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Bean is employed by a British museum, where he does nothing more than sit in a chair all day and fight narcolepsy. For whatever reason, the museum's chairman (John Mills) favors Bean, so he can't be fired. But there is another way to be rid of him. An American museum requests a British art scholar to emcee the unveiling of a famous painting, colloquially known as "Whistler's Mother." Bean is dispatched.
David (Peter MacNicol) is the unfortunate handler of Bean in America. Bean immediately has brushes with the law, and his weirdness alienates David's semi-hot wife, Alison (Pamela Reed) and rebellious teenage daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey). The child-like Bean does make a friend, sort of, with David's pre-teen son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence).
Bean's hapless shenanigans soon threaten David's career and marriage. But at least "Whistler's Mother" is safe from Bean. Or is it?
Familiar faces include Sandra Oh, who plays a cynical public relations manager, and Burt Reynolds, who cameos as a wealthy retired army officer.
How others will see it. Reaction to Bean, the character, runs from hot to cold. Many undoubtedly wish that he had been beaten to death by bullies before he left middle school. Others find him hilarious. There's more of the former than the latter, but the latter spend money on movie tickets and DVDs. Which ensures that Bean, like Earnest before him, manages to linger in popular culture.
How you feel about Bean, the character, likely determines your position on Bean, the movie. It's all about Bean, and his newfound ability to talk, or at least mumble, doesn't change much of anything.
How I felt about it. Atkinson is a graduate from the Ham school of acting. He never misses an opportunity to pucker his face, gape goony-eyed, or otherwise look stupid. In short, I wish he had stayed in England. And on English television, where his reduced running time provides mercy to those obligated to watch due to "fans in the family."
To critique the movie instead of merely the actor or character, I will point out that anyone stupid enough to put turpentine on a multi-million dollar painting does not have the smarts to make a midnight raid on a museum to turn a poster into a convincing fake. Or, for that matter, successfully impersonate a surgeon during an operation.