Mr. Bean's Holiday

Mr. Bean's Holiday (also called as Bean 2, Bean on Holiday and French Bean) is a 2007 comedy movie starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, a sequel to 1997's Bean. Rowan Atkinson said that this is most likely the last appearance of the well-liked titular character.

The movie opens with Mr. Bean attending a raffle . His number is 919, the winning number. But Bean misreads it upside-down as 616. Upset that he lost, he throws the ticket onto a toy train. Seeing the ticket upside down reading 919, he grabs the ticket and yells out that he won in his mumbling deep voice. The reward is a holiday including a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200.

Because of a mistake, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to enter his next train towards Cannes. So he has time to try French seafood at Le Train Bleu restaurant. He accidentally orders oysters and langoustine, which he cannot eat. He stealthily pours the oysters into a nearby lady's bag, and eats the whole langoustine without taking off the crust in front of everybody.

Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes feature film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his video camera to movie 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 thus left on enter by himself. Bean tries to befriend Stepan, the boy slaps him in the face and when he gets off at the next station, Bean gets off too and accidentally misses the train, along with his bag on the train. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a cell phone number, but with the last two digits covered. Their attempts at calling the number prove unproductive. They get on the next train, but since Bean has left his ticket and passport on the station public telephone, the duo are soon thrown out of the train.He attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys them a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean loses his ticket by getting the ticket fixed on a chicken's foot. Mr. Bean then steals a nearby 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 notices that the bicycle has been run over by a tank, but the camera is still unbroken. After attempting to lift a motorcycle and almost getting killed by a lorry, Bean stumbles on to the set for a TV advertisement, which he accidentally blows up, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Bean then tries to get a ride again; a yellow Mini picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes) who Bean encountered both at the commercial filming and earlier, who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes picture Festival where Carson Clay's picture in which she makes her first appearance is going to be presented. At a service station, Bean locates Stepan in a café. He joins them. Bean and Stepan now attempt, again in vain, to call Dachevsky with Sabine's phone. When Sabine falls deeply asleep, Bean then drives the car himself, but he keeps falling asleep. Bean and the other two finally make it to Cannes.

When Sabine goes into a gasoline station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, wherein the police have made up a rumor about Mr. Bean kidnapping Stepan and Sabine being his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the premiere, she is hesitant to go to the cop to clear up the "mistake". They thus plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother, who is allegedly Spanish and deaf. They manage to get through the hunt and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.

After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's part has been (rather poorly) scratched from the picture (Carson Clay is seen nodding at the woman beside him at this point, implying that he cut down the scene as a favour to his green-eyed wife), and ends up plugging in his camcorder to the projector, where his video record is suddenly played out. But, the strange story it tells fits director Clay's narration well, so that the director, Sabine, and Bean all receive standing ovations. Stepan is finally reunited with his father.

It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 107 reviews (54 "fresh", 53 "rotten") and was rated PG13.