Misadventure follows misadventure as Bean makes his selfishly childish choices - rather than rational ones - in order not to interrupt his daily flow. This simpleton hero falls afoul of a film set where a self-indulgent filmmaker (Willem Dafoe, pretty good) and his ingénue (Emma de Caunes of The Science of Sleep) are recreating World War II in France - for a yogurt commercial!

Mr. Bean's Holiday doesn't try for too much, and it shows; Holiday is passable for, say, Saturday morning children's entertainment. Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. But the film, directed by Brit-com veteran Steve Bendelack, is really just a re-hash of Bean's half-measured physical sight gags.

If you like the character – his bug-eyed, rubber-faced shtick, full-body twitches punctuated by deep guttural snorts – then you will be rewarded with 87 minutes more of the same. If you are not a fan, this tiresome Holiday will not do it for you.