was too obvious

We have been looking forward to this movie since seeing the preview before Ratatouille. Mr. Bean makes us all laugh.

For the next week, we will be on "manners patrol." Not everybody appreciates that level of body function and gross out humor. But it's well worth it!

Really? Kids watch Mr. Bean, too? Who wudda thunk it?

Simply put, I adore Mr. Bean. There is no contemporary comedian who can have me laughing so hard I sometimes gasp for breath.

We have an elongated bread box which stands about one meter tall and is used to store baguettes. When one opens the lid, there is Mr. Bean's face on the bottom of the opened lid.

It's my own private joke, but it brings back so many memories of the laughs I've gotten from his films, that I never tire of it.

And guests guffaw.

I have seen some of the "Tati is hip, Bean is not," tripe. I'm not a Bean fan but I can at least watch him. Thirty seconds of Tati and I'm checking for the exits. He was one of those innovative cinematic comedians who utterly divides audiences.

I'm declaring my philistine leanings here, but I do believe I could watch a full five minutes of Dane Cook if pressed, but I cannot take the "genius" of Tati for that long. I thinks its the mechanistic concentration on minutiae that causes my brain to shut down in protest.

I remember when Richard Roeper made a face on his show and declared that any and all Mr. Bean humor was childish and not funny. It struck me that perhaps people who don't find Mr. Bean funny find it hard to laugh at themselves. I agree with most of Stephanie's analysis of the comedy of Mr. Bean, but find it a bit difficult to characterize Bean's personality shortcomings as defects in an adult personality. That's partly the key to the hilarity of Bean: he's a kid trapped in a man's body. And not in a Judd Apatow way where the line between maturity and immaturity is merely a matter of experience. No, Bean is just and only a kid. Before the opening credits on the show, we get the spectacle of Bean "falling from the heavens." And then, instead of pondering his fate, he simply picks himself up and ambles away. Most of Bean's humor comes from his childlike cunning; in the pursuit of immediate gain, sometimes even the most obvious obstacle is found to be a surprise. This is why even the animated adventures of Mr. Bean were quite funny.