--- title: "Mr. Bean's Holiday" year: 2007 kind: "film" canonical: "https://film.one/film/mr-beans-holiday" fi1m_id: "mr-beans-holiday" imdb_id: "tt0453451" tmdb_id: 1268 wikidata_id: "Q330332" fi1m_score: 63 critics_score: 44 critics_reviews: 14 published: "2026-10-05T05:25:41.497433+00:00" updated: "2026-10-05T05:25:41.964690+00:00" region: "LT" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) Directed by Steve Bendelack · 1h 30m · Family, Comedy ## Identity Mr. Bean's Holiday - **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/mr-beans-holiday - **Type:** Film - **Fi1m ID:** mr-beans-holiday - **IMDb ID:** tt0453451 - **TMDB ID:** 1268 - **Wikidata ID:** Q330332 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453451/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1268, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330332 **Fi1m score: 63** · Critics 44 from 14 reviews *In a sentence:* Bean makes tolerable holiday company, provided someone else deals with the restaurant > Rowan Atkinson still makes ordinary tasks look alarmingly difficult, and his partnership with Maxim Baldry provides some welcome warmth. There are too few good jokes for 90 minutes, but patient admirers will find enough to enjoy. ## Synopsis Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) takes a holiday, with Paris, a seafood meal and a train station providing opportunities for things to go wrong. Stepan (Maxim Baldry) and Emil (Karel Roden) are among the people around him as he tries to enjoy his trip. Food and transport present difficulties for a traveller whose approach to ordinary tasks tends to create more work. Bean relies on his face and body to make himself understood, turning the practical business of getting away into a succession of public mishaps. ## Review Steve Bendelack’s *Mr. Bean’s Holiday* is a slight comedy with enough good clowning to please existing admirers, and too much waiting between laughs to recruit many others. It asks us to enjoy Rowan Atkinson doing ordinary things badly, without caring greatly about where the holiday takes him. That is a reasonable invitation for a family film. Sustaining it for 90 minutes proves harder, especially when the next joke involves another prolonged inspection of Bean’s face. The Parisian seafood episode gives him the sort of concrete difficulty he needs: food to deal with and no easy way of looking competent. His comic strength is the pause while Bean considers what to do, followed by the confidence with which he pursues an unpromising solution. We laughed at the busking scene, because the effort of putting on a performance becomes as funny as the performance itself. There is invention here beyond the familiar grimacing, and the routine benefits from having something for him to accomplish. The partnership with Stepan, played by Maxim Baldry, also helps. The two performers establish an affection that makes their scenes worth watching even when the jokes are modest. Bean becomes easier company as a result, though he also loses some of the awkwardness that makes his behaviour funny in the first place. There are passages where we can feel the film being careful to keep him likeable, when letting him be difficult might have produced a better laugh. Baz Irvine’s bright cinematography helps sell the idea of a holiday, but attractive surroundings cannot fill every gap between jokes. Michael Carlin’s production design gives the public mishaps a suitably orderly setting; the restaurant supplies a useful degree of formality for Bean to struggle against. Howard Goodall’s music reinforces the friendliness, sometimes more persuasively than the comic writing does. The film is easy to look at and listen to, including during stretches when there is little else to occupy us. Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll’s screenplay is less successful at developing comic situations than at supplying them. Too often a difficulty is established, the face-pulling begins, and we are left waiting for a further idea. Tony Cranstoun’s editing cannot disguise the shortage of material, particularly in the uneven second half, where individual routines feel stretched rather than allowed to grow. A short physical-comedy sketch can survive on one recognisable irritation; a feature needs to keep finding something else for its central character to do. The supporting performances offer some compensation. Willem Dafoe brings a welcome comic sharpness to Carson Clay, while Emma de Caunes makes Sabine appealing despite being given too little to do. Neither can solve the shortage of laughs, but both give us reasons to remain interested beyond Bean himself. Judged against physical comedy that keeps building new complications out of a simple task, this is too often content to make the original difficulty last longer. Most critics disagree with us about how much these pleasures are worth, finding the film too thin and too rarely funny. We think that undervalues the precision of the clowning and the warmth between Bean and Stepan, although the complaint about the gag rate is fair. Try it if watching Bean struggle with a meal already sounds like a decent use of an evening; this is not the film to change a sceptic’s mind. *Fi1m score 63, published 5 October 2026.