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The scene where Bean destroys the painting used to be so stressful to watch as a kid. It’s like everything that could go wrong does and then it just gets worse

Mel Smith being the director is far from random. Mel and Rowen starred in a sketch show in the eighties called "Not the Nine O'Clock News" They have a long history together and seems fitting that he directed his first big budget movie.

Another Fun Fact: This is the most watched movie in Finland in 1997. Over 420,000 people saw it in theaters.

My grandma never learnt english, and we rarely saw her laugh. But she did laugh at the original Bean series!

This and the sequel, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, are great. I like to think of them as extended episodes of the show

Mr. Bean is an absolute legend with some of the greatest laugh out loud moments in film history. Only the great Rowen Atkinson could ever pull him off.

Mr. Bean is a national treasure! We must protect at all costs!

"Mr. Bean's Holiday" on the other hand is an absolutely fantastic movie!

It really is astounding that a man known for his verbal eloquence would also be a fantastic mime and physical comic. The man truly is legendary.

Learning that Burt Reynolds, was a huge fan of Bean, is just, something I needed today. We miss you Burt...

I was in Guangdong and I saw Chinese kids watching Mr. Bean on the street. The show's greatest strength is its universality, and writing a more elaborate narrative (like they did for the movie) really eats away at that

The music during the scene when he’s changing the painting is one of the most nostalgic memories of my childhood

It is amazing how this first outing just misses the mark by inches with me but then Mr Bean's Holiday knocks it out of the park. Hoping to see a review of that coming soon.

Mr. Bean is one of the most iconic characters ever. And i love both of his movies, they each have their very unique tone to them and work very well for what they are supposed to be. Being an art historian i also love his speech for the painting at the end 😂

I felt this movie was a fun introduction to Mr. Bean, at least for American audiences. I'm European, and I actually saw the film first, then the shorts as they were airing on TV when I was a kid. Really fond memories. Mr. Bean's Holiday is a blast too. Willem Dafoe is genuinely hilarious in it as well.

Fun Fact: *"BEAN"* in its International release has an alternate take of the Turkey scene where Mr. Bean doesn't get his head stuck and (after choosing the turkey over two frankfurters and a whole onion) they just shove it in the microwave with Bean (instead of David like in the American release) setting the timer to twenty minutes. Also, while Bean's citron Mini isn't seen in the final cut, it did appear in a deleted scene for the opening where Bean drove his Mini to work, but after getting stuck in a traffic jam, he literally drives it through Harrods and gets out the other way.

Honestly Mr. Bean is a Comedy Legend

I have never watched an episode of Mr. Bean in my life, but I did watch and enjoy Blackadder. I remember telling classmates in high school about Blackadder, and it always went the same way: they'd say they never heard of it, I'd say it was a British comedy starring Rowan Atkinson, and they'd reply, "Oh, Mr. Bean!"

Mel Smith was one of our finest comedians and his comedy sketches with Griff Reece Jones are well worth checking out

As someone who has grown up watching Mr.Bean this was such a lovely review and can tell the research went into it, it means alot as Bean is a national treasure and such a huge part of childhood

I love this movie! Rowan Atkinson is such an international treasure!

The mr Bean shorts were very funny. They had Bean in a variety of independent situations. This randomness cotributed greatly to the comedy by not letting the audience know what was gonna happen next. The movie made some mistakes, not only by recycling some of the well known jokes, but by trying to link them toghether in a single story. Even THAT went out the window near the end. The single storyline killed the "unexpected" aspect of the original show and made the comedy fall flat here and there. Also, I agree that those silences were awful. I can almost see the director looking at me with a stupid grin, raising his eyebrows and going "Ah? Ah?". I'll stick to the shorts, even if that means no McNichol.

Mr Bean is a national treasure for us Brits 🇬🇧

I saw this in theaters. Had a blast ever since watching the skits from the show made their way to the big screen. The audience enjoyed the film and clapped at the end. Worth my time for me.

Monty Python's 'And Now For Something Completely Different' is much more that recreations of previous sketches. It was a mixture of existing sketches from the first series and new material that made it into the second. The whole concept was just to sell the show to American networks

Fun fact regarding the distinct delivery of his speech, Rowan Atkinson has a stammer irl and his coping with that is thought to be why his consonants at the beginning of words are so strong. He has also stated that it seems to disappear when he plays a character and that it may have had an influence on why he chose/continued acting.

