Mr. Bean's Holiday HD DVD, DVD Review (2007)

For those who appreciate the power of Bean in brevity, this "Bean" leads to too much bad gas.

Once again, Rowan Atkinson assumes the role of Bean, who this time out is caught in an ongoing series of foibles that spring from his winning a video camera and a trip to Cannes, France.

Naturally, it's all a set-up for disaster, with the clueless Bean bumbling out of England as he travels via train to his foreign destination.

Along the way, he manages to separate a young boy (Max Baldry) from his father, with Emma de Caunes and Willem Dafoe joining in the forced tomfoolery.

The ending is the best, most ingenious part of the show, though it comes too late to save it. As appealing as Atkinson is as Bean, he always has been best served in small doses.

The movie is a banal riff on 1953's "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday."

Rated G. Grade: C-

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