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 Mr. Bean's
Holiday (aka
Mr. Bean’s Vacation)
By Caroline Schulenburg
Release date:
August 24th, 2007
MPAA Rating:
G
Starring:
Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Max Baldry
Genre:
Comedy
Recommended age:
Ages 5 and up
Overall PTC Traffic Light Rating:
Green
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Sex |
None |
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Violence
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Guns,
tanks, explosion on a commercial set |
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Language
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None |
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Behavior |
Mr.
Bean imitates a Nazi soldier by goose-stepping and wearing a World
War II uniform |
 This summer, Rowan Atkinson has returned as Mr.
Bean, the Mini-driving, tweed jacketed Briton who often finds himself trapped in
the most outrageous of predicaments.
In Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Mr. Bean has had
the good fortune to win a trip to France, as well as a video camera to chronicle
his vacation. Ever a fan of life’s simpler pleasures, Mr. Bean bypasses the
halls of the Louvre and the splendor of Paris to achieve the simple goal of
going to the beach in Cannes. When confusion at a train station leaves him
responsible for reuniting a young Russian boy named Stepan with his father, Mr.
Bean is forced to improvise his way through one scrape after another. Train
tickets are lost, wallets are left behind and a little boy gets very, very
hungry, prompting a moving opera performance that audiences won’t soon forget.
The movie is free of sexual content and foul
language. The only content of possible concern to parents is found in a scene
where Mr. Bean wakes up on a movie set for a yogurt commercial, which is set in
World War II. Tanks storm through a village, soldiers run with their guns poised
to fire and a large explosion takes place and partially destroys a building. It
is soon demonstrated that the violence is staged and is not particularly scary.
When Mr. Bean is given a role in the commercial, he is dressed in a World War
II-style uniform in which he tries to goose-step and imitate a Nazi. The image
is particularly comical and is for the most part an attempt to demonstrate how
ridiculous Nazis must have looked in the first place.
The film contains a good number of positive
messages. Mr. Bean, while painfully unused to relating to children, assumes
responsibility for the boy who has ended up in his care. The boy’s father
demonstrates responsibility by trying to find his son. When Mr. Bean and Stepan
are stranded on their way to Cannes, a young actress named Sabine befriends them
and drives them the rest of the way out of the goodness of her heart.
As with all of Mr. Bean’s adventures, this one
ends happily but not without the twists and turns that always accompany him in
his exploits. Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a fun movie for children and an
enjoyable alternative for parents everywhere.
Because of its wonderfully imaginative and
clean family-friendly comedy, we recommend this film for children over the age
of 5.
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