Fun Fact: The producers were initially looking for an unknown actor to play General Newton. But being a fan of Mr. Bean (1990), Burt Reynolds asked for a role, and was then cast to appear as Newton.

I absolutely LOVE Rowan Atkinson. Growing up I can't tell you how many times I watched and rewatched Black Adder in its entirety as well as his stand-up. He absolutely inspired my sense of humor to this day and I almost exploded when I found out he had a degree in chemical engineering (a degree I got, coincidentally). Mr. Bean tho... ehh

Say what you like but the scene where Bean breaks into the museum is top notch and Peter Mcnicol freaking out is great. and the Cop is also Great.

Mr.Bean in the mid 90s, was freaking huge here in germany. It was not dubbed over here, as the shorts never had much language, so the language barrier was never a problem. When the movie came out in 97, it became the second biggest box office success of 97 behind Men in Black. Mr.Bean is just timeless.

Mr Beans first epic theatrical outing

In fairness, Mel Smith directing isn’t that random a fact, given that he and Atkinson were friends and co-starred in an influential sketch show from the 80s called Not the 9 O’Clock News.

A Behind the Scenes Fact: The filmmakers were surprised and somewhat disappointed when the MPAA gave the film a PG-13 rating in the U.S. The intention was to bring in family audiences. However some innuendoes and Bean's misunderstanding of finger gestures forced the MPAA to give the movie a PG-13. The filmmakers not wanting to alter anything settled for the rating but decided that all future Mr. Bean projects would have less risque content in the future so international audiences could enjoy the humor more. This is why Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) was toned down to a G rating 10 years later.

Agreed, Pamela Reed is criminally underrated. “You’re not so tough without yer car, are ya?” - from Kindergarten Cop

Always loved the no dialogue comedy act Really let’s the jokes speak for themselves 😂

15:49 Remembering my time as a 9-year-old, that line is far from weird.

Used to watch the Double Feature DVD with Johnny English as an 8 year old kid 16 years back when they sold DVDs at checkout for $10. This film is my childhood. At one point, I watched this every day for like 6 months.

Mad Pianos (the song that plays when he swaps the paintings) is so good I think that's part of the joke. Like, there's no reason for this bombastic orchestration but here it is.

As a British person who grew up with bean, this movie and the show are absolutely perfect to watch while drinking or even high

1. Mr. Bean is a legend 2. The universal nature really is a huge part of why the character is still so popular and recognisable. Watching a character make a mountain out of a mole hill in everyday situations, all the while barely saying a word is extremely effective physical comedy 3. It really says a lot about Rowan Atkinson's acting chops when he's able to inject so much personality into a character with just his physical acting and facial expressions.

Steve Martin auditioned for the role of David Langley. An earlier attempt at a Mr. Bean feature was initially set up at 20th Century Fox in Fall 1991; two remake shorts (Mr. Bean Goes to a Premiere and Mr. Bean Takes an Exam) were released from September of that year to gauge interest.

Oddly, this movie is where I was first introduced to the middle finger. I literally went to my mom and, showing her my middle finger, asked her what it meant. She just gasps and tells me to never do that again. Thank you, Rowan Atkinson, for teaching 10-year-old me the universal hand sign for 'Fuck you!' 🤣

You know i'm pretty sure even Mr. Bean could make the Bat Credit Card feel normal

I loved Atkinson’s response about “selling out” by putting Bean in America: ‘it’s my character and I’ll do whatever the hell I want with it.’

Mr Bean is my favorite British comedy! Rowan Atkinson is hilarious, this movie was actually not too bad, I enjoyed it middle school because I was still watching PBS when Mr. Bean was airing!

I'm from Brazil and I really loved Mr Bean as a kid. It is so wonderful how he made me laugh without speaking any words, free of any dub.

Mr bean is a national treasure

Rowen Atkins is probably the most brilliant comedic actor that ever lived.

It's so true that physical comedy always seems to be remembered more than clever witty genuinely hilarious writing. Like the UK Office, for all of its well written and hilarious dialogue, the first thing people remember about it is the David Brent dance.

