Mr. Bean's Holiday

Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 British family comedy film, directed by Steve Bendelack, music composed by Howard Goodall, produced by Peter Bennett-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll and starring Rowan Atkinson, Max Baldry, Emma de Caunes and Willem Dafoe. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, following the 1997 Bean. The film was theatrically released on March 24, 2007 by Universal Pictures.

Plot

On a rainy day in London, Mr. Bean wins a holiday trip to Cannes, a video camera, and €200 in a raffle. Upon arriving in France, Bean causes chaos while trying French seafood cuisine at Le Train Bleu and asks Russian film director, Emil Duchevsky, to film him boarding his train using his video camera at the Gare de Lyon. However, the two keep doing retakes at Bean's request until the train leaves with Bean and Duchevsky's son, Stepan, onboard and Duchevsky left behind.

Bean and Stepan bond and get off together at the next station, where Duchevsky's train passes through the station without stopping; he holds up a sign with a mobile phone number written on it for Stepan to call, but due to inadvertently obscuring the last two digits, Bean unsuccessfully calls the number numerous times. Bean and Stepan board the next train stopping, but are ejected in Cavaillon as Bean had accidentally left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone booth.

To earn money, Bean busks as a mime/singer and buys himself and Stepan food and bus tickets to Cannes. However, Bean's ticket gets caught in the wind and onto the foot of a chicken, which is then packed into a farmer's truck that Bean chases via bicycle to a farm, where he is unable to retrieve his ticket due to the large number of chickens there. Deciding to continue his journey alone on foot, Bean wakes up on a quaint French village under attack from Nazi soldiers, which is revealed to be the set of a yogurt commercial directed by American filmmaker Carson Clay. Bean briefly stars in the commercial as one of the soldiers before being dismissed for showing his video camera in the advert, and accidentally causes the set to explode while recharging his camera.

Continuing to hitchhike, Bean is picked up by a Mini identical to his own driven by aspiring actress Sabine, who is on her way to the Cannes Film Festival, where her debut film directed by Clay, Playback Time, is to be presented. The pair stop at a café, where Bean reunites with Stepan and Sabine decides to take him with them, believing Stepan to be Bean's son. The next morning, the trio arrive in Cannes thanks to Bean driving through the night after Sabine falls asleep.

At a petrol station, Sabine sees on the news that she and Bean are suspected of kidnapping Stepan. In a rush to Playback Time's premiere which is starting in merely an hour, she decides not to head to the police to clear the misunderstandings and instead has Bean and Stepan disguised as her mother and daughter to avoid detection at the festival. During the premiere, the audience shows disinterest in the film, and Sabine discovers that her role has been cut, prompting Bean to plug his video camera into the projector and replace the film's visuals with his video diary. The camera's footage of Bean's shenanigans surprisingly align well with the film's narration, and Clay, Sabine and Bean all receive a standing ovation while Stepan is reunited with his parents.

Bean exits through the theatre's back door and finally arrives at the Cannes beach as desired, where he, Sabine, Stepan, Clay, and a group of other people mime a large musical finale to the song "La Mer".

Soundtrack

A soundtrack album debuted in August 2007, 6 months after the film was released.

1. "Opening" (Howard Goodall)
2. "Opening (Revised)" (Howard Goodall)
3. "Paris Taxi Ride" (Howard Goodall)
4. "La Grande Arche" (Howard Goodall)
5. "Paris Walk" (Howard Goodall)
6. "Paris Walk (Revised)" (Howard Goodall)
7. "Tie Trouble" (Howard Goodall)
8. "Train Bleu Restaurant" (Howard Goodall)
9. "Train Bleu Restaurant (Revised)" (Howard Goodall)
10. "The Train Departs" (Howard Goodall)
11. "Bean Loses Bag" (Howard Goodall)
12. "Crossing Legs" (Howard Goodall)
13. "Emiles Train" (Howard Goodall)
14. "Writing Numbers" (Howard Goodall)
15. "Bean Loses Phone" (Howard Goodall)
16. "Mish Mesh Mish" (Howard Goodall)
17. "Time To Run" (Howard Goodall)
18. "Chicken Chase" (Howard Goodall)
19. "Bean Spots Bike" (Howard Goodall)
20. "Open Space" (Howard Goodall)
21. "Bike Theft" (Howard Goodall)
22. "Moving The Box" (Howard Goodall)
23. "Sunset Up The Hill" (Howard Goodall)
24. "Opede" (Howard Goodall)
25. "In The Tent 1" (Howard Goodall)
26. "In The Tent 2" (Howard Goodall)
27. "It's War!" (Howard Goodall)
28. "Battery Low" (Howard Goodall)
29. "Bean Sees The Car 1" (Howard Goodall)
30. "Bean Sees The Car 2" (Howard Goodall)
31. "Bean Sabine" (Howard Goodall)
32. "Reunited" (Howard Goodall)
33. "Driving" (Howard Goodall)
34. "We've Made It" (Howard Goodall)
35. "Low On Gas" (Howard Goodall)
36. "Sabine Finds Out" (Howard Goodall)
37. "Sabine Finds Out (Revised)" (Howard Goodall)
38. "'Playback Times' Titles" (Howard Goodall)
39. "Do As I Say" (Howard Goodall)
40. "Do As I Say (Revised)" (Howard Goodall)
41. "Bean Has A Plan" (Howard Goodall)
42. "Playback Time 1" (Howard Goodall)
43. "Getting In" (Howard Goodall)
44. "Playback Time 2" (Howard Goodall)
45. "La Mer" (Charles Trenet)

Trivia

• It is paired with The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.