Bean (DVD)

I first saw the saw this movie just after it came out back in 1997, and don't remember being all that impressed with it. I watched it a few weeks ago however, and thought it was much better than I remembered. ~The story~ Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is working for the Royal National Gallery of London, where he is their worst employee, detested by the rest of the staff for his general hopelessness and tendency to fall asleep on the job. They are desperate to get rid of him, but the head of the gallery wants him to stay. When an opportunity arises for an art scholar to go to Los Angeles for the unveiling of a portrait, 'Whistler's mother', which is to be ...

What’s it about? -------------------- In an effort to get rid of him, the National Picture Gallery in London sends human disaster area Mr. Bean to America for the grand unveiling of a painting. Chaos follows! Who’s in it? ----------------- The key character is, obviously, Rowan Atkinson, who is simply brilliant. Bean barely speaks throughout the film, yet Atkinson gives him such a hilarious presence that he doesn’t need to! His facial expressions are a scream to watch and those alone will have you in stitches, regardless of what else is happening on screen. Atkinson also has a superb sense of comic timing – he knows just how long a pause he ...

Rowan Atkinson is a comic genius. I can remember him in the experimental comedy series Not The Nine O’ Clock News in 1979, along with other great comedians – Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones and Billy Connolly. (Oh, and Pamela Stephenson was in it too.) Since then, he has appeared in many of my favourite films and TV programmes – The Lion King (as the voice of Zazu), Bean, The Thin Blue Line, the wonderful Blackadder series, as the vicar in the hilarious Four Weddings And A Funeral, and not forgetting as the Ninth Doctor in the 1999 Comic Relief Dr. Who special! With a name like Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, perhaps a career making people ...