Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Steve Bendelack and written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll. It is a British-French-American venture produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Tiger Aspect Films and Universal Pictures. Based on the British television series Mr. Bean and a stand-alone sequel to Bean (1997), the film stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role, Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes and Willem Dafoe.
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Directed by | Steve Bendelack |
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Story by | Simon McBurney |
Based on | Mr. Bean by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson |
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Music by | Howard Goodall |
Cinematography | Baz Irvine |
Edited by | Tony Cranstoun |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
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Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $229.7 million |
The film was theatrically released on 24 August 2007 in the United States to mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, having grossed $229.7 million against a $25 million budget. 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.
Screenplay
During a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean drives to a church fete where the wins the first prize - A holiday in Cannes, a Sony Handycam video camera and €200.
Following a misunderstanding involving a taxi at the Gare du Nord, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to board his next train to Cannes. Unfortunately, a faulty vending machine prevents him from boarding and he misses his train. While waiting for the next one, he dines at Le Train Bleu where he eats one langoustine whole and pours oysters he took a dislike to into a nearby woman's handbag.
Bean asks a Russian film director named Emil Dachevsky to film him boarding the train using his video camera, but they spend so much time retaking the shot that the train starts to leave. Although Bean manages to get on the train, the doors close before Emil could get on. Therefore, his son Stepan is left on board by himself and upon meeting Bean he initially refuses to befriend him.
At the next station, the train leaves without Bean when he goes to retrieve his video camera from Stepan who has somehow got hold of it and disembarked earlier. The train Emil has boarded does not stop and he instead holds up a sign showing a mobile number, but the last two digits are covered by his fingers resulting in attempts at calling the number proving worthless. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping but are kicked off as Bean had left his wallet and ticket on the telephone box at the previous station.
Attempts at getting money, such as miming to "O mio babbino caro" prove successful and Bean buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean loses his ticket that attaches itself to a chicken's leg resulting in Bean giving chase via a bicycle. Upon arriving at the farm where he finds more chickens and discovering that his bicycle has been crushed by a tank, Bean is forced to continue his journey on foot. Bean soon falls asleep after being exhausted from walking and wakes up the next morning on what appears to be a quaint French village being attacked by soldiers accompanied by an StUG III, but is actually a film set for a commercial directed by Carson Clay to which Bean inadvertently blows up the set after recharging his video camera.
Bean is then offered a lift to Cannes by a Mini identical to his driven by Sabine, an aspiring actress on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where the film in which she makes her debut will be presented. When they stop at a service station, Bean reunites with Stepan whom Sabine takes with them assuming Stepan is Bean's son while Stepan thinks Sabine is Bean's girlfriend. On the way, Bean drives the Mini through the night when Sabine falls asleep on the wheel.
The next morning, the trio reach Cannes. When Sabine stops at a petrol station to change for the premiere, she sees Bean's photo on a news program where he is suspected of kidnapping Stepan while Sabine is Bean's accomplice. Since the premiere in Cannes starts in one hour, she decides not to go to the police now to clear the misunderstandings. Therefore, Bean and Stepan disguise themselves as Sabine's mother and daughter and manage to sneak past the police.
During the premiere, Sabine is distraught to find that her role has been cut from the film. To cheer her up, Bean plugs his video camera in the projector causing it to show his video diary. The bizarre tale its tells fits Carson Clay's narration well and Carson, Sabine and Bean all receive standing ovations as Stepan is reunited with his father. Afterwards, Bean leaves via the back door and finally reaches the Cannes beach where he encounters many of the people he met throughout the film. The film ends as the entire cast and background mime a musical finale with the song "La Mer".
In a post-credits scene, Bean writes "FIN" in the sand with his foot and films it until the sea washes the word away and his camera's battery dies again.
- Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean
- Emma de Caunes as Sabine
- Max Baldry as Stepan Dachevsky
- Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay
- Jean Rochefort as the Maître d'Hôtel
- Karel Roden as Emil Dachevsky
- Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector
- Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver
- Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller
- Julie Ferrier as The First AD
- Steve Pemberton as The Vicar
- Lily Atkinson as Lily
In February 2001 before filming began on Scooby-Doo, Rowan Atkinson was lured into making a second film about Mr. Bean going on an Australian adventure under the working title Down Under Bean. However, this idea was dropped for Mr. Bean's Holiday. The film began shooting on 15 May 2006 under the working title French Bean.
In March 2005, news of the film were released suggesting that it would be written by Simon McBurney but in December 2005, Atkinson stated that the screenplay was being written by himself and his long time collaborator Richard Curtis. The screenplay was later confirmed to have been written by Robin Driscoll and Hamish McColl while the story was instead written by McBurney.
Music
The film's score was composed and conducted by Howard Goodall, who also composed the original Mr. Bean series although the original theme was unused. It has a symphonic orchestration which is a sophisticated score instead of the series' tendency to simple musical repetitions and features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes. The film's theme song was "Crash" by Matt Willis.
It was the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money from the film going towards the 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.
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. Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in November 2006 and launched an official website online the following month.
Home media
Mr. Bean's Holiday was released on DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD release is in separate widescreen and pan and scan for the markets formats in the United States. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the DVD chart in the United Kingdom on its week of release.
There are fifteen deleted scenes in the film. The first scene shows Bean accidentally spilling coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men in which upon cleaning it by licking the screen and wiping the keyboard with napkins, he leaves just upon one of the men wakes up and blames the other man for destroying his laptop. This scene was only featured on trailers and TV spots for the film although the North American release has it in place of the vending machine scene. The second scene shows Bean tricking a man to get a train ticket and staying with Stepan on the train.
The fourth one shows Bean carrying Stepan all the way through a plaza. The fifth one shows Sabine going off with her emotions and almost being run over by a truck, Bean doing silly moves along the road (which are later seen in Carson Clay's Playback Time), playing with the shadows in the morning, miming his journey to Stepan at the cafeteria, being menaced by a projectionist at the Cannes Film Festival (at the playing of Clay's movie), accidentally cutting the film roll and trying to stick it again and Carson Clay discovering the film roll accumulating at the projector's room. The damaged film is still seen lying next to the projector in the final cut though it remains unexplained. Finally Bean is seen dancing at the beach, a scene that was replaced by the characters singing "La Mer".
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 52% based on 113 reviews with an average rating of 5.5/10. 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." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.
BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying "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." 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 is taken directly from Tati's Jour de Fete." 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".
Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, said 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?", 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." 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."
Ty Burr of the Boston Globe said "Either you'll find hilarious—or he'll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he's hilarious." Burr also said "There
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