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Rowan Atkinson: Not Just a Pretty Face | 
 enlarge | Director: Thomas Schlamme
Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Angus Deayton
Category: Video
Buy Used: $34.30
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 117642
Format: Pal
Language: German (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 65 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 4013575022519
ASIN: B00004RPLJ
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 1992
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Filmed on a Boston stage in 1991, this concert film features British comic Rowan Atkinson in selected sketches from 10 years of performing and creating characters. Fans of The Thin Blue Line, in which Atkinson plays a British policeman, will be pleased, but Mr. Bean enthusiasts will be ecstatic with the handful of great Bean moments re-created for a live audience. A real treat for the Atkinson faithful. --Tom Keogh
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 worst Rowan Atkinson yet October 19, 2008
Erik Kramer
Usually I am a huge Rowan Atkinson/Mr Bean fan. However, this is one of his flops. The only reason this received a two star and not two is there about two areas where one gets a small laugh.
Rowan Atkinson live and talented September 30, 2008
Gabriel Merigo Basurto (Mexico D.F., Mexico)
This is a live example of the great talent of Rowan Atkinson who is much more than Mr. Bean.
 Very funny but a little distasteful April 11, 2008
M. Orton (USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this as a gift for my husband who loves Mr. Bean, but I didn't know anything about its content. We were more than pleased to find a few very funny skits but very disappointed to find that some of the skits were beyond crude. They were down right distasteful and not worth watching at all. However, as this is a DVD, you can easily skip over those skits and enjoy the hilarious clean ones. That's why I still give it 3 stars.
Essential Rowan February 23, 2008
R. Bloxom (Texas USA)
Rowan Atkinson Live
I first saw this on cable several years ago. Anyone who enjoys Rowan Atkinson's comedic talents is in for a good time with this program. Recorded during a performance in Boston in 1991, it includes some classic irreverent jabs at British schools, religion, and social conventions. Atkinson appears supported by Angus Deayton as his straight man and narrator. Some routines are better than others, but humor is about as subjective as anything can get, so the bits that I didn't like as much might be the best things on the disk to someone else.
My favorite moments include "A Warm Welcome", in which Rowan plays the Devil as a polite, somewhat smarmy host in a smoking jacket welcoming the Damned - which ends up being just about everyone - to Hell. Some of the groups who are damned wholesale are startling and hilarious. "With Friends Like These..." involves Deayton narrating the horrors of his wedding day, with Atkinson portraying, in rapid succession, the lecherous priest who did the honors, his sillyass best man giving an incoherent and incriminating speech at the reception, and his new and utterly drunken father-in-law giving a heartfelt toast to the man he thinks his daughter should have married and an irreversible rejection of the groom's family. I spurn you as I would spurn a rabid dog... "Pink Tights and Plenty of Props" features Deayton as a professor of theatre giving a lecture on classic performance while Atkinson acts out the instructions on stage. It defies description without giving its best moments away, so I'll simply say it left me gasping. Other routines highlight Atkinson's considerable talent as a visual comedian - "It Started with a Sneeze" showed up in a Mr. Bean program later. In "Invisible Man" he mimes the reaction of a tube rider as the titular character messes with him mercilessly, and in "A Final Bash" he plays a janitor who accidentally discovers an invisible drum kit and, after groping around trying to figure out what's what, ends up playing them flawlessly in pantomime.
The three deleted skits that are included with the DVD are of the same high quality. "Elementary Courting for Men" is my favorite of these, with Deayton again delivering the lecture and Rowan acting out the do's and don't's of a perfect date. When Deayton advises "Not to look like a complete idiot when she opens the door", a door swings open on the stage to reveal Atkinson looking more idiotic than ever before or since. "Guys after the Game" has Atkinson alone on stage as an exquisitely polite maitre de at an Indian restaurant that has been besieged by drunken football hooligans. "Tom, Dick, and Harry" features Atkinson, for the third time in the program, as a clergyman delivering the eulogy for Tom - blind and deaf - Dick - deaf and dumb - and Harry - blind and dumb - who have died together in a freak accident. The punchline is his prediction of Tom's contribution to the Angels' Choir when the three of them reach Heaven and I suggest that you swallow whatever you're drinking before he speaks it.
This is a mandatory program for Rowan Atkinson fans and would be a great introduction to his work for the uninitiated.
The best Rowan aktinson ever done. January 23, 2008
Niclas Welander (Sweden)
This is in my eyes one of the abslolute best things hi has ever done. It covers about everything you want and it's made whith much humour and perfection. many sketches in perfect length. Dont miss the extras. For example "The guys after the game". Totaly hillarous. Buy it and laugh. Well spent money.
/Niclas Welander
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