Mr. Bean's Holiday

The best way I can think of to describe "Mr. Bean's Holiday" is "The Terminal" meets "Borat." All three movies take the premise of a foreigner making a journey to a country and having to deal with lingual and cultural barriers. In Spielberg's "The Terminal," Tom Hank's character used charm, persistence, and determination to win the hearts of the Americans. In "Borat," Sacha Baron Cohen used his cultural differences to do the exact opposite.

Bean does a little bit of both. He's too stupid to tell the difference between a six and a nine and too clumsy to remember his belongings at the train station. Yet, he is able to use his smile and positive attitude to make friends that don't even speak the same language as him. In fact, there is little dialog in the entire movie (much like in "The Terminal"). At some points, I felt like Carrie Fisher when judging one of the short films of eventual "On the Lot" winner, Will Bigham. "You know, there is this new recent development in film now called the talkies