Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie

Starring: Peter MacNicol, Rowan Atkinson Director: Mel Smith Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 19th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Dubbed In: German

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Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series, starring Rowan Atkinson. The programme was produced by Tiger Television, later renamed Tiger Aspect productions, for Thames Television & originally shown on ITV. In the United States the show has been broadcast on PBS intermittently over the past few years & is now available on DVD. In the show, Atkinson plays a selfish, sometimes ingenious buffoon who frequently gets into hilarious situations due to his various schemes & contrivances. The humour of the show is very physical & the main character speaks very little, if at all, during most shows. It features Mr. Bean trying to undertake what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, redecorating or taking an exam. One of his most beloved acts is stuffing a turkey & getting it stuck on his head. The humour largely comes from his original solutions to any problems & a total disregard for others when solving them. Mr. Bean is the only main character in the programme & he doesnt share the spotlight with anyone else.

Translating Rowan Atkinsons 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. The eponymous Bean, a boy-man twit with a knack for getting into difficult binds , is a London museum guard who is sent to Los Angeles in the company of the famous painting Whistlers Mother. Hes mistaken as an art expert by the well-meaning curator of an LA museum, but Beans famously eccentric behaviour soon causes the poor guy to almost lose his family & job. The insularity of Beans TV world is sacrificed in this film, & that change diminishes some of the characters appeal. But Atkinson is a man naturally full of comedy, & he doesnt let his fans down.

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British comedian & actor. He toured with a one-man show, with Angus Deayton as the straight man. The one-man show was filmed for television & is still popular on video. It characterises Atkinsons comedy style, which is tightly planned & scripted, often physically-based comedy - comedy as performance, rather than comedy as observation or discussion, observant of life as many of the routines were. Atkinsons talent for physical comedy has seen him described as the man with the rubber face. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest people in British comedy. Atkinson studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University then at Oxford, starting his comedy career at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is married with two children. His major hobby is apparently fast cars, having written for the British magazine Car & owning & racing Aston Martin vehicles. He holds a UK HGV licence. Funny Business, a documentary about the craft of comedy. the Comic Relief Red Nose Day telecasts.

Editors Choice: Keeping Mum, Love Actually, Johnny English, Bean, The Thin Blue Line, Mr Bean, Blackadder, Not The Nine Oclock News, View DVDology

Mel Smith British actor, film director, writer, producer born in London, England. Made his breakthrough in the topically satirical BBC television series Not the Nine Oclock News. This was followed breifly by Smith & Goody & then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith & Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith & Jones. In 1981, Smith & Griff Rhys-Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company which has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I’m Alan Partridge & Big Train. Morons from Outer Space - Bernard; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Mr. Grimshaw. Posters Of Blackball

Editors Choice: Blackball, High Heels And Low Lifes, Bean, Wilt, Morons From Outer Space, The Tall Guy, Slayground, Alas Smith And Jones, View DVDology

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