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Tue, 14 Aug 2007
Review: Mr. Bean's Holiday
In this movie, which is apparently the second and last Mr. Bean movie,
Rowan Atkinson comes back as the mute, clumsy, and dumb Mr. Bean. In a lottery, he wins a free
trip to France and a camcorder (which he makes ample use of). The
movie's plot is quite pointless, really, and serves only as a vehicle
for a sequence of gags. Suffice to say that the plot involves Mr. Bean
messing up in a snooty Parisian restaurant, separting a
kid from his father, walking into a movie shooting, befriending the
actress and gatecrashing the movie's Cannes premiere.
I've seen --- and liked --- snippets of Atkinson's work elsewhere (especially in the Rat Race, which is awesome). I watched the Mr. Bean movie on a flight and was hoping to like it, but was somewhat disappointed (I skipped the last 20 or so minutes). Maybe a mute actor channeling Charlie Chaplin still has a place in today's cinema but the repeated gags along the lines of mute-stupid-guy-does-stuff get old after a while. Perhaps Mr. Bean is best enjoyed in moderation, when he is only one of the funny characters and not the sole entertainer.
Fri, 10 Aug 2007
Review: Hot Fuzz
Definitely worth watching, but I started with expectations a little too
high. A nice take on the action genre, the movie starts well and its
first one-third is good. After that, however, it falls a bit flat for a
while. The last 10 minutes are awesome, though. They completely
redeem the movie. Also, watch out for a few scenes of gratuitous gore, done
funnily.
The In-house Economist didn't like it (but she left before some of the awesome stuff happened).