YMMV / Mr. Bean's Holiday

• Broken Base: The film is either hilarious due to how much it Crosses the Line Twice, true to the source material, or it strays into offensive territory. Mark Kermode in particular heavily criticizes the perceived parental worries on display which is entirely Played for Laughs. In fact, he was more amused about the BBFC warning that the film “contains irresponsible behaviour”.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The film ends when Bean finally making it to the beach, after the trials he's been through in the movie. Though he's still without his wallet which had all his money and ID, so it's kind of hard to imagine what he can do to get back home.
• Heartwarming Moments: Bean's meddling with Carson Clay's movie to make his friend Sabine the centrepiece, after she's been distinctly snubbed by the primadonna director and cut from the film.
  • Bean finally making it to the beach, after the trials he's been through in the movie. You can't help but feel good for him as he spreads his arms wide to take in the warm water and beach of Cannes.
    • More than that - everyone gets what they want in the end. Stepan is reunited with his father, Sabine gets her big break into showbiz - even Clay, the biggest jerk in the story, gets critical acclaim for his movie and learns a lesson about the creative process to boot, even mimicking Bean's unusual method of zooming a camera in and out while giving a filming lesson.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Carson Clay and his pretentious Le Film Artistique have been the subject of a variety of memes, usually to skewer the types of films his was a parody of.
  • Bean waiting a long time for a scooter to arrive has become a popular reaction meme.
• Nausea Fuel: The mussels that Bean has as part of his seafood platter, where we receive a close-up shot of a vile, swill-like mess with lumps of mussel floating in it in the bottom of Bean's bib. He promptly dumps it in a woman's handbag.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: While not regarded as a masterpiece by any means, it was generally regarded as being both a better film and much truer to the source material than the first film.

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