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Whether or not you find this DVD hilarious or as thrilling as watching paint dry rather depends on how much a fan you are of Rowan Atkinson, the 1980s’s British answer to Jerry Lewis. If you care about as much for either one as you would for having root-canal dentistry performed with a jack-hammer, then you can skip this DVD entirely, and the rest of the review too. Although Mr. Bean, the near-to-silent, endlessly inventive, rubber-faced (and apparently rubber-limbed) every-schlub is a little quieter than Jerry Lewis, he is just as comically accident-prone.
After all, who else on earth could find himself with his foot caught on a tall clothing rack, above his head… on a French TV production set… while costumed as a WWII German soldier… because he was practicing a really, really enthusiastic goose-step… after being shanghaied as an extra. The film involved is a commercial for yogurt, by the way. What the logic is in that, I have no idea, although Mr. Bean subsequently manages to blow up the director.
The plot, such as it exists is gossamer thin, and in places reminiscent of the classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, being almost entirely composed of sight gags and gentle pratfalls. Mr. Bean wins a charity raffle first prize; a camcorder and an all expense paid trip to the French Riviera. He gets as far as Paris before the inevitable cascade of misfortune begins. In short order and in no particular order he manages to get his tie caught in a vending machine, fill an expensive handbag with raw oysters and causes a visiting Russian filmmaker to miss the train to Cannes. He also looses his bus ticket to a chicken, after miming a performance of “O Mio Bambino Caro” in a French open-air market in concert with the young son of the aforementioned Russian filmmaker, and has his bicycle run over by a tank He does eventually manage to reach Cannes and the seaside that he has been dreaming of while his home movies of the trip win a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival … don’t ask me to explain how that happened, but be assured there is some gentle fun to be had in skewering self-indulgent movie directors. Don’t miss Willem Dafoe’s brief turn as an auteur filmmaker/movie star with a hilariously awful but artistic movie. Whatever else can be said about Willem Dafoe, he does have enough confidence to parody himself. And the locations, especially those shot in and around the South of France are beautiful, as gorgeous as an expensive coffee-table book.
Overall, Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a gentle, old-fashioned comedy – the kind of family friendly comedy that is hardly ever made any more; it can hardly be more unlike something like “Borat” and still be on the same planet. Some bits that are funnier that others, but there is nothing mean, foul-mouthed or vulgar about “Mr. Bean”.It will even bear watching over and over again. Extras include more than twenty minutes of scenes that were omitted from the finished film, and three aptly titled features: “French Beans”, which followed some of the more elaborate set-pieces filmed in the Luberon locations, “Beans in Cannes”, explained how the crew managed to film on location during the international film festival, and “The Human Bean” featured brief interviews and reminiscences with other cast members.
This movie is Mr. Bean at his best! Max Baldry and Emma de Caunes compliment Rowan Atkinson perfectly. Anyone who thinks sight comedy is dead should definitely view this production!
How much you’ll enjoy “Mr. Bean’s Holiday” will depend in large part on your tolerance for Rowan Atkninson, a rubber-faced comedian who, with his broad physical humor and near-wordless pantomime, harkens back – in style if not in quality – to the silent greats like Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon, etc.
In this installment, the British Mr. Bean wins the top prize in a local raffle – an all-expenses-paid trip to the French Riviera. The movie chronicles the havoc he leaves in his wake both on the way to his destination and in the South of France itself, culminating in a major ruckus at the Cannes Film Festival, no less (this is the best part of the movie, actually).
The problem is that none of it really plays very well as comedy. After what feels like the longest credit sequence in motion picture history, Mr. Bean launches into a French restaurant bit that Lucille Ball had already done to perfection fifty years earlier. Things don’t get much better from that point on, as Bean races from one pratfall-ridden disaster to another throughout the course of the movie. And, when all else fails, the filmmakers throw a hapless youngster – a boy who gets accidentally separated from his father at a train station – into the mix to turn this into Atkinson’s own version of “The Kid.”
Mr. Bean may be funny to some, but to me he’s just annoying and creepy – the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard perhaps. The grunting and groaning and monosyllabic muttering become unendurable over time, and the constant facial twitching and mugging for the camera don’t do much to endear us to the character – or to the performer, for that matter – either.
As a source of laughter, this Bean character is certainly an acquired taste and I’m perfectly willing to concede that there is something in all this labored farce that I simply don`t relate to. To each his own, I suppose.
On my list of one of the funniest movies. It’s real sweet, too. Good fun for children, tweens, teens, and adults. Mr. Bean is hilarious.
You try hard to laugh at this film but many times it doesn’t work! However I have to say the few funny scenes are quite hilarious.
Very silly and clumsy Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes in a lottery, only to go through many silly adventures that are mostly not funny at all.
I think this movie is best enjoyed by Kids, not adults.
Ok, here goes:
This movie is a bit of a tough watch, and a tough one to rate. The positives are the acting – Connery, Pfeiffer, Brandenauer, etc all play their parts very well. And the settings were good – Russia looked like what we (American point of view, here) imagine it to be, and the same for Portugal…
I’d like to give it more than 3 stars, just for the above reasons and the fact that I personally liked the theme.
Unfortunately, the plot is tedious a la the LeCarre novels of the Karla trilogy (Tinker Tailor, Smiley’s People, etc) written for 1970s pseudo-intellectualism with very little of the action we’ve come to expect from “spy thrillers” such as the Tom Clancey genre. The plot can leave you yawning at times and its easy to get destracted watching it unfold in the first three-quarters of the movie. And once that happens, you’ve lost the story.