In some versions the turkey stuffing scene is edited out and it goes straight to him putting it in the microwave. I love the freak out scene at seeing the painting- they could have gone the really cliché route of just having him fainting when looking at it, but the freak out is so much funnier!

The motion ride scene always used to kill me and my brother 😂 Rowan is an absolute gem.

To be fair, when I saw this movie as a kid, I had never even heard of Mr. Bean, nor had any of my friends. It was a British show that I hadn't seen until years later on PBS, and then I was like "Oh hey, it's the guy from the movie". Back in the 90s when not everybody had cable and access to the BBC, I'm pretty sure this was a lot of people's introduction to the character.

I've always wanted to see these movies as a kid.

This movie made mr bean a global phenomenon. He practically a british cultural icon. I've been across the world to hear people say in broken english "you from england? Ah mr bean, mr bean, very funny!" Was it a perfect movie? No, is it great? Absolutely!

Your Burt Reynolds edit to this movie is the funniest scene of the entire movie. That would have been awesome!!

The Mr. Bean TV Show is definitely one of my all-time favourites. I watched it before I learned to speak English, and even though it didn't get dubbed in German like most other foreign media, it worked perfectly. When it comes to movies, I strongly prefer the second one where he goes to France (by the way: in Germany the first Movie was actually called: "Bean: Der Ultimative Katastrophenfilm" based on the scrapped English title).

This movie deserves more love.

Pete MacNicol is genuinely hilarious in this movie.

I am from Albania and I grew up with Mr. Bean. My introduction to the character was the cartoon from the early 2000s. I didn't even knew it was based on a live-action sitcom from England at the time. I did watch the latter and I loved it equally. Even my parents love Mr. Bean, including my older brother, my grandparents, my cousins and my aunt. I did watch this movie growing up also along with its sequel. There was also Johnny English which I watched with my brother which starred the same actor, Rowan Atkinson. I even watched the sequel but never the third movie. Judging by the critical and audience score they are apparently not very good. Nonetheless, Mr. Bean is one of the many memories of my childhood that I still cherish to this day even at the age of 23. Rowan Atkinson truly is a one of a kind actor and comedian. He doesn't just play Mr. Bean, he IS Mr. Bean.

I loved Bean the movie as a kid and it had a pretty good sound track from a boyband called BoyZone which were popular at the time.

Love Rowan Atkinson and he’s acting of Mr Bean. I remember enjoying the movie a lot when I was younger, haven’t seen it in ages, just got a lot of nostalgia.

I do just have to say that Mel Smith was a hugely respected comedian and writer in the UK, he and Atkinson were old friends from Not The Nine O Clock News (check out the Gerald the Gorilla sketch), so it isn't actually that random that he directed Bean.

I’d give him another 3 years before he reviews Mr Bean’s Holiday

What I remember best about the Bean movie was actually not the film itself but a photo-book accompaniment to the movie. It was presented in-character as Mr. Bean's journal and scrapbook of his American holiday, but they put far much more effort into it than you would expect from a piece of children's merchandise - as well as taking you through the movie there were entire subplots of Mr. Bean arguing with his neighbours and clippings from newspapers, police reports ("Suspect Description: Indescribable, really. Sort of weird-looking") and other paraphernalia. My copy was lost decades ago and I've never been able to find another even online.

To be honest I loved this movie. Saw it in theaters as a kid and before then I'd barely seen any Mr. Bean shorts.

I saw this movie in theaters. Something I think was missing from the reused bits from the show was either them being shot differently or accompanying music.

Lowkey, we should get the crew doing ad reads more often 😂

Truth be told, I loved this movie as a kid. I had never seen this character before, and thought it was a brilliant live action cartoon of sorts. Maybe I was just the right age at the right time, but I’m a sucker for expressive physical comedy

The main parts about the comedy of the film is dead pan awkward comedy. And it does it perfectly. I laugh everytime i watch this film entirely!

