Review of Bean

Bean (1997)
6/10
Unless You're a Bean Fan its Probably Not Worth It
29 March 2019
Some hilarious 'Bean' moments but not a fully realized film. The storyline such as it is has Bean as a guard at the Royal National Gallery, who is sent as an expert to a gallery in California which has just acquired the painting "Whistler's Mother". Bean is sent not because he knows anything about art, but because his employers just want to get rid of him. The Americans of course assume he is an eccentric genius.

The supporting players are both inoffensive an unobtrusive, this is entirely Rowan Atkinson's film. The production values, direction and writing are all sub par - all in all it would make for decent television episode but not much more.

The rating is entirely earned by a half dozen of the aforementioned hilarious 'Bean' moments.
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