Some specific points:
I mentioned the acting above, but one draw back was the somewhat stereotyped portrayal of the characters (not the actors’ fault): the Brits are all understated, “old boy” public school establishment types; the Americans are brash, somewhat impatient and with some strong language; the Russians are all intellectual and fatalistic….Way too stereotypical for good character development.
Connery and Pfeiffer seemed a mismatch to me, though both played their roles well. It might have come off better with a perhaps slightly younger actor for Barley (rather than Connery) or an older female actor for Katya (Pfeiffer). I think the latter would have been best.
I’m uncertain as to what the denouement was meant to be: the revelation of Dante’s intention with the manuscript he gave the West, or Barley meeting Pfeiffer and her family at the docks in Portugal as they defected?
The music was good, but was played redundantly throughout the film. It needed at least some VARIETY.
Not a bad flick, but its NOT a “spy movie”. Its a drama. So be prepared to pay close attention; this isn’t a casual watch.
The movie “Russia House,” starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, is based on the spy novel of the same name, by that master spy-meister, the British John LeCarre. It’s a very acute look at Russia, just as their “Glasnost,” policy of openness begins to end –but not quite– the cold war. The talented British playwright Tom Stoppard adapted the script, largely faithful to the novel. The respected director Fred Schepisi helmed. Like most of the movies adapted from LeCarre’s oeuvre, it reflects his extraordinary abilities with plotting and dialogue. Though, mind you, the dialogue is quite mannered, as also reflects LeCarre’s works, not to mention Stoppard’s.
The plot, set in London, Russia, and some other glamorous continental cities, concerns an informant, unknown to the British Secret Service, MI5, who has suddenly popped up, in this period of glasnost, with very valuable, top secret data as to the Russian military’s preparedness. The Secret Service doesn’t quite know what to make of it, so they press Scott Barley Blair (Sean Connery), an alcoholic publisher specializing in Russian subjects, into service. He’s to go to Russia (several times, it turns out) to locate this most secret of spies. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with Michelle Pfeiffer, never better as an actress, nor more beautiful, as a single mother who works in publishing.
The movie shows us quite a lot of snow, and life as it was lived in Russia at the time. The everyday struggles for the underprivileged, as Pfeiffer’s character, despite her glamorous job,is. Three generations living cramped in a tiny apartment, the queuing for necessities, the difficulty of obtaining new clothes, and, as for shoes, forget it. The privileges of the privileged: the nice cars, the dachas (the greatly-desired country homes), the designer duds. It further deals with the usual suspicions between the British and American secret services. Finally, it gives us an honest, unsensationalized, non-mawkish view of middle-aged love, though it is burdened with a Hollywood happy ending that you won’t find in the book.
In this movie, Sir Sean Connery shows us a side of him we don’t often see: tenderness. His sax-playing among Russian friends (voiced by Branford Marsalis), is quite moving. Also on view is that sly Scottish sense of humor Connery spices his movies, and his conversations with: I once interviewed the man, in his trailer on New York’s Fifth Avenue, while he was making some film or another: and his humor was so sly, my editor complained that it was a boring article. Oh well, I guess you had to be there.
As to the rest of the cast, Michelle Pfeiffer does very well, as mentioned above. Klaus Maria Brandauer also stands out as “Dante,” the most unusual secret Russian informant. There was also some money spent on the supporting cast: Americans J.T. Walsh, Roy Scheider, John Mahoney. Brits, Ian McNeice, James Fox, Michael Kitchen, David Threlfall.
“Russia House” was written, and filmed, at the optimum time for its plot, and thereby acquires a resonance it might otherwise not have had. It was a lucky break for author, filmmakers, and us.
Great movie. Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer play very convincing parts. It is a very believable story.
great movie…shows russian life and living conditions as they are in the real world…been there done that….james
I am not trying to be witty here but this is probably the worse movie I have ever seen. Yes, I am experienced with watching a lot of movies. I have even taken a film class. Now my grade in film is not important and don’t ask what it is. The point is…this is the worse movie ever. It’s as if the director woke up and took out his bottle and said let me think… No neurons firing! Well if you watch it…do it at your own risk. You are sure to be bored.
Or maybe the movie was so good that I missed the plot.
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The face is HUGE and the watch itself is very solid. Feels and looks like it should cost 10X what I paid. I have received numerous queries about it when I wear it.
My only complaint is that the vulcanized rubber band can be very hard to get on and off, otherwise this is a great watch.
This is a beautifully illustrated book about how a young Russian girl helps Santa Claus. It is a wonderful introduction to the variety of ways that Christmas is celebrated in other countries, but retains enough focus on the US to make it interesting to young Americans. My daughters love the book and I enjoy reading it to them as the story is interesting for both children and adults.
Great book to introduce you to Russian Christmas traditions and a some common words. The illustrations in this book are great and done in the Russian style (The illustrator was is a Russian Artist).
This story blends the Western and Russian traditions of Christmas in a way that children and parents will enjoy year after year.
I read this book to my daughter’s kindergarten class and gave the book to the teacher for Christmas. They loved it. I also took my daughter’s matryoshka (nesting doll) to show the children, since the book talks about those. It was a great way to introduce them to some Russian holiday traditions with enough connection to Santa Claus that they didn’t just think of it as foreign. But it really ought to be offered as a boxed set with a matryoshka just like the one described in the book! That would be really a wonderful gift.
The author and illustrator manage to do something that is rarely achievable — an interetsting story incorporating inter-cultural elements. I bought this book for my son last Christmas and will buy these books as presents for my friends’ kids this Christmas. Illustrations in this book are beautiful!
Here’s a Christmas children’s book that is #32 in books of its kind, and ranked 49,000 overall…and amazon has it available in 2 to 4 weeks, just a week before Christmas. Happily, it’s available in many other sites on the web.