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As with the early 1990s Tom and Jerry movie, he speaks so much more than he did on telly, and yet has so little to say.īy contrast, the three extended set pieces in which he just gets to do his thing are real highlights, living up to the potential of what a bigger-budget Bean adventure could actually be, including the destruction and subsequent triumphant return of the feted painting, and an emergency room mix-up that manages to calm down the over-the-top stakes and sentimentality long enough to get some real laughs. That’s a box into which Atkinson’s character does not easily fit, especially when it requires him to be more verbose in his strangled exclamations than in any other medium. But his exasperated art lover is another spin on the decade’s popular Disney dad archetype to give audiences a way in. MacNicol gamely plays the straight man, often unsuccessfully wrangling his fed-up family and the anarchic force that is Bean at the same time. The film divides pretty cleanly along those lines too all the silent comedy sequences play magnificently and all the higher stakes plot points that glue them together wind up feeling somewhat redundant.

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With a post-Four Weddings Curtis and his series co-writer Robin Driscoll penning the screenplay, it seems almost like a deliberate meta-commentary that this story-driven Americanisation of Bean is a plot about the clash between art and commerce. The Brits send Bean over to open the hotly-anticipated exhibit, much to the chagrin of gallery employee David (Peter MacNicol) and his family, who have to look after the hapless “Dr.

A wealthy benefactor (Burt Reynolds) has paid an awful lot of money to bring the famous American painting, Whistler’s Mother, to a gallery in California. In The Ultimate Disaster Movie, as it was billed upon its UK release, Bean is a much-maligned employee of London’s National Gallery, whose board members big him up as a noted art historian in order to get rid of him on a work trip abroad for three months.

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It’s typical, then, that the inevitable movie binned all that pesky universal appeal in a bid to sell itself directly to American audiences. Debuting on ITV on the very first day of the decade, Rowan Atkinson reunited with Blackadder writer Richard Curtis to clown around as the tweed-suited buffoon for 15 episodes and created a modern Chaplin-esque character who became popular around the world. Mr Bean was a landmark in British comedy, right from the start of the 1990s.

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Watch Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Playĭo you remember the 1990s? Mark does From family-friendly films to blockbusters we shouldn’t have been watching, get ready for a monthly dose of nostalgia, as we put down our VHS tapes and find out whether the 90s on Netflix are still Live & Kicking. Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Burt Reynolds

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