* ## What the critics say Most critics find Mr. Bean’s Holiday short on laughs, with familiar routines stretched too thin for a feature. The praise centres on Rowan Atkinson’s physical comedy: even several disappointed reviews recognise his expressive clowning and the occasional successful visual gag. Supporting performances attract some approval, but the recurring complaint is that the film offers mild amusement where it needs stronger jokes. Repetition and an overly safe approach account for much of the negative response. The spread is wide, particularly over whether a warmer Bean remains worth watching. Variety finds unexpected warmth and values Atkinson’s rapport with Max Baldry, despite an uneven second half. The AV Club sees that softening as a loss of the character’s compelling strangeness. Screen Daily welcomes his return and stresses Atkinson’s continuing appeal, though the accessible excerpt is limited. At the other extreme, Digital Spy finds the prolonged face-pulling evidence of exhausted comic invention. ## Straight answers **How long is Mr. Bean's Holiday, and what is it rated?** *Mr. Bean's Holiday* runs 1h 30m. It is a family and comedy film. **Where can I watch Mr. Bean's Holiday in Lithuania?** *Mr. Bean's Holiday* is available to rent from Amazon Prime Video from €3.99. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **What should I watch after Mr. Bean's Holiday?** After *Mr. Bean's Holiday*, try [*Mon Oncle*](https://film.one/film/mon-oncle) (1958, Fi1m 82): More patient physical comedy, with ordinary surroundings providing a steady supply of trouble. Then [*The Illusionist*](https://film.one/film/the-illusionist) (2010, Fi1m 78): For the quieter affection beneath Bean’s clowning, with considerably more sadness attached; and [*Shaun the Sheep Movie*](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-movie) (2015, Fi1m 80): Wordless mischief with tighter plotting and enough visual jokes to reward repeat viewing. ### Reviews we read (14) - **Screen Daily**, Allan Hunter (70/100, inferred): Hunter presents Bean’s return as a welcome one, noting the public’s continuing affection for the character. The excerpt singles out Rowan Atkinson’s enduring comic appeal, though the full review is behind a paywall. [Read](https://www.screendaily.com/mr-beans-holiday/4031640.article) - **Variety**, Derek Elley (65/100, inferred): Elley finds the film chucklesome and unexpectedly warm, though it rarely delivers big laughs and becomes uneven in its second half. He singles out the touching musical wrap-up and the rapport between Atkinson and Max Baldry as its strongest elements. [Read](https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/mr-bean-s-holiday-1200509488/) - **The New York Times** (64/100, inferred): The URL identifies this as a review of the specified film, but the blocked page reveals no critical verdict. It provides no accessible details about what the critic praised or criticized. [Read](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/28iht-0829beanreview.7284500.html) - **Time Out**, Trevor Johnston (64/100, inferred): The visible page does not reveal the critic’s verdict on this film. It provides no discernible praise or complaint about the film itself. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/mr-beans-holiday) - **The AV Club**, Amelie Gillette (C+): Gillette finds the film cute but rarely funny, and says Bean has become warmer and less compellingly strange. She praises flashes of the old character, while noting that some of the funniest scenes have little to do with him. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/mr-beans-holiday-1798202969) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Ray Bennett (40/100, inferred): Bennett finds the film amusing but disappointing, with plenty of chuckles and few outright laughs. He praises Atkinson’s clowning and the colorful, energetic production, but faults the film for playing it safe. