Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Kaustav Majumdar Mr. Bean is a SITCOM. That it is what it is defined as. But I assure it possibly couldn't be far the concept and theme of the genre described any further finding common grounds in the studio audience's recorded laughter and the MC(s) doing goofy **** This is show so much beyond that and so much better than most things that came after. The fact that is short and every inch packed with glorious talent that the world couldn't help but recognize makes it all the better.Hats off to Sir Rowan Atkinson made the character of a lifetime and everybody who has ever seen him bring it to life knows it is highest elevation of solo performance. I had seen the show many years ago on a TV channel called Pogo and found it funny. Now grown-up and with a chance to experience to have the whole of that hysterical experience once and for all, I found utterly hilarious. Once in a while you find shows like this which make you scared you might hurt your bowels while laughing too hard cause you can't stop having no control over yourself in moments like this. I so admire this man now, and would place Mr. Bean even above my all-time-favorite, Blackadder Goes Forth.But even though I have praised a solo act so much does no way mean that the show could have done without various supporting cast chipping in and the punctuated music and sounds that the goofy stories being shown couldn't have done without. I would like especially mention Richard Curtis who was the co-writer on the many of the episodes of the show and went onto time-enduring classics such as Love Actually (Atkinson makes a guest appearance alongside some of the biggest names in the British film industry; It is also another must watch on my list) and About Time (It is really about that and a little bit more about love). I wish I had seen his movies after I started doing these reviews, as my policy is to onl write in about stuff I have seen fairly recently and within a week of having watched it. But if and when I do re-watch Curtis's classics, I will love to write about it. Also, my appreciation goes to Mathilda Ziegler who played Mr Bean's Girlfriend. She seemed very talented and had just right amount non-movement and expression in the 'chauffeur-queen-greeting' sketch (I think, i don't remember correctly) and then there were her exchanges with the titular character; oh how she tried things for love and failed hard to our delight (Schadenfreude never had a better example). I found out she is very successful actress who is considered an integral part of the British classic show, Eastenders and also happily teaches at The Norwich School (of Drama?) where she was seen discussing a play with Dame Judi Dench. So she turned out great and that made me happy. Let's be honest and end it here. It is 2018 and that is 28 years since the show was released and all of people I mentioned and their common intersection on the intersection in the world of visual art are legendary material. This is a review only because that is what it is to be called, otherwise it is an exercise of self-reminiscence that I needed to perpetrate for posterity's sake.

adonis98-743-186503 Life is a difficult challenge for Mr Bean, who despite being a grown adult, has trouble completing even the simplest of tasks. Thankfully, his perseverance is usually rewarded, and he finds an ingenious way around the problem. Mr. Bean the original TV series starring Rowan Atkinson is how you really make good comedy for example having a guy that barely talks and yet he makes you laugh for example he tries to take back his shoe from the roof of a car or that time when he drives from the roof of his car and by far the saddest episode of the season when his car was crashed on a parade and his expression was heart breaking Mr. Bean isn't just a really good show but a damn hilarious one and touching one about a guy who is different than normal people are.

pesic-1 Mr. Bean is great. But Hollywood seems to think that Americans are not smart enough to understand that humour. Solution: let's eliminate all the subtlety so that every last stupid person can get it.Result: a film that is fairly entertaining, yet vulgar and butchered. Nothing may be left to our imagination any more, nothing can be just hinted at. No. When Bean explodes the bag filled with vomit, we have to see it. Everything has to be spelled out and shown, and everything has to be turned up to the maximum.Whenever British humour is adapted to the American market, it is butchered. The question is: do Americans really not understand it, or are the owners of American media deliberately turning people stupid?

Matt James Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) was evidently heavily influenced by M. Hulot (Jaques Tati). The difference is that Atkinson's Mr. Bean has a level of malevolence (perhaps mischievousness is kinder), a child-like irresponsibility and unwavering social ineptitude oscillating between crippling self-consciousness and steely defiance. It's unsurprising, then, that Mr. Bean has no evident friends, though it's equally true that he doesn't really need any. What he does cherish (Teddy, his Mini) with fond sentimentality shows his need for companionship but he can get by without it. I think this was intentional: to show us that there's a Mr. Bean in all of us sometimes.The mostly visual humour has a certain strange logic with ingenious, often improbable, solutions. Bean is as funny when he gets into scrapes as he is when he casually dunks a fly in his orange juice with the comically feigned air of a man who does this kind of thing routinely. For the most part Bean triumphs in the face of adversity and when he doesn't he is soon back to his jaunty child-like self. Essentially a positive character who is as wearied as the rest of us with a world full of hold-ups and seemingly senseless rules he can usually find a way around difficulties that most of us would have to think long and hard about and in some cases abandon our consciences.The apparent effortlessness of the humour modestly hides the considerable work behind it. The limited number of episodes represent a lot of time and thought and they're more precious for their scarcity. Better a small glass of fine wine than a gallon of plonk.It seems people love this character or hate him with little middle-ground. If you're in the first group you'll appreciate the careful construction of the situations wherein even the smallest gestures (such as looking sharply up at the new TV set whilst balanced awkwardly on a chair) can bring unexpected hilarity. But nothing can match the scene on board the aircraft, particularly his expression in the final frame.