Bean

When I got the chance to see Bean on TV, I had to conclude that it was just as well I waited... It would have been a waste of a cinema ticket. Indeed, it was almost a waste of time.

In the comedy, Bean is an attendant at an art museum whose management is thoroughly fed up with him, except for the most important board member, for a reason that can only be dictated by the story. To get Bean out of the way, he is sent to the US West Coast, as a smart art museum has asked for an art expert from the English museum to say a few well-chosen words when the newly acquired painting 'Whistler's Mother' is presented to the public. Bean wreaks havoc both with the family he is to stay with and at the museum, but everything is put beautifully right in the end, almost!

Bean is not without its amusing moments, but there is too much TV sketch about the film, mostly because Bean is too flat a character to be lifted onto the big screen and carry an entire feature film.