Mr. Bean's Holiday

Mr. Bean's Holiday (also known as Bean 2, Bean on Holiday and French Bean) is a comedy film starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean which was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean and its sequel 1997's Bean.

Tagline : Disaster has a passport

Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean
Steve Pemberton - Vicar
Lily Atkinson - Lily at the Stereo
Preston Nyman - Boy with Train
Sharlit Deyzac - Buffet Attendant
Francois Touch - Busker Accordion
Emma de Caunes - Sabine
Arsène Mosca - Traffic Controller (as Arsene Mosca)

Stéphane Debac - Traffic Controller

Willem Dafoe - Carson Clay
Philippe Spall - French Journalist
Jean Rochefort - Maitre'D
Karel Roden - Emil
Max Baldry - Stepan
Pascal Jounier - Tipsy Man

The film opens with Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) winning the first prize in a raffle: a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200. Following a misunderstanding involving a taxi at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to board his next train towards Cannes. However, he misses his train, giving him an hour to sample French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters, which he cannot bring himself to eat. He surreptitiously pours them into a nearby lady's handbag.

Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes Film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his camcorder to film his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is therefore left on board by himself. Bean attempts to befriend Stepan, with the result that when the boy gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag aboard. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a mobile number, but with the last two digits obscured. Their efforts at calling the number prove fruitless. They board the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket on the station public telephone, the duo are soon forced to leave the train.

Mr. Bean at Gare de Lyon railway station.Attempts at begging by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro (sung by Rita Streich) prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket stuck on a chicken's foot. Mr Bean then borrows a bicycle and follows the chicken which has been placed onto a Peugeot 504 pickup and ends up at a chicken pen. On his return, he finds that the bicycle has been run over by a WWII Panzer tank. Mr. Bean starts walking, and falls asleep exhausted. He wakes up on what appears to be a quaint French village, but is actually a film set for a yogurt advertisement, set during World War II (this is where the tank was heading). Bean ends up as an extra, playing the role of a German soldier in the advertisement, directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe). He inadvertently blows up the set, and is seen walking down from a hillside with smoke billowing out of the villa while being passed by an ambulance heading up the hill.

Bean then tries to hitch-hike again; a lime-green Mini identical to his own picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes), who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is an aspiring actress on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where Carson Clay's film in which she makes her debut is going to be presented. When they stop at a service station, Bean finds Stepan in a café. Sabine agrees to take him with them.

Bean and the boy now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. After doing dangerous and painful things to himself to stay awake, Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.

When Sabine goes into a petrol station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein Mr. Bean is accused of kidnapping Stepan and that she is suspected to be his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is reluctant to go to the police to clear up the misunderstanding. They therefore plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother. They manage to get through the search and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.

After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's role has been (rather poorly) cut from the film, and ends up plugging in his video camera to the projector, where his video diary is unexpectedly played out. However, the bizarre tale it tells fits director Carson Clay's narration well (in a bizarre way), so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.

After the screening, Bean leaves the building and goes to the beach, encountering there many of the other characters. The film then ends with Bean and all the other characters of the film miming a large French musical finale, singing the famous song by Charles Trenet, "La Mer" (Beyond the Sea). After the credits Bean writes with his foot Fin ("End") in the sand.

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