Amazon.com video review:
Translating Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean character from British
television to the big screen takes a bit of a toll, but there are some
hilarious sequences in this popular comedy. Bean, a boy-man twit with
a knack for getting into difficult binds (and then making them worse
and worse and worse), is a London museum guard who is sent to Los
Angeles in the company of the famous painting Whistler's
Mother. He's mistaken as an art expert by the well-meaning curator
(Peter MacNicol) of an L.A. museum, but Bean's famously eccentric
behavior soon causes the poor guy to almost lose his family and job.
The insularity of Bean's TV world is sacrificed in this film, and that
change diminishes some of the character's appeal. But Atkinson is a
man naturally full of comedy, and he doesn't let his fans
down. --Tom Keogh
