Just saw the additional scenes and they cut an awesome scene of Bean in London, stuck in traffic, and deciding to take a shortcut through the department store Harrods (a london landmark.)
It was well shot, and totally memorable. A car inside a department store, visually, is absolute conflict, the essence of story-telling and comedy.
If that had stayed in the movie it would have put this movie over the top.
That would work for the series but they grounded the film in reality a bit more than the series and probably thought it wouldn't flow well
share"That would work for the series but they grounded the film in reality a bit more"
Nonsense, this movie is as unrealistic as it gets. Mr. Bean wasn't that 'ungrounded' to begin with, just slightly goofy and absurd at times. What was so 'unrealistic' or 'not grounded in reality' about the TV series? Almost everything he did could be done, almost everything that happened could happen.
They thought wrong - there's absolutely no reason why it couldn't / shouldn't have been exactly as good as the TV show, but moviemakers are crazy, so they think of profit more than 'what's good', so we get these watered-down 'trying to please everyone and end up pleasing no one' conversions of things that have edge, spunk, soul and spirit. And actually good humor and jokes.
Why would format dictate what can or can't be done? They should've made the movie exactly like the TV show, except that the gags would be built around some kind of a story (and not THIS crappy story, and NOT in america, dagnabit!)