Bean

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Summary: Rowan Atkinson stars as Mr. Bean
Review: Bean opens with a curator wanting to fire Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) and the chairman says no to the firing. So he sends Bean off to a art gallery in Los Angles for the opening of Wistler's Mother that was own by the people in France.

The painting had been brought by Generel Newton (Burt Reynolds) who is not an art lover but doesn't like the frenchies owning American's painting. Bean is a guard (I think). His host is David (Peter McNicol). At one point askes Bean what he does at the art gallery in London. He relies "I sit in the corner and look at the paintings."

What a job! Newton will arive at the gallery at 10:00 A.m and the people see it there first time at 10:30 A.M and Bean has to give a speech at about a half hour later. But when the painting arrives Bean sneezes on it and the painting gets messed up and Bean replaces with a poster. If you are a Bean fan wait to you are 13 to see this or if your are or past 13 then see it.

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Summary: Best of Bean
Review: Being an avid fan of the U.K.'s popular character Mr. Bean, I raced to theaters over the holiday season when this was out so many years ago. It became instant favorite becaue it includes all of the best Bean sketches rolled together into one, hilarious film. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) who is almost a mime in these popular shows and movie still manages to get his message across. Those of you who have never seen his show will be thrilled with it, it's simply hilarious if you've never seen him before. Those of you who HAVE seen him might be dissapointed due to the lack of new material, still the plot's good, the dialogue clever, and the acting, SUPERB!

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Summary: Pretty good comedy
Review: I haven't ever watched the show "Bean," but I like the movie. Mr. Bean is supposed to know a lot about paintings. Therefore, a man invites Mr. Bean to stay at his house for awhile until they go and see the famous painting called "Whistler's Mother." The bad thing is, everything doesn't go smoothly along the way and Mr. Bean has to do a presentation of the famous painting in order to get somebody to purchase it.

I thought some parts of "Bean" were hilarious. Some of the best parts are when Mr. Bean gets his head stuck in a chicken and when he puts laxative in a security guard's cup of coffee and then switches the keys around, thus the guard won't know which one is the key to the bathroom.

Some parts of "Bean" are corny, but most of the movie is hilarious. If you like comedy movies, "Bean" would be a good one to see.

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Summary: A Kinder, Gentler Bean
Review: I've never seen such passionate divergence on such a trivial subject. The previous reviews of "Bean" come from two camps, each equally certain that they alone understand this film, either 5 stars or one with few in between. Well, let me add my own analysis to this over-analyzed subject. Yes, Bean is in California. This is the big screen and little English barber shop pantomimes, while perfect for the cozy confines of the British television series, wouldn't have translated to a full-length feature, especially one introducing Mr. Bean to many American viewers for the first time. And yes, Bean speaks. That was inevitable in the movie. There had to be some compromises (or call them modifications, depending upon which camp you're coming from). The most substantial change was to Bean's basic character. Let's face it. The Bean of the television series is not a nice person. He may not understand immediately every situation life throws him into, but as soon as he catches on he's up to some malicious mischief. I once heard his character accurately described as " a hideous cocktail of innocence and malevolence." This wouldn't have cut it in a Hollywood production. They didn't need to employ a troop of marketing consultants to study the demographics of their potential audience. It was the public at large, all ages and persuasions, not a core group of Bean cultists huddled around their tellys and giggling at the fate of Bean's latest victims. So, yes, they did soften Bean's basic instincts but try to get over it because here's the point: IT'S STILL FUNNY. Relax and enjoy; life's too short and any Bean makes it more enjoyable.

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Summary: not like the TV show
Review: I was very disappointed by this movie. It's not at all like the TV show. Might make an OK kids movie but if you rent this expecting it to be as funny as the TV show you will be very disappointed.

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Summary: An average comedy
Review: Im a big rowan atkinson fan but this movie didnt impress me. Still there were a few funny parts that i still laugh about but not enough to want to buy it.

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Summary: Theatre of the disturbed...
Review: As an actual fan both of Rowan Atkinson and his character Mr. Bean, it pains me to write about the horrors of this film. This is NOT a film about the Mr. Bean that many of you have come to know and love via the small screen. This is a film (that's actually more like watching a train crash) about a warped, disturbed sociopath who looks like Mr. Bean and is supposedly played by Rowan Atkinson.

Why does this film not work? For the same reason that so many Saturday Night Live sketches-turned-films do not work: sketch comedy does not play out to an hour and a half when the joke is told in five minutes or less.

Also, the film seems (sadly) intended for an American audience - and unfortunately, I believe, miscalculates the American intelligence - going for over-the-top "slapstick" (I believe that's what was intended) in the place of the SLIGHTLY more subtle physical humour (and it's still OTT) of the original television series. Unsubtle? Oh, that's an understatement. Give the Yanks some credit...many of them do understand Monty Python, after all. This is the cinematic equivalent of being beaten over the head with a cricket bat of unsubtlety.

On the subject of the Americanization of Bean - take Mr. Bean out of his native environment, and he's just plum weird. In a land of eccentrics such as Britain, Mr. Bean's eccentricities are charming. Put Bean in L.A., around a bunch of rather unlikeable Americans (like that goofball from Ally McBeal), doing things that are just disturbing (there is one hospital scene that actually made me want to wretch - and I'm not the type that is disturbed by much of anything cinematically - I'm a Steven Seagal fan, after all) - and you wonder where everything went wrong. At about ninety minutes, this film is two hours too long.

If you MUST see this film, by all means rent it, steal it - do whatever it takes to view it without paying (or paying much), just because monetary expenditure merely supports the defiling of the Mr. Bean legacy - try one of the multi-episode cassettes of classic episodes instead (cassettes 1 and 4 are highly recommended).

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Summary: A great funny guy
Review: This was my first exposure to Rowan Atkinson, who plays Bean. I have since seen his TV work, some of which is as good as the movie and some falls short. This movie seems to bring out diverse opinions; however, I am very much in the camp that thinks Rowan Atkinson is one of those great comics that comes along rarely. The movie is about this child-like character who is constantly having misadventures, but he is capable of moments of genius. One thus watches him get in and out of trouble. The real story, however, is Bean, the comedic character. He is trully unusual. He seems to me to have elements of Chaplin (one can feel real sympathy for his characters), Jerry Lewis (similar facial expressions), and Pee Wee Herman (they share a comic silliness that will appeal to children). This is not a movie for the jaded.

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Summary: Don't waste your time!
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The TV show is more funnier than the movie. Man, I can't beleive I wasted my money for this movie when I saw it in theater, the movie's cheesy. Don't even plan on renting it or buying it.

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Summary: Absolutely HILARIOUS for some, pitifully foolish for others
Review: To me, the movie Bean was hilarious! It kept me laughing the entire time! It is not the standard humor that almost everyone likes, though. Refined people expecting complex, dictated humor will not find the movie Bean funny. Watch the movie prepared for downright goofy humor and you'll simply love it.