Another one of the movies that i caught up recently was the 2007 release Rowan Atkinson starrer Mr Bean's Holiday. Being under Mr Bean's label, the movie had my expectations up high.
The Plot:
Mr Bean who resides in London, goes to a Raffle in the month of June. Its raining profusely. He's late, and on reaching there, finds out that he's won a holiday to the south of France along with a handycam. And in the next scene, he's on the train to Paris, playing with his new camera. He's destined to Cannes. In Paris, he has a mixup of cabs, and reaches Vous Etes Ici instead of the railway station at Gare De Lyon. He starts walking and reahces there,but misses the first train to Paris, so has lunch at a local restaurant. After having his lunch, he goes to the platform , and starts doing some shooting with his camera. There, he asks a gentleman bound for the same train as him to record for him. In the process, the guy recording for him misses the train, and his son is left alone inside the train. The boy gets upset on finding this. Bean tries hard to cheer him up, but the boy remains angry. At a local station, the boy takes revenge by making Bean miss the train.
On the next train, the boy's father comes, but the train doesn't stop. The man had displayed his phone number, but the last two digits go missing. Bean tries to call the number, but doesn't help. He boards the next train, but he realises that he's left his passport and wallet on the station's telephone booth. He's kicked out of the train the next station.
There starts a long struggle for Bean to reach Cannes, and loses the boy. He reaches a road in the countryside, where he's given a lift by a girl, who also has to go Cannes. They stop at a restaurant where he meets the boy again. They again continue for Cannes. The girl stops at a place on the outskirts of Cannes to get her car refuelled where she comes to know about Bean and the boy. It turns out that the boy's father is a jury of the Cannes Film Festival. And by chance, he is judging the same movie the girl had acted in.
They reach Cannes,and crash at the venue of premiere. The film is a complete bore. The girl finds out that her scene has been cut, and is heartbroken. Looking at this, Bean plays the video he had recorded of her in the journey, and by chance it makes perfect sense with the narration. The jury member recognises Bean, and when he comes to get him, meets is son who was itting on the back side of the projection screen. Bean reaches the beach. The girl becomes a star. The director of the bore film becomes a master director. At the End, the movie becomes a musical.
Final take:
Te movie is okay, but not as good as it could be. Personally, i found Johnny English a dozen times more funny than Mr Bean's Holiday. As i had indicated earlier, the movie didn't quite live up to the expectation of the extremely popular Mr Bean .
Rowan Atkinson has done really good acting. So did everyone else in whatever little part they had. There wasn't much acting involved, as there was not much story.
I'd give the movie 2.5 out of 5
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