Bean - The ultimate disaster movie

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Movie
German title Bean - The ultimate disaster movie
Original title Bean
Country of production UK , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mel Smith
script Richard Curtis
Robin Driscoll
production Peter Bennet-Jones
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
music Howard Goodall
camera Francis Kenny
cut Chris Blunden
occupation
chronology

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Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Film is a comedy film from 1997. The main character Mr. Bean is known from the comedy series of the same name. Around 4.2 million people saw the film in Germany.

action

Mr. Bean works as a museum guard at London's Royal National Gallery . Since he is not acting in a particularly exemplary manner, his superiors would prefer to fire him. You try to bring up the topic at a meeting, but learn that Mr. Bean was personally hired by the museum director at the time and now museum president. He thinks a lot of Mr. Bean and doesn't want to hear anything about complaints or a dismissal from Bean. Because of this, the board members are now looking for another way to get rid of clumsy Mr. Bean. So it is just right for them that the Americans are looking for a curator who will appear at an event that is important to them and give a short speech. So Bean is transferred to California as a supposed art expert , where the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles has just acquired Whistler's mother from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris for fifty million US dollars .

Whistler's mother

David Langley, the gallery's curator, takes Bean into his home against his wife Alison's wishes. Alison's concerns prove justified: Bean completely messes up Langley's family life. Alison is appalled by Bean's unconventional behavior and drives the two children Kevin and Jennifer to their mother. Langley initially accepts the situation and drives Bean into the gallery to discuss the next steps with the museum colleagues. After Bean got his pants completely soaked by an accident there in the toilet, he tries to cover up the misfortune with strange behavior, which amazes the others. Grierson, the director of the gallery, advises Langley that Bean was his only choice and that any problematic incidents would be attributed to him. As a result, Langley is now in an awkward position himself. To win his wife back, he would have to pull the clumsy Bean out; his professional career now also depends on this.

Everyone is in great excitement when the valuable painting arrives at the gallery a few days later. When Bean is alone with the picture for a moment and looks at it up close, he cannot suppress a violent fit of sneezing. Bean tries to clean the picture with his handkerchief without noticing that a leaked ballpoint pen in his jacket pocket has discolored it ink blue. Now, of all things, Whistler's mother's head is adorned with a huge bruise, causing Bean to panic. He tries to save the picture with thinner , but this completely ruins it. Langley learns of the accident, whereupon he realizes that his career has now come to an end. He goes to the pub with Bean and gets drunk. When the two get home in the middle of the night, to their surprise, Alison and the children are waiting for them. She leaves Langley for good when she sees him in his drunken state. There doesn't seem to be a way out of the dilemma when Bean has an idea that night. In a night and fog action, he breaks into the gallery and replaces the defaced picture with a prepared poster.

The next day the ceremonial unveiling of the “painting” takes place. Langley sees his end in sight, but Bean is in a good mood. When a flawless picture drifts out of the safe, Langley is overjoyed. After the ceremony, however, a police officer pulls him aside and tells him that his daughter Jennifer has been involved in a motorcycle accident. Langley rushes to the hospital with Bean, where Bean's name tag says “Dr. Bean “mistakenly mistaken for a surgeon and saving the life of a cop . A little later, Langley is looking for a doctor who examines his daughter who is in a coma. He finds Bean in surgical clothes and a face mask and gets him to examine his daughter. In his helplessness, Bean tries crazy ways to wake the girl up. By chance he finally succeeds; Overjoyed, Langley and Alison promise him that he can stay with them for another week. In the end, Bean takes the defaced original home with him.

criticism

"Entertaining, but in its overall dramaturgy extremely conventional comedy, which at least presents some of the parade appearances of the situation comedian."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

  • 1997: Golden canvas
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

synchronization

roll actor Voice actor
Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson Lutz Mackensy
David Langley Peter MacNicol Udo Schenk
Alison Langley Pamela Reed Heidi Weigelt
George Grierson Harris Yulin Jochen Schröder
Bernice Schimmel Sandra Oh Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Walter merchandise Tom McGowan Tom Deininger
Jennifer Langley Tricia Vessey
Stingo wheelie Johnny Galecki mute
Kevin Langley Andrew Lawrence Fabian Hollwitz
Elmer Larry Drake Bert Franzke
General Newton Burt Reynolds Norbert Langer
Lt. Brutus Richard Gant Helmut Krauss

Dubbing company : Berliner Synchron

Dialogue book : Johanna Schneider

Dialogue director : Tom Deininger

Trivia

  • In contrast to the series, which is very much geared towards Atkinson's facial expressions, Mr. Bean speaks significantly more in the film and also relatively clearly instead of the grumpy tone known from the series, which was viewed rather critically by fans.
  • Some gags from the series were repeated or varied in the film, such as the fact that Mr. Bean inflated a vomit-filled spit bag on a plane and made it burst. The motive that Mr. Bean accidentally destroys an old picture can already be found in Sketch The Library, which was shot for the TV series but never aired but only published on video and DVD . The turkey scene was originally supposed to be longer, whereby, like in the TV episode Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean , Mr. Bean's head gets stuck in the turkey and he runs around in panic with the turkey on his head. But this was eventually cut out of the film.
  • The then largely unknown Johnny Galecki had a brief supporting role as a motorcyclist.
  • Sandra Oh , also unknown at the time , who later became known as Cristina Yang in the series Grey's Anatomy , can also be seen in a supporting role.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Bean - The ultimate disaster film on fbw-filmbwertung.com
  3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Bean - The ultimate disaster movie. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Deleted scenes from The Bean movie + commentary from Rowan Atkinson. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).