The film was met with mixed reviews by critics. Matthew Turner of View London
gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and said "Crucially, the film-makers
have decided to make Bean more of a bumbling innocent, than the
obnoxious and frequently mean-spirited character of the TV show", and
that the film is a "surprisingly sweet comedy" with inspired gags and is
much better than the previous film.[13] BBC
film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying "It's
hard to explain the appeal of Mr Bean. At first glance, he seems to be
moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with
a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning,
window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It's a testament
to Rowan Atkinson's skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost
cuddly."[14] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a "dim-witted sub-Hulot
loner" and said the plot involves Atkinson "getting in touch with his
retarded inner child." French also said "the best joke is taken directly
from Tati's Jour de Fete."[15] Wendy Ide of The Times
gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said "It has long been a mystery to
the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret
weakness, that Rowan Atkinson’s repellent creation is absolutely massive
on the Continent." Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story, and said two scenes are "clumsily borrowed" from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag "was past its sell-by date ten years ago."[16] Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, said the film was full of awfully weak gags, and "In a post-Borat world, surely there's no place for Bean's antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?",[17] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent
said "the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick
pony, starts to show" and his "continual close-up gurning into the
camera" becomes tiresome
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