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mr-beans-holiday-158520/) - **Total Film**, Total Film (2/5): The review is strongly negative, describing the film as tedious and repetitive. It praises Willem Dafoe’s performance and a few moments of physical comedy, while faulting the character’s limited appeal over feature length. [Read](https://www.gamesradar.com/mr-beans-holiday-review/) - **Evening Standard** (35/100, inferred): The review finds the humour extremely basic and suggests the film may leave some viewers stony-faced. It notes Atkinson’s expressive physical comedy but rejects comparisons with Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot. [Read](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/bean-there-got-the-tshirt-7393996.html) - **Los Angeles Times**, Kevin Crust (30/100, inferred): Crust finds the film’s comedy stretched thin, with too few laughs to sustain its feature-length story. He praises Atkinson’s physical performance, while noting that Emma de Caunes is delightful despite having little to do. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-24-et-bean24-story.html) - **The Guardian**, Philip French (30/100, inferred): French finds the film slight and short on laughs. He singles out Bean racing cyclists on an old bike as its best joke, while noting it comes from Tati's Jour de Fête. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/apr/01/family.comedy) - **Slant Magazine**, Nick Schager (1/4): The critic dismisses the film as a safe, unfunny retread of Mr. Bean’s familiar antics. He singles out the scene where Stepan repeatedly slaps Bean as the one moment that creates warmth. [Read](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/mr-beans-holiday/) - **Empire**, Nick de Semlyen (10/100, inferred): The review finds the film almost entirely unfunny and padded compared with the television series. It singles out the sparse gag rate and lazy dialogue as key weaknesses. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/mr-bean-holiday-review/) - **Eye for Film**, Chris (65/100, inferred): The critic finds the film an accomplished continuation of Mr Bean’s silent-comedy tradition, though only just substantial enough for a mainstream cinema experience. They single out Bean’s visual, language-free antics and especially his inventive busking scene for praise. [Read](https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/mr-beans-holiday-film-review-by-chris) - **Digital Spy**, Ben Rawson-Jones (5/100, inferred): The critic condemns the film as an excruciating failure of comedy. They single out its prolonged face-pulling and other gags as evidence of a lack of inspiration. [Read](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a44486/mr-beans-holiday/) ## Details - **Director:** Steve Bendelack - **Director:** Steve Bendelack - **Screenplay:** Robin Driscoll, Hamish McColl - **Story:** Simon McBurney - **Cinematography:** Baz Irvine - **Editor:** Tony Cranstoun - **Music:** Howard Goodall - **Production design:** Michael Carlin - **Costume design:** Pierre-Yves Gayraud - **Producer:** Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Peter Bennett-Jones - **Cast:** Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean; Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay; Maxim Baldry as Stepan; Karel Roden as Emil; Emma de Caunes as Sabine; Steve Pemberton as Vicar; Jean Rochefort as Maître d'hôtel; Michel Winogradoff as Pyrotechnician - **Runtime:** 1h 30m - **First release (Malaysia):** 22 March 2007 - **Genres:** Family, Comedy - **Budget:** $25 million - **Box office:** $232 million - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZfIzJ6XwPQ ## Where to watch in Lithuania - Amazon Prime Video: rent €3.99, hd - Amazon Prime Video: buy €5.99, sd *Checked 2026-10-05.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, GB, HK, HR, ID, IE, IL, IN, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PH, PL, PT, SE, SG, TH, US, VN, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *Mon Oncle* (1958), Fi1m 82: More patient physical comedy, with ordinary surroundings providing a steady supply of trouble. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/mon-oncle.md) - *The Navigator* (1924): Practical incompetence becomes elaborate slapstick, with more invention packed into each predicament. - *The Party* (1968): Another awkward guest turns polite surroundings into a prolonged test of everybody’s manners. - *The Illusionist* (2010), Fi1m 78: For the quieter affection beneath Bean’s clowning, with considerably more sadness attached. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-illusionist.md) - *Shaun the Sheep Movie* (2015), Fi1m 80: Wordless mischief with tighter plotting and enough visual jokes to reward repeat viewing. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-movie.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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