I think Mr Bean’s Holiday is a far superior Bean movie because it’s got a unique story to it and the setting of a foreign country for Bean makes it stand out amongst the show and allows for more absurd jokes especially with Willem Defoe

This film has something of a supplementary book called 'Mr Bean's Scrapbook' that features his thoughts and photographs he took

A bad thing about the family is that they really have no reason to hate Mr Bean. They hate the idea of him living with them before they even know who he is. And by the time they leave they have only met him in the living room. And already they go "Either Bean or we have to go". Oh and when they get back: The wife DIVORCE with Dave because of Mr Bean living with them for a short period of time. Put them on Dr Phil!

The best thing about this movie is the soundtrack tbh. For a comedy, the music's pretty epic.

Ngl, this is one of the comedies that defined my childhood. I first saw it at my first ever sleepover and I recited these jokes for years. I've lost count the number of times I've flipped somebody off whilst screaming farewell. One of my all time favourites.

Man I loved Mr.Bean when I was a kid!

Mr Bean is elite comedy. I like the sequel, Mr Beans Holiday just that bit more.

This movie's pretty dumb, but Mr. Bean's Holiday is an absolute masterpiece, one of my favorites.

Probably one of most memorable and funniest moment from this movie for me was Mr. Bean ruining the painting and his friend’s reaction to it. That alone is one of the funniest scenes from my childhood! And still is today! 😂

Ah yes, another review the Critic could have reviewed back in 2009

15:44 “You’re like 'Kramer vs. Kramer' WITH Kramer!” Yea that pretty much sums up this movie LMAO😂

Tbh, knowing how well he talks, makes Mr Bean all the more funnier

Mel Smith's role in "The Princess Bride" was off the back of his fame in the UK for a satirical sketch show called "Not The Nine O'Clock News" which he did with Rowan Atkinson, so it's hardly random - they both broke through on the same show, before "Blackadder" was even conceived. If you want to see the two of them working off each other, search for "Gerald The Gorilla Sketch". And if you want a _really_ random fact, the interviewer in that Gorilla sketch is played by Billy Connolly's wife Pamela Stephenson, who he met while guesting on the show... you might recognise her from "Superman III" and "History Of The World: Part I" as well as the '84-'85 season of "Saturday Night Live", and she retired from acting to become a qualified and published psychologist.

The movie actually released in Germany as "Der Ultimative Katastrophenfilm", which is a translation of the english alternative title.

Mr Beans Holiday is a solid sequel too.

I loved this movie as a kid, since I was such a huge Mr. Bean fan thanks to my sister introducing me to it. I think the main reason my nostalgia goggles made me think it's still great all these years later is because I remember those really funny moments it does, like the painting and the amusement park. Plus it has been a long time since I watched it, so I probably just didn't recall about some of the dead air and long droughts of nothing. I do love Rowan Atkinson's work as well, he's so funny and talented, and this has helped remind me that I really need to find a way to watch Black Adder because I've always meant to check it out.

I had a really rough day, and I don't care anything about Mr Bean but my gosh a Nostalgia Critic video is a lifesaver of distraction

14:44 So agree on the reaction being hillarious, and him trying to exit(?) throught the small window must be one of the best moments.

I loved this movie when I was a kid!! It’s a masterpiece! We must protect Rowan Atkinson at all cost!

10:57 I think that's apart a joke but it looks like Malcolm just didn't know he was in the ad until he got there

Peter McNichol is an underrated gem. He steals the show in Dracula dead and loving it

I usually don't sit through the sponsorships but I love Malcolm had a Midnight Society sweatshirt! That's awesome.

I love these Mr. Bean episodes!

I think where the movie became more "Bean" like was indeed when he messed up the painting and found a solution to the problem, which was standard for each of the episodes. It's just unfortunate that it took time to get to that part. And by time, I mean lots of very dull moments with some very uninteresting characters (apart from Peter MacNicol who is amazing in this film!) and rehashed jokes. However, the part where Bean gives the family the "V" will always be mine and my Dad's favourite part of the film.

mr beans holiday is by far best mr bean movie, its everything this movie wanted to be

I think what makes Mr. Bean such a great character is the simple nature of him it doesn't take much thought and you can just sit back and relax

Every time I watch an episode I'm amazed that he still finds original ways to do the commercials. His are the only ones I don't skip

After making so much references to this movie I'm glad you finally decided to take a look ❤

The simulator scene is actually funnier with the Wilhelm Scream. Since you're having trouble with Jim's name just call him the Sparkle Sparkle Guy.

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