"Mr. Bean's Holiday" is under 90 minutes, but it feels like watching paint dry in a rain storm while being water-boarded. The gist: Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins a vacation from home (London) to Cannes, to visit the famed film festival. Bafoonery ensues. That's it, really. As a half-hour BBC feature, this would be dynamite, but nearly every scene is dragged out or dogged by glaring continuity mistakes. I loved "Bean," I've seen many of the shows and liked the first film, but this "Holiday" doesn't work. You laugh more at yourself for being dumb enough to watch the bloody thing than you laugh at what's going on in the film.
Willem Dafoe goes cheese as an egotistical actor-director who crosses paths with Bean. It's funny, until you think back that this man starred in "Platoon" and "Last Temptation of Christ." and "Shadow of the Vampire."
Skip the film, and watch the Bean show or any of Atkinson's finer work. Or get water-boarded. D
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