Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Studio: Universal
Rated: PG
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe
Director: Steve Bendelack
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A laugh-out-loud comedy â?¦ for that small subset of the population unfortunate enough to be as socially inept and moronic as Mr. Bean himself. A painfully unfunny series of redundant and half-measured physical gags are strung together like distracting lights along an ugly clothesline of a ‘plotâ?� that really is hardly worth repeating. What’s most remarkable about this film is how, after more than an hour of awfulness, the film’s resolution ‘ which ties together an extended gag about a self-indulgent filmmaker (Willem Dafoe), an impressively choreographed stunt walk and a bizarrely rewarding musical number ‘ will actually put a smile on your face. Or maybe you’ll just be happy it’s all over.
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2007.