Sequence foreshadows the movie’s most inspired idea - a heartwarming wrap-up with a rendering of the Charles Trenet classic “La Mer.” Once en route, the pic spends some time bonding the two characters, most successfully when they busk for money in a rural marketplace. Also, Bean and Stepan try various cell phone numbers to reach Emil, producing several funny vignettes scattered throughout the movie. As part of his prize, Bean has won a vidcam, whose footage is interwoven heavily during the early reels and becomes a key plot element in the finale. After losing his passport, ticket and money, Bean and the streetwise 10-year-old become unlikely traveling companions as they head south to Cannes - Stepan to his father and Bean to his beloved beach.Įarly on, the script (by comedy writer Hamish McColl and “Bean” regular Robin Driscoll) sets up a few threads that help bind the episodic material together. Thanks to Bean, Emil gets left behind on the platform as the train pulls out of the station, taking Bean and Stepan with it.
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(Buster Keaton-like joke is replayed briefly, and even more cleverly, at the end of the movie as Bean makes his way to the beach.)Īfter killing time in the station restaurant - cue typically Brit humor about French food, presided over by a superior maitre d’ (vet Jean Rochefort) - Bean has an encounter with Russian movie director Emil Duchevsky (Czech thesp Karel Roden), who’s on his way with his young son, Stepan (newcomer Max Baldry), to sit on the Cannes jury. Film clicks into gear as Bean screws up his rail connection in Paris and, armed with a compass, causes chaos as he walks in a straight line across the city from La Defense to Gare de Lyon to catch the Riviera express.
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Opening reel, set in a rainy London in June, has Bean (Atkinson) winning a free holiday in the South of France during a church raffle. However, pic’s film-buffy slant, with a finale at the Cannes Film Festival, won’t mean much to the ankle-biting segment of Bean’s audience.Īfter its March 22 preem in Singapore, the film goes wide throughout Europe on March 30. With a similarly episodic structure, in which some bits work better than others, there seems to be no apparent reason why Bean’s timeless appeal shouldn’t reap equivalent returns. Coyote will be charmed.Original grossed some $237 million worldwide, of which $45 million was garnered Stateside. Bottom line? Audiences who like their laughs with subtlety and wit will find a lot lacking. Bean gets stuck in a tiny shack, or leaves something vital behind by mistake ( again) - are less-inspired. Bean encounters a giant prawn in an elegant restaurant, tries to earn money as a street musician, and lets all of the hot air out of auteur film director Carson Clay ( Willem Dafoe) in a Cannes Film Festival screening room are works of comic genius. Bean film features moments of uproarious humor - as well as scenes that are repetitive, go on too long, and have a "seen-that-before" aura. It's slapstick in some places, parody and satire in others. This film is directed and performed in a way that's reminiscent of a silent movie most of the laughs come from the talented Atkinson's rubber face, wide eyes, and clueless behavior.
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