago, quite okay to watch it again, but I couldn't recognize a lot of quality in it.
2.0*
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3711 votes
Movies like this only show how well Mr. Bean actually is. The series is of all times and for all ages and still very good today. And very handsome. None of this is Bean, the 1997 film in which Mr. Bean goes to America. It all feels very American too, even though director Mel Smith is British and the script was written by Richard Curtis, who also co-wrote the series. Because no matter how many sketches from the series are reused, the film in no way feels like the series. If only one scene from this movie was as brilliant as Bean's dreary New Year's Eve party, adventures in a shopping center or Bean trying to go to sleep. But no, in Bean there is hardly a scene that does the character justice. No matter how hard Rowan Atkinson tries.
With a flurry, Bean is taken to America, where the story is suddenly about Peter MacNicol and his family. And immediately when we get there, the heavily sentimental music of Howard Goodall (also a Brit, who worked on the series) is played very hard to get us emotional. Indeed, emotionally in a film by Mr. bean. Family problems and dramatic turns are suddenly of great importance and of course the film must have a loving message as a moral, whereby the violin music only has to sound louder. And Atkinson? He is only allowed to wiggle his eyebrows in the background. What's wrong with a movie about a childish and selfish man-child who only causes trouble and just wants to come out of it better? Apparently a lot, because in Bean one of the nicest television characters is turned into a lifeless, humorless, brave and sentimental comedy. Complete Mr. Bean-unworthy.
2 stars.
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