Handy Bean

I loved it exeptional. perfect for everyone. good if you want a short rowan Atkinson clip, soo goood

Not at all what i expected. It's brief scenes of Rowan Atkins as Mr. Bean, then his hands and voice as he makes cakes and pizza and various things. It's weird, not necessarily very funny, but somehow oddly satisfying to watch, like a demented baking show.

The original Mr. Bean TV shows were among the best and funniest shows I've ever seen. While I was not a huge fan of the cartoon series that followed, they had their own charm. So, when I heard there was a NEW live action series, "Handy Bean", I was thrilled! Imagine my surprise when I watched this garbage pile marketed as Mr. Bean!

Why am I so mad? Well, these are NOT new Mr. Bean episodes starring Rowan Atkinson. Instead, Mr. Bean is supposed to be doing and making stuff and you mostly only see his hands and hear a few Bean comments. But the hands are NOT Atkinson's and the comments are all snippets from the cartoon! And, when you do see brief glimpses of Bean, it appears to be old clips of him which are superimposed into the screen. Overall, a pathetic excuse for a Bean series...one deliberately intended to fool fans. For shame for making this!!!

Don't get me wrong, I love Mr. Bean. I also love Roman Atkinson's other shows, such as Black Adder. But what's wrong with this? It's pretty much just a generic DIY style video series. And the only parts that actually have Rowan Atkinson in them are the green screen parts and the audio clips of him talking. It's not Rowans hands doing the cooking or whatever. It's like they got Rowan in the studio for maybe an hour to get him to say some funny lines that could apply to any situation (Such as 'Are you ready?' or 'Let's do this!' Pretty effortless, really. If you really want to see something funny by Rowan Atkinson, watch Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line, or the actual Mr Bean series from the 90s.

Fans of Mr. Bean are likely to be left saddened by this effort, if you can even call it that. To begin with, Bean is now pudgy and doughy, and clearly getting on in years. In fact he looks more like the Pakistani Mr. Bean lookalike than the Rowan Atkinson we remember. That alone is depressing. The shorts themselves, silly DIY videos, are absolutely dreadful. Allegedly written by Atkinson himself, but seems like it was written by someone who has no sense of the Mr. Bean character. You could remove Bean and insert absolutely any halfwit character, and it wouldn't make a difference.

Atkinson has since announced that Mr. Bean is permanently retired, and honestly, this is the best news. Don't spoil the great memories.