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I bought the The Whole Bean (the complete collection of episodes) the other day and am now watching the second disc. I forgot how much I used to love this crazy British guy. Rowan Atkinson is awesome. Didn't I hear somewhere about him being in one of the upcoming Potter movies? May have just bean a rumer but that would be cool.
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I have already purchased the complete series on DVD for my son for Christmas (yes, I am a man who shops ahead and thinks about his presents). We both love to watch Rowan Atkinson.
As much as I enjoyed the series, however, I thought that his movie version of Bean was not very good. He uses many of the same sight gags from the series that we have already seen before!
I have yet to see Johnny English, but was warned away by some other Bean fans. I guess I'll catch it on HBO some time.
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I love the Mr. Bean tv shows (and also love my Whole Bean set)!!! I also quite like the animated Mr. Bean shows too.
The Mr. Bean movie wasn't that great. Johnny English was better. I'd not run out and buy either one, but they're good for catching on cable.
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He's 11 years old and his favorite movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What more can I say?
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I think Mr. Bean is one of the greatest comedies ever made. The movie and the cartoon, not so much. Why it lasted as short as it did is beyond me. Something that good should have lasted at least five years. Not one episode was a flop.
quote: Black Adder is Rowan Atkinson's best work. If you haven't seen it, shame on you.
I second this. Black Adder is an amazing series!! The best one is the third generation, the eighteenth century one, but they're all good.
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Teshi, I'm actually with you on that one... I like Blackadder a lot more, because I don't get the underlying since of embarrassment all the time. Bean makes me uncomfortable, and I always feel sorry for him too.
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quote: I think Mr. Bean is one of the greatest comedies ever made...Why it lasted as short as it did is beyond me. Something that good should have lasted at least five years.
This may have something to do with the nature of British TV. A lot of British shows end once the key players move on or lose interest, whereas here in the US, the networks will keep a sucessful show going as long as the ratings hold, even if they have to take on a cast of well-paid automotons and a writing staff of monkeys with typewriters.
Take recent British series The Office, for instance. Critically acclaimed, hugely popular (for a British series, anyway), and it lasted only two seasons.
In related news, my husband recently ordered the final season of Black Adder for me at DeepDiscountDVD.com--a peace-offering, since he'd also ordered Transformers Season 3 and the complete live-action series of The Tick. It worked pretty well.
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