Film #23: Bean (1997)

Directed by: Mel Smith

Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter Nacnicol, Burt Reynolds, Whistler's Mother

I started watching this on the TV because it was on but I only got to see it halfway through so I decided to watch the first half on DVD. But, instead of using a normal DVD player like everyone else, I decided to take my 360 for a whirl. It's almost as easy as using a remote and less frustrating.

Anyway, Bean is a film about Mr. Bean on a trip to America. If you don't know who Mr. Bean is then I would suggest suicide is the only answer for you. Bean works at an art museum with Dot Cotton from EastEnders and his employers have to send someone to give a presentation on a painting. They decide to pick the most incompetent guy ever; Mr. Bean.

He knows nothing about art and is sent to America to stay with a family until his presentation. Things go horribly wrong all the time, exactly like all the other Bean features.

From the start, where he shaves his tongue and mixes coffee grains, boiling water and milk in his mouth because his mug breaks, to the end, where a Kerry King lookalike swears at him and he thinks it normal so does it to everyone, it's a nonstop laugh.

I loved watching Mr. Bean as a kid and I loved this film when it came out.

Rowan Atkinson plays an excellent part as Bean and, being the intelligent man that he is, it must have been fun playing a complete idiot.

I love it and you should too. There is something wrong with the world if someone dislikes Bean.

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