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Mr Bean causes chaos in Cannes
MR BEAN'S HOLIDAY
Directed by Steve Bendelack
Certificate PG
HE'S back. Dippy but lovable Mr Bean is on the loose again, and Rowan Atkinson is back on the big screen pulling his faces and causing mayhem wherever he sets foot.
The first Bean movie made £200 million at the box office world-wide, so it was only a matter of time before he got together again with his creative partner Richard Curtis to deliver a sequel. Despite being something of a curate’s egg of a comedy, it’s worth the wait.
This one starts with our hero winning a church raffle that takes him via Eurostar for a free holiday in the South of France when the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing.
Being Mr Bean, he doesn’t even make it out of the Gare du Nord where he’s changing trains before he’s in trouble.
In the first-class restaurant waiters somersault over the dessert trolley. Faced with the speciality sea food platter he chomps the crunchy head off a crayfish and eats it, whiskers and all, before depositing half a dozen oysters into the open handbag of the lady at the next table, exiting hastily to her screams of horror when she puts her hand in to find her purse.
Finally the hapless Bean gets his tie caught in a vending machine, loses his passport and tickets, and misses his train. Thumbing lifts down the country roads of France, he stumbles on to the set of a war film being directed by a stop-at-nothing director (Willem Dafoe), and somehow contrives to finish the journey with its vivacious star (Emma de Caunes, a young Claudia Cardinale lookalike) in time to create further carnage at the Festival premiere.
Mr Bean’s conversation still consists mainly of grunts and gulps, and at 85 minutes the knicker elastic of laughter is pulled too taut to last the course before it snaps.
That said, entire cinemas will be in stitches throughout the land, giving the Bean counters a well-deserved boost.
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