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Movie Reviews of Bean
Movie Review: Not as funny as i used to remember watching Bean
Summary: 3 Stars
I used to and still do love to watch Bean. When the show came on it was truly very funny and loved every moment of it. However, as the show went off and now a movie was made, i found that it just wasnt the same..it tried, but, it truly failed in story and with same old, same old funny acts that Bean did on his show (which were funny, but, geeees..how many times can you really watch it until it gets dull?). The movie was ok, but, i thought it could have done a lot better..this is only a rent first then buy.Movie Review: Mr. Bean's Hilarious; This Movie Isn't
Summary: 2 Stars
Rowan Atkinson is, without a doubt, one of Britain's funniest comedians. His "Mr. Bean" series, available on DVD, presents Atkinson's perfectly modern British update of classic silent physical clowns like Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Mr. Bean himself is a mischievious creature who, like a little boy, is prone to both extreme malevolence as well as extreme silliness. He's an unforgettable character, and Atkinson devised several extremely clever skits to showcase this. The "Mr. Bean" boxed set is brilliant.
"Bean," however, is a mistake. If you love Mr.Bean, skip directly to the last third of the film in which the director finally allows Atkinson to be himself and make the audience laugh. The rest of the film is a poorly conceived attempt to meld Mr. Bean's cartoonlike persona to a standard American-style family comedy. The plot and flat production values kept reminding me of the low budget comedies of the 1980s that wound up being shown on HBO every Saturday afternoon. The basic idea of the film is a sound one - the famous painting "Whistler's Mother" is being transported to the USA and Bean, through a misunderstanding, is sent with it as an "art expert."
Throughout the first two-thirds of the film, Bean sticks out like a sore thumb. In much the same way that MGM insisted that the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy soften up their humor, every attempt is made to change Mr. Bean from a trickster into a well-meaning oddball who only wants to help his bland co-stars find happiness. On the TV series, Bean gets himself into trouble because he is trying to do things "correctly" whereas here he gets himself into trouble trying to help. It's funny watching pratfalls when they backfire on the person doing them; it's not as funny when the pratfalls have consequences on other characters.
Younger children will enjoy this movie, as most of the comedy is age-appropriate. But true Mr. Bean fans will be as disappointed as I.
Movie Review: I expected a lot more...
Summary: 2 Stars
My wife is a pretty big fan of Bean. She had been ranting and raving about me needing to see this movie for some time. I never really had a big desire to see it (not really my thing) but I eventually gave it.
I'm still a tad indifferent.
The fact remains that I laughed. In fact, the whole `destruction of Whistler's Mother' was rather hilarious. Personally though, I found the rest of the movie to be ridiculously uneven. I like intelligence in my humor. I think that it just boils down to personal preference. I'm not really a huge fan of `stupid funny'. That said, I have been known to fall on the floor in laughter while watching certain Will Ferrell comedies, so I do occasionally wholly enjoy `stupid funny'.
`Bean' just didn't do it for me.
The film revolves around a dim-witted security guard at a museum Britain who is despised by his co-workers and is sent to America to oversea the transferal of `Whistler's Mother' from the British museum to the US. He is mistaken for an art scholar and trusted with the painting, but a lot of outlandish madness ensues because of it.
Oh yeah, and the ending is rather heartwarming (in a totally superficial way).
Rowan Atkinson is rather hilarious. His facial expressions and mannerisms are really funny, but the films plot and scripting are one-note and hold him back from doing anything truly noteworthy. The character development is really ridiculous (the whole Langley family dynamic is unbelievable and absurd) and the way that the gags are strung together never once gives you an impression that it is anything more than a group of bits thrown together with a weakly realized connective tissue.
The film, while at times humorous, misses big time.
Movie Review: Where was Teddy?
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a hard core Mr. Bean fan- and I have been since his birth in 1989- but I was VERY unhappy with this movie! It was nothing like the Brit com. More importantly, where was Teddy? Where was Irma Gobb? Fear not- I'll give Mr. Bean's Holiday a chance when it comes out this spring. Meanwhile, don't bother with the BEAN movie. Just stick to the shows!Movie Review: Half Baked Bean
Summary: 1 Stars
As questionable an epithet as it may be, this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, barring perhaps, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Three Men and a Baby. Of course there are many contenders for that title, more all the time now that Hollywood is in an unimaginative slump, but this movie commits the unforgivable sin of comedy: it gets the tone wrong. Comedy is entirely about tone (as are cartoons). Get it wrong and it doesn't matter how much you get right. Of course, there is plenty else to help the film lope along to its failed finish. The entire cast is miscast except for Rowan Atkinson. How much better these things play in the low budget BBC sets, since they are essentially stand-up mixed with filmed plays.
Compare this to Johnny English, a venerable vehicle for Atkinson's considerable talents and there is no comparison. Why? Because JE is understated and plays off the already subtle Bond canon, itself quintessentially British. Whereas the ghastly mistake that is Bean plays like the worst over the top laugh track and all boisterous American comedy (exactly the sort of non- funny sitcoms that have dominated current American TV since Friends managed to walk the precarious line). Even the animated Bean is better than this flop of a film, although the cartoon series seems superfluous since the live action Bean series is already essentially a cartoon. At any rate, RA deserves better, and he got it with Johnny English, as subtle, brilliant and witty as Bean is dull, heavy handed and boorish. JE is a keeper. Bean is a casualty. C'est le guerre.