The English release this week is as asinine as its Bollywood cousin.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 24, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2008

I hate Mr. Bean, I hated this movie. He's an annoying, creepy, leering, sweaty, unfunny character, and ten seconds would be too much and this movie's like 90 minutes.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday is a very cute movie. Unfortunately, cute is rarely funny.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 25, 2007

Atkinson's Mr. Bean, a man of few words, carries their memory in his rubbery bones. When it comes to knowing where he came from, he's got the beat.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2007

For younger audiences, Mr. Bean's Holiday will be a pleasure, and of course, Bean addicts will, as always, be happy to see Atkinson's alter ego return to the big screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Bean seems to lament how some filmmakers have forgotten that film is foremost a medium of mass entertainment. The great sadness is that without uttering much of anything, is a few jokes short of making a very good point.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2007

The trifling delights of Mr. Bean's Holiday come to a thundering crescendo during the movie's last 10 minutes in a sequence which almost reaches the enchanting heights of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

The Wikipedia page on gurning lists Atkinson right behind Jim Carrey as one of the world's leading practitioners of grotesque face-making. And this is his ghastly masterpiece.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

An only intermittently funny sequel that finally livens up in the last third. But that part -- a hilarious putdown of the pretension at the Cannes Film Festival -- is worth sticking around for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

The film's Harold Lloyd-inspired slapstick may be infantile, but it has an innocent sensibility that is a nice counterbalance to the equally childish but prurient American Pie flicks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday picks up steam when it finally arrives in Cannes just in time to wreak yet more havoc at the big film festival, but getting there is pretty tedious. A little of the wildly mugging Atkinson goes a long way.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

If you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be converted by this trifle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Don't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean's Holiday is quite savvy about filmmaking, landing a few blows for satire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

A refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times.

| Aug 24, 2007

A throwback to silent movie clowns.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

The time has come for Mr. Bean's retirement.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2007